Louise N'Jie

Louise Antoinette N'Jie MBE (23 January 1922 – 22 May 2014) was a Gambian teacher, feminist and politician who was the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Gambia.

Louise Antoinette Mahoney was born in Bathurst (now Banjul) in British Gambia on 23 January 1922, the third of five children. Her father, Sir John Mahoney was of Aku descent and was the first Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gambia and her mother, Hannah, was the first Gambian woman to work as a clerk in the Government Secretariat in the 1910s. Her younger sister Augusta was the first female candidate to stand in a Gambian national election and later married Gambia's first President, Dawda Jawara. Her brother John later married Florence Mahoney, the first Gambian woman to obtain a PhD.

N'Jie attended the Methodist Girls High School in Banjul, obtaining the Cambridge School Certificate in 1942. She then won a scholarship to attend the Achimota School in Accra, Ghana from 1942 until 1945, where she trained as a teacher. From 1963 to 1964, she studied educational administration at the University of Oxford.

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