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Ousman Gaye was born in 1974 in The Gambia in the village of Medina Serign Mass Kah. The village which is located in the North bank region in the Lower Nuimi District of The Gambia was founded by Mam Mass Kah an erudite Muslim cleric widely known in the Senegambia region for his immense contributions in the spread and teaching of Islam. Born to a Wolof father and a Manjago mother (Modou Gaye, a Driver and Ndey Gomez, a small-scale entrepreneur), Ousman and his family moved to the capital, Banjul (Dobson Street) where her mother was born. His father found a driving job with a successful businessman at the time, Alhaji Alieu jeng of 68 Dobson Street. He started school in Medina Serign Mass Primary School at the age of six years where he was sent back to go and learn the holy Quran under the tutelage of his grandfather Mam Sireh Njie. He later returned to join his family who resettled in New Jeshwang in 1980. He was transferred to St. Charles Luwanga Primary School in Faji Kunda where he studied for two years before going back to Medina where he sat to the common entrance examination and was the only pupil in his class to have attained the pass mark in that year. He was successfully enrolled at Nusrat High School in 1988. From High School, Ousman had a short stint in playing music with the Mamadi Maniyang band and later the Chiliwilli Band. These bands were a mainstay in hotels and Restaurants such as Atlantic, Kombo Beach, African Village, Bangalo Beach hotels and the Bendula restaurant in kotu in the early 1990s. In 1994, Ousman and four others started the New Jeshwang Youth Development Association (NJYDA), a Community Based Organization set up to advocate for the development of youths in the community. The Assocation organized many successful advocacy programs and established what is now the New Jeshwang Health Centre founded in 2007. Ousman served as first, the Secretary General of the Assocation and later President of NJYDA. He also served as the coordinator of the New Jeshwang Health Centre and facilitated links with the Soroptimist International of Drammen, Norway through its Secretary and treasurer, Gerd Stanberg and Liv Hausman. This partnership was made possible by the Chairperson of the Butterfly Friends Foundation, Anbjorg Juliussen. In 2011, Ousman joined the Butterfly Friends, a Norwegian-Gambian Charitable Foundation, where he served as Secretary General until 2019. During his tenure, the Foundation secured lands to build what is now referred to as the ABC Schools in The Gambia. These schools can be found in New Jeshwang (ABC Lower, Upper and Senior Secondary Schools,) Brikama Kembujeh in the West Coast Region (ABC Lower and Upper Basic school), Kiang Nema in the Lower River Region (ABC Nursery school) and Nuimi Bakalar in the Upper Nuimi District (ABC Nursery School). In 2004, Ousman started working at the Kanifing Municipal Council as Revenue Collector. He rose to the position of Market Master in charge of Temporal Canteens at the Serrekunda Market in KMC. He was appointed Deputy Clerk of Council in 2016 and then Clerk of Council in 2017. Ousman attended professional courses at the International College of Business and Huiman Resources Development from 2008 to 2010 and obtained a Higher National Diploma in Business and Management. He did his Post graduate studies at the Management Development Institute (MDI) in 2017 where he attained a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration. In 2019, he did an Advance Diploma course in Diplomacy and International Relations. In 2021 he got enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Superieure de Commerce (SUP de CO) where he obtained his Master of Science degree in management in 2022. Ousman is a certified PRINCE2 Foundation and Practioner certificates holder from Axelos. He serves as focal point for Idees Afrique whose fundamental mission is to reflect on the most important issues affecting the African continent. (https://www.idees-afrique.ca/en/us/). He has also served as focal point for the Kanifing Municipal Council and supported the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Gambia office to draft and publish the Local Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) for KMC. Ousman served as a Steering Committee member in the YMCA, (The Gambia) British Lottery Fund (BLF)and YCARE international funded project to train hundreds of young Gambians in various skills sets and create job opportunities for them from 2008 to 2012. He served as Secretary General of the Sharanie Foundation, a Nederland-Gambian Organization known locally for sponsoring poor children so that they can attend school. Ousman is a founding member of the Superstars Academy/Football Club founded in May 2017. The Academy is playing in the third division of the Gambian Football League but succeeded in exporting many Gambian players two of whom are plying their trade in the French league two club, Grenoble Foot 38(Abdoulie Bamba Sanyang and Saikou Touray).