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Hannah Augusta Darling Jawara, ''née'' Mahoney (May 1924 – 21 January 1981), was a Gambian nurse, playwright and activist for women's rights. She was the first wife of Dawda Jawara. ==Life== Augusta Mahoney was born to a prominent Christian Aku Creole family. She was the daughter of Sir John Mahoney, the first Speaker of the Legislative Council of the Gambia, and his wife Hannah. Augusta's sister was Louise N'Jie. She studied at Mohammedan High School, where she first met her future husband, (future president) Dawda Jawara,〔Saikou Jammeh, (A Hand of Destiny ), 21 January 2011. Accessed 21 November 2012.〕 before training in nursing in Edinburgh, Scotland.〔(Scots in Gambia ), ''The Glasgow Herald'', February 11, 1965, p.8. Accessed 21 November 2012.〕 In February 1955 she married Jawara, who converted to Christianity to marry her. Their first child was born in Edinburgh, where David Jawara (he had changed his name on conversion to Christianity) had returned to study.〔 In 1960 she stood for election to the House of Representatives in the 1960 elections, contesting Soldier Town in Bathurst unsuccessfully for her husband's party, the PPP. She thereby became the first woman candidate to stand in a Gambian national election. In 1962 she established the Women's Contemporary Society.〔(Jawara, Augusta D. (1924 - 1981) )〕 Jawara's play ''The African King'' was produced at the Negro Arts Festival in Dakar in 1966. In 1967 she and Dawda Jawara divorced, and he reconverted to Islam. In 1968 Mahoney published ''Rebellion'' - "perhaps the first avowedly feminist, pro-girl child book in The Gambia's literary history and tradition".〔〔 Published under a pseudonym, ''Rebellion'' was a play about Nyasta, a teenage girl in a rural village who struggles to continue her education rather than suffer an arranged marriage.〔Rosamond S. King, "Gambian Women's Voices", ''SABLE Litmag of New Writing'', Autumn/Fall 2007. (Excerpted ) online. Accessed 21 November 2012.〕 At the time it was published she was President of the Gambia Women's Federation,〔 which she helped to establish from women's associations in the Greater Banjul Area.〔Isatou Njie-Saidy, (Keynote Address ), 8 March 2001.〕 She died in London on 21 January 1981. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Augusta Jawara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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