Mariama Khan

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Mariama Khan (also Mariama Khan-Sabally ; born July 1977 in Brikama New Town ) is a Gambian poet, documentary filmmaker and politician.

family

Khan's father Biran Bakary Khan came from Senegal from the Fouta Toro area , her mother Mawuday Saidy from Gambia. She grew up in Brikama New Town. She has two sisters (Haddy and Yassin) and one brother, Bamba Khan. She was married to the writer and politician Momodou Sabally and has children with him.

Life

She attended Brikama Primary School and later St. Joseph's High School and St. Augustine's High School in Banjul .

From 1998 to 2000 she worked for the Gambian newspaper The Daily Observer . She earned a bachelor's degree in International Development Studies from Saint Mary's University Halifax in Canada in 2001 . She then did a Masters in Management of Development at the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization in Turin and the University of Turin (Italy) in 2006 and a Masters in Sustainable International Development Studies at Brandeis University ( Massachusetts , USA) in 2008 .

From 2001 to 2010 worked in various Gambian ministries such as the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Information and Communication.

From March to June 2010 she was Secretary General and Head of the Civil Service under President Yahya Jammeh for around three months . She then worked until August of that year as Permanent Secretary in personnel management at the Presidential Office.

Khan founded the Documentary Film Initiative (DFI-The Gambia), which aims to support young filmmakers. According to Khan, its founding was originally planned as part of the establishment of the Makane Kane Center for the Creative Arts as an art school. Khan said a conflict with the National Training Authority and President Jammeh caused her to lose a lot of money and leave Gambia.

In mid-June 2018, she published an open letter to the Gambian President Adama Barrow , in which she defended the police officer Musa Fatty, who was accused of shooting protesters in Faraba Banta a few days earlier .

Khan has been a professor at Lehman College in New York since 2018 .

Artistic activities

Khan is also active as a poet, documentary filmmaker and producer.

In an interview in 2009 she named Lenrie Peters , Gabriel Okara , David Diop and Leopold Sedar Senghor as literary role models .

2014 she produced three short films for the Student Experience Project of the University of Edinburgh .

Works

  • Futa Toro , 2003 (collection of poems).
  • (with her brother Bamba Khan): Juffureh: kissing you with hurting lips , 2004 (collection of poems).
  • (with Bamba Khan): Proverbs of the SeneGambia
  • Indigenous languages: the way to Africa's renaissance (non-fiction), 2009
  • The Gambia-Senegal border: issues in regional integration. Routledge, London 2019, ISBN 978-0-429-42601-8 .

Movies

  • The Journey Up The Hill , 2008.
  • Sutura: What Judges need to know about rape and justice in Senegal , 2008.
  • The Professor , 2008
  • Devil's Waters: Illegal Migration in The Gambia , 2009.
  • Facscinala - Divorce and Human rights in Senegal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gambia: Mariama Khan the New Literary Revelation. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Khan, Mariama (1977-). Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gambia: Dayo Foster Launches Debut Novel At Sable International Litfest. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Beti Ellerson: AFRICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA BLOG: Mariama Khan, filmmaker, poet, cultural activist, scholar: Reflections on cinema culture in The Gambia. In: AFRICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA BLOG. July 20, 2018, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ cobra71: Mariama Khan'speech. In: Gambian Writers. November 29, 2004, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Daggers Are Out For Someone In Banjul. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  7. ^ Mariama Khan. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Lamin Nyabally becomes the 10th Secretary General to be fired in less than 5 years. In: GAINAKO. November 20, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2019 (American English).
  9. ↑ Pa Nderry Mbai: Gambia: Open Letter to President Adama Barrow-Do Not Frame UP ASP Musa Fatty, Release Him And Get The True Killers. In: Freedom Newspaper. June 21, 2018, Retrieved March 8, 2019 (American English).
  10. ^ Mariama Khan. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Khan, Mariama
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khan-Sabally, Mariama
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian poet, documentary filmmaker and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Brikama , New Town