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sab
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 23 Apr 2006 : 11:32:10
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Opportunity to include Ken Saro-Wiwa avatar was enough to remind us all of the following;
Written from detention:
A year has gone by since I was rudely roused from my bed and clamped into detention. Sixty-five days in chains, weeks of starvation, months of mental torture and recently, the rides in a steaming, airless Black Maria to appear before a kangaroo court, dubbed a special military tribunal, where the proceedings leave no doubt that the judgement has been written in advance...The men who ordain nd supervise this show of shame, this tragic charade, are frightened by the word, the power of ideas, the power of the pen; by demands of social justice and the rights of man. Nor do they have a sense of history. They are so scared of the power of the word, that they do not read. And that is their funeral.
KEN SARO-WIWA.
A poem from detention:
Dance your anger and your joys,
Dance the guns to silence,
Dance, Dance, Dance.....
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Executed 10th November 1995 along with eight of his compatriots.
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The world would be a poorer place if it was peopled by children whose parents risked nothing in the cause of social justice, for fear of personal loss. (Joe Slovo - African revolutionary) |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Apr 2006 : 14:32:46
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| That's how another great son of Africa who we know as Halifa Sallah is entangled in the political scene of the Gamabia and the struggle for emancipation of mankind. |
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sab
United Kingdom
912 Posts |
Posted - 25 Apr 2006 : 20:17:57
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The Halifa Sallah name need to be reiterated loud and quickly to every corner of The Gambia in case a 'snap' election is called!
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways 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.. Freedom & peace / sab
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