State and society in the Gambia since independence
By: edited by Abdoulaye Saine, Ebrima Ceesay and Ebrima Sall
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592219032; 9781592219049
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The foundations of modern Gambia : British rule, 1816-1965 / Donald R. Wright; title: Enter the "experts" : environmental and agrarian change in the Gambia, 1900-1951 / Kenneth Swindell; title: Strange farmers and the development of the Gambia's peanut trade / Tijan M. Sallah; title: Gambian electoral politics : 1960-2011 / Arnold Hughes and David Perfect; title: From hope to despair : travails of constitutional law-making in Gambia's Second Republic / Abou Jeng; title: Post-coup politics and authoritarianism in the Gambia : 1994-2011 / Abdoulaye Saine and Ebrima Ceesay; title: Trade unions and government in the Gambia : 1965-94 / David Perfect; title: The "Senegambia" experience : twelve pointers for regional integration in Africa /  Jeggan Senghor; title: Uncertain ground : the Gambia and the Casamance conflict / Martin Evans and Charlotte Ray; title: Contested status : the politics of HIV treatments in the Gambia / Rebecca Cassidy; title: Education in the Gambia : the interactive effects of policies and socio-economic variables / Ousman Gajigo; title: Gambian fiction : an analytical study / Cherno Omar Barry; title: The sociology of sanawuyaa : continuity and change in southwestern Gambia / Mark Davidheiser; title: Women and gender in the Gambia : problems, progress and prospects / Sylvia Chant and Isatou Touray; title: Wild oysters, female harvesters, and mangrove forests of the Gambia / Judith A. Carney, Britt L. Crow, and Hassoum Ceesay; title: Community policing in the Gambia : when democratically-based strategies and best intentions are turned upside down / Stephen Perrott; title: Postscript / by Sulayman Nyang.