A Banjul historian’s personal archive
heritage · Materials from late 1940s onward; article 2011
A tribute describes collections that could inform public history if rights are clear.
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Source-led notes on places, people, and histories across The Gambia.
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A Bathurst newspaper gap
media · 1883-1922, reported in 2020
A History Corner article describes an early newspaper gap.
Read entryAbuko and the reserve are related, but not interchangeable
ecology · 1968 designation; 2021 government list
The national protected-area list identifies Abuko Nature Reserve, while the town requires its own community history.
Read entryA census settlement is not an entire community story
place · 2013
The 2013 directory offers place names and scale, not biographies or fixed identity categories.
Read entryA community-scale history of Sukuta/Sabiji
history · 2016 book review
A review identifies a book that approaches Sukuta/Sabiji through local rather than national history.
Read entryA cross-border route for Bathurst printing
media · 1920s, reported in 2020
The article presents cross-border production as Small’s press strategy.
Read entryA documented Williams household on Lovell Street
family · 1886-1930s
A house, church, river professions and meals make one historic household unusually visible.
Read entryAgriculture and scouting at early Armitage
education · 1920s-1943
A newspaper history credits an agricultural officer with two school activities.
Read entryA Gunjur grassroots environmental institution
community · Organisation self-description accessed 2026
GEPADG describes its own community-based work across livelihood and environmental activities.
Read entryA jali's reputation carried by radio
culture · 1956-1970s
The kora player Jali Nyama Suso reached a national audience through a long-running Radio Gambia programme, an example of griot performance carried beyond ceremony by broadcast.
Read entryAlbert Market: a colonial name and a 2014 fire
economy · Founded mid-19th century; fire reported September 2014
Albert Market's Wikipedia entry records a mid-nineteenth-century founding and a colonial royal name, while a 2014 Point report documents a fire that damaged the market and its traders' stock.
Read entryAlbreda in an abolition-era account
history · 1823-1857
An 1820s traveller alleged that trafficking persisted through Albreda after British abolition.
Read entryAlbreda's chapel and commercial building
heritage · 15th-20th centuries
The World Heritage ensemble includes more than the island fort.
Read entryA new island settlement in the 1820s
history · 1823-1824
Two written accounts distinguish an early military and emancipation settlement from the later town.
Read entryA public dispute near Pisania
culture · 1795
A narrated court hearing shows the meeting of local custom, farming and Islamic legal argument.
Read entryArmitage and a ‘sons of chiefs’ shorthand
education · 1927 onward
The article corrects a simplified account of early admissions.
Read entryArmitage opens in Janjanbureh
history · 1926-1927
A History Corner article dates the opening to January 1927.
Read entryA Sukuta foundation account remains attributed
history · Claim reported in a 2016 book review
The review reports that the book discusses a seventeenth-century foundation narrative.
Read entryA vulnerable river ensemble: UNESCO's own conservation record
heritage · 1779-2000s
UNESCO's own dossier documents uneven, actively managed conservation across the seven-part river ensemble, from active erosion to a fully restored trading building.
Read entryA vulnerable river heritage landscape
heritage · Present stewardship
Conservation is part of the story, because erosion and weather threaten the surviving record.
Read entryA working ferry network along the middle and upper river
place · Present-day operations
A state-linked ferry operator's own route list documents present-day crossings at several archive towns along the middle and upper river.
Read entryBakau is more than one census label
place · 2013
The directory distinguishes Bakau New Town and Bakau Wasulun.
Read entryBakau’s recorded settlement labels
place · 2013 census directory
The directory distinguishes Bakau labels that should not be silently collapsed.
Read entryBallot tokens and drums
culture · 1960 onward
A distinctive election method was introduced before the 1960 general election.
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