What is Dawda Jawara?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = |name = Sir Dawda Jawara |image = Dawda Jawara (1979).jpg |office = 1st [[President of the Gambia]] |term_start = 24 April 1970 |term_end = 22 July 1994 |predecessor = [[Elizabeth II]] as Queen of the Gambia |successor = [[Yahya Jammeh]] |office2 = [[Heads of State of the Gambia|Prime Minister of the Gambia]] |monarch2 = [[Elizabeth II]] |term_start2 = 12 June 1962 |term_end2 = 24 April 1970 |predecessor2 = [[Pierre Sarr N'Jie]] |successor2 = ''Office abolished'' |birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|5|16|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Barajally]], [[MacCarthy Island Division]], [[Gambia Colony and Protectorate|Gambia]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|8|27|1924|5|16|mf=y}} |death_place = [[Bakau]], [[The Gambia]] |spouse = |children = |alma_mater = [[University of Glasgow]]<br />[[University of Liverpool]] |party =[[People's Progressive Party (Gambia)|People Progressive Party]] (PPP) }} '''Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara''', [[Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]] (May 16, 1924 &ndash; August 27, 2019) was an [[The Gambia|Gambian]] politician. He was the first leader of [[the Gambia]], serving first as [[Prime Minister]] from 1962 to 1970. Then, he served as [[President of the Gambia|President]] from 1970 to 1994.<ref>{{cite book|title=From Green Uprising to National Reconciliation: The people's Progressive Party in The Gambia 1959-1973|author=Arnold Hughes|publisher= Canadian Journal of African Studies}}</ref> Jawara died on August 27, 2019 in [[Bakau]], [[The Gambia]] at the age of 95.<ref>[https://www.africanews.com/2019/08/27/the-gambia-s-first-president-dawda-jawara-dies-aged-95-official/ The Gambia's first president, Dawda Jwara, dies aged 95 - Presidency]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://www.gambianow.com/home More stories of ex-Gambian president's legacy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.arch