Adama Barrow
| Adama Barrow | |
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Barrow (2016)
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| 3rd President of the Gambia | |
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Assumed office 19 January 2017 |
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| Vice President | Fatoumata Tambajang(Designate) |
| Preceded by | Yahya Jammeh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 February 1965 Mankamang Kunda, British Gambia |
| Political party |
Independent (since 2016) United Democratic Party (until 2016) |
| Other political affiliations |
Coalition 2016 |
| Spouse(s) | Fatou Bah-Barrow (1st wife) and Sarjo Mballow-Barrow (2nd wife) |
| Children | 5 (including 1 deceased) |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Adama Barrow (born 16 February 1965) is a Gambian politician and real estate developer who is the third and current President of the Gambia. Since the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1965, he is the first democratically elected President of the Gambia, following a month-long constitutional crisis.
Born in Mankamang Kunda, a village near Basse Santa Su. He attended Crab Island Secondary School and the Muslim High School, the latter on a scholarship. He then worked for Alhagie Musa & Sons, a Gambian energy company, where he became a sales manager. Moving to London in the early 2000s, Barrow studied for qualifications in real estate and concurrently worked as a security guard. After returning to the Gambia in 2006, he founded Majum Real Estate, of which he was the CEO until 2016. As the treasurer of the United Democratic Party, an opposition party, Barrow was initially chosen as their candidate in the 2016 presidential election. However, it was later announced that he would stand as an independent with the backing of the opposition group Coalition 2016.
Barrow won the election with 43.43% of the vote, defeating long-time incumbent Yahya Jammeh. Jammeh initially accepted the result, but later reneged on this, and Barrow was forced to flee to neighbouring Senegal. He was inaugurated at the Gambian embassy in Senegal on 19 January 2017, and Jammeh agreed to leave the Gambia and go into exile on 21 January. Barrow returned to the Gambia on 26 January.
Barrow was born on 16 February 1965 in Mankamang Kunda, a small village near Basse Santa Su, two days before the Gambia achieved independence from the United Kingdom. He is the son of Mamudu Barrow and Kaddijatou Jallow. He attended the local Koba Kunda primary school, and then Crab Island Secondary School in Banjul. He then received a scholarship to study at the Muslim High School. After leaving school, he worked for Alhagie Musa & Sons, a Gambian energy company, and rose through the ranks to become a sales manager. In the early 2000s, he moved to London where he studied for qualifications in real estate. Concurrently, he worked as a security guard at a local Argos store in order to finance his studies. He later described these experiences as formative, saying "Life is a process, and the UK helped me to become the person I am today. Working 15 hours a day builds a man."
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