with in the gambia, that tourism industry alone accounted for 20 percent on account his gdp. that is before the pandemic. it also employed more than a $100000.00 people. so when lockdown, we are now st. last year. many young people lost their livelihoods into this. sure, if it came money is asking what can be done to provide better social safety nets. less had to surrender for some answers. the 77 percent is back in the gambia, and i m sure you temperatures are still over 30 degrees, which is why you might see me sweating. but in the 2 years since we ve been here, the economy has been doing fantastic. that was of course, until covered 19 happened. the tourism sector has been ground to almost a crippling holt. and in fact, where we are, is a hotel that was once opened, which has had to be shut because of the pandemic. the question is, how do we, as african economies survive issues and crises like this? well, there s no one better to answer this question for me. than fellow gun
Historian David Cecelski takes readers to the early days of Salter Path, before paved roads, now flanked with hotels and condos, cut through the Bogue Banks village