AD-GAM Gambia Guide
History
Explore history in The Gambia.
- Before the modern border: kingdoms and oral history — African societies, regional connections and the evidence that keeps their histories alive.
- Atlantic trade, enslavement and colonial rule — Understand the river’s global connections and their human consequences.
- The road to independence and the republic — Representation, organising and the milestones of 1965 and 1970.
- Democracy, memory and the pursuit of justice — The 1994 coup, the 2016 election and the work of confronting abuses.