Patience Sonko-Godwin

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Patience Sonko-Godwin (born December 27, 1943 in Bathurst ; née Sonko ) is a Gambian historian and author .

Life

Patience Sonko-Godwin first attended primary school in Gambia and then went to St. Edward's Secondary School in Freetown (Sierra Leone). She studied history in Sierra Leone at Fourah Bay College and received a master's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Sonko-Godwin worked as a teacher from 172 to 1975 at St. Helena Secondary School in Freetown, then (for a short time on Handelsinstitut English Commercial Institute ) up there. From 1976 she returned to Gambia and taught at Nusrat High School, Bundung , until 1989 . From 1988 she was deputy vice president at the Nusrat Senior Secondary School, Bundung. From 1991, she began working as a cultural representative ( English Principal Cultural Officer ) in the Department of Research and Documentation of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC). In 1998, she was NCAC Executive Director for three months, then retired in October 1998 to focus on her research and writing. She worked as a consultant, author and researcher, as well as manager of her Sunrise Publishers .

Works

  • Ethnic Groups Of The Senegambia: A Brief History. , 1985
  • Ethnic groups of the Senegambia Region: social and political structures: precolonial period , 1986
  • Trade in the Senegambia region: precolonial period , 1988
  • Leaders of the Senegambia region: reactions to European infiltration, 19th-20th centuries , 1995
  • Social and political structures in the precolonial periods: ethnic groups of the Senegambia Region , 1997
  • Trade in the Senegambia region: from the 12th to the early 20th century , 2004
  • Development of local industries in the Senegambia region: from pre-colonial to the colonial period , 2004

Awards and honors

Web links

  • CV. In: unescoafrica.org. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. In: unescoafrica.org. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b FOCUS ON MRS PATIENCE SONKO GODWIN “IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR HISTORY, YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT IT AND BE PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY”, SAYS MRS. PATIENCE SONKO-GODWIN ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Sonko-Godwin, Patience
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathurst