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I noticed there was not a lot of history written about The Gambia and a lot of history is with the griots and is not written and we lose it when they die.

— Patience Sonko-Godwin

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Women want to contribute to development. We have been contributors as mothers—you name it—the women are on the grassroots levels in every field.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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