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Dawda Jawara

1924 - 2019

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Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara (16 May 1924 – 27 August 2019) was a Gambian politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994, when he was overthrown by Yahya Jammeh. Jawara was born in Barajally, MacCarthy Island Division, now the Central River Region. He was the son of Mamma Fatty and Almami Jawara. He was educated at the Methodist Boys' School in Banjul (Bathurst) and then attended Achimota College in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dawda Jawara is the 8,101st most popular politician (down from 7,775th in 2019), the most popular biography from The Gambia and the most popular Gambian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dawda Jawara ranks 8,101 out of 19,576. Before him are Andronikos II of Trebizond, Chōsokabe Motochika, Chand Bibi, Muhammad III of Córdoba, Wilhelm Marr, and Ernst Niekisch. After him are Alexandre Ribot, Aleksandras Stulginskis, Yuriko Koike, Arturo Umberto Illia, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, and James II of Cyprus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Dawda Jawara ranks 131. Before him are Machiko Kyō, Luigi Musso, Paisios of Mount Athos, Roland Petit, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Yehuda Amichai. After him are Fess Parker, Marjorie Boulton, Friaça, E. P. Thompson, József Zakariás, and Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal. Among people deceased in 2019, Dawda Jawara ranks 129. Before him are Georgiy Daneliya, Andrés Gimeno, Anatoly Lukyanov, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Patrick Sercu, and Mike Troy. After him are Prosper Grech, Ken Kercheval, Ken Matthews, Harold Bloom, Tommy Smith, and Judith Kerr.

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In The Gambia

Among people born in The Gambia, Dawda Jawara ranks 1 out of 19. After him are Yahya Jammeh (1965), Adama Barrow (1965), Ansumane Mané (1940), Fatou Bensouda (1961), Biri Biri (1948), Bakary Gassama (1979), Modou Barrow (1992), Musa Barrow (1998), Omar Colley (1992), Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (1984), and Momodou Ceesay (1988).

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Among POLITICIANS In The Gambia

Among politicians born in The Gambia, Dawda Jawara ranks 1. After him are Yahya Jammeh (1965), Adama Barrow (1965), Ansumane Mané (1940), and Fatou Bensouda (1961).

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