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Stories
Recorded testimony, family history and lived accounts — kept in the language they were told in.
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Oral histories and personal accounts, told by the people who carry them.
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Audio · Mandinka · 12 min
The Mango Tree Recordings
Three generations of one family's history, recorded in a compound in Juffureh.
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Audio · Wolof · 18 min
What My Mother Refused to Forget
A market trader recounts the year the river flooded and the village moved.
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Story · English · 9 min read
Letters Never Sent
Written memory from a family separated across two coasts.
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