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In addition to the readings on the syllabus, you might want to read further about a particular area of interest. David Gamble has published a number of annotated bibliographies on The Gambia, the most recent in 1988 by CLIO Press in Oxford England (the title is, The Gambia). I also have a number of David’s publications that are not widely available, so contact me if you are trying to find material about a specific topic.

The number of websites for The Gambia grows daily, just about any of the search engines will provide you with a large number of possibilities. Here are some of the websites I have found particularly useful. For news, check http://allafrica.com/gambia or http://www.gambianet.com.

You should also check the official webpage for The Gambia, http://www.gambia.gm.

Other sites that contain valuable information include a site hosted at the University of Pennsylvania, http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Gambia.html,
a site at Stanford University, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/gambia.html,  and http://www.africanculture.dk/gambia or http://www.netline.be/gambie.

Be sure to call me or send me an email if you have any questions, and please let me know if you come across any websites on The Gambia I could share with others.

Further Readings on The Gambia

Curtin, Philip D.
     1975 Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave
     Trade. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Gailey, Harry A.
     1987 Historical Dictionary of The Gambia, second edition. Metuchen, N.J.: The
     Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Haswell, Margaret R.
     1975 The Nature of Poverty: A Case-History of the First Quarter-Century After World
     War II. London: Macmillan.

Jobson, Richard
     1968 [1623] The Golden Trade: or, A discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden
     Trade of Aethiopians.
Also, The Commerce with a great blacke Merchant, called Buckor Sano, and his report of the houses covered with Gold, and other strange observations for the good of our owne countrey; Set downe as they were collected in travelling, part of the yeares, 1620 and 1621. By Richard Jobson, Gentleman. London: Dawson Press.

Linares, Olga F.
     1992 Power, prayer, and production: the Jola of Casamance, Senegal. Cambridge
     [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Park, Mungo
     1969 [1817] Travels in the Interior of Africa, 1795-97 and 1805-6...compiled from his
     Original Works, and Other Authentic sources by John Campbell. London:
     Everyman’s Library.

Quinn, Charlotte Alison
     1972 Mandingo Kingdoms of the Senegambia: Traditionalism, Islam, and European
     Expansion. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Todd, J.L. and G.B. Wolbach
     1911 Stone Circles in The Gambia. Man 11:161-164.

Wood, W. Raymond
     1967 An Archaeological Appraisal of Early European Settlements in the Senegambia.
     Journal of African History, 8(1):39-64.

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