Clearly, our learned Furupusu, who pretends to be an expert on all fields of knowledge, including Talkonomics, Threatometrics, and Barkology, cannot even begin to think that there's more to the concept of poverty than material considerations. He is himself a very poor man, mentally. The worse poverty afflicting Gambians and Africans is not material poverty, but mental poverty. That is why we are not able to get out of our developmental stagnation. What we need are not billions of dollars, but millions of brilliant and free minds. Thanks for sharing Bamba Laye.



 



Baba 

 





Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:38:24 +0400

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Subject: Professor on Poverty

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'"There are three kinds of poverty:(1) poverty by choice where you do not want to do anything, but you want to get rich; (2) poverty by Allah and (3) poverty that (comes when) you do not want to work or spend on what you want."



Sheikh His Excellency Professor Alhaji Dr. Yaya AJJ Jammeh - July 22, 2009



I don't know about you all but it looks like professor's poverty number (1) and poverty number (3) are the same thing in that they're all "by choice", or is it just me being confused again? 

Actually there is a fourth one prof : poverty caused by not wanting to steal from the public coffers to become a billionaire over night even if you toil to find your way to work and back everyday and get a meager D1500 salary at the end of each month; that is if you're lucky!





-Laye

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