Tijan,
Thank you for this great piece.Has he publish any work ? if so can you 
please give details,I have never heard of him.

For Freedom
Saiks


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>Subject: TRIBUT TO DR LAMIN MBYE
>Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:16:36 -0800
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>Remembering, Professor Lamin Mbye was a dedicated son
>of Africa with Pan-Africanist scholarship and roots,
>who passed away a year ago on July 30, 2005. This
>obituary has been produced and sent by Professors
>Sulayman S. Nyang (Howard University) and A.B.
>Assensoh (Indiana University-Bloomington), as family
>members, friends and his students are observing a year
>of Dr. Mbye's death.
>
>            Dr. Lamin Mbye, 70, was a Pan-Africanist
>historian. He was a full professor of History and
>Social Sciences (with an emphasis on African history)
>until July 2004 on the beautiful campus of University
>of Maryland at Eastern Shore (UMES). He died at 1.30
>PM in the Peninsula Hospital, Salisbury, Maryland on
>Friday, July 30, 2004. He has rested in the Lord for a
>year now!
>
>Gambian Family Background: Dr. Mbye came out of two
>prominent Banjul families whose roots go back to
>pre-colonial areas now called Senegal. The son of
>Gambian trader and political figure Abdou Wally Mbye
>and Fatou Jagne of Banjul, Dr. Lamin Mbye belonged to
>the third generation of Wolof who settled in the
>nation's capital since the end of the Sonnike-Marabout
>Wars.  On his father's side, he could trace his
>ancestry back to the Mbyeens of Cayor and Walo. Then,
>on his mother's side, he was part of the large
>descendants of the Saloum-Saloum Jagne family that is
>linked by marriage to Sait Mati, the son of Maba Jahu
>Bah, the celebrated Muslim warrior of 19th Century
>Senegambia. Dr. Mbye was linked to the Nyang clan
>because of the interlocking networks of families and
>clans that become more and more intricate and complex
>over time. The grandson, on his father's side, of Awa
>Nyang, the sister of Sulayman Nyang, the grand
>patriarch of the Nyang clan in Banjul and beyond, Dr.
>Mbye is connected to the Tivaoune branch of the
>Tijanniyya order by way of Safiatou Nyang. He named
>his first son after his father, Abdou Wally Mbye and
>his second son after Shaykh Habib Sy, a brother to
>Shaykh Abdul Aziz Sy of the Tijanniyya order in
>Senegal. His first child, Neneh (a Duke
>University-educated Lawyer) is named after a favorite
>wife of his father, who showered love and affection on
>Dr. Mbye throughout his life.
>           Dr. Mbye was a product of the triple
>heritage that Kwame Nkrumah identified in his book,
>"Consciencism" and Professor Ali Mazrui has,
>subsequently,popularized in his well-known
>documentary, "The Africans." During his early years in
>the Gambia he went to both Quranic and Western
>missionary schools. From the former he acquired the
>much needed knowledge to live as a Muslim and from the
>latter he gained mastery of the English language and
>British culture as exported into this part of the
>empire. Throughout his life in and out of the Gambia
>he demonstrated evidence of command of the knowledge
>and subtleties of Wolof culture which he imbibed at
>the feet of his father and other elders. He was
>clearly one of the most knowledgeable masters of the
>social geography of Wolof and Gambian society. His
>vast knowledge about the ways and manners of
>Senegambian society was always placed at the disposal
>of fellow country men and women. In this respect, he
>was very much like his late uncle, Honorable Alieu
>Badara Njie, the peripathetic Gambian Foreign Minister
>and onetime Vice-President to Sir Dawda Jawara. It was
>Honorable Alieu Badara Njie, who informed former
>President Jawara on the intricacies of family and clan
>realities in the Gambia. So effective was the late
>Honorable Njie that one Amirul Hajj told me during my
>diplomatic stint in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that Njie was
>in many ways a master of Wolof genealogies and served
>the former Gambian leader as faithfully as Sayyidina
>Abu Bakr did to the Holy Prophet Muhammad.
>             Being very much a mirror image of his
>father, who was one of the leaders of Banjul society
>that enjoyed social standing and prestige in African
>and European circles of colonial Gambia, Dr. Mbye
>respected and valued Wolof culture and traditions.
>Like his father who combined commercial trading in the
>Gambian hinterland and public service through his
>membership in the colonial legislative council, Dr.
>Mbye obtained his first degree in the University of
>Wales in Swansea and his doctoral degree from
>Birmingham University. There was also another
>significant thread in the life of Dr. Mbye that points
>to his fidelity to his father's sense of family life
>and culture. His dedication to family and friend is
>proverbial. Those who know him well could testify to
>the devotion his wife Hajja Isatou Mbye showed
>throughout his life. It was his wife who stood by him
>through thick and thin. During the last ten years of
>his life he faced many health problems and what kept
>him going were his unflagging faith in God and the
>reassuring presence of his loving wife.
>
>               Colonial and Post-Colonial Services:
>During his tenure in both the colonial and post
>colonial civil service he held responsible positions.
>After his graduation from high school in the late
>fifties he worked for the government until he obtained
>a scholarship to do college work in the United
>Kingdom. Upon his return to the Gambia in 1969, the
>Civil Service Commission appointed him as the head of
>the Information Department where he supervised many of
>the young Gambians working as journalists in the
>Gambia News Bulletin and as broadcasters in the newly
>created Radio Gambia. Dr. Mbye will later serve as
>Administrative Officer in various capacities before he
>was seconded to serve in 1976 as the Director of
>Administration in the Organization of Islamic
>Conference (OIC) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. During the
>first two years of the Reagan Administration Dr. Mbye
>joined the African diplomats posted to Washington. He
>served as ambassador for several years before he
>resigned in 1986 to take employment with the
>University of Maryland at Eastern Shore, mostly
>because of his passion for teaching African history.
>
>                 Dr. Mbye was a strong Muslim, who
>believed that Islam has a positive and empowering role
>in modern societies, including Africa. Always holding
>firmly to the rope of God (or Allah) and determined to
>make a difference in the lives of his family and
>friends, he never strayed away from the Islam he
>inherited from the Sufi masters of the Tijanniyya
>order. He had family members, friends and dedicated
>students all over the world, including his beloved
>Africa, and those of us who knew him will always
>remember him with love and affection.
>
>* Many thanks to Professor Nyang, who provided most of
>the information used in this appreciation!
>
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