A Climpse of the Gambia
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The Gambia is an appendix-shaped enclave within Senegal, in West Africa, and is some 200 miles long East to West but encloses only a few miles of rain forest and savannah on either bank of the grerut River Gambia. It is the smallest country in Africa in size and has a population of some 600,000. The economy depends heavily on a single crop, the groundnut, which is exported mainly as oil. The people, who are predominantly Muslim, are a mixture of several West African tribes-Wolof, Mandingo, Fula and Jola. The Gambia river mouth was explored by the Portuguese in the days of Henry the Navigator and English ships sailed up-river in search of gold in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. The Gambia river colony became a pawn in the prolonged colonial struggle between Britain and France, and after Waterloo became a British possession, justifiably earning the name of "White Man's Grave" because of malaria, yellow fever, typhoid, alcoholism and suicide. Independence finally came in 1965 and The Garp.bia is now a peaceful Republic within The Commonwealth. The author was seconded briefly in 1974 to the Medical Research Council Laboraltories, Fajara, near the quaint bustling little waterfront capita[ city of Banjul.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011