Archive | March, 2010

The Outhouse Ruhabi music project

The Outhouse Ruhabi group is an ongoing project between Outhouse, an English jazz quartet and 5 Wolof drummers from The Gambia. Since 2005 they’ve been working together, attempting to blend the different styles into some kind of organic whole. The 3 videos below were filmed in the streets of Banjul in 2007 – the culmination [...]

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FSF Mosquito Net Appeal

If you’ll allow me to mix my metaphors, malaria is something of the elephant in the room when it comes to The Gambia – it has a huge looming presence and yet is rarely talked about in the tourist areas. You take your pills and try and forget about it. Yet behind the scenes, it goes about its quietly devastating business, taking more lives than you ever thought possible.

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Making a difference in The Gambia – Pt 2

So the Gambia welcomed me again. This time I visited two primary schools in one of the towns. I think I learnt a lot from this adventure and just thought that I might share some ideas with those of you who want to want to have a similar experience.

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The Banjul/Barra Ferry

The Banjul/Barra Ferry across the River Gambia has something of a legendary status with those who have been on it. I went along to find out why…

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Jason’s latest Gambia magic trick

The latest trick from our Gambia magic maestro, Jason – this time featuring mini versions of four of our brochures…

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