Serious and educative humour touching on the fundamental fallacies passing for governance in the Gambia. It embodies what you refer to as "angry laughter".
LJDarbo
Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks Haruna. Good to see your comments after a rather quite interlude.
Glad you enjoy the pieces.
Baba
>From: "Haruna Darbo"
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: John Yahavich Revisited
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:13:04 -0500
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>
>Galleh,
>
>I have been missing these satirical but powerful essays from you. The
>Yahavich series address a deeper misunderstanding of worth and value by
>Yahavich. If the west does not have human rights and the rule of law, then
>I will not accept such virtues for my people. The D5000.00 question then
>arises; Who is doing as they are west tells them or dictates to
>them???????? Can someone sign me up to Gambia-L? [log in to unmask] thanx
>in advance
>
>Haruna.
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>
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>
>From: Baba Galleh Jallow
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>Subject: John Yahavich Revisited
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:06:23 +0000
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> >John Yahavich Revisited
> >
> >By Baba Galleh Jallow
> >
> >Sometime ago I decided that I was not going to talk again. But over
>
> >the past few weeks I have heard so much nonsense being said about me
> >that I have changed my mind and I will tell you what I think of all
> >this stupid noise. When I decided not to attend a conference in
> >another country, you all started shouted that John Yahavich is
> >afraid, John Yahavich this, John Yahavich that. Let me tell you one
> >thing: John Yahavich is not afraid of anyone or anything in this
> >world. And if you think I am joking, come here and show me that you
> >are brave. Belay, belay, belay you will never see the light of day
> >again!
> >
> >If you say I am afraid to go to a so-called conference, then why are
> >you afraid to come to my conference? Some of you say that I ran off
> >into my palace when I heard that some men were coming to get me. You
> >even say that I forgot my shoes when I ran
>away. Were you there and
> >did you see me running? If not, why do you go about telling such
> >stinking lies and saying that John Yahavich is afraid? If people
> >come to this country and try to put me down, they must be ready to
> >face the music of their own drums. If you think you can be used by
> >the West to come and destroy me, then you are the biggest fool in
> >the world because neither you nor the so-called West can destroy
> >John Yahavich. And both you and the West can go to hell because I
> >don’t care what anybody says and I’m not afraid of anybody.
> >
> >Some of you open your big mouths and talk about things you don’t
> >understand. Do you know how the west got involved in Africa or why
> >they got involved in Africa? If you say you don’t know then I will
> >tell you that you are the biggest fool on earth. The
>West came here
> >and carried our people into slavery. Then they came back and
> >colonized us and said they were trying to civilize us. And when we
> >drove them out of Africa, they now come and tell us about so-called
> >human rights and the so-called rule of law. But if you go to their
> >own countries there is no human rights and no rule of so-called law.
> >Do you know what human rights stand for? Well let me tell you. The
> >‘H’ stands for Hoodwink – You all know what hoodwink is, to
> >blindfold people! The ‘U’ stands for the Universe! ‘M’ stands for
> >Manipulate! ‘A’ stands for Africa, and ‘N’ stands for African
> >Nations!
> >
> >
> >They hoodwink the universe, manipulate the African nations! When
> >they hoodwink the universe, manipulate African nations, the ‘R’
> >stands for – to rip you off, they rip you
>off of your gold. After
> >hoodwinking the universe and manipulating African nations, they rip
> >you off of ideals, so that Africans will have no ideals but will
> >follow their exported ideology that is meant to create wars in
> >Africa, famine and starvation. We will never accept that! To turn
> >some Africans into stooges so that they can always continue to
> >manipulate us… I JohnYahavich, am saying that I will die but I will
> >never let them suck our blood again!
> >
> >Tell me any country where there is so-called human rights and people
> >are not executed – tell me! In most of the so-called western types
> >of human rights, those who uphold the so-called principle of
> >Democracy – When you go to their jails, Africans form the majority
> >of all the inmates. What types of rights are
>they talking about?
> >So you see the fallacy in human rights? I will never accept it!
> >
> >And now when some of the so-called African leaders who are stooges
> >of the West refuse to sign laws meant to discipline the media, you
> >all jump up and sing their praises. And you say John Yahavich should
> >be ashamed of himself because he has closed down some media houses
> >and has jailed some journalists. And you take these Western stories
> >and you send them to the Internet and you talk about so-called
> >skeletons in cupboards. If you are brave, why do you talk about
> >skeletons and cupboards? Why don’t you come here and try to tell me
> >those kinds of things? I am not saying that other so-called African
> >leaders will not do what they like in their own countries, but as
> >long as this country is
>mine, no so-called media or journalist will
> >be allowed to cause trouble here. If you so-called journalists are
> >interested in skeletons, you can go to the graveyard and dig them
> >up. You have plenty of skeletons there. But you cannot come here and
> >tell me about skeletons or try to tell me what to do. If you think I
> >am playing, come. Belay, belay, belay, you will then know that John
> >Yahavich does not joke. It’s a mad day.
> >
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