Hamanteh
A community-run memory system for The Gambia: record elders, map compounds, train local language tools, and publish stories with consent.
Listen tonight
Start with voices, neighbourhoods, and story cards that feel easy to share.
Open listening room For return visitsFind a compound
Move through Banjul South by ward, surname, street, lineage, and memory.
Search family paths For contributorsGive a recording
Upload audio, photos, consent notes, and a first family description.
Start a submission For the teamWork the archive
Receive field packages, review consent, publish, and prepare training data.
Enter Field DeskListen by place, family, language or memory.
Banjul South is presented as living memory, not just dots on a map: compounds, ward names, streets, migration routes, and family links stay connected.
Our grandfather came to Banjul before independence — he was a trader at the wharf.
"Our grandfather came to Banjul before independence — he was a trader at the wharf."
Ceesay Compound
A family memory from the Banjul South pilot archive.
We fished these waters for five generations. The river remembers us even if the books don't.
"We fished these waters for five generations. The river remembers us even if the books don't."
Dibba Household
A family memory from the Banjul South pilot archive.
Upload, admin, train and publish without losing context.
Collect
Family forms, WhatsApp leads, and Drive folders land in one intake queue.
Transcribe
Two-pass Wolof, Mandinka, Aku, Fula, Jola, Sarahule and English review.
Train
Approved transcripts feed language packs, speaker hints, and entity models.
Publish
Consent, takedown, lineage, map, archive, games and listening pages stay linked.
Built in Banjul South, ready for the rest of The Gambia.
The pilot respects local ward histories and makes room for the country's multilingual reality. The same model can support Brikama Ba, Basse, Farafenni and future projects without turning every town into the same template.