Angel Luis Aldai presents a book with pictures of African children in Casa África

The photographer Ángel Luis Aldai presented in Casa África this Thursday, 4th December, at 7.30 p.m., his book Géntu Ndaw, which brings together his images and poems signed by Tanella Boni from the Ivory Coast The title of the book, Géntu Ndaw, means "dreams of children / childhood" in Wolof, a language spoken mainly in Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania. The pictures come from eight countries: Senegal and Gambia, but also Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo. This is a project that joins the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which a large group of institutions and private companies are involved: Casa África, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, the Town Council of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Ports Foundation of Las Palmas, the La Caja de Canarias Foundation, the Foundation for Women in Africa, the Institut Catalunya Africa, Binter, Lopesan and Clinics San Roque.

The Géntu Ndaw project transports us to the African continent through photographs and reflections on childhood, in a visual and poetic chronicle of the lives of children and adolescents in eight countries, portrayed both in rural and urban areas. Angel Luis Aldai's work not only brings together the most remote landscapes and scenes of a more traditional daily life but also includes contrasts, modern life and globalization that lead us to cities like Accra, Bamako, Dakar or Banjul.