>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list >><[log in to unmask]> >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: Re: For Joe Sambou! >>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:05:32 -0400 >> >>Alhajie Mustapha, >> >>Perhaps I should intervene if you permit me. You have never felt >>any >>need to come to my "defense" whatsoever that means to these monkeys >>assualting your reputation. The "coolary" (a reflective relational >>concern) that spans from the distant past since your late elder >>brother >>led my my father to Ibrahim Niass (my own nameshake) for spiritual >>and >>moral guidance is presenced by my deference due to you and your >>entire >>Fayeen family of Dobson Street. Hiprocrisy, viciousness and >>chicanery >>has no place in Fayeen history...that is why one of your elders >>decided >>to "gadaye" or emigrate the very day he discovered that truth, >>honesty >>and spiritual chastity has been emasculated forever in that tiny >>country. You know Alhaj, Wollof is a deeply philosophical >>language: >>It has two basic distinctions of what it means to be a human being- >> "Nit N'daye" and "Domi Adama". The later is an ontic description >>of >>ordinary human existence of every day life, and the former a much >>deeper ontological description of authentic existence- someone who >>intergrates his/her past, present and his/her death as the ultimate >>temporal horizon. Such a person speaks, thinks and relates >>poetically >>to this world with concrete wisdom: "Wollof N'daye neena, aduuna >>yagut, waye bu yaakee bawool dara". Such a personality has no time >>for >>pettiness, "hastee" , "holoo" ack "garuwaaleh". His >>"joom"(moderate >>self-pride) and "fi'eda"(resolution) is reflected in his caring for >>that resolution. If "coolaray" is retrospective (as the saying >>goes- >>coolaray genaw laye fae'tay) then "woolaray" is the prospective >>attribute of "Nit N'daye" that is generously free in all it >>relations >>to everything and everybody. This "woolaray" is what a "Ndit >>N'daye" >>cares about ( or "samma" in wollof) every day and every night. >>Atleast as far as we know in Banjul-and I don't know about the palm >>wine tappers and the heathens somewhere else-this is how we relate >>to >>our neighbors, friends and our "ambi jamaas" (those who choose to >>coexist peacefully amongst us. >> >>Alhaj Mustapha, you have ever been a generous, caring and honest >>gentleman ever since I know you. Hundreds of Gambians can second >>my >>statement. >> >>Have a wonderful day and give my regards to your wonerful family. >> >> >>Ebou Jallow >> >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >>http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >>To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >>[log in to unmask] >> >>To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >>Gambia-L >>Web interface >>at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >> >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >_________________________________________________________________ >STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~