1888-1918 History of West Africa 1939-1965





The Gambia, 1919-1939



In 1923 Armitage School was established at Georgetown, intended to provide rudimentory education for the sons of Gambian chieftains. In 1928, the Bathurst Trade Union was established; the first strike was held in 1929. Bathurst Urban District Council was established in 1931 (renamed Urban Town Council in 1935); the first African member of the Legislative Council appointed in 1932. 1933 saw the reorganization of the protectorate's government system.
In 1936, The Gambia had a population of 198,000 (Hübner); Bathurst a population of 14,370. Gambia had a combined lngth of 12 km of railroad lines, 1260 km of country roads, 174 trucks and 248 busses (as of 1937), 64 km of telegraph lines (land) and 184 km of telephone lines, with 92 connected telephones (as of 1935).
Government revenues for 1935 amounted to 245,485 Pound Sterling, expenses at 194,669 Pound Sterling.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		History of the Gambia, from Infoplease
Banjul, from Infoplease
DOCUMENTS
REFERENCE Hübner's Weltstatistik, 73rd edition, edited by Ernst Rösner, Wien 1939; in German [G]
A. Adu Boahen, Politics and Nationalism in West Africa 1919-1935, pp.624-647, in : A. Adu Boahen (ed.), UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol.VII : Africa under Colonial Domination 1880-1935, Oxford : Heinemann 1985 [G]
Article : West Africa : Gambia, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1919 pp.238-239, 1924 pp.247-248, 1925 pp.252-253, 1926 pp.253-255, 1928 pp.252-253, 1929 pp.254-256, 1932 pp.256-258, 1937 pp.278-279 [G]
Article : Gambia, in : Americana Annual 1927 p.368, 1928 p.326, 1930 pp.342-343, 1931 p.340, 1932 p.309, 1933 p.338, 1934 p.266, 1935 p.308, 1936 p.313, 1937 p.308, 1938 p.299, 1939 p.324 [G]
Article : Gambia, in : New International Year Book 1919 p.277, 1920 p.267, 1921 p.266, 1923 pp.273-274, 1925 p.268, 1928 p.283, 1930 p.295, 1932 p.311, 1933 p.298, 1934 p.257, 1935 p.265, 1938 p.276, 1939 pp.298-299 [G]
Article : Gambia, in : Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Encyclopedia Year Book 1932 pp.276-277, 1933 p.231, 1934 p.254, 1935 p.247, 1936 p.217, 1937 p.220, 1938 p.227 [G]



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