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Thank you Roots organisers

africa » gambia
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Editor,Please allow me space in your widely read newspaper to commend the organising committee of the just concluded Roots Homecoming Festival hosted...
roots, gta, ncac, organising, african, gambians, programme
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Mauritanian Musical  Group  Pa...

Mauritanian Musical Group Participates In Roots Festival

africa » gambia
Picture: Diddal Jaalal Group
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thewave-makingMauritanianMusicalapostlecommonlyknownasDiddalJaalal,hasstronglyparticipatedinthejustendedInternationalRootsFestivalinthecountry. The...
mauritanian, musical, diddal jaalal, roots, participates
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Kanilai  As  Groundbreaking  C...

Kanilai As Groundbreaking Cultural Festival Performance

africa » gambia
Picture: President Yahya AJJ Jammeh
Friday, June 13, 2008
Kanilai, the hometown of The Gambian leader, was one of thevenues for this year’s International Roots Festival which has just ended in thecountry....
kanilai, groundbreaking, cultural, festival, roots
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Mauritania eye cultural ties with Gambia

africa » gambia » kembujeh
Friday, June 13, 2008
Mr Gibril Ngawa Bah, Head of Diddal Jaalal Cultural Group from the South East of Mauritania, has  said that his group  is desperately looking to...
mauritania, cultural, share, gambian, africans, roots, development, traditional, educative, promotion
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Book Publisher Donates to Root...

Book Publisher Donates to Roots Festival Officials

africa » gambia
Picture: Malick Nyan's first edition
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Mr. Malick Nyang is the publisher of “The Gambia Dates and Events from the Iron Age to the Present Day”. He recently donated 25 copies of the book to...
book, publisher, roots, festival, officials, events
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Big Read: ROOTS - Kunta Kinteh...

Big Read: ROOTS - Kunta Kinteh at 30

africa » gambia
Monday, June 09, 2008
(1976: the Year of Soweto’s youth and the beginning of the end for Apartheid)A personal appreciation by Dida Halake, Daily Observer, 2006, "Dwell on...
roots, kunta kinte, blessings, allah, hassankunda, african, ethiopian-kenyan, cultures, caribbean, tradition, people
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Gambia and the African Diaspora

africa » gambia
Monday, June 09, 2008
(Editorial by Dida Halake for Gambia’s Daily Observer, October 31st 2002) At the Roots Homecoming Festival’s Opening Ceremony in June this year...
roots, delightfully, black, organisation, home-comers, festival, gambians, community, caribbean
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The Big Read: ROOTS - A bridge...

The Big Read: ROOTS - A bridge between Africans and the diaspora

africa » gambia
Friday, June 06, 2008
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921–February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an...
roots, autobiography, malcolm x, books, alex haley, american, juffure, maryland, died, slave
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The Kunta Kinteh-Alex Haley Me...

The Kunta Kinteh-Alex Haley Memorial

africa » gambia
Friday, June 06, 2008
The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial commemorates the place of arrival of Alex Haley's African ancestor, Kunta Kinte, to the New World, as told in the...
kunta kinte-alex haley, memorial, arrival, roots, maryland, african, symbolizes, y people
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GTA Official Dies, Others Injured in Accident

africa » gambia
Thursday, June 05, 2008
In what is seen as the saddest news dogging the 9thedition of International Roots Festival, anaccident on Monday, 2ndJune 2008 resulted inthe death...
gta, official, injured, accident, saddest, international, roots, festival
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