Mawdo,
You know that we enjoy your writings so much so that we might behave like loony to force you to bring in chapter 22.
Was there any negotiation between the association of forests and some animals in smiling forest?
From what I read it looks like smiling forest was almost collapsing. Who saved smiling forest from disintegration?
Does smiling forest have whack whack chickens and quack quack ducks?
What is the name of the animal who was victorious?
Is that Victor's house full with competent and legally qualified animals?
Chapter 22 will really be interesting Mawdo.
We are eagerly waiting
Muhammad Bai Drammeh
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On Tue, 25/4/17, Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [G_L] Smiling Forest Revisited - Final Chapter
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, 25 April, 2017, 22:29
Muhammed, there is
no chapter 22. I hope you and other esteemed readers can
help us figure out the answer to your very pertinent
question. Thank
you.Regards,Baba
On Apr 25, 2017 4:49 PM,
"Muhammed Drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Great
piece Mawdo, but which animal was running smiling forest
during the impasse? Is that going to be revealed in Chapter
22? Who was the only animal that smiling forest were getting
their assurance from?
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On Wed, 29 Mar
2017 at 23:34, Baba Jallow<[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Chapter Twenty
One
How Loony eventually fled into exile
and the smile returned to Smiling
Forest
Loony’s refusal to step down in
the face of several
mediation efforts heightened the threat of war and greatly
worried the peace
loving animals of Smiling Forest. Increasingly concerned
about their safety and
the safety of their families and loved ones, more and
animals sadly trekked into
exile to neighboring forests. Judging by what he said and
the way he behaved,
it became crystal clear to the animals that Loony did not
care a hoot whether
they lived or died, whether their blood and the blood of
their innocent children
and relatives in the armed foxes was spilled or not, or
whether Smiling Forest
became a raging battleground in a war whose consequences no
one could imagine.
The animals now saw that all Loony cared about was Loony and
as far as he was
concerned, Smiling Forest may as well be burnt to ashes if
that would allow him
to stay on in power for as long as he lived. But the animals
also clearly saw
that come what may, Loony must go because the odds were just
too stacked
against him. And they were just totally sick and tired of
the mad fox in power.
They knew that it was never again going to be 'Loony
bark animal run'.
Loony was devastated when in a
surprise tactical move that confused
the mad fox to no end, the Association of Neighboring
Forests suddenly invited the
victor to attend the summit of presidents in the neighboring
forest of Mili. This
sudden and unexpected development really spooked Loony who
repeatedly gnashed
his teeth and furiously switched his tail this way and that
to emphasize his
anger. What evil plot are they hatching, he wondered. But of
course, no answer
was forthcoming and Loony began to throw furtive glances
this way and that for
a possible escape route just in case the Association of
Neighboring Forests had
some funny trick up their evil sleeves. It was widely
reported in the
international media that while the Association of
Neighboring Forests was ready
to send their armed foxes in to get Loony, the victor
himself preferred a
peaceful resolution to the crisis. But while the animals of
Smiling Forest also
preferred a peaceful resolution, they hoped and prayed that
the victor would
not reject the use of force to kick Loony out because that
was clearly the only
way the mad fox could be persuaded to leave power. When some
animals
interviewed on the international media were asked if they
shared the victor’s
optimism that Loony would leave power peacefully, their
answer was a
categorical no. Loony would only leave power if he were
physically kicked out
either through the use of force or the very credible threat
of force against
him. The mad fox had proven over and over again that the
only language he
understood was the language of force, which he habitually
inflicted on innocent
animals and which was the only way to take him out of
power.
Four
days to the expiry of Loony’s last term in office,
Smiling Forest remained in an unpredictable limbo thanks to
Loony’s evil and
ill-fated plot to stay in power after his crushing defeat by
the candidate for
the coalition of independent animals.
No
one knew how the impasse would end, but many were convinced
that Loony had to
be forced out because he could not be reasoned with to
leave. The unimaginable alternative
to forcing him out would be many more years of Loony’s
brutal dictatorship
which the animals even dreaded to imagine. So while every
animal held their
breath and some fled into exile, they were unanimous that if
getting Loony out
of power meant war in their small beautiful forest, they
would prefer that to
extending Loony’s brutal regime over them. They were just
sick and tired of the
evil fox who dressed up in the garbs of piety but habitually
engaged in the
most devilish behavior for the past twenty two years. Shouts
of ‘Loony must go
no matter what’ resounding around Smiling Forest and the
Smiling Forest
Diaspora as the animals waited for their fate and the fate
of their forest.
Some hoped Loony would leave without a bloodbath while
others hoped that he
would remain stupid enough to insist on staying so he would
be captured and
made to pay for his innumerable crimes against the innocent
and peace-loving
animals of Smiling Forest.
Three days to the expiry of
Loony’s term and the mad fox still
remained defiant. But he was now openly showing signs of
extreme fright as
demonstrated by a call he placed to the president of Libiri
Forest asking her
to please make it possible for his mercenary judges to
travel to Smiling Forest
to settle the impasse peacefully. Watching him on TV, the
animals saw that
Loony’s face was white with fear. His increasingly dry
face looked like a
powdered rock with rough edges and cracks for lips. His eyes
were small, round
and white with fright. And he sounded rattled and cagey on
the phone. His
speech was dry and slurred, making some animals think that
he was either drunk
or on drugs. “My sister I greet you in the name of the
Great God Yallah,” he
cracked. “I am calling to personally beg you my sister to
please beg the Association
of Neighboring Forests to allow my judges to come and settle
this matter peacefully.
Let the judges come right now please, my good and best
sister ever. Please I
beg you to let them come now because right now I just want
peace and security,”
he cackled, his voice shaking. “I swear to the Great God
Yallah that I will
obey the constitution of Smiling Forest and we will all make
peace and live happily
ever after.” When the president of Libiri Forest asked him
to issue a statement
making the same plea, Loony readily agreed. But everyone
knew that Loony was up
to his dirty tricks again. In fact, in order to give the
impression to the
animals of Smiling Forest that he was still in firm control
of the situation,
Loony was secretly recording his conversation with the
president of Libiri
Forest. As soon as he hung up, he had the video broadcast on
national radio and
television and loudly bragged that he Loony, was the one and
only one who could
resolve the crisis. But the wise animals of Smiling Forest
knew that Loony’s
mind had gone blind, his reason totally clouded by the thick
fog of his evil
deeds, so that he stumbled from one blunder to another even
as he tried to be clever.
His
betrayal of the trust of the president of Libiri Forest
was a particularly fateful blunder by Loony. The Libiri
Forest president who
was also president of the Association of Neighboring Forests
was extremely
furious. She granted interviews to international media in
which she roundly
condemned Loony and called him a dishonest cheat of the
worst sort ever to walk
this earth. Loony’s betrayal further infuriated all
members of the Association
of Neighboring Forests and strengthened their resolve to
kick the mad fox out
of power come what may. And so they accelerated their
preparations to remove
Loony by force. News spread that more and more fierce and
heavily armed foxes
from the forests of Sunulep, Nigiri, Libiri and Ghini were
now amassed on the Smiling
Forest border, waiting to move in, pounce upon Loony and
take him out. In fact
at this time there were reports that some of the armed foxes
had actually
entered Smiling Forest and encountered no resistance from
the Smiling Forest armed
foxes. Muhari the giraffe, still angry at Loony’s rude
treatment of him sent fighter
jets from Nigiri Forest. These zoomed across the skies of
Smiling Forest, their
loud noises adding to Loony’s fright and heightening the
anxiety of the ordinary
animals, who continued to flee into exile in their
thousands. Loony was rumored
to have lost all capacity for sleep and grown extremely
irritable. His legendary
ratatoi
was fast coming back as small
white cracks of fear appeared at the corners of his hot dog
lips. Meanwhile, the
Association of Neigh boring Forests flew the victor into
Sunulep Forest where
he awaited his inauguration as the new leader of Smiling
Forest.
Driven more by his growing fear of
capture and possible
death than by concern for the peace and security of the
animals of Smiling
Forest, Loony secretly welcomed the presidents of the
neighboring forests of
Muriti and Gini to Smiling Forest. Their mission was to
"persuade" Loony to leave.
Two days of behind the door conversations passed before news
started leaking
that Loony had finally agreed to go. When the deadline for
him to step down was
just hours ago, it was announced that Loony had requested a
few hours extension,
which was granted by the Association of Neighboring Forests.
Loony now knew
that this was indeed the end of the road for him. The armed
foxes chief had
made it clear that he would not order his soldiers into
battle on behalf of
Loony and with that support gone, Loony knew that the die
had been cast. He
either had to leave, or fall into the hands of the fierce
armed foxes from
neighboring forests, and then he would either be killed or
put in chains and
dragged before a court of law to answer for all the
innumerable crimes he had committed
as the brutal dictator of Smiling Forest.
And so it was that one historic
evening, the animals of
Smiling Forest watched the mad fox who had vowed to rule
them for a billion
years stepped off their beloved soil onto a plane that
carried him off into
exile in the distant forest of Ekuta Guana. There he would
live in exile, hosted by another
notorious despot, the infamous Obinga Guma aka vampire, who
was said to be so
rich that his clothes were made of gold while the animals he
ruled were so poor
that they ate mud for survival. The Smiling Forest animals
were so relieved
that they could hardly jubilate. Most animals just broke
down and wept, and
praised the Great God Yallah for finally ending the
tyrannical rue of the mad
and brutal fox who had terrorized them for twenty two long
years. Many months
later, as the smile started returning to Smiling Forest and
life got back to
normal, pictures started circulating around the world of a
frail and confused
looking Loony lounging around in the thick and muddy jungles
of Ekuta Guana. That
was the end of many many dark days in Smiling
Forest.
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