From yours humbly,
Boy-boy.
In India there is ” the untouchables” compassionately called Harijans,”children of God”.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Harijans&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
The present plight of many of those whose limbs (arms, legs, feet, terminated as stumps, makes them as it were a Caste all to their own. Not exactly untouchables and here they kick off as football heroes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6346363.stm
It is otherwise reported that
“President Ahmed Tejan Kabba has publicly told the nation that his government is bogged down with other overwhelming national priorities; therefore he could not address the individual needs of his people. He advised every Sierra Leonean to start helping themselves.”
http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/2733.cfm
My view is that the Sierra Leone government certainly has to shoulder a major responsibility here, to find ways of helping and taking care of these our brothers and sisters who are incapacitated victims and of war crimes, people who are already destitute and who suffer in greater difficulty, fending for themselves.
Don’t laugh: Here’s one piece of advice received: for the survival of the fittest:
http://gallery.bcentral.com/Gallery/ProductDetails.aspx?GID=5033707&PID=2931015
” the akus are resident in all parts of the Gambia .but they are largely concentrated in
the greater Banjul area.”
Same with the Sierra Leona Akus, mainly concentrated in Freetown and surrounding villages – you can tell by their names: Gloucester, Bathurst, Leicester, Hamilton, Wellington, Aberdeen, Waterloo, Sussex, Lumley, Regent, Goderich, Kent, Hastings, New England, Murray Town, York,
If large numbers of the Sierra Leone Aku could speak Limba, Themne, Mende the way that the Gambian Aku can mostly speak Wolof and Mandinka, that - although Sierra Leone Aku are as Fela says “ Scattered” all over Nigeria, Ghana, East South and East Africa and up to the Gambia, they could also be more evenly distributed throughout Sierra Leone, but how to acquire the language which is half of the battle and necessary travel equipment even with Krio as lingua franca it is the local language that counts in Bo.
Without speaking Mende or Themne the Gambian Krio is more lost in Sierra Leone, than in the Gambia. In the Gambia the Sierra Leone Krio is armed with one word of Wolof: universally approved by all Akus: Ceebu-Jen
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> From: Suntou Touray <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/03/30 fr AM 07:44:57 CEST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Re: cast system in the gambia
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> mr bambalaye ,i disaggree with you 1000% .there are certain things our
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> ancestors carry along which doesn't serve any credible purpose. we should
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> be willing and ready to embrace positive change. i am very cultural and i
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> will not abandon any good part of my culture but i will also not hesitate
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> to do away with bad aspects of my tradition ,this is being matured.
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> any kind of descrimination is bad ,especially about some thing pertaining
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> to class. ''there is no obedient to the creation in the disobedient of th
> e
> creator'' prophet muhammad (pbuh).
> this class system is against god statements of ''all human beings are
> equal ,the best among you is the one with best character''. how can you
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> ever justify descrimination ? people were stop from several things just
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> because you from that cast .imagine that being you. some times we need to
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> feel for each other.
> my brother conilius may have misunderstood malanding . the akus are
> resident in all parts of the gambia .but they are largely concentrated in
>
> the greater banjul area. this is normal as people of the same language
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> tend to congregate in the same area.the akus are still movers in gambian
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> politics and civil service ,in fact they are more powerful than many othe
> r
> tribes if compaired to there size. i am sure malanding didn't mean any
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> derogatory remark against the aku's. one thing though ,the akus keep
> themself away from mingling with other tribes in many cases ,i don't know
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> why is that but some believe that it is becase they don't want bad
> influence on their children .we all have certain peculiarities. God save
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> us all.
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