Mr. Secka
My sentiments exactly, if this mis-informed and incapable minister has the
guts to change the venue of a supposedly historical/cultural event to
kanilai or her "maker's" domain, why in the name of the devil can't she just
proceed and name it after the DREAMER...MOSQUITO JAMUS JAMMEH, oops! should
I say the doctor/Phd of murder, looting, torture, self-grandiloquent and
disillusion.

Can't remember the name of this woman. Is she "WAAGA" or Waffo?...in which
ever case, she should be reminded that her loyalty should be with the
gambian tax payers who absolutely and continuously pay for misdeeds. It's
however a known fact that she got this job, despite her undeservedness, as a
reward from DOCTOR TORTURE for the help her family facilitated to him during
his semi-schooling days in banjul.

A shout to the sister, don't be the third member of the morally
dysfunctional women who did and well do anything for this jungle warrior
before throwing them to them wolves. I think she knows the two failed and
morally vegetated animals am talking about.

Yes, I call them ANIMALS cuz they lack the basic instincts that defer us the
HUMANS from them.....! The first one did massacred for him and  shamelessly
lied in front of the whole nation whilst the other one is even willing to
his domestic chores for him, notwithstanding, even blaming the victims of
Doctor Killer's brutal wrath. Yet again, and more sadly they failed each and
every gambian as a sister, wife and paramountly as a MOTHER. Am
disgusted.............
Kittos
peter


>From: Ebou Secka <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Juffureh Loses Roots Festival To Kanilai The Independent
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:40:01 PDT
>
>Did they change the name al well? If it is appropriate to change the venue
>what makes it inappropriate to change the name and purpose?
>
>Just a thought.
>
>Ebou Secka
>
>
>>From: "Jeng, Beran" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>>Banjul - The Roots Homecoming Festival is a direct consequence of tracing
>>back
>>to the small village of Juffureh the ancestral home of an African-American
>>author Alex Haley in the mid 1970s.
>>Therefore, the natural home of the festival should be Juffureh and nowhere
>>else.
>>It was therefore a surprise to many people when the epicentre of the
>>festival
>>seemed to have been moved over to Kanilai, leaving Juffureh virtually
>>relegated
>>to insignificance. It is indeed a shame on the part of the Department of
>>State
>>for Tourism and Culture and the National Council for Arts and Culture to
>>apparently allow the programme to be hijacked by a few sycophants, whose
>>objective may be is to please President Jammeh and ultimately capture his
>>attention for their own personal aggrandisement. By willingly taking the
>>festival to Kanilai and giving President Jammeh the impression that his
>>people
>>have the purest culture in this country, their institution have failed the
>>people of The Gambia.
>>More and more people are wondering why the centre of activities for the
>>festival
>>should be moved to Kanilai instead of its natural home of Juffureh. Why
>>should
>>'Sindola culture' be displayed to our visitors from the Diaspora as the
>>only
>>authentic culture in this country? Obviously, somebody somewhere seems to
>>be
>>playing a clever trick on the psyche of the people of this country,
>>probably as
>>part of the scheme to transform Kanilai from an obscure border village to
>>the
>>most important settlement in this country. However, it is certainly quite
>>unfair
>>to snatch the 'Roots' limelight from the people of Juffureh its rightful
>>owners
>>and take it to Kanilai which has absolutely nothing to do with it, but
>>apparently only because President Jammeh hails from there. Therefore, the
>>Secretary of State for Tourism and Culture Susan Waffa- Ogoo and her
>>specially
>>selected Roots committee members should heed the concern of the people and
>>organise the festival according to its original idea, which is to use the
>>'Roots' concept to entice our brothers and sisters from the Diaspora on an
>>annual basis. If however, Mrs Ogoo really wants her 'brother' to actively
>>participate in the festivities or to even lead the mumbo jumbo activities,
>>she
>>should invite him to go to Juffureh but certainly not to relocate the
>>festival
>>to Kanilai for any purpose. I am sure most of our visitors from the
>>Diaspora
>>would prefer going to Juffureh the ancestral home of Kunta Kinteh rather
>>than
>>being subjected to the display of mumbo jumbo rituals that have no
>>intrinsic
>>significance to them, thus making the festival to lose its original
>>flavour.
>>
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