If you referred to Maimouna Jallow as a child of Africa, indeed a child of the world, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. Born in Spain to a Gambian father and a Spanish mother, she moved back to her father’s homeland, then to a neighbourhood known as Forever in Lome, Togo before leaving hurriedly at the height of a violent, but botched coup against General Gnassingbe Eyadema’s government – all before she was 13 years old.
From Lome, her family settled in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana where the Pan-Africanist leader’s policies had a direct effect on Ms Jallow’s life, and her life’s work.
