Creator: Bathurst (Banjul) Qadi Court

Description: Awa Fofana brought her husband Mukhtarr Senghor before the Qadi of Bathurst and complained that her husband Mukhtarr did not cloth and maintain her well. Mukhtarr refuted Awa's claims but the Qadi ordered Mukhtarr to pay for the maintenance of the children and referred them to the Police Court.

Subject: Child support
Dispute- Money
Dispute- Spouse's Role

Date: July 21, 1952

Date Range: 1950-1959

Location: Banjul (Bathurst), Banjul, The Gambia

Format: Text/jpeg

Language: Arabic

Rights Management: For research and educational use only.

Contributing Institution: The Gambian National Archive; Bala Saho; Walter Hawthorne; Matris: The Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University

Digitizer: The Gambian National Archive

Archive: The Gambian National Archive

Source: The Gambian National Archive; Awa Fofana VS Mukhtarr Senghor: Bathurst (Banjul) Qadi Court Transcript Year Book, 1952-1955; Case 126/1952