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The Gambian archives, established in the 1960s, have rich and valuable resources for deeper study and teaching of the history of The Gambia and the subregion. The collections are representative of a substantial amount of The Gambia’s precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial history on a range of subjects, including settlement patterns ...
Hassoum Ceesay* Abstract: This article discusses the various archival research resources in The. Gambia. It seeks to introduce to future researchers on The Gambia the wide. choice of archival...
The Gambia, 1883–1919. This volume consists of gazettes published in The Gambia between the years 1883 and 1919. The gazettes include notices of officer appointments and dismissals, as well as legal notices, shipping records, and licence applications.
Beginning near the end of the nineteenth century with the formation of Gambia as a British colony and protectorate, this collection tracks the wide-ranging administrative duties of various governmental departments within Gambia up until the country’s independence in the 1960s.
The constitutional status of The Gambia is discussed first. The Gambia was a British colony between 1821 and its achievement of independence in 1965. It became a republic in 1970, but remains within the Commonwealth. The machinery of government is then considered.
In the summer 1963 issue of Africana Newsletter (pp. 38–39), I reported on the then sad state of public records in the Gambia. Since that time the Gambian government has acted to preserve and catalogue the materials which prior to independence had been so carelessly handled.
the history of postcolonial Gambia, drawing evidence from public and pri-vate archives, testimonies, and conversations with participants in OHAD activities. Constructing a national archive of oral sources was an objective pur-sued since independence. The archive was meant to store oral traditions and
