Go With The Flow Janjanbureh Local Life Tours

20/01/2022

09/12/2021

Join us in the upcoming event Janjanbureh kankurang festival 28th - 30th January 2022
To learn more about different types of kankurangs and other masquerades within The Gambia, don’t allow to be told start packing the suitcase to Janjanbureh is welcoming you all with the best local experience

05/11/2021

Janjanbureh local experience
Interacting with local people’s, learning and sharing experiences together
Book with Janjanbureh tour guide association at the tourist information center for the best experience in The Gambia

Hand on Experience

17/10/2021

Good Sunday from The kayalengs of Tabanani village who do ritual birth for barren women to help them to have a child with singing and dancing doing comedia etc

08/10/2021

Marvelous slow food for a long life 😊😊

07/10/2021

THE EARLY SCHOOLS

The primary objectives of the early Christian missionaries was, as observed by Babs Fafunwa, to convert the heathen or the benighted African to Christianity via education. The earliest Christian missionary school was, without doubt an adjunct of the church. It was a replica of a similar development in all former British colonies. The wesleyans who were also Methodists established the first elementary school. The mission should be credited for making the most important contributions to the early development of western education on MacCarthy Island.
The Methodist school was opened in 1835. It was built for the evangelization and the education of the liberated Africans who were brought to the island mainly to be resettled and trained. These destitute men and women, most of whom arrived as illiterates were catechised in the mission school in other to help them recover from the trauma of horrors of the slave trade in order to built a new life.
The Georgetown Methodist school is the oldest school next to the one at Denton street in Banjul. As the foundation for the development of western education in Janjanbureh, the historic school had made notable contributions to the social and economic advancement of the community. Many elderly people in Georgetown were fortunate to receive elementary education in this school. The majority of Georgetonians and many others from villages on the north and south mainland has also attended the school. In its early days, it used to offer a four year elementary course after which students would leave for various engagements in both the public and private sectors. However in 1961 the mission school was taken over by the Gambian government and managed by department of education. Under the recent changes, brought by the new education policy ( 1988-2003 ), the primary school became a lower basic school offering a six year course ( Grade 6 ).

04/10/2021

Sunrise, or moonrise, the River Gambia will always energize!

02/10/2021

Hand on experience at Jamali a Fulani community whose always feel happy to share their culture with visitors