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 Culture
- The Gambia
News
Wassu Stone Circles
get Museum and Visitors Centre
Banjul - GRTS TV
News, May 28 2000 -
Wassu stone circles, one of The Gambia's most important relics site, now
have a
museum and a visitor's centre, GRTS TV News reported. The buildings were officially inaugurated
on May 27th by the secretary of state for
tourism and culture.
More News? Our
Culture News (Africa) Page is updated
on a regular basis. Such as our Gambia News Page.
Music
Focus on West African traditional
music
Our music page
features a focus on traditional West African music and the instruments jembe,
kora, balaphone and ngoni.
The
vast geographic zone, which constitutes the western part of the continent, with
its indisputable diversity of peoples, countries and regions, hasn’t prevented
that one traditionally has been talking about West Africa as one cultural entity
in respect of some fields. This might also be the case in its musical
traditions, the way of understanding man’s relation with sound by means of
parallel, but never identical, instruments and dances.
Soon
to come!
Gastronomy
Classics from West African cuisine
Our gastronomy page gives you an ample introduction to the
ingredients used in African cuisine, presenting their history and fields of use.
Further, we are starting our recipes pages with some classics from the West
African cuisine, like the superb and tasteful Chicken Yassa, also common in The
Gambia.
GO!
Literature
Francophone
African Literature
A new
generation of "rebel" authors has appeared during the
last years. Breaking with the entire tradition of the Negritude
literature movement of the thirties and with its authority, their not
only creating a new literature, but also a new way of
expression, or even, a new language.
Not only the undisputable literal quality of their work has made
us write about them, but also their great capacity to assimilate
and transform a language, French, which during all times has
tried to transform them. Something is changing.
Read
more
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