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Amie Sillah launches The Silent Voices For
so long now have the subdued, the depressed and the voiceless wallowed
into silence, accepting the painful and the unjust. Tears keep rolling
down pale cheeks, on haggard faces, as enslaved women and mutilated
children cower in tightest despair. Is it tradition or culture that
justifies these deeds or has religion no means of deterring such
injustice? In this collection of stories, we discover the horrible and
hair-raising accounts of true experiences that only befit a crime
fiction movie or a fantasy. Amie Sillah
has taken a bold step and has become the first woman to use words as a
weapon as she makes us discover the stunning ability of the silenced
triumphing over adversity. The eleven stories have swept through
pertinent themes such as early marriage, the caste system, betrayals,
complexity in polygamy, difficult relationships with in-laws and
mutilations meted out to young innocent girls. These issues have
haunted our communities and people for years and the intricacy
continues to lie in the misconceptions and misunderstandings they have
engendered. It is an act of courage for Amie Sillah
to write and release such vital secrets that many continue to consider
taboo to question. Questioning is provoking a fit of the fantods. To
borrow from Yvonne Vera, in this collection, the text ‘is granted its
intimacy, its privacy, its creation of a world, its proposals, its
individual characters [and] its suspension of disbelief’. A pace is set
by the emboldened Sillah to deal with such
complex issues by opening the cupboard and exposing the skeletons. A
new era of Gambian women’s literature is emerging. Amie Sillah is finally launching her much awaited collection of short stories. A fervent gender activist and a promoter of the cultural rights of Gambian women, Amie has set her mark by maintaining a column on social and cultural issues affecting women and relationships between men and women on the Foroyaa Newspaper for several years now. She has also actively taken part in conferences both within and outside the country as an ambassador of women affairs and women right activist. It should be quickly explained that she is not a feminist but a woman who believes that women (the child and adult alike) have a fundermental role to play from the family to the international level. She believes our society needs only give them the due right to fully show their potentials. Do not miss this unique launch which will set it unique in its genre.
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