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Gambia

(see also Senegal)


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Basics

Björn Kumm's Note

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

New Internationalist Profile

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators

World Guide

World Guide (Montevideo)

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

WWW Virtual Library

In the Library: Articles

Long, Rosemary. "Sons of the soil: forced farming brings in harvest," New Internationalist (10/96):5. Jammeh regime's heavy-handed effort to achieve food self-sufficiency.

Schroeder, R. “Reclaiming land in the Gambia: gendered property rights & environmental intervention,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87,3 (1997): 487-508.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Hughes, Arnold (ed.) The Gambia: Studies in Societies & Politics (Birmingham: U. of Birmingham Centre of West African Studies, 1991).

Njie, Codu Mbassy. Gambia: the Fall of the Old Order. The Senegambia Confederation & Beyond (Dakar: Cheikh Anta Diop, 1996).

Touray, Omar A. The Gambia & the World: A History of the Foreign Policy of Africa's Smallest State, 1965-1995 (Hamburg: Institut für Afrika-Kunde, 2000).

Wright, Donald R. The World & a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia (2nd ed.; Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004). Past five centuries & more in small town at mouth of Gambia River.

Yeebo, Zaya. State of Fear in Paradise: The Military Coup in the Gambia & Its Implications for Democracy (London: Africa Research & Information Bureau, 1995).

In the Library: Fiction

Gaye, Ebou. Patience is Accompanied by a Smile (Banjul: Observer, 1997).

Humasi, Nana. A Krio Engagement & Other Stories (Banjul: Book Production & Material Resources Unit, 1987).

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