Stories of Senegambia - Dr. Florence Mahoney

Second edition. 1995 Gambia 145 sider. Stiftet hefte.

Florence Mahoney (née Asi Florence Kezia Omolara Peters; born 6 January 1929) is a Gambian Creole or "Aku" author and historian, and was the first Gambian woman to be awarded a PhD

In 1972, Mahoney was made a "Fulbright Professor of African history" and she has lectured at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. In 1973 she returned to the Gambia but shortly thereafter she went back to the United States in March 1974 to lecture at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. Mahoney taught "History and Religion" before rejoining her husband in Congo Brazzaville after her classes had ended.

She is the author of four books: Stories of Senegambia (1982), The Liberated Slaves and the Return to Africa (2001), Creole Saga: The Gambia's Liberated African Community in the Nineteenth Century (2007), and the essay collection Gambian Studies

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