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Jawara, Augusta D. (1924 - 1981)
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Daughter of Sir John Mahoney, she was a nurse who actively participated in political life. She was a strong advocate of Women’s Rights and created in 1962, The Women’s Contemporary Society. She was married and became the first wife to Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, first president of Republic of The Gambia in 1955. They will be separated in 1967. She wrote several plays among which Rebellion published in 1968 and The African King, which she later presented, in 1966, at the Black Arts Festival of Dakar.


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