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was a play about Nyasta, a teenage girl in a rural village who struggles to continue her education rather than suffer an arranged marriage. At the time it was published, she was President of the
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She studied at Mohammedan High School, where she first met her future husband, (future president)
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In 1967, she and Dawda Jawara divorced, and he reconverted to Islam. In 1968, she published
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In 1962, she established the Women's Contemporary Society. Her play,
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Hannah Augusta Darling Mahoney was born to a prominent Christian
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family. She was the daughter of Sir John Mahoney, the first
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Index

Gambian
women's rights
Dawda Jawara
Prime Minister of the Gambia
Aku Creole
Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Gambia
Louise N'Jie
Dawda Jawara
Edinburgh
Scotland
Dawda Jawara
House of Representatives
1960 elections
Soldier Town
Bathurst
PPP
Negro Arts Festival
Dakar
Gambia Women's Federation
Greater Banjul Area
London
"A Hand of Destiny"
Archived
Wayback Machine


"Scots in Gambia"
Historical Dictionary of The Gambia
ISBN
978-0-8108-5825-1

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