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Subject:	Re: Gambian Educator Musa Sey Passes Away
From:	oko drammeh <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:10:41 -0800
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Sad News Indeed,My condolences to his friends, students and family members.
Musa Sey, Yai Seete, Yai Jubay.
He was a good friend and brother and one of the big fans, big sponsor and of Ifangbondi and Gelewarr and the Afro Manding Sounds. A goodman indeed.
I have my good days with him, a very remarkable character.
May his soul resat in perfect peace.
Oko Drammeh
From Amsterdam

ABDOUKARIM SANNEH <[log in to unmask]> wrote: It is really a sad news. My condolences to the rest of his family. May his soul rest in peace.

bailo jallow wrote:

BY EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The sudden and shocking death has been announced of Musa Amadou Sey, veteran Gambian educator and public administrator. Musa Sey or Bala as he was affectionately called, died today (Monday December, 17th.2007) and was laid to rest this evening at his native Basse. For the past year Bala was battling a sickness that saw him hospitalized at the Royal Victoria Hospital Sanatorium (locally called Wencho) for a few months. He recovered and was discharged, returned to Basse where he peacefully passed away.
Born in cosmopolitan Basse in the late 1940s, Musa attended the village primary school in colonial Gambia from where he proceeded to Armitage High School in George Town in the McCarthy Island Division. At armitage Musa was a trailblazer noted for his charisma, camaraderie and captivating brilliance that endeared him to both staff and students. He exhibited a keen application to academics and was noted for his quick wit and marvelous grasp of the English Language recalls his good friend and brother, Miami University Political Science Professor Dr. Abdoulaye Saine. In debates, seminars and symposia, Bala brought the best out of his sharp intellect and left Armitage High ever grateful for the resounding sense of success. Musa Bala was a debater per excellence; one of the most brilliant Gambians I know remarks a devastated soft-spoken Professor Saine.
When Musa wrote the School Certificate Examinations in the early, 1960s, he climaxed to the Yundum Teachers’ College and after a year, he proceeded to the Sixth Form at The Gambia High School, the only class in the entire nation. From The Gambia high school he was destined for greater academic heights and so he matriculated to the prestigious Ile Ife University in the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the tutelage of Professor Wole Soyinka who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He read Linguistics and English Language graduating with highest honours returning home with the golden fleece; a very unpretentious being yet one with a penchant for intellectual discourse. In the gallery of Gambian intellectuals, Musa Sey will be remembered as a very fine mind, a peculiar creed, a towering personality, an intimidating disposition with little patience for stupidity especially, with those who spoke and wrote wrong English.
The last time I saw him in 1995, he had as always, a copy of the latest edition of Readers’ Digest.
He was the premiere Administrative Officer at the African Center for Democracy & Human Rights Studies and had worked at various others offices and establishments that almost all knew him. Musa Sey taught English Language at The Gambia College, and at almost all the premiere high schools in the country-Saint Augustine’s, Gambia High, Muslim High and Armitage. In 1992, he briefly served as Editor of The Gambia Daily Observer. He once served as Deputy Divisional Commissioner under the late NIA Chief Daba Marena at his native Basse. Two loving daughters, Yaya Sey, 17 and Yawureh Sey, 13 survive Musa Sey. May the Almighty God grant Musa Sey’s gentle, loving and caring soul eternal peace in Heaven. Given the larger than large life Musa Sey lived, and his great contributions towards Gambian education, I would borrow these immortal lines for his tombstone: “Tanto nomini nullum par eloguim”
posted @ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:02 AM by egsankara
The above article was culled from the Gambia Echo on-line newspaper
Musa Sey was one of the most dedicated educationists that there ever would be in our nation. He loved imparting knowledge to others with a sense of humour and fun. He was a strict diplinarian at Armitage and a great source of assurance to all students.

May his soul dwell forever in the gardens of jannah. Amen!

Bailo

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