The The Gambia is often described through its size. It is the smallest country on mainland Africa, a narrow strip of land wrapped around the Gambia River and surrounded almost entirely by Senegal. On a map, it can appear fragile, almost accidental, as though geography squeezed a country into the shape of a corridor. But the shape itself explains much of the country’s reality. The Gambia is not simply a small nation. It is a system organised around movement: river movement, co