Janjanbureh 2

At noon the festival is like a small street festival and so we walk the streets and mainly see kankurangs. The kankurang is pretty scary, but I still have my picture taken with "witch catcher from the circumcision ceremony".
We go back to the fairground, where the official opening is now taking place. It's a lot of talk, but we sit in the shade and rest. It's really very warm.
In the afternoon the AFCON match Gambia vs Cameroon starts. There is a television set up in the lodge and we experience the game with lots of Gambian fans. The Scorpions made it to the round of 16 and surprised and delighted their fans. Now they are eliminated with 0-2, but one is not that sad about it, rather proud about the first participation in this championship and about the games that the team had shown up to here.Read more