Very creative forms of resistance, really: using art as a last bastion
against clientelism. Not just Senegal, but it seems that the francophones
are years ahead in integrating cultural forms into modes of political and
economic expression.
Viz: kabongo is something else. It is a direct challenge to Walt Disney
toons that inspire no collective memories in the savannah or the African
jungle as per
http://www.soninkara.com/culture-traditions/contes-et-poemes/kabongo-heros-a
nime-pure-souche.html
But here is the story behind it all (for anglophiles):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901040823-682248,00.html
As for Gambia, the emperor has banned thinking, refining assaults on our
minds by closing down the Independent and radio stations that dared quip
about wrongs. How to break down all those thick bricks choking off every bit
of song that whispers freedom from fear will perhaps be the tasks of this
generation?
cheers,
momodou
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] För Cornelius Edward Hamelberg
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Ämne: Re: 40 PRISONERS DIED IN GAMBIAN JAIL HOUSE
For Music lovers, Democracy in Senegal:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid376530205/bclid376526930/bcti
d537084364
Sure enough, if one door is closed, the other is open. Everybody must be
fed, faming is a big business. Not every president can satisfy a multitude
with five loafs and some left over…..
The rights of the Gambian people have to be protected so that unscrupulous
exploiters do not buy up all the ancestral lands (especially where the
blessings were placed.) In Sierra Leone, no toubab can own land in the
provinces. He can lease from the chief, to graze his cattle, but he can’t
say, “This is papa’s land” or “Give me back Papa’s land.
In the 80s, Nigerian freedom fighter and reggae artist Sonny Okosun, used
to sing a lot about Namibia. What mostly saved us (West Africa/ Mali
Empire) from permanent colonisation settlement was the mosquito -. And,
from their wintry point of view, an uncongenial climate.
Nigeria gives land to White Zimbabwean farmers:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?
hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Nigeria+offers+fARMLAND+TO+wH
ITE+zimbabweans&spell=1
Sonny Okosun
http://www.google.co.uk/search?
hl=en&q=Sonny+Okosun&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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