Annual report on the Gambia / Colonial Office.

Date:
[1949]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the Gambia / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Gambia Echo, price 4d., published weekly by the Gambia Echo Newspaper Syndicate, Leman Street, Bathurst. Editor : Lenrie Peters, Major Street, Bathurst. The Gambia Weekly News, price 6d., published fortnightly by Finden Dailey, Proprietor and Editor, at 11, Hopkinson Street, Bathurst. The Gambia News Bulletin, subscription is. per month, published daily, except Sundays and Public Holidays, by the Public Relations Office, Bathurst. Chapter 6: Reading List Publications, other than those of purely official character which are listed in Appendix 1, are limited in number. Most of the older publications are now out of print. Those listed below include books dealing exclusively with the Gambia, and not books which relate to Y\rest Africa in general. The Gambia Colony and Protectorate, an Official Handbook, by F. Bisset Archer. London, St. Bride’s Press Ltd., 1906. A very general survey of the Colony up to the date of publication ; much of the information given, particularly the historical portions, is of value even at the present time. History of the Gambia, by H. F. Reeve. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1912. A History of the Gambia, by J. M. Gray. Cambridge University Press, 1940. The Carthaginian Voyage to West Africa, by Sir Richmond Palmer. Bathurst, Stationery Store, 1931. This booklet includes a translated extract from Sultan Mohammed Bello’s account of the origin of the Fulbe Tribe. A Short Phrase Book and Classified Vocabulary of the Mandinka Language, by G. N. N. Nunn. Bathurst, Stationery Store, 1934. A Short Study of the Mandinka Language, by W. T. Hamlyn. Bathurst, Stationery Store, 1935. Stone Circles in the Gambia, by Henry Parker. London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1923. Stories of the Gambia. Bathurst, Information Office, 1945. This booklet, which was written as a short text book, is based on and brings up to date A Short History of the Gambia, by W. T. Hamlyn, which is now out of print.