MBOKA FESTIVAL
Yaram teams up with SABLE Creative Enterprise and The Institute of Travel and Tourism Gambia (ITTOG) to set up the festival.
MBOKA MEANS ‘ONE FAMILY’ IN WOLLOF, AND IT OFFERS HOMECOMERS, VISITORS AND PARTICIPANTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE BOTH GAMBIAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC CULTURAL HERITAGE.
The festival was launched in January 2017, in the midst of The Gambia’s ‘new dawn’. Inspired by that, the New Dawn literary event brings Gambian and International artists to the Mboka ‘One Family’ stage with special guests at each festival.
In 2017, Kenyan writer and ‘language warrior’, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
In 2018, Jamaican/British dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ)
In 2019, Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo had to cancel; replaced with a, ‘Women in Creativity’ event
In 2024, we launched the International Gam Afro Latin Fest
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