Mawdo,

You know that we enjoy your writings so much so that we might behave like loony to force you to bring in chapter 22.

Was there any negotiation between the association of forests and some animals in smiling forest?

From what I read it looks like smiling forest was almost collapsing. Who saved smiling forest from disintegration?

Does smiling forest have whack whack chickens and quack quack ducks?

What is the name of the animal who was victorious?

Is that Victor's house full with competent and legally qualified animals?

Chapter 22 will really be interesting Mawdo.

We are eagerly waiting






Muhammad Bai Drammeh

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On Tue, 25/4/17, Baba Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [G_L] Smiling Forest Revisited - Final Chapter
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Date: Tuesday, 25 April, 2017, 22:29
 
 Muhammed, there is
 no chapter 22. I hope you and other esteemed readers can
 help us figure out the answer to your very pertinent
 question. Thank
 you.Regards,Baba 
 On Apr 25, 2017 4:49 PM,
 "Muhammed Drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:
 Great
 piece Mawdo,  but which animal was running smiling forest
 during the impasse? Is that going to be revealed in Chapter
 22? Who was the only animal that smiling forest were getting
 their assurance from?
 
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   On Wed, 29 Mar
 2017 at 23:34, Baba Jallow<[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:   
 
 Chapter Twenty
 One
 
 How Loony eventually fled into exile
 and the smile returned to Smiling
 Forest
 
 Loony’s refusal to step down in
 the face of several
 mediation efforts heightened the threat of war and greatly
 worried the peace
 loving animals of Smiling Forest. Increasingly concerned
 about their safety and
 the safety of their families and loved ones, more and
 animals sadly trekked into
 exile to neighboring forests. Judging by what he said and
 the way he behaved,
 it became crystal clear to the animals that Loony did not
 care a hoot whether
 they lived or died, whether their blood and the blood of
 their innocent children
 and relatives in the armed foxes was spilled or not, or
 whether Smiling Forest
 became a raging battleground in a war whose consequences no
 one could imagine.
 The animals now saw that all Loony cared about was Loony and
 as far as he was
 concerned, Smiling Forest may as well be burnt to ashes if
 that would allow him
 to stay on in power for as long as he lived. But the animals
 also clearly saw
 that come what may, Loony must go because the odds were just
 too stacked
 against him. And they were just totally sick and tired of
 the mad fox in power.
 They knew that it was never again going to be 'Loony
 bark animal run'.
 
 Loony was devastated when in a
 surprise tactical move that confused
 the mad fox to no end, the Association of Neighboring
 Forests suddenly invited the
 victor to attend the summit of presidents in the neighboring
 forest of Mili. This
 sudden and unexpected development really spooked Loony who
 repeatedly gnashed
 his teeth and furiously switched his tail this way and that
 to emphasize his
 anger. What evil plot are they hatching, he wondered. But of
 course, no answer
 was forthcoming and Loony began to throw furtive glances
 this way and that for
 a possible escape route just in case the Association of
 Neighboring Forests had
 some funny trick up their evil sleeves. It was widely
 reported in the
 international media that while the Association of
 Neighboring Forests was ready
 to send their armed foxes in to get Loony, the victor
 himself preferred a
 peaceful resolution to the crisis. But while the animals of
 Smiling Forest also
 preferred a peaceful resolution, they hoped and prayed that
 the victor would
 not reject the use of force to kick Loony out because that
 was clearly the only
 way the mad fox could be persuaded to leave power. When some
 animals
 interviewed on the international media were asked if they
 shared the victor’s
 optimism that Loony would leave power peacefully, their
 answer was a
 categorical no. Loony would only leave power if he were
 physically kicked out
 either through the use of force or the very credible threat
 of force against
 him. The mad fox had proven over and over again that the
 only language he
 understood was the language of force, which he habitually
 inflicted on innocent
 animals and which was the only way to take him out of
 power.
 
 Four
 days to the expiry of Loony’s last term in office,
 Smiling Forest remained in an unpredictable limbo thanks to
 Loony’s evil and
 ill-fated plot to stay in power after his crushing defeat by
 the candidate for
 the coalition of independent animals. 
 No
 one knew how the impasse would end, but many were convinced
 that Loony had to
 be forced out because he could not be reasoned with to
 leave. The unimaginable alternative
 to forcing him out would be many more years of Loony’s
 brutal dictatorship
 which the animals even dreaded to imagine. So while every
 animal held their
 breath and some fled into exile, they were unanimous that if
 getting Loony out
 of power meant war in their small beautiful forest, they
 would prefer that to
 extending Loony’s brutal regime over them. They were just
 sick and tired of the
 evil fox who dressed up in the garbs of piety but habitually
 engaged in the
 most devilish behavior for the past twenty two years. Shouts
 of ‘Loony must go
 no matter what’ resounding around Smiling Forest and the
 Smiling Forest
 Diaspora as the animals waited for their fate and the fate
 of their forest.
 Some hoped Loony would leave without a bloodbath while
 others hoped that he
 would remain stupid enough to insist on staying so he would
 be captured and
 made to pay for his innumerable crimes against the innocent
 and peace-loving
 animals of Smiling Forest.
 
 Three days to the expiry of
 Loony’s term and the mad fox still
 remained defiant. But he was now openly showing signs of
 extreme fright as
 demonstrated by a call he placed to the president of Libiri
 Forest asking her
 to please make it possible for his mercenary judges to
 travel to Smiling Forest
 to settle the impasse peacefully. Watching him on TV, the
 animals saw that
 Loony’s face was white with fear. His increasingly dry
 face looked like a
 powdered rock with rough edges and cracks for lips. His eyes
 were small, round
 and white with fright. And he sounded rattled and cagey on
 the phone. His
 speech was dry and slurred, making some animals think that
 he was either drunk
 or on drugs. “My sister I greet you in the name of the
 Great God Yallah,” he
 cracked. “I am calling to personally beg you my sister to
 please beg the Association
 of Neighboring Forests to allow my judges to come and settle
 this matter peacefully.
 Let the judges come right now please, my good and best
 sister ever. Please I
 beg you to let them come now because right now I just want
 peace and security,”
 he cackled, his voice shaking. “I swear to the Great God
 Yallah that I will
 obey the constitution of Smiling Forest and we will all make
 peace and live happily
 ever after.” When the president of Libiri Forest asked him
 to issue a statement
 making the same plea, Loony readily agreed. But everyone
 knew that Loony was up
 to his dirty tricks again. In fact, in order to give the
 impression to the
 animals of Smiling Forest that he was still in firm control
 of the situation,
 Loony was secretly recording his conversation with the
 president of Libiri
 Forest. As soon as he hung up, he had the video broadcast on
 national radio and
 television and loudly bragged that he Loony, was the one and
 only one who could
 resolve the crisis. But the wise animals of Smiling Forest
 knew that Loony’s
 mind had gone blind, his reason totally clouded by the thick
 fog of his evil
 deeds, so that he stumbled from one blunder to another even
 as he tried to be clever.
 
 His
 betrayal of the trust of the president of Libiri Forest
 was a particularly fateful blunder by Loony. The Libiri
 Forest president who
 was also president of the Association of Neighboring Forests
 was extremely
 furious. She granted interviews to international media in
 which she roundly
 condemned Loony and called him a dishonest cheat of the
 worst sort ever to walk
 this earth. Loony’s betrayal further infuriated all
 members of the Association
 of Neighboring Forests and strengthened their resolve to
 kick the mad fox out
 of power come what may. And so they accelerated their
 preparations to remove
 Loony by force. News spread that more and more fierce and
 heavily armed foxes
 from the forests of Sunulep, Nigiri, Libiri and Ghini were
 now amassed on the Smiling
 Forest border, waiting to move in, pounce upon Loony and
 take him out. In fact
 at this time there were reports that some of the armed foxes
 had actually
 entered Smiling Forest and encountered no resistance from
 the Smiling Forest armed
 foxes. Muhari the giraffe, still angry at Loony’s rude
 treatment of him sent fighter
 jets from Nigiri Forest. These zoomed across the skies of
 Smiling Forest, their
 loud noises adding to Loony’s fright and heightening the
 anxiety of the ordinary
 animals, who continued to flee into exile in their
 thousands. Loony was rumored
 to have lost all capacity for sleep and grown extremely
 irritable. His legendary
 ratatoi
 was fast coming back as small
 white cracks of fear appeared at the corners of his hot dog
 lips. Meanwhile, the
 Association of Neigh boring Forests flew the victor into
 Sunulep Forest where
 he awaited his inauguration as the new leader of Smiling
 Forest.
 
 Driven more by his growing fear of
 capture and possible
 death than by concern for the peace and security of the
 animals of Smiling
 Forest, Loony secretly welcomed the presidents of the
 neighboring forests of
 Muriti and Gini to Smiling Forest. Their mission was to
 "persuade" Loony to leave.
 Two days of behind the door conversations passed before news
 started leaking
 that Loony had finally agreed to go. When the deadline for
 him to step down was
 just hours ago, it was announced that Loony had requested a
 few hours extension,
 which was granted by the Association of Neighboring Forests.
 Loony now knew
 that this was indeed the end of the road for him. The armed
 foxes chief had
 made it clear that he would not order his soldiers into
 battle on behalf of
 Loony and with that support gone, Loony knew that the die
 had been cast. He
 either had to leave, or fall into the hands of the fierce
 armed foxes from
 neighboring forests, and then he would either be killed or
 put in chains and
 dragged before a court of law to answer for all the
 innumerable crimes he had committed
 as the brutal dictator of Smiling Forest.
 
 And so it was that one historic
 evening, the animals of
 Smiling Forest watched the mad fox who had vowed to rule
 them for a billion
 years stepped off their beloved soil onto a plane that
 carried him off into
 exile in the distant forest of Ekuta Guana. There he would
 live in exile, hosted by another
 notorious despot, the infamous Obinga Guma aka vampire, who
 was said to be so
 rich that his clothes were made of gold while the animals he
 ruled were so poor
 that they ate mud for survival. The Smiling Forest animals
 were so relieved
 that they could hardly jubilate. Most animals just broke
 down and wept, and
 praised the Great God Yallah for finally ending the
 tyrannical rue of the mad
 and brutal fox who had terrorized them for twenty two long
 years. Many months
 later, as the smile started returning to Smiling Forest and
 life got back to
 normal, pictures started circulating around the world of a
 frail and confused
 looking Loony lounging around in the thick and muddy jungles
 of Ekuta Guana. That
 was the end of many many dark days in Smiling
 Forest.
 
 
 
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