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Current Feed ContentGambia and Mauritania: The bonds that uniteAlex Haley, our long lost brother, traced his root to Africa, to the West African coastal village of Jufureh, here in The Gambia. He found out that he was a descendant of Kunta Kinteh, Gambian legend. But did you know that Kunta Kinteh’s grandfather was from Mauritania? Well, apart from this single piece of historical revelation, the two countries are bound by a number of factors; religious as well as ethnic. The Africanness we boast of is strongly tied to issues of geography and ethnicity.... |
