Hello, I'm finding this discussion to be very interesting.   Also,
regarding the quotes that Momodou presented, the first quote was:

"... the African, as the author knows him, is the personification of
untruth; that is he never tells the truth for truth's sake, even in
the simple matter
of the position of a town or the distance thereto, but, like those who
are to be beaten with few stripes, he knows not the depth of his
iniquity from our
point of view.  He lies because facts are stubborn..."

     What?  The personnification of untruth?  How does the author come
to this conclusion?  And the "depth of his iniquity"?  I can't even
really understand what the author is trying to suggest, only that the
author thinks Africans to be generally dishonest...  And I was all
ready to see if I could locate the book in accessible format until I
saw this quote.  I'm not sure I could get through the whole book
without getting angry, so now I'm not so sure I'd want to read it.

Momodou also quoted:

"... breaches of this cotton which are tied across, and reach to the
ankles and are otherwise so large as to be from thirty to thirty-five,
or even forty
palmi round the top; when they are girded round the waist they are
much crumpled and form a sack in front and the hinder part reaches to
the ground and
waggles like a tail - the most comical things to be seen in the world.
They would come in these wide petticoats with these tails and ask us
if we had ever
seen a more beautiful dress fashion...", (The Gambia: The Story of the
Groundnut Colony).

I'm trying to picutre this in my head, with not too good of a result.
And what's the point of brining this up?  The only thing I can figure
is that this is meant to cast Gambians and Africans, in general, in a
further negative light.

Anyway, take care all, I need to get back towork now.

Ginny



On 8/31/05, Wallymang Sanneh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mr Sey
> Legend has it that the name Sabiji came about because the founder of Sabiji
> Amdalai Demba was asked by a fortune teller to run after his sheep and
> settle whereever the ship was caught.  Sabiji literally means the "the Sheep
> (Sajiyo) is there".  Sabiji was at or near present day Bakoteh.  The same
> legend said that there was a big fire in Sabiji presumably years after it
> was settled and Amlai Demba and his kin moved to present day Sukuta which
> means new home in Mandinka.  However peolple continue to use the names
> interchangeably.
> nyancho
> native sukutan
> jawo abdoulie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mr Sey,
>
> That sounds interesting. However, it will also be interesting to know how
> the name came to be pronounced as S-a-b-i-j-i instead of "Saa bije" (meaning
> a "a snake is there")!!
>
> Bijilo for instance is the shorter name for "Biji lo ja&#331;" (Biji
> stop/stand here), a statement from the first settler in Bijilo, Biji Bah, a
> cattle herdsman.
>
> Jaraama....
>
> Abdoulie - Malawi
>
> baboucarr Sey wrote:
> I don $BB4 (Bt know of Lamin but Sukuta and Sabiji is same,
> simply because in the early days before the town was
> called someting else, the town was a no go area after
> night fall people who venture to go there after night
> fall were attack by a big snake hence the name Sabiji.
>
> To cut the store short don $BB4 (Bt go it $BB4 (Bs late at night
> the snake is around.
>
> Mandinka ka nata sutokuta sarbiji
>
> Cheers
>
> Mbye
>
> --- Malanding Jaiteh wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> > A quick question for all. Is Gunjur or Kunjur?
> > Sukuta or Sabiji? Lamin
> > or Lameng? I know they are writen one way and
> > pronounced the other. So
> > what are the real names of these towns?
> >
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