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--- omar joof <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Malanding,
> Lets remember that there are two Sabijees. There is
> Latrikunda Sabije and
> Sukuta Sabije. It was the same people that moved
> from Latrikunda Sabije to
> Bakoteh and eventually settled at Sukuta Sabije.
> Omar Joof.
>
> >From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
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> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Sabiji/Sukuta
> >Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:33:50 -0400
> >
> >Mr. Baldeh, I agree with you that some of the
> European accounts of
> >Gambian/african history is full of holes. This is
> particularly true of
> >post 1800 writers like Reeve and Archer.
> Nonetheless I believe it is
> >possible to seive through all that to get a better
> understanding of what
> >really happened.
> >
> >From the little I read, many of the writers agreed
> on a few things;
> >1. At the time of European arrival the people
> along river (primarily
> >Mandinka and some Wolof) were subjects of "Boor
> Meli" or "Batti Mansa"
> >(somewhere in Mali).
> >2. The majority of these people (Wolof or Mandinka)
> were not muslims.
> >3. settled among these largely non-muslim nations
> were muslim
> >Fulas/arabs who were allowed to co-exist
> >
> >Moore 1730 wrote:
> >"In every Kingdom and Country on each side of the
> River there are some
> >People of a tawny Colour, call'd Pholeys, much like
> the Arabs; which
> >Language they most of them speak, being to them as
> Latin in Europe, for
> >it is taught in Schools, and their law, the
> Alcoran, is in that
> >language. They are more generally leaned in the
> Arabick, than the People
> >of Europe are in Latin, for they can most of them
> speak it, tho' they
> >have a vulgar Tongue besides, call'd Pholey. They
> live in Hoards or
> >Clan, build Towns, and are not subject to any Kings
> of the Country, tho'
> >they live in their Territories; for if they are
> ill-treated in one
> >Nation, they breakup their Towns, and remove to
> another. They have
> >Chiefs of their own, who rule with so much
> Moderation, that every Act of
> >Government seems rather an Act of the Prople than
> one Man. This Form of
> >Government goes on easily, because the people are
> of good and quiet
> >Disposition, and so well instructed in what is just
> and right, that a
> >Man who does ill, is the Abomination of all, and
> none will support him
> >against the Chief.
> >In these Countries the Natives are not avaricious
> of Lands; they desire
> >no more than what they use, and as they do not
> plough with Horse or
> >cattle, they use but very little, therefore the
> Kings are willing to
> >give the Pholeys leave to cultivate Lands, and live
> in their Countries.
> >..."
> >the grammar is his and the typos are mind.
> >
> >Speaks volume of the people, education, land
> tenure, the process of
> >islamization and overall governance in 1730 Gambia.
> >I guess the questions are: when and how did it all
> become bloody? Was
> >it Jihad or resistance to European colonization?
> Was it the scramble for
> >Africa? Was the scramble between Europeans powers
> (Britain and France)
> >or between religions (islam and Christianity)?
> >
> >As for Sabiji/Sukuta - One town, two names, four
> legends. Another good
> >reason for history scholars to come to our rescue.
> Says much about the
> >history of the Gambia.
> >
> >That said, Archer and later on Dr Mahoney
> mentioned some important
> >facts and dates that may give clues to the conflict
> in the area
> >1. 1816 Banjul aquired as crown colony though a
> treaty with King of
> >Kommbo (annual payment $100 Spanish)
> >2. 1820 Arrival of colonists and missionaries
> >3. 1830s arrival of cargoes of liberated Africans
> from Sierra Leone
> >4. 1840 British Kommbo established to settle some
> of the liberated
> >Africans and make room to service Banjul. Yet
> another treaty between the
> >King and Britain. Border follows present day KMC.
> Must have been a
> >nail-biting moment for the people of Sabiji less 2
> miles from their new
> >neighbors. Also it is worth noting that Sabiji was
> one of a handful
> >muslim towns in Kommbo at that time.
> >5. 1852. trouble brewing between Marabouts and the
> Sonninkees for
> >sometime in Kommbo surfaced. The govenment stepped
> in on the side of
> >King and his people (Soninkees). Sabiji openly
> defied the King of Kommbo
> >and prepared for War
> >6. 1853. British forces detroyed Sabiji and removed
> stockade. As
> >punishment, the Alcadie and leading Marabouts taken
> prisoner. 7. 1853.
> >Trouble again in Sabiji. Archer wrote "Sabiji was
> taken at the point of
> >baynet, the Frech troops assisting those of
> colony".. with heavy
> >casuality. It was later "ascertained that the
> marabouts of Sabijee was
> >led my one Omar, a Moor, who had formerly been an
> officer in the army of
> >Abdel kader...." ala Al Qaida in Gambia?
> >8. 1855. Salum Jartar, King of Kommbo, was shot
> dead in Busumballa
> >9. 1894 Brikama, Gunjour, Sukuta and Busumballa,
> under Fodi Silla's
> >occupation. Fodi was one of the
> Jihadists/resistance leaders of his
> >time " it was against these towns a special
> demonstration was was
> >considered desirable." (Archer). February that
> year Bakote was demolished.
> >
> >Note the use of Sukuta instead of Sabiji. It is
> not clear whether the
> >town became Sukuta after the 1850s destruction
> although the name existed
> >before Bakote's destruction or rebuilding.
> >
> >Just one last additionto the already crowded field
> of theories.
> >
> >
> >Malanding
> >
>
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