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Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe

Author of The Throne of the Ghost

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Legal name
Sowe Modou Lamin
Other names
ML, Modou Sowe, Figo, Papasenseng, Modi,
Birthdate
1990-01-07
Gender
male
Nationality
Gambia
Country (for map)
United States of America
Birthplace
Bakau Newtown, KMC District, The Gambia
Places of residence
Dakar, Senegal
Niamey, Niger
Education
Gambia National Library (Bs/Library Science), Ecowas Regional Observatory Board for West Africa (Copyright and Intelelcual Property), Masroor Senior Secondary School (Sdudied Arts-WASSCE) Kabafita Upper Basic School (WAEC), Kabafita Lower Basic School (Gabece)
Occupations
Project Director (The West African Youth Organization for Refugees and Migrants), Former Librarian, Literature Teacher and Drama Coordinator (Masroor Senior Secondary School), Interim Assistant Secretary General (Writers' Assosiation of The Gambia), Founder/President (Young Writers' Association of The Gambia),First Regional Chairperson for West Coast Rehion (National Patriotic Students' Association), Founder/President (Youths and Children in Media Development), Youth Voluntary Secretary (Collecting Society of the Gambia), Senior Youth Radio Presenter of the Children's Educational Phone-in Programme (Brikama Community Radio Station-FMB), Founder/Regional Director (The West African Youth Organization for Refugees and Migrants)
Organizations
Young Writers' Association of The Gambia (YWAG), The Writers' Association of The Gambia (WAG)
Awards and honors
Gambia’s Youngest Best Writers Award (2007), Winner of 3rd Prize Category in the International Poster Contest sponsored by United Nations Population Fund (2007) Most Outstanding Student of the year-2013 at the 1st Annual Graduation Ceremony of (Masroor Senior Secondary School)
Agent
Malthouse Press Limited, African Books Collective, Voice of The Pen
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Author/Scholar/Philosopher
Modou Lamin Sowe is a young multi-talented renowned Gambian author, who started writing at the age of 14, and his first literary work, Don’t Judge the Book by the Cover was well received. He is an avid reader who’s read hundreds of books on fiction and non-fiction as a librarian at his former school— Masroor Senior Secondary School. He founded the Young Writers’ Association of the Gambia (YWAG) in 2012, and currently the Assistant Secretary General and President of the Young Writers’ at the Writers’ Association of The Gambia (WAG). In addition to his work, Modou Lamin is a song-writer, an actor, a poet and a renowned playwright. He’s a brilliant orator, veteran young scholar, a young philosopher and novelist. He trained at ECOWAS Regional Observatory Board for West Africa in Intellectual Property, Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in 2014, and at the Gambia National Library in Library Science and Management.
He writes under the penname: Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe. He’s an African Writer who’s running an Online Blog on Google-Blogger ; known as VoiceOfThePen.
https://voiceofthepen.blogspot.com/
He’s as well a former English-Literature teacher and filmmaker, debuted for his films and scripts; among others include: ‘Babili-Mansa’. He’s written a number of papers and teaching materials in academia, including: SUCCESS, THE SUCCESSFUL AND HOW TO SUCCEED, Gambian Literature, Criticism on FGM and How Culture, Environment Influence One’s Life, etc. Books he has published include: The Throne of the Ghost (play) , Temple of Wisdom (poetry)Spit of Misery (poetry) and The Memories of Reflection (novella) . His Novella (The Memories of Reflection) was approved in 2014, by the Ministry of Education of The Gambia (MoBSE) to be used in upper basic schools as a supplementary reading material.
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