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Silence No More!: Breaking Over Thirty Years of Silence of Sexual Abuse. A Cry for Help from a Small Village in The Gambia, West Africa.
Paperback
Publisher Price: $11.99
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thirty years of silence. One voice brave enough to shatter it.
You know what it means to carry a secret so heavy it reshapes your entire life. You understand the weight of trust betrayed by someone your family, your community, your culture told you to respect. You have watched as silence became the unspoken rule, enforced by tradition, patriarchy, and shame. And you have wondered whether speaking the unspeakable could ever set you free.
In Silence No More!, Ali Badara Drammeh takes you inside Kannikunda, a tiny village in The Gambia, West Africa, where mud huts stand behind stick fences and education is a rare gift. During the holy month of Ramadan in 1993, a nearly seventeen-year-old boy runs an errand for his father and encounters Mr. Trawalley, his former teacher, a man the entire village admires. What happens next becomes a wound carried in silence for over three decades. This memoir is both a deeply personal reckoning and a global call to action, connecting one young man's trauma to the epidemic of sexual abuse that crosses every border, culture, and community on earth. It is empowering, unflinching, and ultimately transformative.
Inside these pages, you will discover:
- How cultural taboos and patriarchal structures enable abuse and enforce silence in communities worldwide
- The spiritual resilience found through faith, family, and the courage to speak your truth
- A powerful testimony that validates survivors and challenges every community to protect its children
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