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=


If you understand Aku/ Krio then there’s nothing better than 
Emerson’s "Borbor Bele”, the most powerful – fiery lyrics to ever come out 
of Sierra Leone, social commentary on the life people are forced to live.
 I was so angry just listening to the first three songs, shortly after it 
was released, and till today I have lacked the courage to listen to the 
next nine songs. I don’t want to be angrier than I already am, and this 
guy knows how to convey sufferation. He was discussed on one of our Sierra 
Leone forums - uninterruptedly – for weeks and became a celebrity, 
overnight! :

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Emmerson+-
+Borbor+Bele&btnG=Search&meta=

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Emmerson+%3A+Borbor+Bele%
22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Unending Gambian blogs:

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?
hl=en&sourceid=navclient&q=Gambia&btnG=Search+Blogs

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