The Sene-Gambia Festival is an unforgettable day of storytelling, music, film and food, featuring readings from contributors of the acclaimed anthology ‘New Daughters of Africa’.

PROGRAMME TBC:

SESSION 1 STORYTELLING
12-1.00 PM – John Titi and Ella the Great: storytelling/clowning – FREE, suitable for family audience

Plus Listen: Murtal Feewa Darndewal – The Upright Revolution by Ngugi wa Thiong’o – a story written in Kikuyu, by Kenyan award-winning writer, Ngugi wa Thiongo, translated into Wolof and read by CorneliusGomez

1.00-1.3 PM Lunch, Ethiopian Food, Sene-Gambian Music

SESSION 2 FILMS AND DRAMA

1.30-3.30 PM –  Two Films made in The Gambia:

1. Welcome to the Smiling Coast
2. Gift from Babylon

3.30-3.50 PM – Fafa, Gambian Songstress

3.50-4.30 PM – Nadia Maddy presents Indie Book Show Africa (film and discussion)

4.30-5.00 PM BREAK – Ethiopian Food, Sene-Gambian Music

SESSION 3 PERFORMANCE: READINGS, SONG AND MUSIC

5.00-5.30 PM – Honouring Our Literary ancestors

• Toni Morrison words from Monika-Akila Richards
• Andrea Levy – Anni Domingo
• Binyavanga Wainana words from Kadija Sesay

Watch Kadija Sesay talk about the vision for the Festival, which she founded in Gambia, in this intimate interview with CNN ‘African Voices’:

5.30 – 6.30 PM – Patricia Foster, Adinah, Anni Domingo and Nzinga

6.30 -7.30 PM – New Daughters of Africa readings – Zena Edwards, Olumide Popoola, Yvvette Edwards,

7.30-7.50 PM – Book signings and break

7.50 -8.10 PM – Fafa, Gambian Songstress

8.10-9.00 PM – Book signings and music and food – SeneGambian music and African sounds by DJ Ebou, and Debbie Golt of Resonance FM

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