Janet Badjan-Young

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Janet Badjan-Young (born December 15, 1937 in Bathurst, now Banjul ) is a Gambian playwright.

Life

She closed her studies at the Rose Bruford College in Sidcup (UK) in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in speech and drama ( Speech and Drama ) from. From 1961 she worked for the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service in Freetown as a journalist, radio announcer and actress and left the country in 1963 on a government scholarship to study Public Relations and Communications at Boston University in the USA .

In 1970 she worked for the Kenyan government and the Educational Media Service as a radio producer. She was also a consultant to the World Association for Christian Communication in Kenya .

In 1979 she received a master's degree in communication , according to other sources in broadcast administration .

From 1981 to 1991 she worked for the United Nations Program for Human Settlements (HABITAT). In March 1991, UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar appointed her Director of the Caribbean Office of the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago).

In 2016 she starred in Dani Kouyaté's film Medan vi lever (English title: While We Live ) , which was filmed in Sweden and Gambia.

theatre

Badjan-Young spent more than 35 years abroad and worked with various acting groups in Sierra Leone (Drama Circle, Freetown), Kenya (The Tamaduni Players, Nairobi), Nigeria and the Caribbean.

Since 2000 she has been organizing theater performances in and around Banjul with the Ebunjan theater group and is supported by the National Council for Arts and Culture of the Gambian Ministry of Tourism and Culture .

At the end of 2011, with the support of UNESCO , she opened the Ebunjan (also: Ebun Jan ) Theater in the south of Kanifing , where she performs plays. The theater is the first professional Gambian theater and has 300 seats.

Themes of her pieces include the so-called widow inheritance , in which widows marry a brother of their deceased husband, AIDS / HIV , human conflicts and the relationship between man and nature.

Works (selection)

  • The Ultimate Inheritance , premiered in 2001.
  • The Battle of Sankandi , premiered in 2002.
  • The Dance of Katchikali: a dance drama , premiered in 2007.
  • The Hand of Fate , written before 2007, published in 2009, filmed in 2013.
  • Chains of Inspiration , premiered in 2011.
  • The Kora: A Mystical Strings of The Gambia , performed in 2012.
  • Two plays: A fatal mistake & the Kora: mystical strings of the Gambia , released in 2015.
  • Backway, the desperate route to Babylon: a play about illegal immigration to Europe , published 2017.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johnson Publishing Company: Jet . Johnson Publishing Company, August 15, 1963 ( google.co.uk [accessed March 3, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b Aunty Janet Badjan Young. March 4, 2016, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kingston Gleaner Newspaper Archives | Mar 27, 1991, p. 41. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Janet Badjan-Young. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ebun Jan Theater. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Badjan Young, Janet. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Gambia: 'The Battle of Sankandi' - An Appreciation. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Gambia: Natcom to Fund US $ 20,000 Project for Ebunjan Theater Troupe. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Theater preview: 'Chains of Inspiration' by Janet Badjan-Young: a dance drama based on the Atlantic Slave Trade. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ebunjang set to host debut theater performance - Daily Observer. May 8, 2012, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ebunjan Theater. December 9, 2015, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  12. ^ Abdoulaye Saine: Culture and Customs of Gambia . ABC-CLIO, 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-35910-1 ( google.de [accessed on March 3, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Badjan Young, Janet. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Florence Mahoney : Gambia: 'The Battle of Sankandi' - An Appreciation. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Gambia: Country Hosts Sable International Literary Festival. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Janet Badjan-Young: The hand of fate? Janet Badjan-Young, The Gambia 2009 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 3, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Ibrahim Ceesay, Momodou S Jallow, Mariama Colley, Janet Badjan-Young: The hand of fate. 2015, accessed on March 3, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Theater preview: 'Chains of Inspiration' by Janet Badjan-Young: a dance drama based on the Atlantic Slave Trade. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Gambia: Ebunjan Theater Set to Celebrate Anniversary. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Janet Badjan-Young: Two plays: A fatal mistake & the Kora: mystical strings of the Gambia . 2015, ISBN 978-9983-951-54-7 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 3, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Janet Badjan-Young: Backway, the desperate route to Babylon: a play about illegal immigration to Europe . 2017, ISBN 978-9983-953-71-8 ( worldcat.org [accessed March 3, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Badjan-Young, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian playwright
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst, now Banjul