Essa Bokarr Sey
Essa Bokarr Sey was born in Kuntaya. After attending Armitage High School, he served in The Gambia National Gendarmerie from 1985 to 1990, he was admitted at the Gambia College in 1990 where
he graduated with a HTC with a French major in 1992. He spent one year
at the Université de Franche Comté in Besançon, France. He joined the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993. After several functions in many of
the embassies (Senegal, France and The United States), He will rise to
the position of The Gambia’s Ambassador to France, Taiwan and the
United States before he is relieved of his duties in 2003. In love with
Muses, he hopes to publish another collection of poems.
The Boat of Thought, is a collection of 109 poems and was published
in 2000 in Hungary. This collection, in periodic verses, deals with
rather grim memories of not only of past but also of present Africa and
the world. But faced with the absurdity of people’s behaviour, the poet
thinks that the world is animated by sense - may be a divine one – that
gives reasons to fight and hope.