Omar, I prefer to change the title. This is more fitting
Thank you for your signal, it shows that you read the story. Same here, I read your postings well.
You are a big fish.
Sana Manneh is my big brother and mentor.We are too close and I know him too well..I was his
room-assistant. Bringing the water , filling the watwr bottles and cleaning the spoons for
launch.(laugh! Sana!) I spent each afternoon in his small one-room appartment upstiars at
Gloucester for years in the early 70's. He was not yet a writer then. He gave my philosphy book."
"Philosophy made simple" I remembered when he started the touch
.The events surrounding Baa. were much earlier. Good that you remembered "the tourche "(10
points)!!!
Baa was well know in Banjul as a radical journalist and was a means of progress.
The permanent object of his work was to ensure the revolutionary transformation of the gambian
society.He had already identified himself as a people's journalist in his contribution to the
struggle against colonialism.But these comrades could not observe the constant faithfulness in
journalism ethicsand they yeilded to the regime,following the oppreessor just like a government
agent.
More Times.
Oko Drammeh
omar joof wrote:
> Pierre,
> Kindly allow me to make some, shall I say corrigendum? Well you seem to be
> writing about Baa Trawalley in connection with the Torch newspaper. Perhaps
> you mean Sana Manneh because he is the one details in your posting match.
> However, Baa was one of the radical Journalists that spearheaded some
> anti-colonial organisations in the pre-independence period.
> Omar Joof.
>
> >From: Pierre Gomez <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: the history of trade and student unions in the gambia
> >Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:10:24 -0500
> >
> >Thank you Oko,
> >
> >As i have stated earlier, i do not know much about Ba. You see, Gambian
> >History is full of missing links. These links are difficult and in many
> >cases impossible to connect. One day, some one comes to the lime light and
> >the other day, he disappears with little or no trace. This to some extent
> >holds water with reference to Ba. The same goes with Ticks. After his well
> >pu8blicised court case, he suddenly disappeared with his Torch. His case
> >was so obscure that my own torch could not find him. Thank God, after
> >several years in the limbo, i finally heard him making noice at the AFPRC
> >commissions. But I heard already learnt from a friend that he had been sent
> >to Malasia by Saihou Sabally, to study law.
> >
> >Your endeveaurs in piecing together these missing links is a noble course.
> >Be rest assured that once your final product is out for market consumption,
> >i will get my copy at any market price.
> >
> >PG
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Oko Drammeh
> >Sent: 12/2/2003 10:40:23 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: the history of trade and student unions in the gambia
> >
> > > Pierre ,
> > > Thank you for your feed back and thank you for the information, I need
> >this one It is always great to know more on the Ba Tarawaley story. You
> >are very current and I will need your input time to time on my research.. I
> >could not follow the day to day developement of the Ba Tarawaley case. (
> >Gambians don't talk to the press or the public, they sit on the
> > > information ,too little public information). It was like a passing
> >glance. I saw him once in court, in prison uniform and as a PPP office
> >worker but I never knew the insider details of the Pardon-Release saga.
> >Kneeel Down !!! Too Much! Say more.
> > > This was bad for journalism. A journalist in the field of journalism
> >must be faithful in ideology and will never bend to any indulgence, and
> >any friendship or alliance that will be deterimental to the line.The
> >corruptability will be be reflected in him/her.
> > > Sadly, stories of The Gambia are not easy to follow in dept, either a
> >story on individuals or events, because they are not documented. and our
> >stories are not base on written history but mostly on remembered history,
> >and this makes acurate information difficult to come by.
> > > More research , more revelation.!!!
> > > Oko Drammeh
> > >
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