Women's Bantabaa
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Journalist/Blogger |
| Location | Nema Sukuta Estate, Kombo North, West Coast Region, Gambia |
| Introduction | Binta A Bah is a young Gambian journalists/blogger who is excited, on the sustainability reporting front which she took as massive a headway as a career. She is the publisher of women’s Bantabaa, an online blog which focuses on human rights, particularly women’s right, press freedom and freedom of expression. She started the journalism trade with The Daily News in 2009 while pursuing a one year certificate course in journalism at Insight Training Center. She hold a diploma in journalism. At The Daily News, she rose through the ranks to become a senior judicial affairs correspondent. She has a vast experience of covering high profile cases including treason trials. She run the ‘Musoolula Bantabaa’ on the Daily News, a weekly column that focuses on women’s affairs. In 2011, she was awarded The Daily News Journalist of the year. She now works with the Standard Newspaper as an associate editor following the closure of The Daily News by state authorities. |
| Interests | Human Rights, Women's Rights Advocacy, politics, Reading |
| Favorite music | Celine Dion, Lalo Kebba, Blue, Westlife |
| Favorite books | A perfect secret spy, faces, conversation with myself, bones, rain fall, echo park, no paradise yet, zoo city, the good father, the fields of grief |