Mr Momodou Drammeh,

Thank you for your applead. I indeed will recommend your statement to the
Gambia L to be considered as the Gambia L mission statement. The wisdom and
the vision engulfed in your comment is very current and inclusive. I hope
members will take it as a certificate to denouce tribalistic sediction.
Thank you and keep on enhancing this specific area in our fight for better
Gambia.

Pa Che

>From: Momodou Drammeh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>Subject: AN APPEAL TO ALL GAMBIA L SUBSCRIBERS
>Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:20:31 -0800
>
>Dear members,
>  I am hereby writing to you to appeal to all of you if
>we can stop personal attacks and tribal remarks.
>  I was really scared when I read about some comments
>which were tribal in nature.
>  We all join The Gambia L as an intellectual forum
>where economic, political, religious and other
>important issues are discussed.The Gambia L is not is
>gossip centre, it is and should be an educational
>forum, let us not get carried away by sentiments and
>be very careful as to what we do or say.
>Whatever we say on the net or any other forum will be
>in the records and sooner or later we will be judge by
>what we say or do.
>we have two options either to let history take a
>disastrous path or shape the course of history towards
>the right path.
>  In AD1700 it was normal for white people to be racist
>even though they will not not do it publicly, today
>there children are so ashamed and their ancestors part
>in slavery.
>   The purpose of history is to learn the lessons of
>the past and we let history repeat itself in vice then
>we might be very sorry for ourself. We will then let
>both ourself and our future children down.
>  The Gambia is country of tolerance and is not divided
>by tribal demarcations and tribal values or allegiance
>have no place in The Gambia.
>   None of belong to any tribe. We only speak these
>languages as a means of communication and nothing els
>e.
>  Now let us look at Sierra Leone, there are people
>with the same surnames as Gambians and none of them
>belong to to tribes found in The Gambia. So in
>consequence there is no place for tribal remarks, it
>never had, and has no place and will never have a
>place in The Gambia.
>  We do not all have to support the same ideology, but
>it should not be on the basis of tribes which do not
>exist in the first place
>  Let me give examples, The Late Alh Momodou Musa Njie
>is considered to be a Fula, The Late Pierre Njie is
>considered a wollof and Alh Musa Njie A sarahule. All
>these shared the same surname this means they may have
>some connection. The reason all these people speak
>different languages may be because of different
>geographical settlements.
>  Now where do we go from here. Are tribal statements
>necessary for a country of just one million people. I
>hope not.
>  People like E F Small could have been anything they
>wanted under the colonialist but he gave up all that
>for a common voice of all Gambians, such a man will
>not be resting in peace if He is aware that Gambians
>even though this is very few are making tribal
>comments.
>   It does not matter what we call our selves we are
>all related in The Gambia.
>   What I would to see The government outlawing names
>like Boy Pullo, Musa Sarahulay, etc.
>  There is a need in the curriculum of all Gambian
>Schools to learn all local languages up to high school
>level. Teachers should be encourage to let pupils know
>that they are Gambians and belong to to no tribe.
>  Gambians, I once again appeal to all of you let us
>trade in knowledge and stop trading in insults.
>  I am very optimistic that we can all learn from each
>other and argue in an intellectual way without
>resorting to inflammatory languages.
>  I know very well that the best way to earn the
>respect and love of others is to demonstrate
>intellectual maturity and complete honesty and not the
>anger and fist that we show.
>  Most of the time we shoe our anger and frustration
>the desired ambition always boomerangs
>  While I am optimistic that this request will be
>highly regarded by all of you, I am very much sure
>that this is honourable path to follow
>
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