Abstract
Gambia is one of three West African states where a coup by armed subalterns toppled a democratically elected government. The country maintained a quasi-democratic political system for almost thirty years and was one of the more stable and least repressive states in Africa. Not only was Gambia Africa’s longest surviving constitutional democracy in 1994, only Felix Houphuet-Boigny of Ivory Coast and Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi had been in office longer than Dauda Jawara, Gambia’s first postindependence leader. Gambia’s positive image as an oasis of stability in a continent riven by internecine strife, military coups, and instability was abruptly shattered by the July 1994 coup.
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