I will conduct a series of conversations on Tribalism in the coming days  
that may be of value to Gambians, Africans, and all humanity. I will therefore  
appreciate it if Galleh, JDAM, Suntou, Pa Nderry, Yero, Jambang, Saloum, Ginny, 
 or Laye can forward these conversations, and this leader, to our friends at  
Posten, whoever is first able to forward it. Yero, if you choose to forward  
these conversations, try to forward it without adding your own commentary at  
first. You can comment on it after you forward it. The act of forwarding the  
conversations is the favor I solicit at this time. I want to thank the  
forwarders in advance.
 
Fellow forumites,
 
I am pleased to be with you again. The subject of Tribalism and its  
attendant dis-eases, have been the bane of constricted growth and value-life in  many 
of the world's civilizations and persisted through the ages. Yet the  problem 
seems intractable for most well-meaning folk. It is my concern that the  
almost abstract nature of tribalism will rob us of opportunities to develop our  
families and societies more valuably.
 
I therefore will engage in these conversations which will be adhoc and of  
limited duration in order that I may not take up much of your reading and  
reflection time. I had an opportunity once before to address tribalism when our  
friend Joe interpreted as tribalist, a comment Banka alleged that I made about  
AGERA. to wit:
 
AGERA is an organisation of ndongos.
 
I regret and apologise that I failed to treat the matter more  
comprehensively beyond my primal instincts of self-vindication. for consolation,  I 
recognised the shortcoming in perspective on tribalism and the apparent  futility is 
yielding value amid charged ambiance.
 
Most recently, our other friend Yero alleged I am tribalist because in my  
disdain of his mentor, fellow tribesman, and heritage newspaper Gainako,  for 
his aversion of me, I SAID:
 
I don't need shepherds Demba.
 
It might be that Yero, a young and industrious man with an  impressionable 
mind, and since Joe's allegation, had been trained on Haruna  to determine one 
way or the other that Haruna is tribalist and therefore  employ schemes to 
certify that allegations. OR that Haruna is indeed  tribalist.
 
But whether or not Haruna is tribalist, you may agree with me that any  
worthwhile conversation on the subject of tribalism must move beyond Haruna  being 
tribalist. That will yield more value to the remainder of societies than  the 
mere disdain for Haruna. This is because if Haruna is tribalist,  society is 
none the better when Haruna dies or withers away into oblivion  because you 
might very well have other tribalists in your midst sans Haruna.  This after you 
identify what a tribalist is. I often say that folk substitute  tribalism 
conveniently for FEAR and CRIME. There could be some merit in that  discernment. 
Afterall, you would remain clueless if you do not know what  "tribalism" is.
 
I afforded an interview to Freedomnewspaper recently on the heels of  the 
barrage of assaults directed at the newspaper for insinuating that  Yahya was 
"Tribalist". I encourage all of you to look at that interview  again at 
_www.freedomnewspaper.com_ (http://www.freedomnewspaper.com)   or in her archives. The 
editor of the newspaper was engaged in certifying the  paper's claim that 
"Yahya is tribalist" by sharing with us the proportion  of Jolas Yahya appoints to 
high offices in Gambia. And Yahya is of Jola  persuasion. In that interview, 
and when Pa asked me if I agree that Yahya was  tribalist, I responded that I 
am informed that is the claim Freedom was  trained on certifying. I think when 
and if Pa Nderry concludes his  investigation, he will come to the conclusion 
as I have, that yahya is not a  tribalist but a garden variety criminal. One 
problem Pa will run into,  after he collects the empirical data of the number 
of Jolas Yahya appointed  to high office in Gambia, will be that he will find 
it near impossible to  correlate Yahya's crimes with "Yahya is tribalist". 
This is because  Pa cannot identify tribalism in anyone. Not even Yahya, or 
Hitler, or  Musolini, or Karadzic.
 
In these conversations with you, I hope I achieve two things:
 
1. To share with you the value of properly identifying our problems in  order 
that we may be stood in the proper stead to solve them.
 
2. To help yield the requisite focus so that we may be minimally distracted  
by ignorance and miscellaneous greed.
 
These thoughts form the foundation of the actionable concepts in The Global  
Democracy Project. We will be delighted to have your company and 
participation.  You may visit with us there at _www.thegdp.wordpress.com_ 
(http://www.thegdp.wordpress.com) 
 
I want to thank you in advance of your audience and I want the  knucklehead 
George to know that this is a limited engagement and that he will  not have me 
at Posten for longer than that. Eat your friggin heart out George.  If you 
want to hear me longer, you can subscribe to Ellen. And I encourage those  of you 
at Posten to cross-register at Ellen just like the multitude of your  Posten 
friends are. The more the merrier.
 
Most Sincerely Haruna.
 
  



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