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carried out by Linda Salmon, who spent five months in The Gambia in 1974, studying Wolof concepts of beauty, dress, and hair styles, and the status of women, has been added.
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 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 ...
Archives of GAMBIA-L@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG. The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List. Gambia-L mailing list is for Gambians and friends of The Gambia to discuss Gambia related issues. The list is a free LISTSERV discussion list for debate and the sharing of information on and about The Gambia.
The R.D.D Oral Archives is one of the most formidable in Africa with 6000 cassettes in various aspects of history and culture. 8 R.D.D holds audio recordings of interviews with elders...
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 authorities in the Gambia were working in an area where food supplies were not always sufficient; in order to address this, they invested considerable resources in areas of agriculture and farming that were likely to increase the food supply.
