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Augusta Jawara

Died in 1981

Hannah Augusta Mahoney was born in 1924 into a Christian Aku Creole family of Bathurst, the daughter of the first president of the colony's legislative council. A nurse trained in Edinburgh, she married in 1955 Dawda Jawara, whom she had met at secondary school, the future first head of the Gambian government. The first woman candidate in a national election in 1960, she founded a women's society in 1962 and headed the federation of Gambian women. Divorced in 1967, she died in London in 1981.

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