# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawda-kairaba-jawara
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:23:56.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawda-kairaba-jawara"
name: "Dawda Kairaba Jawara"
slug: "dawda-kairaba-jawara"
description: "Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara was a Gambian politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1970, and then as the first President of The Gambia from 1970 to 1994, when he was overthrown by Yahya Jammeh."
tagline: "1st President of the Gambia (1924-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dawda_Jawara_(1979).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1924-05-16"
deathDate: "2019-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             13.90845070422535
  historical:           21.47855733333333
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump