Creating space
Welcome
The African Workshop works with kids, artists and musicians in Mali. Together we run a community centre in Bamako, one of the world’s poorest cities.
Kids can drop in for free music lessons, to borrow a football or to paint. They can also come to hang out with other young people, enjoy a hot meal or just play. The workshop also offers literacy classes, health advice and vital training. More than anything it lets kids be kids.
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Photos by Sarah Hickson
Back from Bamako and sunk into the London rain and cold, it has been brilliant to look through Sarah’s beautiful pictures from Bamako. She has really captured the colour, characters - and kung fu moves - that make the workshop so special!
Check out the images in the gallery.
A huge thank you to Sarah, and best [...]
Hand in hand
I met up with Drissa today, the man who is the reason I ever came here. We first wrote to each other when we were eight (read the story) and today he took my hand and lead me through Bamako.
We slid through the market, past wax prints and soap stacks, mounds of drying shrimp softly [...]
Space to play, time to learn
The bags finally arrived! There was another race out to the airport in a borrowed car on Saturday morning, past tracts of shacks and drying grasses, through tight, crumbling neighbourhoods and flashing by huge Chinese construction projects.
It took a bit of hunting to track down the bags, which I found in a room at the [...]