death_date death_place religion birth_place nationality ethnicity title name parents birth_date known_for article_title education birth_name occupation
3 june 1993 latrikunda , the gambia muslim kuntaur , the gambia gambian serer and wolof llb alhaji bai modi joof ebrima joof and aji anna samba 15 december 1933 law , free speech and freedom of the press alhaji bai modi joof
 university -lrb- law -rrb- bai modi joof barrister at law
alhaji bai modi joof

alhaji bai modi joof -lrb- or bai modi joof , 15 december 1933 -- 3 june 1993 -rrb- was a barrister at law from the gambia , practicing from the mid-1970s to 1993 , the year he died .
also known as `` alhaji b.m. joof '' , `` b.m. joof '' or `` lawyer joof '' , he was a member of the uk and gambian bar , and a barrister and solicitor of the gambian supreme court .
he was termed the `` champion of free speech '' by some quarters of the gambian press during the administration of president sir dawdaw kairaba jawara .
he was a defense-barrister and came from a wolof and serer background of the family joof .
not to be confused with his former protegé - joseph henry joof , who is also commonly referred to as lawyer joof -lrb- the former attorney general -rrb- .
