Quotes And Comments From Participants
"The whole idea was great and looking forward to next year."
Fatou N
"I did enjoy myself and would return to Gambia."
Clovis M
"Mboka Poetry and sports festival had been a great find for me as a visiting artist. The platform it provided to
show case 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 program on Caribbean Story book, with film maker Issac Turay. All this made possible by my contact with Mboka."
Nzinga (storyteller, first performed in The Gambia at Mboka)
"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
"It was wonderful to do workshops. I would love to do more. I do have some ideas but am still thinking about those. I loved doing them – absolutely amazing – thank you for including me! Beautiful songs I will share here in London with the exciting tales of The Gambia, my eyes and mind have been opened and horizons broadened, I will really cherish what we shared. I would love to continue to work with the community in The Gambia and across Africa, I am inspired."
Ella The Great, Clown, Stiltwalker and Unicyclist
“The Mboka programme of events provides a great diversity of opportunities for a wide range of people to learn about and engage with Gambian culture. The ethos and deliver of the event is clearly welcoming and encouraging to all and my student group very much enjoyed those aspects they engaged with. A particular highlight for us was the Kankurang Festival in Janjanbureh which provided us with authentic and privileged access to experience these long-established practices and we shall be back again in 2019 to carry on learning about the wonderful cultural heritage of The Gambia”.
Lucy McCombes, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
Fatou N
"I did enjoy myself and would return to Gambia."
Clovis M
"Mboka Poetry and sports festival had been a great find for me as a visiting artist. The platform it provided to
show case 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 program on Caribbean Story book, with film maker Issac Turay. All this made possible by my contact with Mboka."
Nzinga (storyteller, first performed in The Gambia at Mboka)
"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
"It was wonderful to do workshops. I would love to do more. I do have some ideas but am still thinking about those. I loved doing them – absolutely amazing – thank you for including me! Beautiful songs I will share here in London with the exciting tales of The Gambia, my eyes and mind have been opened and horizons broadened, I will really cherish what we shared. I would love to continue to work with the community in The Gambia and across Africa, I am inspired."
Ella The Great, Clown, Stiltwalker and Unicyclist
“The Mboka programme of events provides a great diversity of opportunities for a wide range of people to learn about and engage with Gambian culture. The ethos and deliver of the event is clearly welcoming and encouraging to all and my student group very much enjoyed those aspects they engaged with. A particular highlight for us was the Kankurang Festival in Janjanbureh which provided us with authentic and privileged access to experience these long-established practices and we shall be back again in 2019 to carry on learning about the wonderful cultural heritage of The Gambia”.
Lucy McCombes, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
