Augusta Jawara

Hannah Augusta Jawara (born Mahoney, born May 1924 in Bathurst , † January 21, 1981 in London ) was a midwife, suffragette and politician in the West African British colony of Gambia . She became known as the first First Lady of President Dawda Jawara .

Life

Augusta Jawara belonged to the Aku ethnic group and was a member of a family that shaped political and social life in Gambia.

She was the youngest of five children of the politician Sir John Andrew Mahoney (1883-1966) and the politician Hannah Mahoney (1884-1974). The politician Edward Francis Small was a half-brother of her mother. She had four siblings:

John Andrew (1919–2012) was a physician and married to the historian Florence Mahoney .
Priscilla (born around 1920/1921), married Louis Francis Valantine , who was Gambia's High Commissioner in Great Britain from 1965 to 1968 .
Louise Antoinette (Louise N'Jie ) (1922–2014) married the first Gambian dentist or surgeon Denis / Dennis Njie and later became the first female Gambian minister.
James Mahoney (born around 1923) was a lawyer and lived in Great Britain and Sierra Leone .

After completing school, she worked from 1942 to 1946 as a nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Bathurst. Then she studied until 1952 at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (United Kingdom) medicine and acquired a certificate for midwives ( English State Registered Nurse (SRN) ). After obtaining her full diploma in obstetrics, she returned to The Gambia and started a government job at the Basse Health Center. She distinguished herself through her work and was promoted and later transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital.

During this time in Basse Santa Su she met Dawda Jawara , an official veterinarian and former schoolmate, know and married him in Basse in February 1955. The marriage was according to the Methodist faith, Jawara converted to Christianity shortly before. Although she had given up her work as a midwife because of the marriage, she was instrumental in founding the Gambia School of Nursing in 1962.

The marriage, with five children, was divorced in 1967. Previously, there were legal disputes in Bathurst and London over custody of the youngest son. From then on Augusta Jawara stayed in London and worked as a midwife. She died in January 1981.

Political life

Soldier Town constituency
General election	be right	Voting share
1960	000000000000232.0000000000232	16.91%

She became involved in politics alongside her husband, who later became the leader of the Protectorate People's Party (PPP). In the parliamentary elections in 1960 Augusta ran as a candidate for the (PPP) in the constituency of Soldier Town in Bathurst. As the first female candidate in parliamentary elections in Gambia, she could not prevail against her opponent Melvin B. Jones and was defeated. She played an active role in politics alongside her husband, who became Prime Minister in 1962.

Writing

Jawara was known to write several plays. Including Master Brain (according to another source The African King ), which was performed at the 1966 Black Arts Festival in Dakar .

1966: Master Brain , The African King
1968: rebellion

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hassoum Ceesay : Gambian women: an introductory history. Fulladu Publishers, Gambia 2007, ISBN 9983-8800-58 .
^ ^A ^b Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia. 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. U. a. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .
^ Tribute to Aunty Louise Antoinette Njie: Educationist, Feminist, Pioneer. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
↑ Gambia: Dr John Mohoney Passes Away. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
↑ The Diocese of Banjul NEWSLETTER. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).
↑ Gambia: Dr John Mohoney Passes Away. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
^ Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: A political history of The Gambia, 1816-1994 , University of Rochester Press, 2006, ISBN 1-58046-230-8
↑ Jawara, Augusta D. (1924–1981) ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed July 2011 @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Jawara, Augusta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jawara, Hannah Augusta (full name); Mahoney, Hannah Augusta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gambian politician and first lady
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bathurst
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1981
Place of death	London

[Gambian_women-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Hassoum Ceesay : Gambian women: an introductory history. Fulladu Publishers, Gambia 2007, ISBN 9983-8800-58 .

[Historical_dictionary_of_The_Gambia-2] A ^b Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia. 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. U. a. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .

[3] Tribute to Aunty Louise Antoinette Njie: Educationist, Feminist, Pioneer. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .

[:122-4] Gambia: Dr John Mohoney Passes Away. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .

[:0-5] The Diocese of Banjul NEWSLETTER. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .

[6] David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).

[7] Gambia: Dr John Mohoney Passes Away. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .

[A_political_history_of_The_Gambia-8] Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: A political history of The Gambia, 1816-1994 , University of Rochester Press, 2006, ISBN 1-58046-230-8

[9] Jawara, Augusta D. (1924–1981) ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed July 2011 @1@ 2