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Re: The Gambia
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kalilu camara <[log in to unmask]>
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The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:27:16 GMT
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Kambiyaa------meaning kambi's . In mandingo. The saying goes Kambi
was the first found by the whiteman cutting bamboo sticks---hence the name
Banjul only the former name is Bathurst----this by no means is  written in
stone but it'll be interesting to know the true answer.


>From: "Touray, Maila" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: The Gambia
>Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:09:10 -0400
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>Can anybody answer the question, "why is our country named The Gambia?"
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>Maila
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