The Worosso Festival is a celebration of the first manding settlers of the Gambia River banks from the Great Mali Empire. The settlement was positioned into 7 pillars (sinkirr) of the local communities of the river banks.
Read MoreThis is a national holiday where workers across the length and breadth of greater Banjul area converge at the Independence Stadium to take part in various sporting activities.
Read MoreThe Gambia′s most popular international festival. Organized once in every two years, the festival programme is characterized by visits to heritage sites relating to slavery; the futampaf, a Jola traditional initiation/ rites of passage ceremony from youth to adulthood in which visitor’s can partake; and diverse cultural performances.
Read MoreHeld in the village of Kanilai, the President’s birth place, performers are also invited from the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone, Mali and Guinea which are renowned for their prowess in mystic and occult practices.
Read MoreThe Jamoral Festival is a biannual re-union of the Bojang, Manga, & Badjan families of Senegal & The Gambia who share the same ancestral lineage, totems and cultural beliefs.
Read MoreThe mosque, associated grounds, buildings and rocks are all regarded as sacred because the site provided sojourn for the Kalifat’ul Tijanniyya Sheikh Umar Taal, 1793-1864, leader of the Tijanniyya Sect in West Africa, during his Islamization mission in West Africa.
Read MoreThis is a celebration of the July 22nd Revolution and the birth of our Second Republic .It is marked by official parades of the security forces, school children and cultural groups. Major government projects are also inaugurated and highlighted with a musical and cultural jamboree.
Read MoreDepending on the sight of the moon Muslims observe the month of Ramadan fasting and end after a month with a religious celebration and solidarity with the family. Tobaski is further punctuated with ram sacrifices in tandem with the pilgrimage in Mecca.
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