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kondorong
Gambia
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 Posted - 31 Mar 2006 : 02:25:17
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” |
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Janyanfara
Tanzania
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Posted - 31 Mar 2006 : 02:42:49
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Talibeh,
Thank you Amen! I just believe that we are both aiming good for the Gambia and people sharing the same boat,you cannot know they are sharing the same heart until the boat starts sinking...This is our Gambia and I hope and pray one day our childreen and grand childreen will boast of our achievements.I am really optimistic after reading the European history,I am sure we even have now got a much better foundation then them then.
Africa,expacially the Gambia(our Gambia),will be on her feet strong and healthy one.
God bless you all at the Gambia's revival forum(BANTABA)
Mankajang Janyanfara |
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salimina
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Posted - 31 Mar 2006 : 17:34:33
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Sister Omega, Hope is what we all have and rightly so, because i think to be hopeful itself is risk, a risk that no intelligent person would live without.
`But to say lets stop giving away our power`, i think that power has already been given.I think we are just having an intellectual exercise and curiousity if you like.It will take a real struggle to get it back.If you look at the African problem wisely, you begin to understand that the colonialist have done their homework rightly.Inorder to control the mindset of a society one just has to look at the part where if you lay your hands on you are in total control( that is the present and future generation). That part is the culture. If you can manipulate the culture well, then you are in control.
For any reader to understand the debate well lets look at the paradox attentively. Culture provides lenses of perception, a way of looking at reality. In what way has the western impact modified the African view of the world? Culture provides standard of evaluation. What is good and what is evil, what is beautiful and what is ugly, what is right and what is wrong are all rooted in criteria provided by culture.And it empasses medium of communication as well and many, many more aspects.
But since we are not here to study the paradigm itself, what i am interested in here is cultural part of communication and perception and its impact on the African society.This is because how we view the world is partly a product of paradigms and perceptions and partly a question of conceptualization and language.
Western languages are the most important cultural tool that we have received from the western world. The impact of these languages on Africa has been deeper than it has been anywhere in the colonized world.Even the very identity of African countries is partly tied up with whether they speak english, french, portuguese etc. We never refer to `english-speaking Asia` or `french-speaking Asia` the way we refer to anglophone Africa and francophone Africa. So central to the national affairs of African countries have european languages become that the languages constitutes a fundamental beliefs in the politics as well as the mindset of the African Continent.
On attainment of independence, the majority of african countries chose their imperial languages as the national language. Why? That itself shows inferiority complex. They chose their national assembly members from those who mastered the language. And they simply chose their governments from that tiny fraction. So what those that tells an African child?No doubt there is a struggle to come to babylon. Our former great leaders have been disproportionately from the few westernised and semi-westernised. What effect that would have on the future generation? that everything western and white is`cool`. Unfortunately, being westernised is symbol of pride in Africa.
And i bet in not so distance future, it will be difficult to separate the colonised and the colonialist. When that is up, our culture which is part of our heritage and translates a lot about us will be beginning to extinct. Then the hope that we are hoping for wil diminish.
Thanks, i love you all and have a nice weekend. |
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