<<You have said you are organizing the effort, but I think that should have included extending an open invitation to Gambians who are interested, or at least giving an update of any efforts under way to include everyone in thsi effort, especially when people have taken the time to send enquiries ot this list.>> Sis Jabou: Your statement above is grossly misrepresentative of my role as a member of the SGFA list serve. I wish to clarify my role to you and all readers. When the original SGFA list serve, that was hosted on Gambiapost by George Sarr, was abruptly shut down without expalantion to subscribers (not one that I know of), I stepped forward and offered an alternative home for the list serve. All this just so the discussions can go on while other matters of custodianship are being sorted out among those responsible. I also beleived at the time that there were many pending inquries about the fund that needed to be answered and with the discussions on the way, some of the modalities can be worked out as quickly as possible. That's my only crime Sis. I think it is clearly a far stretch to say that I am 'organizing' the efforts. I also notice that you have conveniently ignored my main question about the wisdom in setting up an antagonizing 'compin' to suit your criteria of a coalition effort. I will say this again; like you, I was 'nominated' to be part of a 'committee' to discuss the way forward. I was also subscribed to the list serve that was set up to conduct discussions. Though I did not agree with the criteria for subscribing others to the list, I did not see any wisdom in being a renegade either. It scares me that you are making statements like : "....a non Gambian who is part of the group advocated that...." I honestly do not understand why the issue of Cynthia Daniels (the author of the quoted statement) being a non Gambian would weigh in so much on your decision to be or not to be part of the discussions. This from someone who is so boisterously advocating for an all-inclusive effort. Honestly, I am beginning to see that much of what is going on is more like personalilty conflicts than differences in principles. More often, we find it very easy to say "as a matter of principle....." when in fact we are actually trying to hide our weaknesses in dealing with people of diferring personalities. This explains the failure of many group efforts. When history is in the making, there are two choices to be made: you either step up and be a subject of the history in the making or you can just sit back and become a mere object. My last word on this. -BambaLaye "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -M.L King Jr. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~