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Jawo, Omar, Bronx African American History Project
Jawo, Omar, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Dr. Mark Naison and Dr. Jane Edwards
INTERVIEWEE: Omar Jawo
SUMMARY BY: Andrew O’Connell
Born in 1952 in the Republic of Gambia, Omar Jawo, comes from the Fulani, an ethnic group in Gambia known primarily for agriculture and the raising of livestock. Seeing as how the Fulani placed little to no emphasis on formal education, Jawo followed his uncle to a Catholic Mission, where he attended elementary and high school, to pursue scholarship. Although a Muslim by religion, Jawo claims that he felt no pressure to convert at this mission school.
Following his education on the mission, Jawo become …