Monday, 22 November 2010
 Amie Sillah to launch a pro-women's right book: Silent Voices (my blog
title)
 Dear all,

For so long now have the subdued, the depressed and the voiceless wallowed
into silence, accepting the painful and the unjust. Tears keep rolling down
pale cheeks, on haggard faces, as enslaved women and mutilated children
cower in tightest despair. Is it tradition or culture that justifies these
deeds or has religion no means of deterring such injustice? In this
collection of stories, we discover the horrible and hair-raising accounts of
true experiences that only befit a crime fiction movie or a fantasy.
Amie Sillah has taken a bold step and has become the first woman to use
words as a weapon as she makes us discover the stunning ability of the
silenced triumphing over adversity. The eleven stories have swept through
pertinent themes such as early marriage, the caste system, betrayals,
complexity in polygamy, difficult relationships with in-laws and mutilations
meted out to young innocent girls. These issues have haunted our communities
and people for years and the intricacy continues to lie in the
misconceptions and misunderstandings they have engendered.
It is an act of courage for Amie Sillah to write and release such vital
secrets that many continue to consider taboo to question. Questioning is
provoking a fit of the fantods.
To borrow from Yvonne Vera, in this collection, the text ‘is granted its
intimacy, its privacy, its creation of a world, its proposals, its
individual characters [and] its suspension of disbelief’. A pace is set by
the emboldened Sillah to deal with such complex issues by opening the
cupboard and exposing the skeletons. A new era of Gambian women’s literature
is emerging.

BOOK LAUNCHING:
Amie Sillah is finally launching her much awaited collection of short
stories. A fervent gender activist and a promoter of the cultural rights of
Gambian women, Amie has set her mark by maintaining a column on social and
cultural issues affecting women and relationships between men and women on
the Foroyaa Newspaper for several years now. She has also actively taken
part in conferences both within and outside the country as an ambassador of
women affairs and women right activist. It should be quickly explained that
she is not a feminist but a woman who believes that women (the child and
adult alike) have a fundermental role to play from the family to the
international level. She believes our society needs only give them the due
right to fully show their potentials. Do not miss this unique launch which
will set it unique in its genre.
When
Mon, 29 November, 4pm – 8pm GMT+00:00
Where
Paradise Suites Hotel
(Guest list has been hidden at organiser's request)

Our sister, Amie Sillah is launching her book entitled The Silent Voices at
the Paradise Suites Hotel, on Monday 29 November from 16hrs onwards. This is
a unique occasion in that it is the first time we have a collection of
stories revealing some of the most painful experiences within our
socio-cultural ways of life. Amie Sillah has pledged to donate any funds
raised in the sale of her books to the Women welfare in the form of grants.
All participants to the launched are kindly urged to bring along at least
D200 and but a book. Institutions, organisations and individuals are
encouraged to make make pledges, philanthropic or personal, to donate books
to schools or libraries, so that not only are people aware of these issues
raised in the stories (which is the primary objective) but funds are also
raised to help the poor woman who strives hard to help support her family.
Further information will be provided shortly (a scan of the book cover, the
blurb and a short profile of the author).
Best regards.
Cherno Omar Barry
General Secretary
Writers Association of The Gambia
Tel: 9904617

-- 
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the
difference of your languages and colours. Verily, in that are indeed signs
for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran

www.suntoumana.blogspot.com


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