Editor,

Please allow me space in your widely read newspaper to commend the organising committee of the just concluded Roots Homecoming Festival hosted by the Gambia.

To me, the programme was not only meant to reflect on the past but has also enabled those in the diaspora amongst others to come back home and share the joy with their fellow  African brothers and sisters in Africa. As the saying goes, as long as you are black, you are an African no matter where one found himself in this world.

It’s of no doubt to my mind that the organisers towards these successful event must have play their role by making the programme to be all inclusive, as for the first time in the history of the festival to be moved from the urban to the interior thereby enabling mass participation by Gambians towards the programme.

Before I put my pen down, may I say again bravo to the organising committee of the Roots Homecoming Festival especially Momodou Joof, director National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) and Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA).

Fatou Sarr

Banjul