Mr Jaiteh,

A wonderful piece, and could be misleading in trying to interpret it.

Che.


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>Subject: Re: A look at Wahhabism.- a Mandingka Morale
>Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:29:37 -0500
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>Brothers Habib and Musa,
>Just reminds me of a common Mandinka morale. The "Kamramo Baa"(the
>teacher) and his "Karanding" (student). It is said that each time the
>student and the young wife had a problem the teacher will advice him to
>do just like he does and teach her a lesson which the student understood
>to mean beat her up. The students hardline approach to obeying the
>Karamo Baa's advice soon led to near breakdown of his young marriage.
>What he could not understand was that despite the Karamo Baa's
>no-nonesense full-of-terror attitude during the day, it was all giggle
>and soft-talking in his hut at night.
>During one of his teach-her-a-lesson tantrums, the student's neighbor (a
>Musu kebbaring for that matter- an old woman) asked why he behaves the
>way he does with his young wife. Of course the explanation is that he
>was following exactly what his Karamo Baa dictated, that is teach the
>wife a lesson. The old woman asked him the student to come to her house
>after the Karamo Baa has gone to bed and that she has the right Boro
>(medicine) for the young wife's ailment.
>The young Karanding could not wait for the Karamo Baa to bid him good
>night. He raised to the old lady's hut for the medicine. The old lady
>led the Karanding to a peephole in the Karamo Baa's hut and asked the
>Karanding to see for himself how why it is all giggle and soft talk in
>Karamo Baa's hut every night.
>
>The Karamo Baa all dressed up giving the wife a piggy back ride!
>
>I guess the billion dollar question is did the Karamo Baa deliberately
>mislead the Karanding with his teach-her-a-lesson instruction or the
>Karanding read too much into it?
>
>Have a great Friday.
>
>Malanding
>
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