Farimang Singhateh

Sir Farimang Mamadi Singateh GCMG
Governor-General of the Gambia
In office 9 February 1966 – 24 April 1970
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Sir Dawda Jawara
Preceded by	Sir John Paul
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	10 November 1912
Died	19 May 1977(1977-05-19) (aged 64)

Al Hajj Sir Farimang Mamadi Singateh, GCMG (10 November 1912 – 19 May 1977) was the second and last Governor General of the Gambia, representing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Succeeding Sir John Warburton Paul, who had previously been the last Governor of The Gambia before independence, Sir Farimang was the only Gambian citizen to hold that post, beginning in 1966. When the country became a republic in 1970, the office was abolished, and the Prime Minister, Dauda (later Sir Dawda) Kairaba Jawara became an executive President.

Sir Farimang Singhateh was working as a Dispenser/Pharmacist in the Royal Victoria Hospital. He then moved on to have his own Clinics in Soma and Farafeni before going into the private sector he spend time in Basse and Mansakonko serving those communities. While working in his FARAFENI Clinic is when he was appointed as the first black Governor-General by the Queen of the Gambia. Stories have been told that horses was his form of transportation in the early 1940s and 1950s as cars were not available at that time or era. He was an Ahmadi Muslim and ameer (president) of the Gambia's Ahmadiyya community. Singateh refrained from any politics until his untimely death in 1977 and went back to his medical practice which was his first love and spent time with his children travelling to Kolda and Dakar visiting friends and family. A street in the capital, Banjul, was named in his honour.