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Mariama Khan
Born1977
NationalityGambian
CitizenshipGambian
Occupation(s)filmmaker, poet, cultural activist
Notable workSutura: Rape and Justice in Senegal

Mariama Khan (born 1977) is a Gambian filmmaker, poet, cultural activist and scholar. She teaches African civilization and Women in African Society at Lehman CollegeinNew York.[1]

Life[edit]

Mariama Khan was born in 1977[2] to a Senegalese father and a Gambian mother. She grew up in Brikama New Town in the Kombo Central district of The Gambia.[1]

Khan started making short documentary films as a student of Henry FeltatBrandeis University. She made four documentaries in 2008–9. Sutura won a UNFPA award,[1] and The Journey Up The Hill was premiered at Cinekambiya International Film Festival in 2016.[3]

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.[2]

In 2018 she wrote a public letter to President Adama Barrow, in defence of ASP Musa Fatty.[4] 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.[5]

Books[edit]

Films[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ a b Saine, Abdoulaye S. (2012). Culture and Customs of Gambia. ABC-CLIO. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-313-35911-8.
  • ^ "Mariama Khan's THE JOURNEY UP THE HILL to be premiered at Cinekambiya International Film Festival". What's On Gambia. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  • ^ 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
  • ^ Five Gambia police charged with activists' murders, news24, 29 June 2018.
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