Commonwealth of The Bahamas

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Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Flag of Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Flag
Coat of arms of Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Coat of arms
Location of Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Capital
and largest city
Nassau
Official languagesEnglish
GovernmentUnitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Monarch
Charles III
• Prime Minister
Philip Davis
Area
• Total
13,878 km²
Population
• 2022 estimate
400,516


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

  1. 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.