The Gambia

“Kindred” is about a girl named Dana who is transported back to the 18th century to save Rufus, her ancestor from any trouble. The reason she goes back in time is so she can keep Rufus alive until he and Alice can have a child named Hagar who will then start the family line so Dana can be born in the present. As Dana goes back in time she tries to teach Rufus to treat everyone equally and be a kind person. Our main issue that is present in our novel is mostly slavery which branches off to racism…

pursued he career as writer. He helps write interview for playboy magazine and later coauthored the autobiography of Malcolm X. within the next following years Alex had made history with the well know book Roots, the book followed his family tree from Gambia to the slave-holding south. The book later became a Pulitzer prize winning book and in 1977 became a miniseries that was one of the most popular tv shows of all time. Alex Haley is a well educated author his alma maler…

clitoral reconstructive surgery. Aisha then moved to live in the United States with the help of her younger sister who cannot have children as a result of FGM. She had two daughters and each time was cut open. Aisha wows never to return to her family in Gambia because of this barbaric practice. She mentioned, she could have lost her life as a result of FGM since she witnessed many deaths of young girls from FGM, a practice so absurd. Indeed, believe in "absurdities and we shall commit…

The issue of migration is a pressing problem now in Ghana because it highly affects country’s economy and development in every sphere of life. Even though there are seasonal waves of migration to Ghana from other countries, but still due to poverty and critical economic situation people move to neighbouring countries or to other continents. From pre-colonial times up to the late 1960s, Ghana enjoyed relative economic prosperity and was the destination of many migrants from neighbouring West…

Why can't the LGBT community be accepted It's estimated that there is only two hundred and twenty nine million gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people in the world, that’s 5 percent of the seven billion people who inhabit this earth; however this number doesn’t stop hateful, disgusting bigots from saying that there is a "gay agenda" to turn their children gay and use this as an excuse campaign to make it illegal worldwide. Egypt, Nigeria and Sudan are only three of the seventy nine…

homosexuals or gays the same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively” (Smith 2014). This statement proves that homosexuals are treated unfairly in Africa. Also by saying these words, Jammeh influences the citizens of Gambia to ostracize…

in this region are Latin, Afrobeat and soukous. The countries that are related to these genres are Central African Republic, Congo and Zambia. This also is including the Pygmy music. Last is West Africa music, this kind of music is taken place in Gambia and the plains of Mali and Niger. All of these types of music and places I named are similar to each other but are in different places. Mostly all of these genres were influenced by Arabic music and Indonesia. This style of music doesn’t just…

“Tourism is a social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes” (UNWTO).Tourism has become a major phenomenon and a way of life for a majority of people today. Therefore tourism literature has time and again stated that it is one of the leading industries. It is an important sector, and a dominant economic development instrument grounded on destination resources.…

book. Alex Haley wrote a biography on his family and their roots/history and decided to name it Roots. The novel Roots by Alex Haley tells the story of a young boy named Kairaba “Kunta” Kinte and his family who live in Juffure, a small village in The Gambia, Africa. Kunta has a younger brother named Lamin Kinte and he cares for him, as well as the rest of his family and kafo mates. His village is the type that farms and all of it’s inhabitants are farmers. Often times they don’t have enough food…

chose for the literary critique is Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman. This book is a fictional narrative from the point of view of a young girl named Grace’s point of view. Grace lives with her mother and Nana in the United States. Her father resides in Gambia, Africa with his new wife, Jatou and their two younger children Neneh and Bakary. However, Grace sees her father as a distant memory. She associates her father with letters and photographs (p. 2). This is not Grace’s idea of a father; she…