J. Ayo Langley

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Jabez Ayodele "Ayo" Langley , known as J. Ayo Langley (born March 18, 1943 in Bathurst , † June 10, 2007 in Silver Spring ), was a Gambian historian and political scientist, civil servant, author and diplomat.

Life

Langley graduated from the University of Wales , Great Britain, with a dissertation magna cum laude in history in 1965 and received his PhD in political science from the University of Edinburgh in 1968 , where he also lectured for three years. He entered the Gambian civil service in 1971 and served 17 years, including a diplomatic mission in Nigeria (from 1974). As Chief of Staff to President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara , he rose to the highest rank. In 1988 Langley was Executive Director for Africa at the World Bank and represented 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (November 1, 1990 to October 31, 1992). He later became a professor at Howard University , Department of African Studies and was known as the author of Pan-Africanism and nationalism in West Africa, 1900-1945 . Langley was respected as an authority on Pan-Africanism . He was also the author of Idealogies of Liberation in Black Africa, 1956-1970 . He was one of the earliest research fellows at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University. He taught at Howard University in both the History Department and the African Studies Department. Langley also served as an advisor to the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

Langley died in 2007 at Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring , MD. The funeral took place in Banjul, Gambia.

Works and writings

  • Pan-Africanism and nationalism in West Africa, 1900–1945
  • Ideologies of Liberation in Black Africa, 1856-1970: documents on modern African political thought from colonial times to the present
  • The Gambia section of the National Congress of British West Africa
  • William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi (Kobina Sekyi) of Ghana, (1892-1956): theory of politics, development and cultural identity
  • Towards an effective administrative framework for the implementation of integrated rural development in The Gambia
  • The royal stools of Ashanti
  • Ideologies of liberation in black Africa, 1856-1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b THE GAMBIA BRIEFING BOOK , p. 19
  2. ↑ a b c Jabez Ayodele "Ayo" Langley
  3. ↑ Photo Gallery. In: worldbank.org. World Bank, accessed June 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Langley, J. Ayo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langley, Jabez Ayodele "Ayo" (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian historian and political scientist, civil servant, author and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2007
Place of death Silver Spring , United States