1. INTERNATIONAL ROOTS FESTIVAL PROJECT 2014
“Celebrating Unity Through Culture”
The Gambia, West Africa
“Your African Diaspora Connection” TM

2. INTERNATIONAL ROOTS
FESTIVAL
www.rootsgambia.gm
www.mbeconsulting.net
Official USA/Gambia
Midwestern States Promoter
Celebrating Unity Through Culture
The Gambia the place to be
Contact: Tina Jones Savadogo
USA: +1-608-301-6596
Gambia: 011-220-360-1544,
011-220-796-5679
tjsavadogo@yahoo.com or
info@mbeconsulting.net

3. HISTORICAL PLACE WHERE
SLAVE TRADING TOOK PLACE
FOR SENEGAMBIANS. THIS
ISLAND CROSSES OVER TO
WHAT WAS ONCE CALLED
JAMESTOWN ISLAND…..
IT IS NOW CALLED KUNTA
KINTEH ISLAND

4. FORMERLY JAMESTOWN ISLAND
CURRENT PRESIDENT JAMMEH
CHANGED NAME TO KUNTA KINTEH
ISLAND TO REFLECT REALITY OF PAST
CONNECTING THE SHARED HERITAGE
OF DIASPORA AFRICANS AND
CONTINENTAL AFRICANS THAT WERE
ENSLAVED AND TAKEN TO OTHER
LANDS-THIS CASE AFRICA AND THE
AMERICAS!

5. SENEGAMBIA SLAVE TRADING

6. THESE ARE THE TYPES OF
CHAINS/SHACKLES THAT WERE
USED TO ENSLAVE AFRICANS LIKE
KUNTA KINTEH

7. SENEGAMBIA SLAVE TRADE

8. SLAVE DUNGEON WHERE 100’S
OF SLAVES WERE STORED IN
LESS THAN A 10X20 SPACE
WAITING TO BE PUT ONTO
SLAVE SHIPS

9. SLAVES FOR SALE

10. THE IS AN ORIGINAL WEAPON OF MASS
DETRUCTION THAT WAS USE ON THE
NECK OF A SLAVE
TO INCAPACITATE THE ENSLAVED
AFRICAN ONCE CAPTURED AND
UNABLE TO RUN AWAY

11. INSTRUMENTS USED TO
CAPTURE AND ENSLAVE
AFRICANS

12. ONCE ABOARD THE SLAVE SHIPS
THIS IS A TYPICAL SEATING
ARRANGEMENT THAT WAS
IMPOSED UPON THE ENSLAVED
AFRICAN

13. BLACK POWER

14. THIS IS A TYPICAL DEMOGRAPHY
AND GENDER OF ENSLAVED
AFRICANS DEPARTING FROM
GAMBIA FROM 1601-1867

15. NEVER AGAIN SCUPLTURE DESIGNED
BY AN DIASPORA AFRICAN
GAMBIAN CHILDREN HEIRS TO
KUNTA KINTEH
QUEEN SHAKIA TURNER (LEFT)
EMPRESS TINA JONES SAVADOGO
(FRONT CENTER)