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The African Heritage Museum or African Heritage Centre is a museum and art gallery in Bakau, Gambia.
He is currently the captain of Swedish third-division side IK Sirius and a Gambia national.
Gómez's last appearance for Gambia's national team was in 2003, when they visited Senegal in Dakar for an African Cup qualifying match.
In season 2005-2006 he was played in Gambia for club Steve Biko, he then join Lierse S.K.
Alhaji Bai Konte (born 1920; died 1983) was a jali (praise singer) from Brikama, Gambia.
In 2000, Biri was awarded the Order of Merit by Gambian president Yahya Jammeh, and was named Gambia's 'greatest footballer of the last millennium and of all time'.
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Alhaji Momodo Nije (born 30 March 1948, Banjul, Gambia), more commonly known as Biri Biri is a Gambian former football player who used to play for Sevilla FC.
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He currently lives back home in Gambia working as a civil servant for Banjul council, where he also coaches young children at Wallidan Banjul.
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He moved back to Gambia to play for Wallidan Banjul, before moving to Europe once more in 1972, as he became the first African player to play professionally in Denmark, as he signed for B 1901.
The drum is originally from the Jola (Jóola) people in the south of Senegal, the Casamance and the Gambia, the Jóola Buluf, the Jóola Fogny and the Jóola Kalunai.
Following the failure of a coup plot in 2008, Rear Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto escaped to Gambia where he was arrested.
It is only known from a single female collected from Bakau in Gambia in 1978.
Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Africa, a statement made at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights , 48th Session (November 10-24) in Banjul, Gambia.
Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta is a Jola scholar and musician from Mandinary, Gambia, who pioneered the research and documentation of the akonting, a Jola folk lute, as well as the related Manjago folk lute, the buchundu, in the mid-1980s.
Konte lives in Brikama, in an area of The Gambia noted for its musical traditions and is the son of Alhaji Bai Konte, also a noted kora player and singer in his own right.
When he was cast for the lead in Black Cloud (2004), directed by Rick Schroder, he trained for three months with boxing trainer Jimmy Gambia to perfect his boxing skills before filming started.
Foday Musa Suso (born in Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the Gambia.
The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era.
Among distinguished visitors recently to the Gambia National Museum are the President Ma of Taiwan, Rev.Jesse Jackson of the USA.
During the following year he was tasked by the colonial governor to recognize the sources of the Senegal and Gambia rivers.
The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).
It is found exclusively in swamps and near vegetated edges in the Nile, Turkana, Chad, Niger, Volta, Senegal, and Gambia basins.
With Achille Richard (1794–1852) and George Samuel Perrottet (1793–1870), he was co-author of a work on the flora of Senegambia (geographic location of present-day Senegal and Gambia) titled Florae Senegambiae Tentamen... (1830–1833).
Jufureh, Juffureh or Juffure is a town in the Gambia, located 30 kilometers inland on the north bank of the River Gambia in the North Bank Division near James Island.
Though a muslim, Lamin was highly involved in the rastafarian movement and was a big fan of reggae star Bob Marley.
Lamin, Western Division, Gambia, a city located in the Western Division near the national capital Banjul
Mutations implicated in other nuclear envelopathies were found in genes coding for lamin-binding proteins such as lamin B receptor (LBR gene), emerin (EMD gene) and LEM domain-containing protein 3 (LEMD3 gene) and prelamin-processing enzymes such as the zinc metalloproteinase STE24 (ZMPSTE24 gene).
On his return to Nigeria after the July 1994 Yahya Jammeh coup in Gambia, he was briefly Principal Staff Officer to General Sani Abacha before being appointed commander of 23 Armored Brigade in Yola.
Peters worked in hospitals in Guildford and Northampton before returning to the Gambia, where he had a surgical practice in Banjul.
The market in London Corner is called "MARCI NGLEWE" and was officially open in 1994 by the president of the second Republic of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh.
The Gambia declared its portion of the Delta as a national park in 1986, comprising the southern part of the coastal wetlands and mangroves of the Saloum Delta.
Njogu Demba-Nyrén (born 26 June 1979 in Bakau) is a Gambian footballer who has represented Gambia at full international level and currently plays in Sweden for Dalkurd FF.
Orison Rudolph Aggrey (born 1926), United States Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia and Romania
Born in Banjul, Patience Sonko-Godwin was educated in the Gambia before going to St. Edwards Senior Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone to have her sixth form education.
The story is narrated by Z in his native Wolof language (the language of Senegal and parts of Mali, the Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mauritania), though he makes the transition to English when interacting with those around him.
This mutation activates a cryptic splice site and gives rise to a form of lamin A with a deletion of 50 amino acids near the C-terminus.
Restrictive dermopathy (RD) is caused either by the loss of the gene ZMPSTE24, which encodes a protein responsible for the cleavage of farnesylated prelamin A (progerin) into mature non-farnesylated lamin, or by a mutation in the LMNA gene.
In 1992 Pope John Paul II visited Gambia and gave further impetus to the interest in Christian-Muslim relations within the Catholic community.
The need for tertiary medical education was addressed in 1994, by Gambia’s President, Dr. Alh. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh when he made health and education priorities for his government, the School of Medicine became the lead faculty in establishing the first university in Gambian history.
Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK.
It was described by Gustafsson in 1972 and is endemic to Gambia where it was discovered in Gambia River which flows between Basse Santa Su and Banjul.
A former deputy ambassador and head of chancery of the Gambia Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nyang has served as consultant to several national and international agencies and on the boards of the African Studies Association, the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, America's Islamic Heritage Museum, and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists.
Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof Served the movement from 1938 to 2005, former President of the Gambia National Scout Council, scholar on the history of scouting in the Gambia, first Gambian to be awarded the Wood Badge.
Jihad leaders in the region who followed the Torodbe revolutionary tradition in the late nineteenth century included Maba Diakhou Bâ in the Gambia, Mahmadu Lamine in Senegal and Samori Ture who founded the short-lived Wassoulou Empire in what is now Guinea.
Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania
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Wolof language, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania
Wuli District, a district in the Upper River Division of the Gambia