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Kuno
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 Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 02:41:50
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I just returned from Gambia and I will tell you this guys,I departed with a heart heavy enough to sink a battleship. I think we are further and further getting into the ditch of Jammehia.... the man is a fraud visited upon us....I don't know when shall we see the end to this craziness in our Gambia. Jammeh is holding us hostage, there is no where to breathe, no where to escape. What is a youthman like me to do? Who will bail me out of this circumstance? When will god rescue us from this buccaneering, self-obsessed leader? During his rally in Sankulay Kunda, jammeh extorted from the people something as in an enforced gift for his building the bridge. He asked them to give him something for building the bridge for them. The seyfo announced a piece of land for jammeh and he then warned people to not tamper with his new-found or ill-gotten property.
jammeh is running everything in gambia, sand mining, butcheries, shops. The one thing i like is the fine bread coming from his Kanilai Bakery. It is good quality of bread....and badibunkas like me who are known for their love for bread, dry and mottled, jammeh's bread is good! I am sorry I spent lots of money supporting the man's business but it is because the quality is good. I just wonder if jammeh can allow other business people the same opportunity and access to materials and resources to compete him in the bakery business. I think he won't because he has ego problems, his attitude is infantile. He will rather kill than compete with business rivals.
Believe me folks, our gambia is drifting away from us. I hate to say this, jammeh's open door immigration policy is killing us. We wont known the full impact of the nigerianization of gambian society until after jammeh is long gone (who knows when?). I dare incure your calumny for saying this, but i will say it anyway that I have lots of disliking for nigerians, lots of them. They are criminals, cultural defilers. they are messing gambian society up. the drug money is luring a lot of our beautiful, innocent and young women into the hands of these creatures and they are leaving their destruction everywhere...there are so many gambian women impregnated and abandoned by nigerian fellas all over town. In my neighborhood alone, there are scores of young ladies left to their own misery by long vanished nigerian boyfriends and husbands. If this doesn't hurt you as a gambian I don't know what will. I am mad to the 100th power at these nigerians in town...running shady businesses and drugs.
I am no moral crusader and never count me as a staunch supporter of religious fanaticism, but seriously speaking as a muslim, i condemen the increased sexualization of gambian society, the bars, the porn shops, the prostitution, the rapes, the drug money-induced impurification of our women, the americanization of our women with their skimpy dresses and unintelligible american slang and mannerism. Yuck!
I tell you what, i have seen this trend before in other parts of west africa, liberia and s/leone for examples. Too much fast money making the rounds in the capital area, a lot of people suddenly becoming rich, buying 50, 000 dollar cars, and putting up executive mansions just like that, and the life styles of people turning into fakery and thievery...and in the meantime, the majority of people live in abject poverty and misery...they see all these filthy riches hoarded by a few, who are keen to put it on public display. I met many a youthman who are frustrated that they cannot even talk to or let alone get a girlfriend in gambia because money is the name, and the nigerians have tons of it, drug money anyway. the frustrations are all over the wall not just about jammeh and his foolishness but also about the bare inequalities of life. I saw this in Monrovia and Freetown...everybody thought life was good, pizza parlours, restaurants, flashy cars, bungalows, beachside picnics. No people, life can't be good like that, because there is some tension brewing in the background, it is a tinder box waiting to explode. It happened in liberia and s/leone...and we should be careful...there is too much anger in our society
Kuno, The Bird
Lilongwe, Malawi
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Moe
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 06:49:37
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Well Kuno the bird a drunk Cacho Cacho makes a lot of noise have you been to Kayjatt's Daaka. I swear to God this is no Joke Cacho Cacho's are a bunch of alcoholic birds. They drink "Singa" and start making all kinds of sounds , some even pass out and fall to the ground. L
Lets revisit everything the Bird man had to say and we can choose to explore the world around us and find out what "Dormeey Kay-eet" is or means and if you claim not to know ask the European fellas and the Scandinavian brothers? Dude you ain't saying Nada, not a damn thang bro.
Nigerians are impregnating our sisters and disappearing, well some folks in Babylon have similar stories about the Innocent good looking and Charming Gambian who could do no wrong. Your are a typical stereotypical, prejudiced individual or does tribalist, which depicts the fact that I really don't know where you belong or what you are tell you something. This is what I have been telling ya'll 15 years ago but being the fools you are everyone is like Moe is crazy or retarded. I believe in African brotherly love No Nigerian, Ghanian, Sierra-leonean, Gambian even Taiwanese my friends are more than welcome. Through out your life growing up since birth the knowledge you share with us today if not for the intervention of our immediate West African Brothers, Nigerians ,Sierraleoneans and Ghanians we would be as back ward as backward was in the beginning. Every time you open your mouth and read or write, thank them for everything they have done for you and continue to do for your brothers in Gambia you ungreatful Nyamato's.
In every society migrants come because of the complacence of a people. Gambians are lazy brats and trust me am just waiting for the First toubab or Narr to run for the highest Office to prove my point, while ya'll busy running your mouths politricking not even discussing relevant issues these so called foreigners and their off springs, wait a minute the modern Gambian of Gambian descent are doing exactly what it takes to take ownership of their country. The richest and most successful in Gambia ain't no "Nitt Ku Nyule" the Narr's beat us to that. followed by the surge of refugee's and other economical migrants. Gambia has an untapped market and everyone wants a piece of the Pie.
Kuno take a pen and a pad and take notes , pretty soon not only will they not take all your women away from you, trust me your country, The Kanili bread and Farming. The average lazy Gambian will be up for a rude awakening. Soon most of ya'll wont be able to afford a house in Gambia and the reason is based on several factors, nothing related to mismanagement. The Gambia is a modern state with untapped industries all over the goddamn place and when you have complacent citizens running around being the most useless of beings, it is truly assuring that their plight and incompetence is being exposed.
"Etay Mussooo sotorla knee e boukah taa dooku dula" Kuno! As you rightly stated, they run almost all the businesses simply because Gambians are not and I repeat are NOT progressive and visionary individuals, well the majority anyways. There is a very sophisticated minority truely designing their destiny and showing true leadership traits no doubt about that.
Once again Kuno the migrating bird welcome to the world of Globalization where everyone has internet connection in Gambia through the phones, If am right does Cromium sound a bell not to mention Satellite Tv. I can assure you that you are one of the last remnants of the relics of history Birdman..............................................................................peace |
I am Jebel Musa better yet rock of Gibraltar,either or,still a stronghold and a Pillar commanding direction
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toubab1020
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 09:55:11
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For what its worth, as an outsider (and a toubab) I am of the same opinion as BOTH of the above posters,it gives me no pleasure at all to write this as a person who is very fond of The Gambia.
The difficult thing to deal with is that I personally can see no signs of anything changing and the way that both MOE( dispite his uncalled for statements about birds and drink ) and KUNO see The Gambia is accurate in my view,I wish it wasn't.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Janko
Gambia
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 12:14:53
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So, this is what you call constructive. I most be missing something here.
Oh you who have abundant knowledge, tell my countrymen how to get betterment and not sink them in the bottomless pitch. After all, what is knowledge´s worth if not to enhance betterment.
If this is what is constructive and encouraging, then tell me where the positive lies. Is it not more difficult to see the positive in all these... |
Clean your house before pointing a finger ... Never be moved by delirious Well-wishers in their ecstasy |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 13:17:05
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Janko:
I really understand what you feel,there is very little encouragement that Gambians are entitled to,positive things are,education of children has been improved no doubt about that,Transport links have been improved in regard to new roads,and the new green big busses, communications have been improved,BUT there is still a way to go in regulation of mobile phone charges for instance,although advertised figures say you will pay this or that and get so much free etc, tis is not always the case and your credit goes VERY quickly,who checks if the charges are accurate ? No one. The Ferry service suffers from regular "breakdowns" and the ferries travel slowly after a few weeks, I have the feeling that this is due to "fiddling" with the engines,by "mechanics" are inexperienced and have only limited knowledge of what they are doing having been given the job because they are a "friend" or "relative" of a big boss or someone in the administration,not on their skills being the best man for the job (or woman, why not ?) There are capable Gambians,but because of nepotism they are OFTEN not employeed.The electricity supply to everyone is laudable,BUT very expensive, generating sets, transformers cable,meters, and other apparatus,I think that this should be put on hold for a little,there are now small silent generators for household use,these shold be made available to people at cost,if they get broken then the full retail price should be charged,such generators can run on LPG.
Consideration should be given to the building of a Bulk LPG holding facility where cooking gas and gas to run the small generators could be obtained at reasonable prices.
Women have been recognised as people and not just wives,women are the future of The Gambia, why ? because they have always been used to very hard work,apart from being mothers and all that entails they work in their gardens,they shop for the best value food to keep their families,they do the best they can with very little,they are usually unable to obtain work because time with family and domestic duties allow no time.Gambian men (from my observation) appear to like all the pleasures in life without taking any responsability,they go from woman to woman when they are younger,when they grow older they take more wives than thay are capable of property supporting,they make more children than they can look after,some do not like to work and have no ambition to have a job just keep bemoaning their fate,men who are prepared to work on their own quite often do not get paid for their work,or if they do the amount they quoted for the work is either not paid at all or some excuse given that they will be paid later,this appears to be a normal thing in Gambia I know of two men who will not do work for Gambians because of this,they will only work for foreigners.MOST shopkeepers for instance originate from other countries than The Gambia,Those who are succesful in their enterprises come from other countries to have a better quality of life,why ? because there is only limited competition from Gambian Men.
Some Gambian men prefer to indulge in rip off schemes rather than hard work to improve their lot.
Health care has shown some improvement,BUT quite often medicines for instance in hospital dispensaries are not available,why ? I have no idea but a better accounting of the use of medicines would be helpful,I understand that The Jammeh foundation for Peace have supplies of "things" that have been donated but have remained undistrubuted
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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turk
USA
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 15:55:39
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I am not shocked when hearing all negative talk about Nigerians. It reminds me similar anti-immigrant perspective in the western world as well. It is very difficult for an immigrant man to survive in a foreign land. Circumstances presented are important factor for be 'nigerian' or 'gambian' or 'bosnian' for new comer to involve crime, fraud, being underground, social services abuse. Wasn't it same issue during early 1900s when Irish immigrants came to America, they were unwelcome and charged as 'natural born criminal' by earlier English settlers. Later, when Italians came, now it was northern Europeans turn to demonize Italians, then Puerto Rican, Mexicans, Latinos, African and Middle Eastern. Everyone was born to have the same potential to be good or evil. But circumstances may change everything. I met a lots of Lebanese, Mauritanians, Guinean, Sierra Leone folks, some good some bad just like any society.
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Believe me folks, our SOCIETY is drifting away from us. I hate to say this, OBAMA's open door immigration policy is killing us. We wont known the full impact of the LATINIZATION of AMERICAN society until after OBAMA is long gone (who knows when?). I dare incure your calumny for saying this, but i will say it anyway that I have lots of disliking for MEXICANS, lots of them. They are criminals, cultural defilers. they are messing AMERICAN society up. the drug money is luring a lot of our beautiful, innocent and young women into the hands of these creatures and they are leaving their destruction everywhere...there are so many WHITE AMERICAN women impregnated and abandoned by LATINO fellas all over town. In my neighborhood alone, there are scores of young ladies left to their own misery by long vanished LATINO boyfriends and husbands. If this doesn't hurt you as a AMERICAN I don't know what will. I am mad to the 100th power at these JAMAICANS in town...running shady businesses and drugs.
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diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 16:35:42
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Turk,what you have written could be said to be similar,I read KUNO's post to mean his perception as to how he found GAMBIA after his recent visit, I did not think that he wanted a wider political discussion about immigrants in other countries which you have chosen to highlight,maybe I am wrong,if so perhaps he can correct me.I have made my posting on my assumption of the meaning of the posting by KUNO,specifically talking about his perceptions of The Gambia now.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Dembish
Gambia
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 17:18:48
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kuno that was a perfect picture of happenings in the Gambia today and one can not put it in a better way.Don't worry about Moe,he has lost it long since.There is a saying that "kolanut last long in the mouth of those who value it".That is You and many conern gambians like us who valued mother land Gambia.But believe me the likes of Moe has spat the kolanut long since.
A while back I have tried to brought to the attention of fellow Bantaba people, the menace of some Nigerian migrants in The Gambia and some brothers counter my points in the name african brotherhood.But hay'''I got a strong passion of african fraternity and have No grudge what so ever against immigrants.Immigration is a modern phenomena and even developed world is struggling with it.But yes we Gambians have ignored it a long time and still continue to ignore the impacts its generating in Gambian communities negatively.In as much as we welcome the positive contribution of of migrants to our society, we should equally address and lay down means of eradicating or mitigating the negative impacts some immigrants are inflicting in our society.Immigration anywhere in the world required control by the authories and the Gambian immigration authoritie's control of immigrants is very, very weak due to NOT Yahya Jammeh, but corrupt immigration officers.They will dish Gambian passport to any foreign national with some dalasis to bribe without thinking of the implications.
Look at the case where a Nigerian woman 2008 who swalled lots of concain wraped in plastics, colapsed outside Gatwich Airport and died After flying from banjul.The immigration officers found a Gambian passport on her, but where even convinced,after thouroghly investigating, that she is not a Gambian national,and has little or no connections with The Gambia due to the trail of connections the woman has in the Uk.Infact the woman used banjul as a transit just to cover herself up.
In as recent as last april,2010, I went to one of the nigerian internet cafe to send a fax.The girl who was serving me look so angry,I just asked why are u so miserable even to inocent customers, she politely appologised to me and furthers went on to explain to me the reason, that she was given her termination letter an hour a go, that herservice will end the coming week,i.e end of the month.I further enquired why, she was reluctant at first but just started opening her heart to me,I canot believe it.She told me that she is the fourth girl who went through the same fate as their Nigerian employer has been asking her for sex something she defiantly refused to.
How many Nigerians are doing that to our sisters inGambia today,running petty bussiness which they are using as a cover up to drug peddling ana a trap to get hold of our sisters.Such bussiness are very easy to spot out in town, they never employ Gambian men.I am not against all nigerian immigrants in the Gambia,but why is that most times,sucking crimes,suck as frauds,human traficing,human kidnapping and even chil sacrifices are done by Nigerian immigrant out of many nationalities in the gambia.
Another case whereby a newzealand national was fooled to sponsor a charity project by Nigerians in The gambia,they ended up fooling the poor man to travel all the way to banjul and upon his arrival, he got kidnapped in kololi for weeks and a huge ransome was paid by his family regardless they refused to let himfree.They end up caught thanks to the newzealand embassy in South africa who hinted the gambia police and with the help of the local GSM companies in The Gambia they were apprehended in Kololi
Is about time the gambian government do something about this sad menace in The Gambia of Nigerian immigrants in The gambia, they are out there to wreck our nation.
This posting has nothing to do with politics Moe,its the sad fact that kuno has highlighted and please for the sake of our inocent sisters and goodness, grow up.
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turk
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 19:06:13
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Dear Unofficial moderator of Bantaba
You too controlling. Everyone has different values, priorities and angles when a topic is posted. He mentioned Nigerians. They are immigrant. So my post is relevant. And why are the Nigerian immigrants have nothing to do with politics? What is immigration policy of a nation? Isn't it political discussion? If immigrants are issue, instead of 'profiling' Nigerians, try to have a 'political solution' and 'immigration policy is a political issue'. No? So you claim you dislike politics but you are so much involved in politic which is 'collective decision making process on issues' which is almost anything to do with issues we face everything. I think you should change your signature. You don't like politics, you love it. You dislike the political process.
Dembish
You said this has nothing to do with with politics but you provide your political opinion/analysis on Immigration. What is politics? Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions, right? So you are contributing your political thoughts on immigration but you claim it has nothing to do with politics.
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diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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turk
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 19:16:08
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| Small Note: Sub-Saharan African population is about 760M and nigeria is 160M. So every one out of five Sub-Saharan-African is Nigerian. |
diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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Dembish
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 19:20:00
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| Turk you missed my point bro, I said that paticular posting is not apolitical simply because the nagative impact of the Nigerian immigrants in the Gambian is NOT affecting the opposition supporters only but rather gambians in general so how can you politicise a matter that is affecting the whole gambia.Anyway I will not blame you, for APRC supporters cannot differenciate national issue from party politics. |
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turk
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 19:35:32
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I did not miss your point. You raised valid political points on immigration, but I will not blame you, as you seem you cannot realize that 'immigration issue' is a national issue which is a politics. You don't know what the politics is. Let me enlighten you with my bible.
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Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.
You could have said
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This posting has nothing to do with PARTY politics Moe and do not try to score.....
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diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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Prince
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 20:09:21
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Thanks for passionate post Kuno.... Gambia did change. I recently visited too, but unlike you, i did not see these changes as a step toward the worse. When changes occur they aren't usually towards our personal ideals.... I find your bold statements below quite absorbing.
I. jammeh is running everything in gambia, sand mining, butcheries, shops...he will rather kill than compete with business rivals.
I personally believe that Jammeh has his hands in too many pots, but this is a third-world country, it is common knowledge that third-world business is conducted through gangster means. The guy with the biggest gun rules (right now, jammeh has them). If it isn't Jammeh, it would be the Lebanese (they did it in Liberia and Sarlone). Don't assume that if Jammeh steps aside, Gambians would take over. The Lebanese would bribe their ways into setting up the monopolies we all love to hate.
II. jammeh's open door immigration policy is killing us...the nigerianization of gambian society. these nigerians in town...running shady businesses and drugs.
I also noticed the huge influx of immigrants into our borders. However, most of these folks are hard working people trying to make ends meet in a generally conformist country. It is wrong to assume that all Nigerians are into shady business practices. They contribute immensely to education, health, and other vital sectors of our economy. These are the folks we should welcome... the immigration policy should be geared towards bring in skilled immigrants and excluding the undesirable ones. Without the immigrants from the W.African sub-region, our education dept. would've been more disintegrated than its current state.
In fact, I could make a bold guesstimate that the percentage of Gambians abroad peddling drugs is more than the percentage of Nigerians abroad (within Gambia) involved in drugs and criminal activity. Our people aren't skilled, that is the only avenue "many a youthman" abroad have to make the quick semester money.
III. i condemen the increased sexualization of gambian society, the bars, the porn shops, the prostitution, the rapes, the drug money-induced impurification of our women, the americanization of our women with their skimpy dresses and unintelligible american slang and mannerism.
This is something common to all developing countries. It's called globalization... it is understandable that most social conservatives get incensed by this trend. Sadly, we can't do anything about it... less we want to slip toward N. Korea's isolationist ways. I also saw the skimpily dressed young hoes; they are all victims of poverty, they would hang on to anyone with dough to make ends meet, irrespective of nationality.
IV.I met many a youthman who are frustrated that they cannot even talk to or let alone get a girlfriend in gambia.
That is sad, but you have to realize that "many a youthman" are dependent and don't have a future or even the ability to meet their own provision. Their future is bleak, as a Kuno, you of all people should be able to "easily spot a chick that would grow into a cock." Most of our youth won't be cocks. I know this is controversial, but i believe that women are genetically wired to seek "providers," our youth men ain't gonna provide Shiit (excuse my Aku).
V. there is some tension brewing in the background, it is a tinder box waiting to explode. It happened in liberia and s/leone...and we should be careful...there is too much anger in our society.
There is definitely tension within the air, but i highly doubt Gambia is spiraling towards the Manor river countries because we are not resource rich and the ICC compels warmongers think twice before doing a Koukoie. However, it is VERY POSSIBLE that we have a variant of the South African attack on the immigrant community (the vulnerable immigrants are often the victims, not the guys responsible for the greatest ills of society). So Kuno, our bird, think positive; the glass isn't that half empty!
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toubab1020
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 20:54:55
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Who is controlling ?,I made my interpretation of the posting,you made yours, I can only read what Kuno wrote,I chose to post in a way that showed that there had been improvements as well as disappointments and ways that I thought might be of use, you chose to concentrate on Nigerians and raceial and political issues,which appears to be the thought process of most of the posters.I am the odd one out,but without ideas matters can never get better with all this political stuff you keep going round and round in ever decreasing circles,and we all know what happens if you do that
Unofficial moderator of Bantaba 
This title I deny, Momodou is the moderator although I must admit that sometimes I intefere by raising a calming voice I hope,but that better than violent insults to everyone who holds strong views on whatever. 
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Dear Unofficial moderator of Bantaba
You too controlling. Everyone has different values, priorities and angles when a topic is posted.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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turk
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Posted - 23 Jul 2010 : 22:59:58
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Prince
Good points. I will give you a silver medal later on. As you can see more socio-economic problems and political problems are due to underdevelopment. Gambian’s problems are structural less to do with Jammeh or anyone else.
Item 1: What you are saying that there are social economic reasons for economic monopoly in Gambia as you indicated that is the common problem of most third world countries which is economic underdevelopment.
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Don't assume that if Jammeh steps aside, Gambians would takeover. The Lebanese would bribe their ways into setting up the monopolies we all love to hate.
Good point! But I am wondering why you think Lebanese would take over. Potentially the reasons are, for example, because of superior business skills of Lebanese, or lack of Gambians' business skills or what are the reasons?
Item 2. I agree, I have seen many Nigerians are working in education sector, also I have seen many Nigerians technician from IT to health field. I guess it is little bid generalization based on the bad experience some Nigerians.
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diaspora! Too many Chiefs and Very Few Indians.
Halifa Salah: PDOIS is however realistic. It is fully aware that the Gambian voters are yet to reach a level of political consciousness that they rely on to vote on the basis of Principles, policies and programmes and practices. |
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Janko
Gambia
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Posted - 24 Jul 2010 : 13:32:41
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Let’s be mindful in making assessments with long going implications.
In the mid 80´s Nigeria deported all Africans from her soil and between the times the embassies were able to provide transportation for their citizens, the Nigerians were attacking all perceived none Nigerian on the streets of Lagos. The reason of deportation was similar to arguments herein.
The Nigerian contribution to education is not only exaggerated but to an extend imaginary. Hence, the standard of education did not rise primarily because of the Nigerian presence in the education sector. Secondly, what kind of Nigerian educators are present in the Gambia; level and standard of education; most likely the best Nigerian educators stay at home.
In fact there is an indication that the quality of education dropped and the pupils became more alienated due to the Nigerian teachers lacking knowledge of the local languages and thereby the social reality of the pupils. This lingual and social discrepancies impacts on the pupils on different levels depending on if they are primary, or secondary, or after secondary school students. It is arguable that a teacher who speaks the language of the pupil gives a higher quality education than the teacher that lacks that knowledge. Why, because education is a negotiation between the common (everyday reality) and the scientific (methodology, theory, Perspective etc.)
Lastly, globalization is the free movement of capital not people, that’s why Europe and in some extend USA are developing specific strategies as to who should come in or stay out of their boarders.
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