Ramatoulie Onikepo Othman is a Gambian writer belonging to the Oku Marabout ethnic group.
She then continued her education in administration (Secretarial Studies) at the Presentation Girls Vocational School in Banjul.
Between 1983 and 1994 she was a freelance journalist for the Nigerian newspapers Daily Times and National Concord.
In 1999, after urging her environment, she published the book, A Cherished Heritage, a scientific study of the history of the Muslim Aku, whose roots she sees in freed slaves and settlers with Freetown and Creole community of Sierra Leone, as well as West Indies on the opposite shore of the Atlantic.
[2][3] The novel Costly Prices (2005) deals with the topics of tourism in Gambia and Gambian bumsters [de].