Sister Jabou Joh,

I was just this morning "complaining" to a friend that it has been a while since I read anything from you....as if anyone  has ever been more active than yourself. I suppose I just missed your wise comments. My regards to the entire family.

Momodou S Sidibeh



> > coming into being and its pallid demise are important for the evolution of
> > the Gambian polity.
> > The class of politicians whose parties were banned following the '94 coup
> > could not simply wither away by decree. From PPP and NCP they all needed to
> > oppose the APRC to justify their own identities as politicians in the first
> > place. Even when the brutal facts of oppositional politics dawned on them,
> > it felt legitimate to oppose for the sake of opposition.
> > That wobbly position could not possibly be maintained after the failure of
> > the coalition and the subsequent victory of the APRC. Issue-oriented
> > allegiance in politics, however bogus, must eventually dictate the
> > composition of herds and flocks even such leanings are driven by instinct.
> > It is simply impossible for former PPP and NCP members to remain faithful
> > in a marriage of convenience forever.
> >
> 
> Well said Momodou Sidibeh.
> 
> Jabou Joh
> 
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