SAUL
YOU are right!
M.M.T. Suso


>From: Saul Mbenga <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: THE CORONER'S INQUEST AND COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:32:04 EDT
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>Brother Ansumana, the personal attacks on your second paragraph was really
>unnecessary. This kind of statements only gives clowns like Edi Sidibeh,
>Tombong and Ambassador-in-hiatus Essa Sey, ammunition to sidetrack and
>hijack
>the real debate on Gambia and which way forward; Under the tutelage of
>Yahya
>Jammeh, the old Jawara nomenclature, or a new Gambia, where the populace
>are
>participants not onlookers, the latter being the norm since time
>immemorial.
>The overwhelming philosophy of political participation in Gambia is one
>where
>the system [rulers/commissary class] perpetrates a notion that 'The average
>man/woman is so stupid, that, whatever they [the despots] say goes', hence
>the electoral process would call upon the massive poor and disillusioned
>every five years to vote for one or more of the myth makers, therefore,
>continuation of the same crap is guaranteed through the voting scheme. My
>question to you and other members of the L is: apart from PDOIS and Halifa
>Sallah [in his personal capacity], could you name me one person, political
>party or otherwise, that engaged the Gambian population in such
>sociopoliticoeconomic education or 'edutainment' as you might refer to it
>from your statements. I will be frank with you, my philosophy toward
>reading
>and learning anything that comes my way, started during my second semester
>in
>university. An Indian professor of political science asked me to write a
>paper on Cheikh Anta Diop, for those of us who don't know, the most
>respected
>African historian/archeaologist/philosopher/engineer, and being the
>smart-a--
>fool that I was, went into the negative aspect of the nonsense diatribes
>attributed to him by some Senegalese politicians and citizenry.... he's a
>fool, baldheaded [the same nonsense Abdou Diouf tried on Abdoulaye Wade;
>"NIT
>KU YORRUL PEPE KAWAR CHI BHOPAMBI, NAKA LAI YOREH NGUUR"] and that he must
>be
>from planet Mars, because his historical approach that Africans were here
>before Adam and eve, understandably offensive to Muslims and Christians.
>This
>guy took me all the way to Philadelphia to the Lincoln Museum and lend me
>some of Cheikh Anta's books, which I profess change the way I think and
>respect others, even though have different perspectives. Guess who was
>named
>after Dakar University after Cheikh Anta died? CHEIKH ANTA DIOP UNIVERSITY,
>hence, it is truly said, "the stone that the builder refused, shall be the
>head corner stone and that the rejected one, always end up be ing
>celebrated.
>I will also confess that, I never followed Halifa's writing seriously, but
>discussing with levelheaded people that are more versed in comparative
>political history on the Gambia, Halifa is one person that Jawara really
>respected because of the well respected nature of his personality, research
>capability and grassroots approach.
>I'm not saying that Halifa is perfect and I don't think he ever professes
>to
>be such, but the guy is engaged in spheres of interests, such as the
>constitution, political process, economic development/priority issues etc.
>that most Gambians, including myself, paid little or no attention to. What
>I'm saying is that, we have to start agreeing to disagree and that even
>Jawara or Yahya Jammeh has a right to be heard, then challenge
>constructively. the moment we start getting personal, we turnoff a lot of
>symphatizers to our cause of changing gambia once and for all.
>
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