Jeremy Howe

Sir Jeremy Frederick Howe (* 1929 ) was (in the early 1960s, staff english British commissioner ) in the British colonial administration of the former West African colony Gambia . He composed the Gambian national anthem For The Gambia Our Homeland , which has been played since the Gambia gained independence . The idea for the hymn is based on a traditional Mandinka song Foday kaba dumbuya , the text was written by his wife Virginia Julie Howe (* 1927).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b National anthems: ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 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. Gambia, accessed 2010 @1@ 2

↑ Paulla A. Ebron: Performing Africa Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, C2002. ISBN 0-691-07489-5

personal data
SURNAME	Howe, Jeremy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Howe, Jeremy Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British civil servant and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1929

[anthems-1] National anthems: ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 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. Gambia, accessed 2010 @1@ 2

[2] Paulla A. Ebron: Performing Africa Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, C2002. ISBN 0-691-07489-5