Veteran Gambian Baa Trawally has died, his family said. 

Baa, who started his journalism career 1950s with the pioneering Edward Francis Small,  was the last surviving member of that generation He was in his eighties.

He was arrested and jailed by the Jawara regime in the 80s for his uncompromising journalism after reporting on corruption and the plight of farmers in the country.

A doyen of the Gambian media and staunch advocate of media freedom, Trawally trained many generations of journalists in the country and abroad. 

Baa recently wrote a detailed historical account of the July 30, 1981 abortive coup led by the late Kukoi Samba Sanyang.