Story title: Young Gambian Artist Exhibits Work
Media house: QTV Gambia
Brief Bio
Babucarr Ceesay graduated from Fatima High School in
Bwiam in 1995 after sitting to the “O” levels. He has worked at the
Documentation Unit at the African centre for democracy and human rights studies
and also at the medical research council at the London school of hygiene and
tropical medicine as a clerk. With a
passion in journalism and inspired by Mr Robeiro, a veteran journalist in
Guinea Bissau, he met in 1999, Babucarr left MRC in 2002, to study in the
United Kingdom, where he obtained a diploma in Media production at Lambeth
College and another diploma in television presenting at London Academy of Media
Film & Television. He also trained television presenting at The Television
Training Academy and Aspire Media School in the United Kingdom. He joined QTV
in 2018 as a reporter and presenter. He has skills in filming and video editing.
This he demonstrated in 2019, 2022 and 2023, when, he was assigned to cover the
pilgrimages in Makkah in Saudi Arabia. On Both occasions, he went alone and
successfully executed the role of cameraperson, editor and reporter. Currently, Babucarr Ceesay is the deputy head of news
at QTV Gambia.