A Living Mirror: The Life Of Deyda Hydara will be launched on World Press Freedom Day - Saturday, May 3 2008 at the Alliance Franco Gambienne at 10 am.

It is part of the activities that the Gambia Press Union (GPU) has earmarked for the celebration of this year's World Press Freedom Day whose theme is Freedom of Expression: Access  and Empowerment. The other activities include the inaugural lecture in the Deyda Hydara Lecture Series (The Journalist as an Endangered Species), which will be delivered by Gabriel Baglo, Director, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Africa Office, Dakar, Senegal.

According to a statement issued by the GPU, the GPU newsletter will also be unveiled on that day. The statement added that the Editors' Guild will also be inaugurated at the occasion. 

Written by both Aloa Ahmed Alota and Demba Ali Jawo, A Living Mirror: The Life Of Deyda Hydara has been described by Baba Galleh Jallow, former managing editor of The Independent newspaper, as "a national treasure that must be preserved for future generations of Gambians and fair-minded journalists".

He adds: "In a very real sense, Deyda Hydara continues to live on in the pages of this book. Indeed, the book's title, A Living Mirror , is real in a sense that cannot be described by words, but that can be felt only by reading the book itself."

The authors disclosed that they would be donating the proceeds from the book to the Deyda Hydara Trust(DHT) in furtherance of its mission to foster press freedom, good governance and sustainable economic development across Africa.