I don't wanna sound rude but do you guys ever think
about how stupid your postings are to your relative(s)
or anyone of a younger generation that used to look up
to you with high regard.  This constant "throat war"
is not getting you anywhere.  Why don't you stop it OR
if you so desire, restrict your postings to EACH
OTHER.  It is becoming very EMBARASSING and SHAMEFUL,
honestly.

For your sake, call it quits and move on.

Essa

--- tester testers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Can you tell me what you would possibly write about
> yourself.  Who would be interested to read about
> someone with no significant contribution to their
> country?  I guess you can write but take it with you
> when you leave this earth.  You don't have to worry
> about writing coz people will write about you if
> they
> think your accomplishments (whether + or - ) are
> worth
> the time of others.
>
> I suggest that you think about ways of making
> changes
> in your country rather than worrying about people
> remembering you.  And besides, all these posting is
> junking up the L.  Be innovative and submit your
> critical list about issues impacting your homeland
> at
> PRESENT.  Thanks!
>
> Essa
>
> --- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > Prediction: Several generations from now precious
> > few of us would be
> > remembered  outside of our immediate circle of
> > family and friends. That is
> > the stark reality of the temporary nature of  our
> > lives as humans. Yet our
> > history and culture it is hoped, would endure
> albeit
> > far more susceptible to
> > the ever encroaching effects of prevalent and
> > dominant cultures that sweeps
> > most of the world. As a people we have a lot to be
> > proud of in that we are
> > ancient and culturally textured. Our forefathers
> > have lived and thrived in
> > societies that in their days were sophisticated
> and
> > a par with other
> > societies in the world. What worries me today is
> > what has become of our
> > contemporary history. As far as I know there is no
> > systemic catalogue of
> > contemporary Gambia that describes who we are in
> > terms of how we live,
> > interact, and relate to eachother. What was 1940s
> > Kaur like? Or what was turn
> > of the century  Gerorgetown like?, afterall people
> > have been living there for
> > centuries. How would  one go about even writing a
> > fictional tale of a town as
> > old and profound as Georgetown if you can't weave
> > into your story a
> > convincing portrait of your subject matter? Even a
> > native son like myself
> > having tapped into a long gone family source who
> > attended Armitage in the
> > 1930s can only manage a cursory description of the
> > town  . Lacking the kind
> > of detail essential to good story telling ,it is
> > often difficult to carry
> > readers to  the  depth and persuasion a writer
> needs
> > for a successful
> > account. In orderwords I don't how to transport
> you
> > listmembers to turn of
> > the century Georgetown something I very much want
> to
> > do precisely because
> > there is  no repository I can reference to make a
> > credible story. I am sure a
> > farfetched story no matter how cleverly done will
> > not go down well with most
> > of you .
> > One thing that is clear to me is the fact there is
> a
> > great yarning for
> > Gambian literature and that might in  the long
> term
> > be our savior from the
> > disastrous lack of documentation that has
> > characterised our history. With an
> > expanded media base we are slowly documenting our
> > society as covered by the
> > media spanning a broad spectrum of our lives from
> > the unseemly to the best of
> > our instincts. It is true that the independent
> > media has not fully matured
> > in both scope and reach because  of resource
> > limitation and government
> > heavy-handedness, generations to come would
> > nonetheless have a pretty good
> > idea of how Gambians lived early in the 21st
> > century. It is a tragedy that
> > the Gambia Radio and Television is run in such
> > shallow and unprofessional
> > manner when it  it can offer the nation the single
> > biggest opportunity to
> > learn and document who we are as a people. They do
> > not provide any meaningful
> > insight into the economy, society , the enviroment
> > or anything of
> > significance. Instead young and budding
> 'reporters'
> > are so severely
> > compromised in their reporting that the Gambian
> > people would find no marked
> > difference if they acquired  trained parrots and
> > placed them infront of the
> > camera and microphones to repeat the nonsense that
> > passes for news. For one
> > thing we would saved on the D119 million subsidy
> > Gamtel was made to fork out
> > to keep all these garbage on the air.
> > For the most part it is upto to us the living to
> > document our way live both
> > for current purposes and for posterity. There is a
> > compelling story just
> > waiting to be told in almost every one of us be it
> > an experience we had or an
> > issue we confront or a thousand other things.
> > Afterall I sometimes send to
> > this list personal stories about  life in the
> dusty
> > little village of Demfai
> > replete with sojourns at cow herding and other
> > mundane stuff that
> > characterises village life. A description a friend
> > of mine who say grew up in
> > Picton street can hardly relate to. But so what?
> If
> > the story is told to his
> > liking , his imagination is much more potent than
> > his experience .
> > So I say  to you all, write and  enjoy what we
> write
> > about us for it is all
> > the future will ever know of us. If we do not
> begin
> > to put in place a vivid
> > portrait of us, a documentary void would exist in
> > perpetuity.
> >
> > Karamba
> >
> >
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