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toubab1020
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 Posted - 13 Jun 2007 : 13:18:12
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| My brain is spinning with all this information it is very complicated,I think the answer must be that nobody really knows and oral history cannot be unknitted.Thanks for trying to explain things MOMODOU. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 13 Jun 2007 : 14:06:01
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You seem to be very sophisticated.  |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 13 Jun 2007 : 14:12:29
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| As Homer Simpson would say in the Simpsons "DOH"................ |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 13 Jun 2007 : 15:40:18
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Originally posted by kondorong
Headman is the village head or locally Alkaali(Wolof) Alkalo(mandinka), Jarrga( Fulani. The Alkaali is just like a mayor in the west. The chief oversees a collection of Villages called a District or like a Canton(France),County(Liberia), or borough (UK). It does not depend on size as we have a district of one town. That town has both Alkali and a Chief)
Alkaali/Alkalo is from the Arabic word Alcadi.
Alcadi (Lat.,Rom. alchadi; from Ar. al-q ad i): mudejar Islamic magistrate, possibly disignating local community leader. |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 13 Jun 2007 : 17:00:50
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| Momodou, it was your piece that started off "Oral and written history" that confused me I was OK with the other. |
Edited by - toubab1020 on 13 Jun 2007 17:02:23 |
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 26 Jun 2007 : 11:09:24
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Originally posted by kondorong
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Originally posted by gambiabev
Can anyone explain in more detail what existed before colonial times? How was the area divided and organised?
I am aware that even today there is sometimes an imposition of a chief that is a government man rather than the villagers preferred person. So the Gambian government is continuing to use the system as a means of control.
When children live with condemnation, they grow up to hate. We are who manages us. Post independent africa did not change. We continued the colonial principle of divide and rule and entrenched patronage.
Did you know that Citizen FM Radio was closed based on a colonial ordinance called the Telegraph Act of 1913 which is very outdated and contains fines in pounds and shillings when we now use the Dalasi. Educated Africans kept such legislations to continue to deprive their people of hope.
Bev,
I have followed the debate but still I have not red what was there before colonialism. We seem to begin our history when the colonialist came to us. I still would like to read what we had before the Europeans came. As I am awear there have been kings and chifa before the Europeans. Africans were administrating themselves and in fact we read about Africans selling Africans as slaves.
What kind of admininstration did Senegambia have before colonialism? |
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Sibo
Denmark
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Posted - 26 Jun 2007 : 13:49:08
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These are very interesting and important questons Alhassan.
No one seems to the history before the white folks came and that time is probably the most important part of our history.
And I would like to from those of you who had all you school career in gambia, did they teach gambian history in school??? I only made it to primary 5 before I came to Denmark. And in Denmark the history lessons start as early as the second grade. |
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