Award-Winning Film Scholar Becomes First Gambian To Run For Elections in Germany

On 17 September 2016, Piratenpartei's Parliamentary candidate Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu joined the national solidarity action against UNFAIR global trade (Photo Credit: Sankanu/Facebook)

Top Academic Journal Publishes Sankanu’s Article on Frantz Fanon, African Cinema

Prince Sankanu speaks to Modou S. Joof, publisher of The North Bank Evening Standard, on his film project (photo: MENjie/2012)

‘Cinekambiya’: It’s Gambia’s Film Industry

The West African country’s fledgling film industry had no previously recognised name, according to TNBES research.

THE UGLY SIDE OF MY GAMBIAN VISIT: A ROBBER SNATCHED MY WALLET WITH CASH, CREDIT CARD & CO.

Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, Professional filmmaker

By Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, currently in The Gambia

MENACE OF RAPE: Can’t be buried under carpet

Rape is s very sensitive issue, but a global phenomenon. In some countries they are more open about this act considered a menace to society but in other countries they are not that much open about it. However, rape is a social vice that cannot be buried under the carpet, as Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, a Gambian-German filmmaker told Modou S. Joof of The North Bank Evening Standard in an interview.   

GAMBIA: Young talents to star in €51K movie - ‘The Woman In A Black Jacket’

Prince Sankanu speaks to Modou S. Joof, publisher of The North Bank Evening Standard, on his film project

“The Woman In  A Black Jacket” is one of two movies to be shot in The Gambia in a film project initiated and set in motion by Prince Bubacarr Aminata Sankanu, a Germany-based Gambian filmmaker, author and strategy consultant.

The movie is about the menace of rape, a sensitive and major topic around the world, and Sankanu said talking about it (rape) is about placing the mirror before society to look at this issue which cannot be buried under the carpet.

Regime change without attitudinal change in The Gambia is meaningless!

Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh is often criticised by rights agencies as authoritative/here he speaks to journalists in Nov 2011/PHOTO/AFP