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| Commonwealth of The Bahamas | |
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| Capital and largest city | Nassau |
| Official languages | English |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Charles III |
• Prime Minister | Philip Davis |
| Area | |
• Total | 13,878 km² |
| Population | |
• 2024 estimate | 401,528 |
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country in the western Atlantic Ocean. It is a former British colony, and retains the British Monarch as its head of state.
History
Workers revolted against the colonial government of the Bahamas in the 1940s and 1950s. Randall Fawkes led the petty-bourgeois Progressive Liberal Party against the white colonial United Bahamian Party following the 1967 election. In January 2017, the first majority Black government was elected in the Bahamas.[1]
References
- ↑ Alex Morley (2017-01-31). "Real Majority Rule in the Bahamas in through Africa" The Burning Spear. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2022-08-13.