Juka Jabang

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Juka Fatou Jabang (born in Bathurst, now Banjul ) is a Gambian administrative scientist , manager, author and poet.

Life

Jabang attended St. Joseph's Kindergarten and St. Joseph's Preparatory School . A government scholarship enabled her to attend St. Joseph's Secondary School (now St. Joseph's High School ). She passed the exams of the General Certificate of Education with very good results.

She married the politician Lamin Jabang , who was the Gambian foreign minister for many years, and with whom she has four children.

In the early 1970s she studied in Sierra Leone at Fourah Bay College and at the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown , the oldest university in Black Africa . She earned a bachelor's degree in English and a Doctor of Public Administration . She worked for several years as a teacher at her former school, St. Joseph's High School, before taking a position in the Gambian Ministry of Finance. She entered the public service in September 1976.

Jabang was Director General of the Management Development Institute from 1992 to 2007 . She was followed by Alieu Jarju in September 2007 .

From 2007 to 2010 she was Advisor to the Executive Director of the African Development Bank in Tunis with responsibility for Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia .

From at least 2013 to 2018 she was the managing director of the West African Education Foundation.

Offices and further engagement

In 2001 she was Chair of the African Association for Public Administration (AAPAM).

In 2004 she served on the board of directors of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women .

Around 2006 she was a board member of the Jammeh Foundation for Peace (JFP), which goes back to the then President Yahya Jammeh . In 2006 she received the Order of the Republic of The Gambia from Jammeh in the officer level .

In 2007 she was on the board of the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC).

Around 2011 she was Chair of the Education For All Campaign Network (EFANet). In addition, she was on the board of the consumer protection organization Consumer Protection of The Gambia in 2016/2017 and headed the Gambia Transition Brain Trust (GTBT) in 2018 .

Writing activity

Jabang started writing in the early 1970s. She published texts in what was then the Gambian literary magazine Ndaanan .

From 2000 she published several works. The anthology The Repeal and other poems has been described by Hassoum Ceesay as the most important Gambian feminist publication since the Rebellion ( Augusta Jawara , 1968).

Works

  • Women in top management in The Gambia: balancing work and home . Gender and Management Unit, Management Development Institute, Kanifing, The Gambia 2000 (English).
  • The repeal: and other poems . Fulladu Publishers, Fajara, The Gambia 2005 (English).
  • The phoenix: a collection of poems . Fulladu Publishers, Kanifing, The Gambia 2012, ISBN 978-9983-955-56-9 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Awa: Gambia Women's Development Journal . Women's Bureau, 1989 ( https://books.google.de/books?id=vrbxAAAAMAAJ&q=Fourah+Bay+College+juka+jabang&dq=Fourah+Bay+College+juka+jabang&hl=de&sa=X online).
  2. ↑ a b Gambian Writers Talking: Interview with Ms Juka Jabang part 2 | Daily Observer. February 26, 2016, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Gambia: Interview With Ms Juka Jabang Part 1. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b A strong poetic voice The Phoenix: A Collection of Poems by Juka Jabang Fulladu Publishers, 2012, 78 pages. In: The Standard Newspaper. March 21, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Juka Fatou Jabang, Management Development Institute (Gambia) Gender and Management Unit: Women in top management in The Gambia: balancing work and home . Gender and Management Unit, Management Development Institute, 2000 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b MDI Director-General Gets Top ADB Job - WOW Gambia. April 8, 2008, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Juka Fatou Jabang, Management Development Institute (Gambia) Gender and Management Unit: Women in top management in The Gambia: balancing work and home . Gender and Management Unit, Management Development Institute, 2000 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2019]).
  8. ↑ a b c Abdoulie M Touray, COLLECTED SPEECHES: Thinking, Talking and Walking the Talk, Fulladu Publishers, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Gambia: AK Jarju Takes Charge of MDI. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  10. ^ Gambia: Mahatma Gandhi University to Start Operations in the Gambia. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Gambia: 50 Percent of Third World Diseases Caused By Contaminated Drinking Water, Says Sos Sallah. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  12. ^ Dag Hammarskjold Library: Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council. United Nations Publications, 2004, ISBN 978-9-211-00929-3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  13. ↑ Gambia: President Jammeh Recieves More Donations. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  14. ^ Gambia: GNOC Names New Deputy Director. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Gambia: EFANet Organize Roundtable Conference As It Seeks to Solicits Fund for the Efanet Strategic Plan 2011–2015. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Gambia: CPAG and FGI CRPC Signs MOU On Consumer Rights Promotion. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  17. ^ Consumer Protection train members on food safety. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  18. ↑ GOOD MORNING MR PRESIDENT - Strengthening Gambian civil society: The case of The Gambia Transition Brain Trust (GTBT). Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Gambians Warned Against succumbing To 'High Expectations'. In: Jollofnews. April 30, 2018. Retrieved June 17, 2019 (American English).
  20. ^ The Repeal. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jabang, Juka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jabang, Juka Fatou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian administrative scientist, manager and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst, now Banjul