{"id":32010,"date":"2021-06-08T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32010"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:31:05","slug":"gambia-african-descendants-hold-1st-ever-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/gambia-african-descendants-hold-1st-ever-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia: African descendants hold 1st ever symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Adama Tine<\/p>\n<p>African descendants residing in The Gambia over the weekend held their first ever symposium with members of the National Assembly, human right activists, historians and stakeholders at a local hotel in Senegambia.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Sulayman Saho, the lawmaker for Central Badibou, who chaired the symposium, said African descendants are finally reaching the promised land \u2013 Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlavery is not something new in Africa and for these people to be accorded automatic citizenship, support of the executive is crucial, more so the president,\u201d Hon. Sulayman Saho said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the role of the National Assembly is crucial in implementing laws that will guarantee the process of returning home.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoint.gm\/africa\/gambia\/headlines\/african-descendants-hold-1st-ever-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/thepoint.gm\/africa\/gambia\/headlines\/african-descendants-hold-1st-ever-symposium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Adama Tine African descendants residing in The Gambia over the weekend held their first ever symposium with members of the National Assembly, human right activists, historians and stakeholders at a local hotel in Senegambia. Hon. Sulayman Saho, the lawmaker for Central Badibou, who chaired the symposium, said African descendants are finally reaching the promised [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-gambia","type-news-articles","item-year-676","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32011,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32010\/revisions\/32011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}