John Williamson Kuyé, an early 20th Century advocate of African self-rule was in many respects part of the first wave of African nationalists. Born in Bathurst, Gambia, on November 10, 1894, he attended Stanley Day School and Wesleyan Boys’ High School in Sierra Leone. Kuyé worked for 34 years with the Bank of British West Africa and eventually became the first African senior cashier. Kuyé’s nationalist activities however were channeled through his membership in the Gambia branch of the National Congress of British West Africa. On January 4, 1926 Kuyé gave a paper expressing his views at the 3rd Biennial Session of the National Congress held in St. Mary’s Schoolroom, Bathurst, Gambia.
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