The peoples of the Senegambia have not produced any significant art, though there were blacksmiths in all societies and a few drum and kora (a complex stringed instrument) makers. Dance and music were tied to village activities, and some songs were part of the repertoire of the praise singers called griots.

The only newspaper, the government-operated News Bulletin, circulates mainly in Banjul. Radio Gambia, also government-run, broadcasts in English, French, and various Gambian languages. In Banjul is a small museum whose holdings are mainly anthropological.