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Title: The world and a very small place in Africa (history of Niumi)
Date: 1997
Source: Series: Sources and Studies in World History. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York.
Author(s): Wright, Donald R.
Abstract: From back cover: "This fascinating work shows how global events and world systems have affected people's lives for the past eight centuries in Niumi, a small area at the mouth of the Gambia River in West Africa. Trans-Saharan trade, European expansion, the rise of an Atlantic plantation complex, inperialism, colonialism, political independence, and economic dependence are among the global phenomena that have influenced the everyday lives of the inhabitants of this tiny region. Drawing on archival and oral traditions and writing in a clear and personal style, the author connects world history with real people, on a local level."
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Title: Securing American Interests In Africa: West Africa In The United States Foreign Policy, 1939-1945 (World War II).
Date: 1995
Source: Thesis (PH.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1995. 300 p.; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-06, Section: A, page: 2386.
Author(s): OYEBADE, ADEBAYO OLUMUYIWA.
Abstract: Africa emerged as a significant factor in the United States' consciousness only during the Second World War. The war translated America's perception of Africa from an abstract concept into a concrete reality. State officials in Washington learned during the war how much the continent could serve America's war effort. This dissertation, therefore, is an effort to understand a critical period in the evolution of United States involvement in Africa. The specific focus of analysis is the West African sub-region of the continent. During the war material resources of West Africa fed America's war machine and industry. The fall of the Far East to the Axis powers particularly enhanced the economic importance of the region. Many West African countries became leading suppliers of raw materials to the United States. At the same time during the war the region served the strategic interest of the United States. The strategically important port of Dakar, for instance, assumed a vital place in America's war planning. Moreover, with the United States' assumption of responsibility for the running of the trans-African Air Ferry Service, major ports in West Africa like those in the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia came under direct American military use. Incorporated into America's strategic planning during the war, West Africa consequently played an invaluable role in the defense of the Western Hemisphere. America's wartime defense and economic interests in Africa, therefore, established for the first time, and in a particular way, a major American foreign policy concern with the continent. Washington's perception of Africa primarily in terms of America's war effort, however, precluded any special consideration for the peoples of West Africa or of their aspiration. Only their land and the resources therein mattered to foreign policy administrators and war planners in Washington. True, the United States exhibited a half-hearted wartime policy of opposition to colonial rule which promoted the course of African nationalism. Yet this policy was practically shaped by economic and strategic considerations of the U.S. In any case, the anti-colonial stand was virtually abandoned in the postwar period when the U.S. felt the need to strengthen Western stronghold on Africa which was being threatened by allegedly Moscow propelled communist influence. American policy after 1945 thus sought to manage the direction of decolonization in Africa in a way that would ensure the continued predominance of the West in the continent.
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Title: That-Hell-Hole-Of-Yours (Roosevelt,franklin,d. 1943 VIsit To Gambia And Its Influence On His Ideas Concerning A Postwar United-Nations)
Date: 1995
Source: AMERICAN HERITAGE v. 46 no. 6 95 OCT p. 47
Author(s): WRIGHT, D
Abstract:
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Title: Guests of the crown: convicts and liberated slaves on Mccarthy Island, The Gambia.
Date: 1994
Source: The Geographical Journal; July 1994, v160, n2, p136(7)
Author(s): Webb, Patrick
Abstract: In the late 1700s, one of Britain's colonial outposts in The Gambia was considered for use as a major penal colony. This idea was scrapped in favour of its use, in the early 1800s, as a resettlement site for slaves intercepted in the Atlantic and repatriated to Africa's shore. This paper examines the experience of the experimental resettlement programme and draws parallels with problems of refugee resettlement in contemporary Africa. COPYRIGHT Royal Geographical Society (UK) 1994
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Title: Records management in Africa south of the Sahara.
Date: 1993
Source: Records Management Quarterly; July 1993, v27, n3, p56(5)
Author(s): Stephens, David O.
Abstract: The development of records management in Southern Africa has been difficult to achieve due to the area's weak economies and political instabilities. Records management is mainly carried out as an archival government function. Registry filing systems are the main way of recordkeeping, particularly in the areas of Sotuhern Africa that were previously dominated by European countries. The national archives play a key role in developing records management. Records management is examined in specified countries including Gambia, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.
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Title: Terms found in old writings about Senegambia
Date: 1993
Source: Number 28 in the Gambia Studies Series (price=$10.00 + shipping)
Author(s): David P. Gamble
Abstract: Pages: 75. Language: English
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Title: Dilemmas Of Senegambian Integration (Gambia, Africa, Regionalism).
Date: 1990
Source: Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, 1990. 168 p.; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: A, page: 1657. Major Professor: ROBERT L. PETERSON.
Author(s): JANNEH, AMADOU SCATTRED.
Abstract: Several attempts have been made to integrate The Gambia and Senegal into a Senegambian political union, but these efforts have been without success. The Senegalese authorities consistently pushed for a political union between the two states in spite of continued Gambian reluctance. The 1981 putsch in The Gambia and the significant role played by Senegalese forces to suppress it, however, changed the whole character of Senegambian relations. A confederal accord was "hastily" drawn up and ratified in that same year, and the Senegambia Confederation came into existence. The integrative process under the Confederation had been rather slow. Eight years after it was created, the Confederation had hardly moved in many crucial areas. It finally collapsed in September 1989; and it failed because it lacked legitimacy and President Jawara was coerced into reaching the confederal agreement with Senegalese authorities. Thus despite a common desire for African unity, propinquity, common socio-economic factors, the predominance of Islam, the use of Wollof as a lingua franca and political considerations, the Senegambian dream continues to fade. The bases of Senegambian integration and the extent to which the different colonial experiences have affected Senegalese and Gambian political elites' stances on Senegambian unity are discussed. The study also examines significant events in Senegal-Gambia relations to give insight into the dilemmas and prospects of Senegambian unity. It is concluded that the divergence of political elites' attitudes is a major impediment to the creation of a Senegambian nation-state.
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Title: Historical Dictionary of the Gambia Edition: 2nd ed.
Date: 1987
Source: Series: African Historical Dictionaries Ser. No. 4; ISBN: 0810820013 Trade Cloth USD 25.00 R
Author(s): Gailey, Harry
Abstract: ill.
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Title: Gambia, Its History Edition: Reprint
Date: 1986
Source: ISBN: 0837114497 Trade Cloth USD 23.25 R
Author(s): Reeve, Henry F.
Abstract: ill.
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Title: Gambian government serial publications of the colonial period: a provisional list
Date: 1982
Source: Number 15 in the Gambia Studies Series (price=$12.00 + shipping)
Author(s): David P. Gamble
Abstract: Pages: vii + 83. Language: English
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Title: The United States And Colonial Sub-Saharan Africa, 1939-1945.
Date: 1981
Source: Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, 1981. 287 p.; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-02, Section: A, page: 0822.
Author(s): MILLER, JEAN-DONALD.
Abstract: This study examines the evolution of American-African ties in the Second World War and considers the impact which the war had upon American perceptions of Africa and its peoples. The United States responded to the grave threat to its security posed by Germany and Japan by incorporating the land and resources of Africa into its overall strategy for survival. Americans, especially policy-makers, had their awareness of Africa shaped in an era of wartime upheaval and uncertainty. The Second World War altered irrecoverably America's relationship with Africa. Colonial Africa occupied a central place in Allied strategy. The two most important developments were the creation of the American operated trans-African air ferry supply route, and, the incorporation of the port city of Dakar, Senegal on the bulge of French West Africa into the Allied network for the defense of the South Atlantic and North Africa. President Franklin D. Roosevelt displayed a keen interest in both of these projects and used them in several of his fireside chats to impress upon Americans Africa's important role in the defense of the western hemisphere. Economically, the raw materials of Africa fueled American war industries and supplied the Allied homefront with much needed foodstuffs. And, it was uranium from the Belgian Congo which enabled the United States to win the race for the atomic bomb. These twin concerns--raw materials and military strategy--determined American policy toward colonial, sub-Saharan Africa in the war years. In light of the overriding strategic and material stakes Africa held for the United States in the Second World War, it is not surprising that most Americans took little note of the African peoples themselves. Official Washington, especially, was hesitant to support nationalism in Africa and thereby risk upsetting its allies and disrupting the war effort. Washington offered no serious resistance to postwar European rule in sub-Saharan Africa despite Roosevelt's first-hand 1943 observation of the debilitating impact of British imperialism upon the Africans of Gambia, West Africa, and, his often-stated desire to prevent the French from reclaiming Dakar after the war. The exigencies of total war, including the need for a secure flow of raw materials, a strategic base, and, the desirability of maintaining a close relationship with Great Britain, precluded a bold assault on the imperial policies of one's allies, especially in an area of the world such as Africa with which there had been little previous, sustained contact and even less understanding. American reticence to speak out against colonialism in Africa flowed in part from an easy, rarely vocalized evaluation that the Africans were simply ill-prepared for self-determination. The denigration and segregation of Afro-Americans in the United States influenced an American policy which rendered the peoples of Africa all but invisible and relegated them to an inferior status in the evolution of human societies. American policy-makers during the war years dismissd nascent African nationalism as immature. A general ignorance about African conditions also influenced American officials who preferred the order and stability of colonial rule to the seemingly certain chaos self-government would bring. Given Africa's importance to the defense of the Western community, and emerging tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at the close of the war, Washington viewed as inappropriate African decolonization. This was the key lesson that guided American policy-makers on African affairs in the Cold War years prior to 1960. The chief resource materials for this study included recently screened or declassified records at the National Archives, as well as the holdings of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the Library of Congress, the Naval Historical Center, the Public Record Office, London, and the Rhodes House Library, Oxford, England.
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Title: Black Genesis, African Roots: A Voyage from Juffure, The Gambia, to Mandingo Country to the Slave Port of Dakar, Senegal
Date: 1980
Source: St. Martin's Press, New York, NY
Author(s): Vollmer, Jurgen
Abstract:
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Title: Conflict, Interaction, And Change In Guinea-Bissau: Fulbe Expansion And Its Impact, 1850-1900.
Date: 1980
Source: Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 1980. 329 p.; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-12, Section: A, page: 5210.
Author(s): HAWKINS, JOYE BOWMAN.
Abstract: The study investigates the impact of Fulbe imperial expansion in Guinea-Bissau during the second half of the nineteenth century. It discusses the political, economic, and social consequences of Fulbe imperialism and Portuguese involvement in Fulbe expansion. Sources used include archival data gathered in Lisbon, Bissau, Dakar, Paris, and London and oral traditions collected in Guinea-Bissau and The Gambia. Successive periods of Fulbe expansion are examined. From 1850, Fulbe groups left Kaabu, a Mandinka empire, and settled in the Forria region of southwestern Guinea-Bissau. Upon arrival there, the Fulbe found an agricultural-commercial production system in operation based on the cultivation of groundnuts. Fulbe settlement in the Forria eventually led to war between the newcomers and the Biafada and Nalu inhabitants of the region. The wars contributed to the disruption of this production system. The economic effects of civil war and the changes introduced by Fulbe expansion into the Forria region are analyzed. The second period of Fulbe expansion, between 1870 and 1890, resulted from Firdu Fulbe attempts to gain control of several rebellious provinces of their state of Fuladu. Alfo Molo and his son Musa Molo, the rulers of the Firdu Fulbe state of Fuladu, expanded the boundaries of their state to include parts of The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau. The economic effects of this expansion are discussed especially in relationship to Guinea-Bissau. Internal and external problems Fuladu confronted, including succession crises and difficulties with the Portuguese, French, and British, are also discussed. Portuguese imperial designs complicated Fulbe expansion in Guinea-Bissau. In the 1880s, the Portuguese, like other European powers, embarked on a campaign to establish political control in Africa. The Portuguese took advantage of the unstable state of affairs caused by Fulbe expansion. They used the Fulbe in their efforts to establish a colony and played Fulbe groups off against one another. Ultimately, the Fulbe imperialists fell prey to the more powerful Portuguese imperial system. Fulbe and Portuguese expansion resulted in political, economic, and social change in Guinea-Bissau. Fulbe penetration contributed to the destruction of political units in the Forria. Fulbe movements into Guinea-Bissau also introduced changes in the local and international economy and these are examined. Furthermore, the penetration of Fulbe groups resulted in the spread of Islam and the consequent emergence of new social categories and values. Portuguese activities led to the establishment of Portuguese political control in Guinea-Bissau. In the twentieth century, economic changes were introduced with the formal imposition of colonial rule. Finally, Portuguese colonialism led to the imposition of a new social system based on Christianity and the Western system of values. The two imperialisms, one African, one European, often worked in tandem. The ability of the Portuguese to establish a colony in Guinea-Bissau depended on Fulbe internal divisions and Fulbe support. The developments investigated and discussed in this study provide a background for understanding subsequent developments in the colonial period in Guinea-Bissau.
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Title: The Early History of Niumi Settlement & Foundation of Mandinka State on the Gambia River
Date: 1977
Source: Series: Papers in International Studies: Africa Ser. No. 32; ISBN: 0896800644 Trade Paper USD 8.00 R
Author(s): Wright, Donald R.
Abstract: ill.
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Title: Niumi: the history of a western Mandinka state through the eighteenth century
Date: 1976
Source: Dissertation: Indiana University
Author(s): Wright, Donald R.
Abstract:
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Title: Historical Dictionary of the Gambia
Date: 1975
Source: Series: African Historical Dictionaries Ser. No. 4; ISBN: 0810808102 Trade Cloth USD 18.50 R
Author(s): Gailey, Harry A.
Abstract: 180 p
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Title: The Golden Trade; or A Discovery of the River Gambra & the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians Edition: Reprint
Date: 1968
Source: Series: English Experience Ser. No. 56; ISBN: 9022100561 Trade Cloth USD 35.00 R
Author(s): Jobson, Richard
Abstract: 166 p
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Title: Enter Gambia: The Birth of an Improbable Nation
Date: 1967
Source: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
Author(s): Rice, Berkley
Abstract:
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Title: Gambia Colony & Protectorate An Official Handbook Edition: Reprint
Date: 1967
Source: ISBN: 0714611395 Trade Cloth USD 45.00 R
Author(s): Archer, Francis B.
Abstract: 342 p
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Title: Traditionalism, Islam And European Expansion: The Gambia 1850-1890.
Date: 1967
Source: Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 1967. 318 p.; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 28-05, Section: A, page: 1772.
Author(s): QUINN, CHARLOTTE ALISON.
Abstract:
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Title: History of Gambia
Date: 1966
Source: ISBN: 0714616680 Trade Cloth USD 55.00 R
Author(s): Gray, John M.
Abstract: 508 p
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Title: African Aliens
Date: 2006
Source: 202 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1300; ISBN 1-4120-6389-2
Author(s): Lang Fafa Dampha
Abstract: Sainy, a young Gambian, leaves the Gambia for Paris. Like most young Africans he arrives with high hopes for a better life. Confronted by a minefield of immigration restrictions with which he struggles vainly, he accepts an easy way in by marrying a Gambian-born divorcee and becoming the step-father of the woman's young son.

As the months pass, Sainy learns new facts about the Africans living in France. He sees how their home-grown values of culture and community and morality adapt in their new culture, for better or worse. He discovers how they now look on the old world they have left behind them back in Africa. He witnesses, and is dragged into their new types of conjugal relationships. He finds how they interact and socialise amongst themselves and with their host community.... Through Sainy's eyes the reader discovers a completely new France, one seen from the perspective of most African immigrants.

Innocent as a child at first, and manifesting no form of greed or over-ambition, Sainy gets a job and works hard to haul himself up. But the system he finds here is intolerant, grasping and merciless, totally alien to his own being. He is dragged by irresistible forces into greed, illusion and misbehaviour. Unable to cope with the conflict between his old values and his new lifestyle he is haunted by guilt, and sinks into evil - deeper and deeper towards annihilation.

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Title:
A Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994
Date: 2006
Source: 560 pages; 10 digit ISBN: 1580462308, 13 digit ISBN: 9781580462303, Published by Boydell & Brewer for Rochester
University Press.
Author(s): Arnold Hughes & David Perfect
Abstract: A Political History of The Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African dependency to be written. It makes use of much hitherto unconsulted or unavailable British and Gambian official and private documentary sources, as well as interviews with many Gambian politicians and former British colonial officials.
The first part of the book charts the origins and characteristics of modern politics in colonial Bathurst (Banjul) and its expansion into the Gambian interior (Protectorate) in the two decades after World War II. By independence in 1965, older urban-based parties in the capital had been defeated by a new, rural-based political organisation, the People's Progressive Party (PPP).
The second part of the book analyzes the means by which the PPP, under President Sir Dawda Jawara, succeeded in defeating both existing and new rival political parties and an attempted coup in 1981. The book closes with an explanation of the demise of the PPP at the hands of an army coup in 1994.
The book not only establishes those distinctive aspects of Gambian political history, but also relates these to the wider regional and African context, during the colonial and independence periods.

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Title: Mandingo kingdoms of the Senegambia - Traditionalism, Islam, and European Expansion
Date: 1972
Source: ISBN 0-8101-0358-3, Publisher: Northwestern University (1972)
Author(s): Charlotte A. Quinn
Abstract: Synthesizing a wide range of European and African documentary sources, and drawing on the oral traditions of the Senegambia, Charlotte Quinn re-creates the history of the revolutionary nineteenth-century transformation of the Mandingo state system.

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Title: Travels in Western Africa in the years 1888,19,20 and 21
Date: 2005 (Adamant Media Corporation)
Source: ISBN 1-4021-5985-4
Author(s): William Gray Dochard
Abstract: Travels in Western Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, 20, and 21: From the River Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the River Niger (Paperback)

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Title: Paradox of Third-wave Democratization in Africa: The Gambia Under the Afprc-aprc Rule, 1994-2008 (Hardcover)
Date: January 2009
Author(s): Dr. Abdoulaye Saine - Abdoulaye Saine is associate professor of political science at Miami University of Ohio and co-author of Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism.
Abstract: In this book, Abdoulaye Saine provides a superb account of the domestic political conditions that explain the persistence of poverty and economic crisis in Africa. With a focus on The Gambia under Yahya Jammeh (1994-2008), and drawing from other African cases in a comparative perspective, the author skillfully traces the causes of development crisis in The Gambia to poor governance, authoritarianism, and human rights violations. Although the analysis is focused on The Gambia, the findings reflect the African situation by drawing on relevant examples from other states. This is a must-read book for scholars, activists, and policy makers interested in the comparative political economy of development - Sakah Saidu Mahmud, Transylvania University

This book is about the dilemma(s) of "third-wave" "democratization" in Africa. It teases out the general proposition that while the market is a necessary ingredient for development, it is not by itself a sufficient condition for prosperity - the state's role, policy framework, and leadership also matter. Using a counter-example, the book contends that in a poor governance environment, gross human rights violations result in poor economic performance and failure by repressive governments to provide basic needs for the poor in society. While this study is concerned primarily with The Gambia, it nonetheless has a lot to say about Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and other countries in the continent caught in the paralysis of externally driven political and economic transitions and globalization. Locating countries undergoing liberalization and democratization within the global economy - as well as their peripheral status within it - is important, as! patterns of contemporary globalization are highly asymmetrical and often associated with a democratic deficit. Consequently, some groups, classes, and states enjoy numerous political and economic freedoms foreign to the vast majority of humanity, which lives in oppressive living conditions. The Paradox of Third-Wave Democratization in Africa is also a comprehensive account of the historical, political, and economic events since the onset of military and quasi-military rule in this West African mini-state of 1.5 million, once the longest surviving functioning democracy in Africa. Predictably, the book is about former President Dawda Jawara as much as it is about soldier-turned-president Yahya Jammeh, who in the last fourteen years has dominated the country's political and economic landscape. In the end, the book posits that various attempts to improve living standards of ordinary Gambians and Africans by client regimes using foisted conventional market-drive! n economic models alone are not likely to succeed until they are predi cated on a basic-needs economic strategy and organically spawned political structures. Finally, the book highlights transnational political and economic ties Diaspora Gambians have established with The Gambia and their attempts to both shape and nudge politics in the second republic in a more democratic direction.


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Title: Beyond Migration and Conquest: Oral traditions and Mandinka ethnicity in Senegambia
Date: 1985
Source: History in Africa Vol.12
Author(s): Wright, Donald R
Abstract:
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