Mariama Khan
Mariama Khan (born 1977) is a Gambian filmmaker, poet, cultural activist and scholar. She teaches African civilization and Women in African Society at Lehman College in New York.
Mariama Khan
- Name
- Mariama Khan
- Born
- 1977
- Occupation
- filmmaker, poet, cultural activist
- Nationality
- The Gambia
- Education
- Brandeis University
- Languages
- English · French · Wolof
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Mariama Khan (born 1977) is a Gambian filmmaker, poet, cultural activist and scholar. She teaches African civilization and Women in African Society at Lehman College in New York.
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Mariama Khan (born 1977) is a documentary filmmaker, poet and scholar of english, among other activities, a national of The Gambia. The documentary filmmaker was born in Brikama.
Mariama Khan was educated at Brandeis University. The documentary filmmaker worked for Lehman College and lived in Kombo Central. Languages used include English, French and Wolof.
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• Name — Mariama Khan • Born — 1977 • Citizenship — Gambian • Occupation — filmmaker, poet, cultural activist • Notable Works — Sutura: Rape and Justice in Senegal
Life
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Mariama Khan was born in 1977 to a Senegalese father and a Gambian mother. She grew up in Brikama New Town in the Kombo Central district of The Gambia. Khan started making short documentary films as a student of Henry Felt at Brandeis University. She made four documentaries in 2008–9. Sutura won a UNFPA award, and The Journey Up The Hill was premiered at Cinekambiya International Film Festival in 2016. In the Gambia, Khan worked as acting and later director of the Policy Analysis Unit in the Office of the President. President Yahya Jammeh appointed her secretary-general of Gambia's civil service in 2010, though the appointment only lasted a few months. She was then appointed permanent secretary at the Personnel Management Office. In 2018 she wrote a public letter to President Adama Barrow, in defence of ASP Musa Fatty. Fatty, who was believed to be wrongly accused of shooting at youth, was one of five police officers initially charged with murder after the deaths of three young protestors at an anti-pollution rally in Faraba Banta.
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Mariama Khan is recorded as poet, documentary filmmaker, university teacher and scholar of english.
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1977
Mariama Khan born at Brikama.
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Kombo Central
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Brikama.
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Books
• Futa Toro: poetry, 2003 • (with Bamba Khan) Juffureh: kissing you with hurting lips: poetry, 2004 • (With Bamba Khan) Proverbs of the SeneGambia • "The Gambia-Senegal Border: Issues in Regional Integration", (Routledge, 2019)
Films
• Sutura: Rape and Justice in Senegal • The Journey Up The Hill.
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- 1.Beti Ellerson, Mariama Khan, filmmaker, poet, cultural activist, scholar: Reflections on cinema culture in The Gambia, African Women in Cinema Blog, 20 July 2018.
- 2.Saine, Abdoulaye S. Culture and Customs of Gambia. ABC-CLIO. 76. 2012. 978-0-313-35911-8.
- 3.Mariama Khan's THE JOURNEY UP THE HILL to be premiered at Cinekambiya International Film Festival. What's On Gambia. 4 May 2016.
- 4.Mariama Khan, a security personnel who was believed to be wrongly accused of shooting at youth protesting over environmental concerns in Faraba Bantang. Gambia: Open Letter to President Barrow - Do Not Frame UP ASP Musa Batty, Release Him and Get the True Killers, Freedom Newspaper, 20 June 2018
- 5.Five Gambia police charged with activists' murders, news24, 29 June 2018.
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