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INTERNATIONAL ROOTS FESTIVAL PROJECT 2014
“Celebrating Unity Through Culture”
The Gambia, West Africa
“Your African Diaspora Connection” TM
INTERNATIONAL ROOTS
FESTIVAL www.rootsgambia.gm
www.mbeconsulting.net
Official USA/Gambia Midwestern States Promoter
Celebrating Unity Through Culture
The Gambia the place to be
Contact: Tina Jones Savadogo USA: +1-608-301-6596 Gambia: 011-220-360-1544, 011-220-796-5679 [email protected] or [email protected]
HISTORICAL PLACE WHERE SLAVE TRADING TOOK PLACE FOR SENEGAMBIANS. THIS ISLAND CROSSES OVER TO WHAT WAS ONCE CALLED JAMESTOWN ISLAND…..
IT IS NOW CALLED KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND
FORMERLY JAMESTOWN ISLAND CURRENT PRESIDENT JAMMEH CHANGED NAME TO KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND TO REFLECT REALITY OF PAST CONNECTING THE SHARED HERITAGE OF DIASPORA AFRICANS AND CONTINENTAL AFRICANS THAT WERE ENSLAVED AND TAKEN TO OTHER LANDS-THIS CASE AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS!
SENEGAMBIA SLAVE TRADING
THESE ARE THE TYPES OF CHAINS/SHACKLES THAT WERE USED TO ENSLAVE AFRICANS LIKE KUNTA KINTEH
SENEGAMBIA SLAVE TRADE
SLAVE DUNGEON WHERE 100’S OF SLAVES WERE STORED IN LESS THAN A 10X20 SPACE WAITING TO BE PUT ONTO SLAVE SHIPS
SLAVES FOR SALE
THE IS AN ORIGINAL WEAPON OF MASS DETRUCTION THAT WAS USE ON THE NECK OF A SLAVE
TO INCAPACITATE THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN ONCE CAPTURED AND UNABLE TO RUN AWAY
INSTRUMENTS USED TO CAPTURE AND ENSLAVE AFRICANS
ONCE ABOARD THE SLAVE SHIPS THIS IS A TYPICAL SEATING ARRANGEMENT THAT WAS IMPOSED UPON THE ENSLAVED AFRICAN
BLACK POWER
THIS IS A TYPICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND GENDER OF ENSLAVED AFRICANS DEPARTING FROM GAMBIA FROM 1601-1867
NEVER AGAIN SCUPLTURE DESIGNED BY AN DIASPORA AFRICAN
GAMBIAN CHILDREN HEIRS TO KUNTA KINTEH
QUEEN SHAKIA TURNER (LEFT)
EMPRESS TINA JONES SAVADOGO (FRONT CENTER)
