Omar M'Baki

Omar Momodou M'Baki (* around 1923 in Kolikunda , Sami (district) ; † August 27, 1994 ) was in the West African British colony of Gambia and after the independence of Gambia Seyfo and politician.

Life

M'Baki, a Tukulor from the district Sami in MacCarthy Iceland (now Central River Division ), went to the Methodist Boys' High School in Bathurst ; he then attended the Njala Teacher Training College in Sierra Leone for training as a teacher. From 1947 M'Baki taught at the Armitage School . After the death of his father in 1949 he left the school service and was his father's successor as Seyfo in the Sami district. He later became director of the Gambia Oilseeds Marketing Board .

After the elections in 1951 he was appointed as one of the protectorate in the Legislative Council ( Legislative Council ) and held this position until 1960. M'Baki was also elected in the House of Representatives after the elections in 1960 as one of five appointed members, he was considered one the educated Seyfolu (also: Protectorate chiefs). From Governor Edward Windley he was appointed Minister of Labor and Services (temporarily as Minister of Labor and Communications) in the Executive Council ( Executive Council ). In the following elections in 1962 , in which the Seyfolu held their own separate election for the additional seats in the House of Representatives, M'Baki won the most votes. The government of Dawda Jawara ( People's Progressive Party , PPP) appointed him Minister of Communications in the Jawara I cabinet . This department was withdrawn from him in October 1963. In September 1964 he resigned from the cabinet. After that, Jawara no longer included a Seyfo in the government as a minister.

He regained the position as Seyfo in Sami District. In March 1965, he and six other Seyfolu lost this position again, they were dismissed or forced to resign. You were charged with an attitude critical of the government. M'Baki retired from political life and pursued a career as a businessman. The fact that he ran as a non-party candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections in the Sami constituency is more likely to be traced back to a failure . The electoral district was won by Kebba N. Leigh, the PPP candidate. M'Baki was not politically active again afterwards.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia . ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .
^ David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifth edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	M'Baki, Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	M'Baki, Omar Momodou (full name); MBacke, Omar Momodou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gambian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kolikunda , Sami (District)
DATE OF DEATH	August 27, 1994

[Historical_dictionary_4-1] Arnold Hughes, David Perfect: Historical dictionary of The Gambia . ISBN 978-0-8108-5825-1 .

[2] David Perfect: Historical dictionary of the Gambia . Fifth edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6522-6 .