Angel Luis Aldai presents his exhibition "Gentoo Ndaw» at Casa África

Since last night Casa África hosts a photographic exhibition by Angel Luis Aldai from the Canary Islands called Gentoo Ndaw   ("Dreams of childhood" in Wolof). The exhibition serves to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention on  Rights of the Child, a treaty that outlines the rights of children and is the first international instrument to recognize girls and boys as social actors and as active holders of their own rights. The executive director of the Spanish Committee for UNICEF, Javier Martos Mota, Casa África's Director General, Luis Padrón, and general secretary of the institution, Arianne Hernandez, were also present at the opening of the exhibition.

The Gentoo Ndaw project transports us to Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo through the photographs of Angel Luis Aldai and reflections on childhood signed by the writer from the Ivory Coast Tanella Boni, in a visual chronicle of the lives of girls, boys and adolescents in these countries that portrays their contexts, both urban and rural, and their ways of living in society, playing, studying and socialising. The project is linked to the work of the UN agency for children in the dissemination and advocacy of the rights of children. Its title comes from Wolof, a language spoken mainly in Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania.