ENGLISH 101 SOPHIA PATHWAYS touch stone 1

ENGLISH 101 SOPHIA PATHWAYS touch stone 1 SOPHIA PATHWAYS Foundations of English Composition Touch Stone 1 Tittle: The Gambia and Fatima Author: Bakary S Sonk0 Date: 10th September,”2020. Informative Did you know that the Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa? With a land size of about eleven thousand square miles, the country is surrounded on the east, north and south my Senegal, and on the west the Atlantic ocean. The country gets her name from the river that divide the Country into north and south the River Gambia. The Gambia is among the very few countries that has the article the before its name the other notable country is the Bahamas. The word Gambia is A corruption of the Mandingo word “Kambiya” which means the land of Kambi. The Gambia gain independence from great Britain in 1965 and five years later it becomes a republic. Previously know as the British Gambia, the Gambia was one of the major slave ports in West Africa and the country is the Birth place of the legendary slave Kunta kinte whose life was immortalised in the book and film series Roots wrote by one of his descendant Alex Haley. Another notable former slave from the Gambia was the poetess Phillis Wheatley. The Gambia’s Economy is heavily relied on Tourism, with Year around sun and proximately 6 hours flight form any European country, the Gambia is a tourist Hot spot. The country is littered with lot of tourist sits most notables are the Kachikally crocodile pool, the Fort Bullen at Barra point, kunta kinteh Island, Slave House at Janjanbureh And the Makasustu Cultural park.