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Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, GCMG (born May 16, 1924) was the first leader of The Gambia, serving first as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1970 and then as President from 1970 to 1994.
He was initially trained as a veterinary surgeon at the Glasgow veterinary school he then moved to complete his training at Liverpool University. From 1962 until 1970, when the country was a Commonwealth realm with Elizabeth II as head of state, Jawara was Prime Minister and head of government; a 1970 referendum made the country a republic, and Jawara became the nation's first president on April 24 of that year.
Born Kairaba Jawara on May 16, 1924 at Barajally, MacCarthy Island Division (now Central River Division). His parents were Mamma Fatty and Almami Jawara, Sir Dawda was educated at the Methodist Boys’ High School in colonial Bathurst (now Banjul), then attended Achimota College in Ghana, he then finished his studies at the University of Glasgow.
Dawda Jawara was born in 1924 to Almammi Jawara and Mamma Fatty in the village of Barajally Tenda in the central region of The Gambia, approximately 150 miles from the capital, Bathurst. One of six sons, Dawda is the lastborn on his mother’s side and a younger brother to sister Na Ceesay and brothers Basaddi and Sheriffo Jawara. Their father Almammi, who had several wives, was a well-to-do trader who commuted from Barajally Tenda to his trading post in Wally Kunda. Dawda from an early age attended the local Arabic schools to memorize the Quran, a rite of passage for many Gambian children. Needless to say, there were no primary schools in Barajally Tenda; the nearest was in Georgetown, the provincial capital, but this boarding school was reserved for the sons of the chiefs.
Actors: Chris Cowlin (actor), Jeremy Thomas (producer), Demian Bichir (actor), Jude Law (actor), Richard E. Grant (actor), Rolfe Kent (composer), Jamie Lengyel (miscellaneous crew), Julian Day (costume designer), Beverly Winston (miscellaneous crew), Matthew C. Martino (actor), Aurelia Thomas (miscellaneous crew), Matthew David McCarthy (actor), Richard Shepard (writer), Richard Graham (actor), Richard Shepard (director),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: Daniel Kremer (actor), Daniel Kremer (producer), John Gross (director), John Gross (actor), John Gross (producer), John Gross (writer), John Gross (editor), Katya Quinn-Judge (actress), Brooke Somers (actress), Michael Price (actor), Brian Urbiztondo (actor), Benjamin Fries (actor), Julie Margulies (actress), David Allen (actor), Josue Cuellar (actor),
Plot: This epic-length comedy-drama tells the story of 14-year-old Ben Fries, who has composed a six-hour video epic about the life of Rimbaud (pronounced "Rambo"), the beloved movie action hero, consisting of over two-hundred episodes and weekend after weekend of shooting and editing mountains of footage. Ben has an entourage of college students who follow his every word and his every idea. Timmy Hause, a child prodigy artist, who became known for his remarkable representations of figures like Dostoyevsky, St. Benedict and others, begins a series of drawings in all media about Ben Fries-and soon after, Ben destroys his video epic, disappearing at a Venezuela soccer camp to be presumed dead. College roommates and "entourage members" Nikki and Julian, who have been involved with Ben and Timmy respectively, attempt to put together the pieces of the puzzle behind Ben's disappearance whilst trying to ward off (only to succumb to) the malicious agenda of the malevolent student filmmaker Rick Algarosa, who always expressed ill will for Ben Fries and the Rimbaud epic. Algarosa plots to corrupt all former members of the tight-knit Ben Fries followers.
Keywords: coming-of-age, spiritual