Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie

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Fatou Mass Jobe-Njie is a Gambian politician and diplomat who held key government and diplomatic roles. She served as Minister of Tourism and Culture from 2010 to 2014 under President Yahya Jammeh. She replaced Nancy Njie in 2010 and was succeeded by Benjamin Roberts in 2014. In September 2014 she was dismissed, but two days later she was appointed as Gambia’s ambassador to Malaysia, becoming the country’s first permanent representative there; she served until May 2015 when Abubacarr Jah took over.

Before politics, she had a banking career, heading marketing at Standard Chartered Bank and retail banking at Bank PHB. She also chaired the Gambia Red Cross Society and was elected chair of the Africa Travel Association in May 2010. In 2013 she helped establish the Gambia Collecting Society to collect royalties for Gambian artists under copyright law.

Jobe-Njie was born in Serekunda. Her father died when she was young and her mother died a few years later, so she was raised by her uncle. She attended Serre-Kunda Primary School and St. Joseph’s High School, and earned an MBA from the University of Wolverhampton.

After leaving the ambassador post, she returned to The Gambia and became a close aide to Zeinab Jammeh and the executive director of Jammeh’s charity, Operation Save the Children Foundation.

Personal life: She was married to university professor Gumbo Tournay, with whom she has a son named Ousman; they later divorced. She then married hotelier Buna Njie.