Farimang Mamadi Singateh

Alhaji Sir Farimang Mamadi Singhateh GCMG (* 1912 in Georgetown, † May 19, 1977 ) was the second and last Governor-General of The Gambia and represented Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.

Life

Farimang Singhateh, is descended from a long line of Mandinka traders from Wuli, grew up in Georgetown ( which was renamed in Janjanbureh 1995) on. He was brought up by the wife of a British Divisional Commissioner. From 1935 he worked as a volunteer medical staff in Kerewan. He then became an employee on probation (English Medical probationer ) with the Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ). Various Gambian units during the Second World War From 1950 Singhateh was appointed as a state- authorized pharmacist. In 1963 he retired and founded in Farafenni his still famous today pharmacy.

He was chairman of the Protectorate People's Society, he and his wife were also supporters of the Protectorate People's Party ( which later became in 1959 the People's Progressive Party was created ). Singhateh interrupted his political work in 1964, because he was appointed to the Committee of the Civil Service.

On February 9, 1966 he was Governor-General, who had been governor before independence Gambia successor of Sir John Warburton Paul. Singhateh was the only locals who held this office. When the country became a republic in 1970, the Office of the Governor General was abolished (24 April 1970), Dawda Kairaba Jawara and the Prime Minister was acting president. Singhateh then withdrew back from political life.

Singateh was knighted on 12 September 1966. He was also a devout member and president of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat. He died on 19 May 1977. A street in the capital Banjul was named in his honor.