Lineage trees
Family lines, traced across centuries.
Each lineage is reconstructed from interviews, birth and death dates, and cross-family memories. Pick a family to walk its generations, the marriages and trades that bind it to its neighbours, and the journeys its founders made to reach Banjul South.
Ceesay Compound
Half Die · 2 people · 2 generations
Dibba Household
Box Bar Road · 1 person · 1 generation
Jallow Family
Soldier Town · 8 people · 4 generations
Njie Family
Soldier Town · 5 people · 3 generations
Sowe Family
Dobson Street · 1 person · 1 generation
Touray Family
Soldier Town · 5 people · 2 generations
Njie Family · Soldier Town
3 generations“"Every naming ceremony, every funeral, every wedding — we kept the songs alive."”
Generation 1
SN
Sankung Njie
~1780 – ~1855 · Mali
Founding griot
Generation 2
FN
Foday Njie
~1815 – ~1890 · Banjul
Griot
Generation 6
BN
Bakary Njie
1940 – present · Banjul
Lineage historian
SN
Sainabou Njie
1947 – present · Banjul
Griot, song keeper
AN
Alasan Njie
1938 – 2018 · Banjul
Musician, married Hawa Jallow 1965
Cross-family connections
marriage · 1965
Njie–Jallow marriage
Njie Family ↔ Jallow Family
trade · 1940s–1970s
Jallow patrons of Njie griots
Jallow Family ↔ Njie Family
Founder journeys
Kaba, Mali → Banjul (1798, foot caravan) — Royal griot exile