Tubabs is a nickname for foreigners especially white ones in the West African country of Gambia In this documentary filmed by Mary Flannery a group of college students from St Marys College of Maryland travel to Gambia as part of an anthropology course Throughout their time in the rivercountry they experience a world radically different from their own Interactions with the local populace daily chores and the individual projects the students conduct all help them learn what exactly it means to be a tubab