Kebba W. Foon

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Kebba Wally Foon (* 1922 - May 8, 2002 ) was a politician in the West African state of Gambia .

Life

Bakau constituency
General election be right Voting share
1962 000000000000688.0000000000688 41.50%
1966 000000000000889.0000000000889 39.94%
Saloum constituency
General election be right Voting share
1971 (by-election) 000000000001947.00000000001,947 47.81%
1972 000000000002481.00000000002,481 44.89%
1977 000000000001815.00000000001,815 22.13%
Banjul Central constituency
General election be right Voting share
1977 (by-election) 000000000001294.00000000001,294 44.95%
1982 000000000001576.00000000001,576 46.72%
1987 000000000000764.0000000000764 26.10%

Foon, a member of the Wolof tribe , attended the Mohammedan School in Bathurst before accepting a civil service job. In 1945 he trained as an auditor in London and returned to Gambia in 1955, where he founded his own company in Bathurst (the then name of Banjul ). He married the British born Marion Foon .

During his stay in London he met Kwame Nkrumah , who influenced him. He formed the Gambia League and worked closely with other nationalists from the British territories in Africa on their African independence. In 1957 Foon received support from the Gambia National Party (GNP) and became its president. After the dissolution of the GNP in 1960, Foon joined the Gambia National Union (GNU), which had formed an alliance with the United Party (UP). In the administrative unit Kombo St. Mary Foon came in the elections for the House of Representatives in 1962 on behalf of the UP in the constituency of Bakau . Foon was defeated by his opponents of the People's Progressive Party (PPP). In the following elections in 1966, Foon, who ran again on behalf of the UP, was defeated by a candidate from the PPP.

In 1971 a by-election was called in the constituency of Saloum ( Georgetown administrative unit ) in January , in which Foon participated but was subject to the PPP against his candidate. In the next elections in 1972 and 1977 Foon ran again in Saloum, each defeated by a candidate of the PPP.

In a 1977 by-election in the constituency of Banjul Central Foon ran again and was defeated as in the elections in 1982 and 1987 in which he ran in the constituency of Banjul Central.

At least in the period from 1979 to 1986, he worked as a notary ( notary public act).

Foon retired from politics after the 1987 election and died in May 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia Scarecrow Pr, 2008, ISBN 0-8108-5825-8
  2. ↑ Hassoum Ceesay : Gambian women: an introductory history . 1st edition. Fulladu Publishers, Gambia 2007, p. 75-77 .
  3. ^ The Bar List of the United Kingdom . Stevens & Sons, 1979 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Ulla Wagner: Catching the tourist: women handicraft traders in the Gambia . Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, 1982 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
  5. ^ Kime's International Law Directory . Bowden, Hudson & Company, 1986, ISBN 978-0-900503-19-1 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Foon, Kebba W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foon, Kebba Wally (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2002