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Gambian Creole people, the Glossary

The Gambian Creole people, or Krio or Aku, are a minority ethnic group of Gambia with connections to and roots from the Sierra Leone Creole people.^[1]

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African-American diaspora in Africa
Ethnic groups in the Gambia
Gambian Christians
Gambian people
People of Liberated African descent
Repatriated Africans

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.

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Afro-Caribbean people

Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.

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Americo-Liberian people (also known as Congo people or Congau people),Cooper, Helene, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (United States: Simon and Schuster, 2008), p. 6 are a Liberian ethnic group of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and liberated African origin. Gambian Creole people and Americo-Liberian people are African-American diaspora in Africa, people of Liberated African descent and Repatriated Africans.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Augusta Jawara

Hannah Augusta Darling Jawara (née Mahoney; May 1924 – 21 January 1981), was a Gambian nurse, playwright and activist for women's rights. Gambian Creole people and Augusta Jawara are Gambian Christians.

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Banjul

Banjul ((US) and), officially the City of Banjul, is the capital of The Gambia.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Basiru Mahoney

Basiru V.P. Mahoney is a Gambian lawyer, politician and judge who served as Attorney General of The Gambia from 27 August 2014 to 9 January 2015.

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Belinda Bidwell

Belinda Bidwell (22 April 1936 – 28 April 2007) was the first female speaker of the National Assembly of The Gambia. Gambian Creole people and Belinda Bidwell are Gambian Christians.

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Black British people

Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.

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Cabinet of the Gambia

The Cabinet of The Gambia is responsible for advising the President of The Gambia and for carrying out other functions as prescribed by law.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.

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Crispin Grey-Johnson

Crispin Grey-Johnson (born December 7, 1946, United Nations Press Release BIO/3411, UN.org, March 12, 2002. (as Secretary of State for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology) at Gambian government website.) is a Gambian political figure. Gambian Creole people and Crispin Grey-Johnson are Gambian Christians.

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Dej Mahoney

Dej Mahoney, born Ayodeji Mahoney, is a British legal and business consultant in the entertainment and related sectors, with more than 30 years' experience within the music and media industries.

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Ebrima Colley

Ebrima Colley (born 1 February 2000) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Swiss Super League club Young Boys, on loan from Serie A club Atalanta, and the Gambia national team.

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Edward Francis Small

Edward Francis Small (29 January 1891 – January 1958) was a Gambian statesman who has been described as the "trailblazer of Gambian political consciousness." One of the few educated Africans in the Gambia Colony and Protectorate during the early 20th century, Small founded the country's first trade union (Bathurst Trade Union), the country's first political party (Rate Payers' Association), and was the first citizen elected to its legislature.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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First lady

First lady or first gentleman is an unofficial title usually used for the spouse, and occasionally used for the offspring or other relative, of a non-monarchical head of state or chief executive.

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Florence Mahoney

Florence Mahoney (née Asi Florence Kezia Omolara Peters; born 6 January 1929)David Perfect,, Historical Dictionary of The Gambia (Fifth edition), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 281. Gambian Creole people and Florence Mahoney are Gambian Christians.

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Gold Coast Euro-Africans

Gold Coast Euro-Africans were a historical demographic based in coastal urban settlements in colonial Ghana, that arose from unions between European men and African women from the late 15th century – the decade between 1471 and 1482, until the mid-20th century, circa 1957, when Ghana attained its independence.

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Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone

The Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone were a group of just under 600 Jamaican Maroons from Cudjoe's Town, the largest of the five Jamaican maroon towns who were deported by the British authorities in Jamaica following the Second Maroon War in 1796, first to Nova Scotia. Gambian Creole people and Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone are Repatriated Africans.

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John Carew

John Alieu Carew (born 5 September 1979) is a Norwegian actor and former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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Joshua Christian Kojo King (born 15 January 1992) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for the Norway national team.

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Julia Dolly Joiner

Julia Dolly Joiner (born November 11, 1956 Banjul, Gambia) is a Gambian politician. Gambian Creole people and Julia Dolly Joiner are Gambian Christians.

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Krio language

The Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone.

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Lamin Colley

Lamin Colley (born 5 July 1993) is a Gambian footballer who plays as a forward for Puskás Akadémia.

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Lenrie Peters

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist. Gambian Creole people and Lenrie Peters are Gambian Christians.

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Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone

The liberated Africans of Sierra Leone, also known as recaptives, were Africans who had been illegally enslaved onboard slave ships and rescued by anti-slavery patrols from the West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy. Gambian Creole people and liberated Africans in Sierra Leone are people of Liberated African descent.

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List of speakers of the National Assembly of the Gambia

The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia is the presiding officer over proceedings in the National Assembly.

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Louise N'Jie

Louise Antoinette N'Jie, (Mahoney; 23 January 1922 – 22 May 2014) was a Gambian teacher, feminist and politician who was the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in The Gambia. Gambian Creole people and Louise N'Jie are Gambian Christians.

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Mark Bright

Mark Abraham Bright (born 6 June 1962) is an English sports correspondent and former footballer.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs (The Gambia)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, commonly known as just the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is a cabinet position in the Gambia, appointed by the President of the Gambia.

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National Assembly of the Gambia

The National Assembly of the Gambia is the unicameral legislature of the Gambia.

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Nicolas Jackson

Nicolas Jackson (born 20 June 2001) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Chelsea and the Senegal national team.

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Nova Scotian Settlers

The Nova Scotian Settlers, or Sierra Leone Settlers (also known as the Nova Scotians or more commonly as the Settlers), were Black Canadians of African-American descent who founded the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone and the Colony of Sierra Leone, on March 11, 1792. Gambian Creole people and Nova Scotian Settlers are Repatriated Africans.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Oku people (Sierra Leone)

The Oku people or the Aku Marabout or Aku Mohammedans are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, primarily the descendants of marabout, liberated Yoruba people who were released from slave ships and resettled in Sierra Leone as Liberated Africans or came as settlers in the mid-19th century. Gambian Creole people and Oku people (Sierra Leone) are ethnic groups in the Gambia.

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Omar Colley

Omar Colley (born 24 October 1992) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş and captains the Gambia national team.

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Political Affairs (magazine)

Political Affairs Magazine was a monthly Marxist publication, originally published in print and later online only.

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Politician

A politician is a person who has political power in the government of a state, a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creole people (Krio pipul) are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. Gambian Creole people and Sierra Leone Creole people are African-American diaspora in Africa and Repatriated Africans.

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Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery.

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Susan Waffa-Ogoo

Susan Waffa-Ogoo (born 4 October 1960) is a Gambian politician who served as the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 2012 to October 2013. Gambian Creole people and Susan Waffa-Ogoo are Gambian Christians.

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The Gambia

The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Women's rights

Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambian_Creole_people

Also known as Aku (ethnic group), Aku people, Aku people (Gambia), Gambian Creole, List of Gambian Creole people.

, Sierra Leone Creole people, Surgeon, Susan Waffa-Ogoo, The Gambia, Trade union, Women's rights.

Gambian Creole people, the Glossary

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See also

African-American diaspora in Africa

Ethnic groups in the Gambia

Gambian Christians

Gambian people

People of Liberated African descent

Repatriated Africans

References