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Ralphina Phillott-Almeida

Educator and women's historian

Died 2017

Ralphina Phillott-Almeida was a Gambian educator, administrator and writer whose career included teaching at Armitage, leadership at Gambia College and gender studies at the University of The Gambia. She also worked with the Women’s Bureau. Her published research documented the contributions of Gambian women to national social, political and economic life.

THEIR MARK ON HISTORY

01Served as vice principal of Gambia College.

02Published A Panoramic Portrait of the Contribution of Gambian Women in 2014.

Gender studiesEducationWomen's history

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