Foday Jibani Manka

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Foday Jibani Manka (born November 20, 1942 in Georgetown , † December 30, 2014 in Banjul ) was a Gambian politician.

Education and career

Manka first attended the Methodist Primary school from 1949 to 1955 and then switched to the Armitage Annexed Post Primary school. From 1957 he attended Armitage High School (now Armitage Senior Secondary School ). As a teacher, he trained at the Teacher Training College (now Gambia College ) in Yundum , graduated as a primary school teacher in 1964 and taught until 1976.

He graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in education and returned to Gambia in 1977, where he worked as a school principal until his retirement in 1997. Subsequently, Manka played a leading role in the social, cultural and political development of his community. As a historian, he dealt with the history of Janjanbureh and wrote " A History of an Island Community from 1800 to date ", a historical description of Janjanbureh.

Political activity

Janjanbureh constituency
General election be right Voting share
1997 000000000000405.0000000000405 43.60%
2002 not started
2007 000000000000517.0000000000517 61.62%
2012 000000000000609.0000000000609 56.08%

In the 1997 general election , after retiring as a teacher, he ran for the first time as a candidate for the United Democratic Party (UDP) for a seat in the National Assembly . He was defeated by his opponent Daddy Kabba Dampha from the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC). The parliamentary elections in 2002 were largely boycotted by the opposition parties, so there was no UDP candidate in the Janjanbureh constituency, the APRC candidate, Musa AK Sillah, won the constituency without a fight.

Manka ran in the 2007 parliamentary elections as a party member of the APRC, of ​​which he has been a member since 2006. He was able to assert himself against his opponent Kebba Yira Manneh (UDP) and won a seat in the National Assembly. In the following parliamentary elections in 2012 he defended his mandate. In the National Assembly he was on the committees for finances and public enterprises (Public Accounts / Public Enterprises Committees), for Education (English. Education, Training and ICT), for Local Government & Lands, Ombudsman and IEC and for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports.

Manka died in Banjul at the end of December 2014. The following day he was honored with a state ceremony in the National Assembly before he was transferred to his hometown of Janjanbureh and buried there.

Web links

  • Portrait on the website of the National Assembly

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janjangbureh NAM Foday Manka dies ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2015 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. The Daily Observer (online) December 31, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / observer.gm
  2. ↑ a b c d With Spotlight on Honorable Foday Jibani Manka: National Assembly Member for Janjanbureh Constituency The Point (online) of September 21, 2014
  3. ↑ 2012–2017 List Of Committees , accessed January 2015
personal data
SURNAME Manka, Foday Jibani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manka, Foday Jibany
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgetown
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2014
Place of death Banjul