Adelaide Sosseh Gaye

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Adelaide Sosseh Gaye (often Adelaide Sosseh , born August 31, 1946 ) is a Gambian human rights activist and educator.

Life

Adelaide Sosseh Gaye was born to Charlie Carayol and Anna Ngulu Beye. She grew up in Bathurst (now Banjul ) and attended St. Joseph's High School from 1958 to 1963 and Gambia High School (now Gambia Senior Secondary School ) from 1963 to 1965 .

In the late 1970s she worked for the Gambian Ministry of Education.

She was married to Mustapha Sosseh, who died unexpectedly in 1979. At the time, she was three months pregnant. The journalist Ndey Tapha Sosseh (born 1979) is their daughter.

In 1983 she received a Masters Degree in Education from the Institute of Education in London with a thesis on Images of Women and Girls in Gambian Primary School Textbooks .

From 1984 to 1990 she was Principal Education Officer and from 1990 Director of Schools . She was also the headmistress of St. Joseph's High School .

From at least 2002 to 2010 she was director of the Gambian environmental organization World View. She was also of about 2005 to 2011 chairman of the Gambian section of the UNESCO -project Education For All (EFA).

From at least 2006 she was chair of the human rights group Pro Poor Advocacy Group (Pro-PAG), which campaigned for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals . The Gambian government did not recognize her as chairwoman and another board member in 2011 and put the organization under pressure to fill the two posts. As a result, the entire board resigned in June 2011.

From 2008 to 2010 she was co-chair of the aid project Your Voice Against Poverty ( Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)) in Gambia.

Sosseh Gaye and her daughter Ndey Tapha Sosseh were known to be opponents of the government. According to her own account, her apartment was broken into twice on behalf of the government without anything being stolen. Between 2013 and 2016 she lived with her daughter in exile in Mali, where both of them had fled from the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh .

After Jammeh revoked his initially admitted defeat in the 2016 presidential election in Gambia and declared the election invalid, she sent an open letter to Jammeh. After Adama Barrow came to power , she returned to Gambia.

Since the beginning of 2018 she has been the director of the educational institution Gambia Africa Institute for Leadership (GAIL).

In the summer of 2018 she was appointed deputy chairman of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission , the aim of which is to come to terms with the reign of former President Yahya Jammeh . The appointment also met with criticism for taking in Sana B. Sabally after he had been in prison for several years. Sabally is charged with murders on behalf of Jammeh. Therefore, there could be a conflict of interest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gambian Talents Promotion. Retrieved September 10, 2019 (Faroese).
  2. ↑ a b Awa: Gambia Women's Development Journal . Women's Bureau, 1989 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Gambia Education Dept: Annual Report and Statistics . Education Department, 1978 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ TheWomensTorch: Perceptions Of A Widow On International Widow's Day, June 23 | TheWomensTorch. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (UK English).
  5. ↑ a b Pa Nderry Mbai: GAMBIA: TRRC VICE CHAIRPERSON IS CONFLICTED; SHE ACTED AS SURROGATE "MOTHER" FOR THE FORMER JUNTA VICE CHAIRMAN, WHEN HE WAS RELEASED FROM JAIL; SHE ALSO HOSTED SABALLY JOURNALIST OMAR BAH. In: Freedom Newspaper. March 4, 2019, Retrieved September 5, 2019 (American English).
  6. ^ Hugh Hawes, David Stephens: Questions of quality . Longman, 1990, ISBN 0-582-05200-9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  7. ^ West Africa . West Africa Publishing Company, Limited, 1990 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ elegentcoders: Justice ministry reveals names of intended TRRC commissioners. In: Kerr Fatou. August 21, 2018, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  9. ^ Gambia: Community Involvement is a Panacea for Projects Success - Adelaide Sosseh-Gaye. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Gambia: No Democracy Without Free Press. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  11. ^ Education For All Campaign Network hits target. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Gambia: EFA elects New Executive. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ UNGEI GLOBAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (GAC) MEETING. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Gambia: EFANET Technical Committee Chairperson Calls for Attitudinal Changes Towards Education. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Gambia: 2007 Budget Takes a New Face. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Mainstreaming MDG Goals into policies tops agenda in PRO-PAG Campaign. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  17. ^ Pro-PAG under fire, asked to replace director, chairperson. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  18. ^ Pro-PAG board members 'step down', following directives to replace director, chairperson. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  19. ^ Zimbabwe: Pan-African Campaign of Solidarity. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Millions worldwide to stand up and demand that world leaders eradicate poverty. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Colin I. Bradford, Wonhyuk Lim: Global Leadership in Transition: Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive . Brookings Institution Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8157-2145-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  22. ↑ Ndey Tapha-Sosseh narrates Attempts to extradite Her. In: Foroyaa Newspaper. July 12, 2019, Retrieved September 10, 2019 (American English).
  23. ↑ Adelaide Sosseh's House Invaded. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  24. ^ Raleigh Democracy Conference A Success Story. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Clare says: Open Letter To Gambia's Vice President And Ministers. In: Jollofnews. December 14, 2016, Retrieved September 10, 2019 (American English).
  26. ↑ Gambia: 'Voice of the Youth' Launched. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  27. ↑ GAIL | About Us. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sosseh Gaye, Adelaide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sosseh, Adelaide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian human rights activist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1946