The Gambia hopes to capitalize on `Roots'

Chicago Sun-Times | April 13, 1997| | Copyright

BANJUL, Gambia When author Alex Haley journeyed to Africa in search of his family's roots, the trail led him to this former British colonial city near the mouth of the mighty Gambia River, just below the westernmost tip of the continental bulge forming West Africa. In the dry season that runs from November to May, this quietly crumbling, undistinguished Muslim city of 60,000 is hot, sleepy and dusty. As the capitol of one of Africa's smallest states, and an island of relatively quiet stability in a continent of too-often bloody turmoil, it is easily overlooked by the world's new media. ...

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