The magic calabash
By: Nana Grey-Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Notes: A gripping story of life in the Gambia today, set in New Town, a vibrant but economically struggling quarter of Banjul. The novel tells the story of Erubami, a young man whose life begins to come apart when he loses his job as a result of the government's much feared retrenchment programme.