Brother Habib,
It is wonderful to learn that such an initiative is already in the works. We shall eagerly await Sisters Soffie and Ndey to lay down the program for us.
Cheers,
Momodou Sidibeh
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From: Habib Ghanim
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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: Parliament Accused of Gender Bias
Asjorn
There is already a committee doing that I know of Soffie Ceesay here in the US and sister Ndey Jobarteh in your neck of the woods. I did send in my contribution I think it is a noble cause to support. From what I was told it will go to the existing organization which is an NGO for the maintenance and upkeep of the present office.
I am sure they will be able to give more details . I think they are just waiting for the mourning phase to be over with which is normal.
My hats out to her and the other sisters like soffie and ndey keeping her dream alive.
habib
>From: Asbjørn Nordam
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>Subject: Re: Parliament Accused of Gender Bias
>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:12:02 +0100
>
>I´m sorry that I never met Satang Jobarteh, but I certainly heard a lot
>about her. She is Gambian history.
>I´m thinking of a way to honour her, but not only her, also all the other
>women in Gambian History. Was it not Momodou Camara who here on the Gambia-L
>looked for the very long list of famous Gambian women.
>We could make a "hall of women", and a special prize/award and scholarship
>which could be announced every year at the international womens day, which
>was the passed this sunday. It could help to focus on women with success in
>their profession, women who did something out in the villages which could
>serve as examples for others.
>I would gladly contribute with a sum. But I am depending on Gambians who
>could put up a committee to run this.
>A comment, suggestion and regards
>Asbjørn Nordam
>Denmark
>
>
>on 11/03/03 5:11, Momodou S Sidibeh at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Oh yes, Sister Jabou,
> >
> > Perhaps after all, women members of the National Assembly may spark the
> > revolution against the odious cynicism and drenching cowardice smiting that
> > Assembly. Sheriff Dibba, inspite of all his fading lights, could not but claim
> > "... Besides so many prominent women have passed away in this country without
> > the National Assembly observing a minute's silence in their memory". Indeed
> > Satng Jobarteh was a PROMINENT WOMAN!...a fact the women members themselves
> > could not bring themselves to say. The historic significance of the lives,
> > struggles and sacrifices of some of our people cannot just be ignored. Even
> > though much of Gambia's social values are recklessly auctioned away these
> > days, a strong and luminous spirit such as Satang's cannot just be snuffed
> > out; and the society that refuses to acknowledge her contribution must
> > reassess the dimensions of its own moral standing, irrespective of the
> > caprices of a callous and ethically bankrupt ruling class.
> >
> > Parliamentarism meant that FJC's motion could be put to a vote as Hon. Halifa
> > Sallah opined. Nevertheless Satang's Jobarteh's life, and work, and struggles,
> > and love of Gambia needed to be etched into the memory of everyone in the
> > National Assembly, in the entire country (including President Jammeh!) before
> > subjecting to a vote a motion to pay tribute to her memory by an impersonal,
> > rationalising, spiritually empty, rubber-stamp Asembly. No, Satang's memory
> > should not be the object of an injurious economics of vote-counting in an
> > assembly where loyalty is worth a cynical 100,000 dalasi.
> >
> > Satang Jobarteh's life, her struggles, her travails, her triumphs belong to
> > the Gambian people. Her life is part of the narratives that make up our
> > history, that shapes our memory; those things we narrate to generations yet
> > unborn; we take pride in, we cherish because they tell the world who we are
> > and what stories we own, what sorrows we carry, what songs we sing.
> > A cynic, Oscar Wilde holds, is a person who knows the price of everything but
> > the value of nothing. Every Gambian, even those members of the National
> > Assembly with wooden hearts, know that Satang Jobarteh's memory is priceless.
> >
> > Momodou S Sidibeh
> >
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