
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,

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.

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.