Mr. Kanteh,
Point well taken.

Regards
Ousman Manjang

Hamjatta Kanteh wrote:

> Dear Mr. Manjang,
> Yet, another disappointing mail from you. Far from taking my challenge/bait, and demonstrate/explain to Gambia-L why you still think, albeit the contrary, that SOS Jallow is "sincere" and that his "personal integrity" is still intact, you have sunk lower in your crypto-plangent lamentation of inappropriate timing and avenue as excuses for not elaborating on the SOS Jallow issue.
>
> Your refusal to chevy the SOS Jallow angle of our discourse has far wider ramifications than the mere furrowing of brows. As i pointed out to you in my last correspondence, there indeed, is a corollary which inter-weaves both the presence/parrticipation of a [former?] Marxist in a crack-pot Fascist regime and the general discourse on the relevance of Marxism in 21st. Africa. One cannot be fully discoursed without the other. To discourse one at the expense or at the absence of the other, for me tantamounts to paralogism. Pray, i ask how could the relevance of African Marxism be chivvied here fruitfully whilst we chose to ignore or engage fruitfully on your endorsement of SOS Jallow's shameful complicity in the tyrannous evil in the Gambia? This is just akin to frog-leaping from Mother Earth's blazing fires to making attempts at fighting future fires of a distant or yet to be discovered planets. If, like all conscientious and freedom loving Gambians wiith a deep sense of justice and
> individual liberty, you believe the APRC gov't is a tyranny, then you would not hesitate to condemn it or even condemn intellectuals like SOS Jallow who supply intellectual to it's daily operations. Perhaps unlike us, whose ranks are swelling each day, you don't see much wrong with this gov't.
>
> It is out of this logic and indeed, principled stance that i will cut short our discourse here. For i sincerely see no point in your shying away from stating your reasons for endorsing SOS Jallow's continued participation in Jammeh's gov't whilst exuberantly willing and ready to discourse a morally and intellectually repudiated abstract quackery like Marxism. As i intimated to you in my last mail, it is your prerogative to choose and your choice will be respected. That, however, doesn't leave me inhibited either from interpreting such choice or stating my interpretation.
>
> To be sure, and unlike my compatriot, the irrepressible Kebba Dampha, i happen to believe that discoursing even a repudiated abstract quackery like Marxism has it's benefits to Africa. Like Kant, i happen to believe that Mother nature would yield up her secrets only under torture, and only if specific questions were put to her, tiring and boring this might be. It is precisely because of this that i refuse to be held or bogged down by the smug of fatalism and pessimism that greets every discourse on Africa. It is also because of this that i strongly believe that no stone must be left unturned in the search for the truth. Even though, Marxism as a political force has been decisively repudiated morally and intellectually, mainstream moderation should always give it a sympathetic ear. For in the final analysis, it and other repudiated heresies could always act as default mirrors for mainstream moderation. Though moderation has reduced Marxism to the periphery,repudiated and derelict, it
> would be foolhardy to chevy the crude and uniformist linear progression in social and political thought as seems to be the consensus in largely the West and it's academia ever since the demise of Marxism as a political force and the declared bankruptcy of Socialism as a form of economic management.
>
> Well, till our lines cross again, i wish you every luck in your endeavours.
> Sincerely,
> Hamjatta Kanteh
>
> Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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