A famous revelation of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) was:

“Kings would seek blessings from your garments.”

This prophecy was first fulfilled during the time of the Third Khilafat in the person of Sir FM Singateh who was elected Governor-General of The Gambia, West Africa. Governor-General holds the highest office in a state. FM Singateh, a devout Muslim, was previously president of all the Ahmadiyya branches in the Gambia. When he was elected to this prestigious office, he earnestly prayed for some time. Then he informed Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad (rh) that he wanted to obtain blessings from the garments of the Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), the Promised Messiah, therefore asked if a piece of the garment could be sent to him. Accordingly, a piece of the clothing was sent to him from Rabwah that was a source of immense joy to him. In this manner, the revelation of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) was fulfilled for the first time during the reign of the Third Khalifa.

Al-Hajj Sir Farimang Mamadi Singateh, GCMG 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. His wife Fanta Singateh was the first Gambian woman to be First Lady.

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 Singateh 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 where he spent 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 were 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 Amir (president) of The Gambia’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. FM 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.