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Tampuli Zuɣu project ”Interrupted Dream” to be staged at Pagya Festival
I didn’t know what to expect from a play based on 15th century Dagbon verse, but “Interrupted Dream” by @Rafiu_fishbone , with costumes by @fatsu_13 , was really amazing. I’ll be thinking about the themes in this play for a long time. Thank you! - @PaulEdwards11 #pagya2023
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Rafiu Fishbone ”Interrupted Dream” verse drama at PaGya

Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Editor Sanatu Zambang:

Abdul Raafi Fishbone is set to travel to Accra with other creatives to stage the Interrupted Dream’’ play at the 2023 Pagya festival. Interrupted Dream is part of the Tampuli Zugu series which was written and directed by Abdul Raafi. It explores the different themes that we experience every day in our society. In this series, he implores different techniques to communicate his theme.

Some of the techniques include spoken words poetry, and silent performance. Etc. The 2023 Pagya festival is the first time that Abdul Raafi would be presenting a work though he had previously attended the festival last year. For Interrupted Dream, he will be going with two poets, Genius Hakim and Asmaila Rahinatu and Fatima Sumani, creative director at Fatsu Fashion House as costume design. Sanatu Zambang took the opportunity to interact with one of the cast members, Asmaila Rihanatu to share with us about her character, what people should take away from the play and what she thinks of Pa Gye. Speaking about her character,  

‘’I have now decided to put myself in the character completely because I don’t view the character as a bad person as people see it. I just view the character as someone who is confident and someone who believes in herself and someone who believes in her tradition and African beliefs and norms. That is just how I see it. I don’t see her as a bad person.’’
- Asmaila Rahinatu
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Fatima Sumani (Costume Designer)
Fatima Sumani is a fashion designer and fashion consultant. Affectionately known as Fatsu Garments, she founded Fatsu Fashion House, a bridal and bespoke clothing brand.Fatsu Garments also offers weekdays and weekends training for interested persons. She featured on Joynews business segment titled " An entrepreneur's resilience: UDS graduate abandons professional studies; ventures into fashion design". Fatsu Garments holds a B A in development studies from the University for Development Studies. Since 2022, Fatsu Fashion House has collaborated with Sanatu Zambang Studios to organise two fashion workshops. Fatima has also collaborated with Rafiu fishbone since 2022 to work on her professional branding as a fashion designer and consultant. Fatima Sumani and Abdul Raafi Mohammed, known widely as Fishbone are again collaborating to produce a body of works for the next three years. One of the works was presented at this year's Norsaac Norgha Norgha2023 conference titled Piece.
‘’I don’t want people to see witchcraft as something which is bad. People who eat people all those things. I don’t want people to begin to associate witchcraft with women. There are men too who are accused of witchcraft. Mostly it is the women who get more of the blaming and suffer the more. I just want people to see this woman as a young lady as a human being and then people are entitled to their own opinion and views if they watch the play. But for me, I just feel witchcraft shouldn’t be a bad thing.
- Asmaila Rahinatu
For Rahinatu this is her first time attending the Pa Gya festival and she is hoping to rediscover herself and learn more from experienced people in the literary world.

Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra is a three-day literary arts festival featuring activities such as readings, panel discussions, performances, book launches, literary prize awards, art talks, art and literary exhibitions, film screenings, and many more. The festival engages all literary forms — fiction, poetry, spoken word, comic and graphic novels, creative non-fiction and literary blogging. The festival also offers booksellers, publishers and independent authors space to showcase and sell their books. Writers, poets, literary performers, academics, editors, illustrators, librarians, literary agents, bloggers and many other literary practitioners from Ghana, Africa, the Black Diaspora and all over the world find a welcoming space to showcase their works and fraternise during the festival.

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Rahinatu also appealed to the organisers of the festival to come up North. According to her, there are young and creative people who are looking for this kind of opportunity to explore their talent so as to be heard and seen as well. But because we do not have platforms of this kind here, most of them are not able to

A body of artistic works by Fatsu Garments and Rafiu Fishbone, which span across; Arts, Fashion, and Design, which will be debuting 2 thread every year for the next 4years.

’I have not had the opportunity to be in this before. I think, it is a lifetime opportunity and it will do a lot for people in the creative space. For me as a young person, it will give me space to find myself more. I think the art of writing is a journey you find yourself and discover who you are and the extent to which you can go. So it is a learning process. It is going to be an honour to learn from people who have been in the space for a very long time.
- Asmaila Rahinatu