Fatoumata,
Ajaaraama Kadi. You speak the truth about the ultimate outcome between the
book and the sword. We may all be persecuted by tyranny, but God and history
are on the side of truth and justice. Persecutors may persecute, but writers
will write, not only as a way of defying their persecutors, but as a way of
documenting history for future generations. Thanks for sharing your deep
thoughts on this issue and for your kind encouragement.
Best of luck in your endeavors.
Baba
>From: Fatoumata <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: "Gambia Post" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [>-<] Re: Now Out: Mandela's Other Children
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 22:02:45 +0200
>
>Koto Babagalleh,
>
>You book is timely and your contribution to the production of knowledge is
>extraordinary. You stand out as one of the very few who have taken the bull
>by the horns to put into record one of the most brutal regimes of our
>times.
>Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book The First Circle wrote :
>
>'No regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.'
>
>You are a great writer and an accomplished Gambian writer, master of satire
>and skillful in language. I have read most of your satirical publications
>in
>The Gambia but then as it was a new style of writing and a new experience
>for most, hardly could people understand the great messages you constantly
>portrayed.
>
>The fact that you have published books on current issues of concern in the
>recent history of The Gambia, you have provided the most dangerous weapon
>against this regime. Was Hitler not a hater of books? Had he not declared
>that all great books be burn in public? But then, in 1942, Franklin D.
>Roosevelt said:
>
>'We all know that books burn - yet we have the greater knowledge that books
>cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no
>force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons.'
>
>Your books will not only be powerful weapons for Gambians both today and in
>the future, it will serve as a useful reminder to future governments that
>Gambians are not dumb as their dictators take them to be and they will
>fight
>back. The time will come when each will account for one's deeds.
>
>George Bernard Shaw écrit que:
>
>A la nomination d'une petite minorité corrompue, la démocratie substitue
>l'élection par une masse incompétente.
>
>Merci beaucoup!!!
>
>Your Sister,
>Minyang Maa.
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