Want to know what happened at Mboka Festival 2017. Check out these comments and links
Quotes And Comments From Participants
"Mboka Arts, Culture and Sports Festival has been a great find for me as a visiting artist. The platform it provided to showcase my artistic skills has allowed me to increase my network in The Gambia, which will benefit me greatly in the future.
I also have some on-going workshops in a local nursery, and a possible TV programme on Caribbean Story book, with film maker Issac Turay. All this was made possible by my contact with Mboka."
Nzinga (professional storyteller, first performed in The Gambia at Mboka)
"The whole idea was great and looking forward to next year!"
Fatou N.
"I did enjoy myself and would return to Gambia."
Clovis M.
"Try and develop the idea for the lantern parade/something similar which sounded like it would appeal to a wide audience and is a good event to link the tourism and Mboka themes for the conference."
Lucy M.
"Thank you ever so much for gifting me the opportunity to perform/read poetry and deliver workshops to the beautiful people of Gambia. I will not forget this experience. It was hard work, but incredibly rewarding and fulfilling."
Patricia Foster
SABLE Poet in Residence
PRESS
http://www.jamesmurua.com/Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o-wa-thiongo-headlines-gambias-mboka-festival-2017/
http://standard.gm/site/2017/02/28/highlights-inaugural-mboka-festival-arts-culture-sport-gambia-announcing-2018-dates/
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/13700
http://www.reconnectafrica.com/current-issue/uncategorised/rca-magazine-january-february-2017-issue/dates-for-your-diary
http://www.reconnectafrica.com/current-issue/uncategorised/rca-magazine-january-february-2017-issue/dates-for-your-diary
Post Festival
http://www.jamesmurua.com/category/gambia-literature/
(Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wearing an Mboka T-shirt!)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/new-gambian-leader-adama-barrow-sworn-in-at-ceremony-in-senegal (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o with a quote and the Mboka Festival are mentioned in the last paragraph)
TV AND VIDEO LINKS
NEWS REPORT
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O AT THE AIRPORT (13 JAN 2017):
Quotes And Comments From Participants
"Mboka Arts, Culture and Sports Festival has been a great find for me as a visiting artist. The platform it provided to showcase my artistic skills has allowed me to increase my network in The Gambia, which will benefit me greatly in the future.
I also have some on-going workshops in a local nursery, and a possible TV programme on Caribbean Story book, with film maker Issac Turay. All this was made possible by my contact with Mboka."
Nzinga (professional storyteller, first performed in The Gambia at Mboka)
"The whole idea was great and looking forward to next year!"
Fatou N.
"I did enjoy myself and would return to Gambia."
Clovis M.
"Try and develop the idea for the lantern parade/something similar which sounded like it would appeal to a wide audience and is a good event to link the tourism and Mboka themes for the conference."
Lucy M.
"Thank you ever so much for gifting me the opportunity to perform/read poetry and deliver workshops to the beautiful people of Gambia. I will not forget this experience. It was hard work, but incredibly rewarding and fulfilling."
Patricia Foster
SABLE Poet in Residence
PRESS
http://www.jamesmurua.com/Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o-wa-thiongo-headlines-gambias-mboka-festival-2017/
http://standard.gm/site/2017/02/28/highlights-inaugural-mboka-festival-arts-culture-sport-gambia-announcing-2018-dates/
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/13700
http://www.reconnectafrica.com/current-issue/uncategorised/rca-magazine-january-february-2017-issue/dates-for-your-diary
http://www.reconnectafrica.com/current-issue/uncategorised/rca-magazine-january-february-2017-issue/dates-for-your-diary
Post Festival
http://www.jamesmurua.com/category/gambia-literature/
(Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wearing an Mboka T-shirt!)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/new-gambian-leader-adama-barrow-sworn-in-at-ceremony-in-senegal (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o with a quote and the Mboka Festival are mentioned in the last paragraph)
TV AND VIDEO LINKS
NEWS REPORT
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O AT THE AIRPORT (13 JAN 2017):
A FEATURE DONE BY LEADING PRESENTER EBRIMA BALDEH ON NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O (15 JAN 2017)
