Mama Kandeh


Mama Kandeh is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from the Gambia. He is the founding leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress political party, which he formed in the summer of 2016. He ran as a candidate in the Gambian presidential election of 2016 and received 17.1% of the votes.

Background

He once attended Crab Island School in Banjul,and in Jeshwang, Serrekunda, Kanifing.
He was formerly a member of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, which was the ruling party at the time, but was expelled and formed the GDC.
He pulled 17.8 % of the votes in the Gambian presidential election of 2016.