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GAMBIA-L Digest 96
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 2) Subscription by MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <m.gassama@swipnet.se> 3) List Traffic - Deja vu by MJawara@aol.com 4) new member subscription by "BOJANG,BUBA" <BBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU> 5) Re: Race and color by "archibald.graham@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 6) Re: new member subscription by Sarian Loum <Sarian.Loum@Corp.Sun.COM> 7) Dr Sulayman Nyang by "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu> 8) Re: Another act of terror by MJagana@aol.com 9) Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang by "Bassirou Dodou Drammeh" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 10) Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang by msjaiteh@mtu.edu (Malanding S. Jaiteh) 11) Re: Liberia on the US by MJagana@aol.com 12) Re: Another act of terror by MJagana@aol.com 13) Re: It's the economy, Narr by "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 14) Re: color trouble.. by M W Payne <awo@mindspring.com> 15) Re: Color Debate by M W Payne <awo@mindspring.com> 16) Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 17) Re: Another act of terror by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 18) Re: Liberia on the US by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 19) Re: Another act of terror by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 20) Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 21) Thanksgiving by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 22) Re: Waiting to exhale.....NOT!!!! by Mbk007@aol.com 23) Re: Race and color by "Bassirou Dodou Drammeh" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 24) On the list again by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> 25) Re: Liberia on the US by MJagana@aol.com 26) Re: On the list again by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 27) Re: On the list again by "BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 28) Test by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 29) Fwd: Time to discard English names -- a moment of reflection by "N'Deye Marie N'Jie" <njie.1@osu.edu> 30) Re: Liberia on the US by globexinc@erols.com 31) by "Jobst Mnderlein" <joppl@hotmail.com> 32) Dr. Nyang by SANG1220@aol.com 33) Jammeh's Wealth by Abdou Touray <abdou@cs.columbia.edu> 34) Re: by Abdou Touray <abdou@cs.columbia.edu> 35) ZONE II IN THE GAMBIA by "Pa-Mambuna O. Bojang" <paomar@iglou.com> 36) Re: by "Alpha Robinson" <garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> 37) Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 38) Re: ZONE II IN THE GAMBIA by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 39) Re: ZONE II IN THE GAMBIA by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 40) Dr. Sulayman Nyang by Gunjur@aol.com 41) RE: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Ceesay Soffie <Ceesay_Soffie@prc.com> 42) Re: Fwd: Time to discard English names -- a moment of reflection by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 43) Re: Thanksgiving by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 44) Re: Liberia on the US by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 45) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by msjaiteh@mtu.edu (Malanding S. Jaiteh) 46) Hermeneutics of STOP sign (fwd) by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 47) Humor: Any lawyers out there? by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 48) Re: Thanksgiving by globexinc@erols.com 49) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by globexinc@erols.com 50) Cabral Cup II in the Gambia by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> 51) FYI: FELLOWSHIP, African Development Dissertation Workshop (fwd) by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 52) OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 53) Graduate Students Needed (fwd) by "N'Deye Marie N'Jie" <njie.1@osu.edu> 54) Re: Jammeh's Wealth by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 55) A Nigerian Prodigy by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 56) Re: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia by mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) 57) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by "D. Singhateh" <dawdas@u.washington.edu> 58) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 59) Re: New member by "kebba trawally" <kaktra@hotmail.com> 60) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by "Bassirou Dodou Drammeh" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 61) introduction by "sarjo marenah" <smarenah@hotmail.com> 62) Survey by nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) 63) Re: Survey by msjaiteh@mtu.edu (Malanding S. Jaiteh) 64) Re: Liberia on the US by MJagana <MJagana@aol.com> 65) Re: Survey by nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) 66) Re: Brief introduction by "nari@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 67) Re: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia by "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 68) Re: OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 69) Re: Survey by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 70) Re: Liberia on the US by Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> 71) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <m.gassama@swipnet.se> 72) Re: OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda by "BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 73) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 74) Re: Survey by nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) 75) RE: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia by amadou.kabir.njie@nsw.no 76) DELISTING by "narb@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 77) Please change my adress by "Theodor Stenevang" <stenevang@hotmail.com> 78) Please change my adress by "Theodor Stenevang" <stenevang@hotmail.com> 79) Subscription by BAKSAWA@aol.com 80) Zone II Tourney - All roads lead to Independence Stadium by "archibald.graham@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 81) New member by "sillah conateh" <sillahconateh@hotmail.com> 82) re: zone II commentary from the arm chair by "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 83) re: zone II commentary from the arm chair by "D. Singhateh" <dawdas@u.washington.edu> 84) Re: Survey by MJagana@aol.com 85) re: zone II commentary from the arm chair by Tamsir Mbai <mba4224@etbu.edu> 86) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <m.gassama@swipnet.se> 87) Re: Winnie Madikzela Mandela by mmjeng@image.dk 88) by nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) 89) Fwd: Questions of Real Legal Status of African Sla by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 90) New Members by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 91) Re: Zone II Tourney - All roads lead to Independence Stadium by "Pa-Mambuna O. Bojang" <paomar@iglou.com> 92) Zone II Tourney - 2nd day by "archibald.graham@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> 93) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by YULBSORE@aol.com 94) Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by YULBSORE@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 10:35:29 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <19971123093632.AAC56958@momodou> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Greetings, Sarjo Marenah, Joseph Jassey, Michael Thomas and Sambujang Kouyateh have all been added to the list. We welcome them to Gambia-l and look forward to their contributions.
You can send a brief introduction. Our address is: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
regards Momodou Camara
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 11:11:47 -0800 From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <m.gassama@swipnet.se> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Subscription Message-ID: <34787FF3.210C@swipnet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi List Managers! Marie Gillen has still not received any mail. It is however my fault because I forgot a dot in the e-mail address I posted earlier. Please resubscribe her. Her address is:
marie.gillen@swipnet.se
Thanks. Buharry.
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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:17:33 -0500 (EST) From: MJawara@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: List Traffic - Deja vu Message-ID: <971123191732_-87525062@mrin39>
Any one of the following List officials can subscribe a new member.
List Managers
Tony Loum tloum@u.washington.edu Abdou Touray at137@columbia.edu Dr. Katim Touray **
Subscription Managers Amadou Janneh ASJanneh@aol.com Sarian Loum Sarian@osmosys.incog.com Sarian.loum@eng.sun.com Momodou Camara Momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk Latjor Ndow ***
** I don't have Dr. Touray's address. *** Its my understanding that Latjor is currently unsubscribed. Hopefully, members will direct subscription requests to any one of the above and not thru. the List.
Musa.
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:15:36 EST From: "BOJANG,BUBA" <BBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: new member subscription Message-ID: <24NOV97.17560859.0171.MUSIC@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
Hello managers, about a month ago, I requested a membership subscription of a friend who has not up to today receive any acceptance. Please do try and subscribe him as soon as possible. He is Famara Demba his address: f-demba@cougarnet.netexp.net Thanks Buba Bada Bojang
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:25:10 -0000 From: "archibald.graham@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Race and color Message-ID: <B0000018650@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01BCF917.0FB1B600" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Archibald H. R. Graham" <archibald.graham@commit.gm> via Commit
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Dear L-ers
I have followed with great interest for some time now your recent dicussion on the above subject.
As a follow up on the matter at hand, I did some research on it and found out an interesting article in the August 22 1993 Issue of the Awake magazine on this subject under the heading "Why is race such an issue".
I thought it might also be of interest to some of the List's member, to that end I have attached pages 5 to 8 of the article (as a Windows Write 3.0 document) for any who might be interested.
Thanks for the time and space on the List
Archi
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*** g93 8/22 5-8 Why is Race Such an Issue? ***Why is Race Such an = Issue? EVER since the beginning of recorded history, the idea of =93them=94 and = =93us=94 has dominated people=92s thinking. Many have convinced = themselves that they are the only normal people with the right ways of = doing everything. This is what scientists call ethnocentrism, the idea = that one=92s own people and ways are the only ones that count. The ancient Greeks, for example, did not think much of the = =93barbarians,=94 a term they applied to anyone not Greek. The word = =93barbarian=94 developed from the way that the foreign tongues sounded = to Greek ears, like a lot of unintelligible =93bar-bar.=94 The Egyptians = before and the Romans after also felt superior to peoples other than = themselves. For centuries the Chinese called their country Zhong Guo, or the Middle = Kingdom, because they were convinced that China was the center of the = world if not of the universe. Later, when European missionaries with red = hair, green eyes, and ruddy complexion came to China, the Chinese = branded them =93foreign devils.=94 Likewise, when Orientals first showed = up in Europe and North America, their slanted eyes and what were = considered strange customs made them easy targets for ridicule and = suspicion. Yet, there is a significant fact to consider, as the book The Kinds of = Mankind says: =93To believe in one=92s [racial] superiority is one = thing; to attempt to prove it, by using the findings of science, is = something else.=94 Efforts to prove that one race is superior to another = are relatively new. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu wrote that =93the = conception that there are natural or biological races of mankind which = differ from one another mentally as well as physically is an idea which = was not developed until the latter part of the eighteenth century.=94 Why did the issue of racial superiority become so prominent during the = 18th and 19th centuries? Slave Trade and Race A major reason is that the profitable slave trade had by then reached = its apex, and hundreds of thousands of Africans were being taken by = force and pressed into slavery in Europe and the Americas. Often = families were broken up, with men, women, and children being sent to = different parts of the world, never to see one another again. How could = slave traders and slave owners, most of whom claimed to be Christian, = defend such inhuman acts? By propagating the view that black Africans were naturally inferior. = =93I am apt to suspect all negroes, and in general all other species of = men to be naturally inferior to the white,=94 wrote 18th-century = Scottish philosopher David Hume. In fact, Hume claimed that one could = find =93no ingenious manufactures amongst [Negroes], no arts, no = sciences.=94 However, such claims were wrong. The World Book Encyclopedia (1973) = noted: =93Highly developed Negro kingdoms existed in various parts of = Africa hundreds of years ago. . . . Between 1200 and 1600, a = Negro-Arabic university flourished at Timbuktu in West Africa and became = famous throughout Spain, North Africa, and the Middle East.=94 = Nevertheless, those involved in the slave trade were quick to adopt the = view of philosophers such as Hume that blacks were a race inferior to = whites, indeed, even subhuman. Religion and Race Slave traders got considerable support for their racist views from = religious leaders. As early as the 1450=92s, the edicts of Roman = Catholic popes sanctioned the subjugation and enslavement of = =93pagans=94 and =93infidels=94 so that their =93souls=94 might be saved = for =93God=92s Kingdom.=94 Having received the blessing of the church, = early European explorers and slave traders felt no qualms about their = brutal treatment of native peoples. =93In the 1760s, as for many decades to come, black slavery was = sanctioned by Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Reformed = churchmen and theologians,=94 says the book Slavery and Human Progress. = =93No modern church or sect had sought to discourage its members from = owning or even trafficking in black slaves.=94 Although some of the churches talked about universal Christian = brotherhood, they also promoted teachings that intensified the racial = controversy. For example, Encyclopaedia Judaica states that =93it was = only after lengthy struggles and theological discussions that the = Spaniards recognized the native races they found in America as men = endowed with souls.=94 The implication was that so long as the =93souls=94 of the people of = such native races were =93saved=94 by being converted to Christianity, = it was unimportant how they were treated physically. And when it came to = the situation of blacks, many religious leaders argued that they were = cursed by God anyway. Scriptures were misapplied to try to prove this. = Clergymen Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, in their = Bible commentary, assert: =93Cursed be Canaan [Genesis 9:25]=97this doom = has been fulfilled in the destruction of the Canaanites=97in the = degradation of Egypt, and the slavery of the Africans, the descendants = of Ham.=94=97Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Whole Bible. The teaching that the forefather of the black race was cursed is simply = not taught in the Bible. The truth is, the black race descended from = Cush, not Canaan. In the 18th century, John Woolman argued that using = this Biblical curse to justify the enslaving of blacks, depriving them = of their natural rights, =93is a supposition too gross to be admitted = into the mind of any person who sincerely desires to be governed by = solid principles.=94 Pseudoscience and Race Pseudoscience also added its voice in an effort to support the theory = that blacks are an inferior race. The book Essay on the Inequality of = Races, by the 19th-century French writer Joseph de Gobineau, laid the = groundwork for many such works to follow. In it, Gobineau divided = mankind into three separate races in descending order of excellence: = white, yellow, and black. He claimed that the unique qualities of each = race were carried in the blood and that thus any mixing through = intermarriage would result in degradation and loss of the superior = qualities. Gobineau argued that once there existed a pure race of white, tall, = blond-haired, blue-eyed people whom he called Aryans. It was the Aryans, = he argued, who introduced civilization and Sanskrit to India, and it was = the Aryans who established the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. = But through intermarriage with the inferior local people, these = once-glorious civilizations were lost, along with the genius and fine = qualities of the Aryan race. The nearest people to pure Aryan still = remaining, asserted Gobineau, were to be found in northern Europe, = namely, among the Nordic and, by extension, the Germanic peoples. Gobineau=92s basic ideas=97the three-race division, the blood lineage, = the Aryan race=97had no scientific foundation whatsoever, and they are = completely discredited by today=92s scientific community. Nonetheless, = they were quickly picked up by others. Among them was an Englishman, = Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who was so enamored with Gobineau=92s ideas = that he took up residence in Germany and championed the cause that only = through the Germans was there hope of preserving the purity of the Aryan = race. Needless to say, Chamberlain=92s writings became widely read in = Germany, and the outcome was ugly. Ugly Outcome of Racism In his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler asserted that the = German race was the Aryan superrace that was destined to rule the world. = Hitler felt that the Jews, who he said were responsible for sabotaging = the German economy, were an obstacle to this glorious destiny. Thus = followed the extermination of Jews and other minorities of Europe, which = was indisputably one of the darkest chapters of human history. This was = the disastrous outcome of racist ideas, including those of Gobineau and = Chamberlain. Such ugliness was not limited to Europe, however. Across the ocean in = the so-called new world, the same sort of unfounded ideas brought untold = suffering to generations of innocent people. Although African slaves = were finally freed in the United States after the Civil War, laws were = passed in many states prohibiting blacks from having many of the = privileges that other citizens enjoyed. Why? White citizens thought that = the black race did not have the intellectual capacity to participate in = civic duties and government. Just how deeply such racial feelings were entrenched is illustrated by a = case involving an antimiscegenation law. This law prohibited marriages = between blacks and whites. In convicting a couple who broke this law, a = judge said: =93Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, = Malay and red, and He placed them on separate continents, and but for = the interference with His arrangement there would be no cause for such = marriages.=94 The judge said this, not in the 19th century and not in a backward area, = but in 1958=97and not more than 60 miles [100 km] from the U.S. Capitol! = Indeed, it was not until 1967 that the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated = all laws against interracial marriages. Such discriminatory laws=97as well as segregation in schools, churches, = and other public institutions and discrimination in employment and = housing=97led to the civil unrest, protests, and violence that have = become the realities of life in the United States and many other places. = Destruction of life and property aside, the anguish, hatred, and = personal indignities and sufferings that have resulted can only be = regarded as the shame and disgrace of a so-called civilized society. Thus, racism has become one of the most divisive forces afflicting human = society. Surely, it behooves all of us to search our own hearts, asking = ourselves: Do I reject any teachings that proclaim one race to be = superior to another? Have I sought to rid myself of any possible = residual feelings of racial superiority? It is also appropriate that we ask: What hope is there that racial bias = and tension, so rampant today, can ever be eradicated? Can people of = different nationalities, languages, and customs live together in peace
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:43:36 -0800 (PST) From: Sarian Loum <Sarian.Loum@Corp.Sun.COM> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: new member subscription Message-ID: <libSDtMail.9711241543.2417.sarian@groucho> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: 3Wlmrw0tpnL4e+KJd/e3VQ==
All,
Famara Demba and Marie Gillen are subscribed to gambia-l. Welcome aboard and please send in your intros to the list.
sarian
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:15:36 EST > From: "BOJANG,BUBA" <BBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU> > To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > Subject: new member subscription > X-To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > Hello managers, > about a month ago, I requested a membership subscription of a friend > who has not up to today receive any acceptance. > Please do try and subscribe him as soon as possible. He is Famara Demba > his address: f-demba@cougarnet.netexp.net > Thanks Buba Bada Bojang > > > > >
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:51:37 -0800 (PST) From: "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu> To: Gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Dr Sulayman Nyang Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971124163727.20149C-100000@saul7.u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Gambia-l,
I am happy and proud to announce the return of Dr Sulayman Nyang, fellow St Augustine's alumnus and distinguish professor to The Bantaba. As many of you remembered, Dr Nyang used to provide us with educational and insightful contributions. He was away at The University of Hartford where he served as The Henry Luce Forum Visiting Professor of Abrahamic Religions. This chair was created to foster interfaith dialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims where he was the first occupant of this postion. This is something that Gambians/friends of The Gambia should be proud of to have one of its sons rise to such a level of academic prominence in The United States. Dr Nyang, congratulations and welcome aboard once again. Thanks Tony Loum
******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* Anthony W Loum 206-543-4360 Voice Supervisor, Foster Business Libary 206-616-6430 Fax University of Washington tloum@u.washington.edu Box 353224 Seattle, Wa.98195-3200 ******************************************************************************* *******************************************************************************
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:06:54 -0500 (EST) From: MJagana@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Another act of terror Message-ID: <971124210654_1105879435@mrin84.mail.aol.com>
In a message dated 97-11-21 01:25:23 EST, you write:
<< I have three questions for you....you may wanna respond to them or not at all. BTW, I am not trying to provoke you...some people think I am notorious in that regard. I'll not try to ridicule you either should you respond. It will help me a lot in contributing to this thread if you answer the questions below: 1. Do you believe that all arabs are muslim?? 2. Do you believe that all Egyptians are arabs?? 3. What is/are the reason(s) behind such acts af terror?? >>
Dear Jai,
I believe that no one can provoke me. I very well respect people to speak their mind, I do not care what people think about me. There is only one person that can provoke me, THAT IS ME, MYSELF AND I.
There are Jewish Arabs ( a small minority in the middle east), Christian Arabs ( I have a personal friend from this class, we went to school together in Cambridge) and finally there are Muslim Arabs.
All Eygptians are not Arabs.
The only way I or you for that matter can know what is the reason behind such acts of terror is to talk to the people who are behind such acts. Or those who participated in such acts.
Another way of knowing the reason is to take the subjective view of the media.
Peace to you
MOMODOU JAGANA
THE MIND IS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES. PLEASE KEEP IT ALIVE. READ A BOOK.
(TJF)
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 06:12:18 +0300 From: "Bassirou Dodou Drammeh" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang Message-ID: <01bcf950$21f167a0$ec2185c2@q-tel.qatar.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mr.Loume, I am both happy and excited by the twin news of the Professor's new job and return to our lovely Bantaba.
Prof.,you are most welcomed and we are very honoured to have you back!
Regards Bassss! -----Original Message----- From: A. Loum <tloum@u.washington.edu> To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 9:47 AM Subject: Dr Sulayman Nyang
> > >Gambia-l, > >I am happy and proud to announce the return of Dr Sulayman Nyang, fellow >St Augustine's alumnus and distinguish professor to The Bantaba. As many >of you remembered, Dr Nyang used to provide us with educational and >insightful contributions. > He was away at The University of Hartford where he served as The >Henry Luce Forum Visiting Professor of Abrahamic Religions. This chair was >created to foster interfaith dialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims >where he was the first occupant of this postion. This is something that >Gambians/friends of The Gambia should be proud of to have one of its sons >rise to such a level of academic prominence in The United States. > Dr Nyang, congratulations and welcome aboard once again. > > Thanks > Tony Loum > > > >*************************************************************************** **** >*************************************************************************** **** > > Anthony W Loum 206-543-4360 Voice > Supervisor, Foster Business Libary 206-616-6430 Fax > University of Washington tloum@u.washington.edu > Box 353224 > Seattle, Wa.98195-3200 > >*************************************************************************** **** >*************************************************************************** **** > > > >
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: msjaiteh@mtu.edu (Malanding S. Jaiteh) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang Message-ID: <199711250318.WAA04655@oak.mtu.edu> Content-Type: text
Welcome back Dr Nyang.
Malanding Jaiteh
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:43:23 -0500 (EST) From: MJagana@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <971124224322_2106179893@mrin46.mail.aol.com>
In a message dated 97-11-19 23:50:00 EST, you write:
<< I have also wondered why "no US president had made a state visit to Africa >since 1978." I thought Hillary just returned from a trip to Uganda and some other countries in eastern and sounthern Africa(*grin*) :-) Cheerio, >>
I BELEIEVE HILLARY IS THE WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT , NOT THE PRESIDENT.
MOMODOU J
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 23:06:00 -0500 (EST) From: MJagana@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Another act of terror Message-ID: <971124230559_-1974288957@mrin47>
In a message dated 97-11-21 18:59:07 EST, you write:
<< MR MOMODOU. THAT IS NOT CALLED KILLING. THAT IS CALLED SELFDEFENCE, AND IS (SHOULD BE) DECIDED BY THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I hope some understand my understatement by overstating with Cap.letters...) >> Dear Trostien,,
WHO MAKES THE LAW ? PEOPLE
MOMODOU J
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 02:04:39 -0000 From: "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: It's the economy, Narr Message-ID: <B0000018735@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Default Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> via Commit
Jorn, I can only venture some few reasons why the Dalasi has remained stable..you realise that 80-90% imports to The Gambia are essentials and foodstuff and as times get harder, the purchasing power of the average Gambian drops, as does the demand for forex..foreign exchange, lower demand and adequate supply due mainly to Tourism and a very limited extent remittances from Gambians abroad, be they professionals or boys in Germany and Swiss, this is why despite trade sanctions and lower exports ..agriculture wise, the dalasi has remained quite relatively stable.. just a perspective pmj
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 23:36:34 -0500 From: M W Payne <awo@mindspring.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: color trouble.. Message-ID: <347A55D1.770B2E5E@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Good day Mr. Torstein and all other Gambia-lers,
It is difficult returning to the Bantaba in order to respond to lengthy issues, after dealing all day with the heavy workload provided by two jobs, and family life. I think that sometimes the energy of discussion often generates more heat than light. In such a context, it is often pointless to carry a debate on certain issues beyond some specific point, because the debate tends to offer less and less in terms of information, and substantive arguments, while providing the fodder for more and more unnecessary, sometimes entertaining, (almost always hurtful) incendiary remarks. Since it is not my intention to respond in the latter fashion, I offer this response and promise to offer few if any more responses on this issue (in spite of the very real threat by my brother Mr. Amadou Kabir Njie, to withhold from me his forgiveness - in this lifetime!!!), as the responses may be less productive than hoped.
In this light, I think we may agree to disagree on the issue at hand, however we have, hopefully, gained a clearer understanding of each other's position. By the way, who has gone for the ataya? > >tgr@commit.gm wrote:
> >> I have no statistics to prove you otherwise, but the little I have heard from the US > >> is that a majority of dark skinned people are actually killed/attacked by other > >> dark skinned people?! Also there seems to be certain areas in the US where a person > >>with a light complexion really, really should not go?! > > I agree with you on the first point that "black on black" crime is a little to the side of the > "white vs.black" issue. > As you say, violence/crime general and violence/crime colorbased is two different things. > I read Mr. Njie response in the first sense, and thus responded accordingly. What I was > thinking of > (in the general sense) > was that people are people (good and bad) regardless of color.
> I do not fully comprehend how you can conclude that my arguments suggest a racist > notion. > Here I think you are sliding a little. "Black on black" crime is happening, "White on black" > crime > is happening, and > I suggest that perhaps "black on white" crime is emerging a few places. Just because I am > writing > that there is crimes > happening between "black and black" etc., does not imply that ALL "Black" (or ALL > "white" for that > matter) > are "inherently violent and evil" (your quote). It simply means that humans are capable of > anything, > bad and good, "black&white". > > As I wrote before, I have no statistics to support my claim,
Yes, there are good and bad in numerous categories of people. I think we are on the same page with that statement. However, your lack of stats to support your claim, is precisely my point. What was the basis of your allegation? If you had no statistics, were there any anecdotal material you could cite? In the absence of either statistics or anecdotes, then how could you make your question/emphatic statements (as characterized by your question mark/exclamation point) or "claim" (your term). This is a point I will briefly touch upon later.
> What do you think, is there no difference if a "white guy" walks down a "downtown" > Harlem street > or a "Black guy" does the same?! > Just asking, never been there, so I don't know. > Am I a racist when I ask a single question about some single areas in the US?! I never > said it is a > fact, and I cannot > be asked to make a disclaimer on any question to avoid being a "racist provoker"!?! > No, it certainly is not racist to ask such questions, however your "question" appeared rhetorical, moreover the question was undeniably loaded with innuendo, insinuation, and implication, although I can imagine a denial is being formulated as you read this. As quiered above what was the basis of your allegation/question? It is this type of innuendo for which the originator denies any responsibility for its implication, that pepper the literature and mass media and give strength to racist positions. This is what I am pointing out, as I have seen this type of insinuation over and over again across the past few decades in "respectable media". It is effective, especially when left unchallenged.
> If you look in the history books, all the people that achieves something actually has names > and > stories behind them. > They are idividuals, not just "whites" (or "blacks"). This is what makes them interesting as > sportsmen/women etc. > Today you have people of any "color" making achievements in sports etc. and everybody > cheers the > achiever, being it > a American, Englishman, Chinese or whatever. What makes them interesting is their talent, > their > ability and the > story behind their success, NOT the color. > This is how it should be if you ask me. For me there is nothing like "they" and "us" in the > sense > of color. I believe "color" is a > unhealty separation of people, looked upon in any context, historically or otherwise. > All things being equal, I would say that you are absolutely correct. Philosophically, in an idyllic, sanitized world, I believe your stance is correct! However, I live in the world that is, rather than in a utopia. The issue of color gives further context to achievement and is not coincidental or insignificant as you imply. Your attempt to bleach history of its color context is untenable, simply because color has been significant in numerous historical circumstances. > > Everything revolves around power if you ask me. Racism as far as I have learnt is a mix of > fear, > lack of knowledge, > collective behaviour as you say, peoples tendency to always group things, conservatism > etc. > Since we are visually dependent creatures, "black" and "white" is a convenient but > erranous way to > group people. > I will not argue about your essentializing power; everyone has a perspective concerning the underpinnings of society - I choose to see these perspectives as neither right nor wrong, just as other perspectives, based upon your own experiences, intellect, and philosophical bent. However, in order to negotiate life itself, as a sentient being, social categories have to be constructed to make sense out of our experiences. All of these categories are imperfect, simply because they are all conceptual frames, however they are still useful. Thus, all grouping, which you talk about has its limitations, but nonetheless is useful and even essential.
> > But this is not the sixties now, I would mildly > suggest that the > situation is different (better?!) now in some parts of the world.
> I will stand together with you in any confrontation you would ever experience regarding > racism. > You are wrong when you believe I am feeling threatened, I am just asking for a critical > approach to > the use > of "color". > Yes, I have made reference to the sixties (the thirties, the forties, the fifties, and the seventies - i.e., the PAST, a.k.a. HISTORY) and things are undeniably better on some fronts, because of the struggle waged by Black people (and yes, as you suggest by others in concert with Black people). However, some of these changes, may be more cosmetic than substantive in nature, while many of the underlying sympathies and sentiments which undergird racism remain the same. Rodney King is not a phenomenon of the sixties, nor is color insignificant to that situation. The American C.I.A.'s connection to drugs and the Black community of California, is not of the sixties; race is not incidental to this situation either. There are far too many circumstances which one could relate, which demonstrate time without number that race (or color, as you prefer) is not incidental to historical process and social forces. As mentioned previously, there is a historical context to everything. There is a conjunction between the past and the present, and although we are not slaves to history, it certainly does have a heavy impact upon the present and the future.
> All I am saying is that to use the two "colors" "white" and "black" to separate people, is a > generalisation > of people that creates polarization and divides humans into "us" and "them" regardless of > who is > doing it, > "white","black","brown,"red","yellow","gray" etc.........(getting tired of this colorfocusing :-( > ) > Mr Torstein, doesn't categorization by: nationality; gender; region; age; religion; or a host of other characteristics "create polarizations and divide humans into us' and them' "? Yet, you have not registered your disapproval of these categories for some unknown reason. In fact, throughout your writings, I am hard pressed to discern a reason for your reluctance to accept color as a category of human existence while simultaneously being content with solidarity based on nationality, religion, or whatever. If you would be so kind as to explain the differences in these categories, so that I might have a greater understanding on your position relative to these points, it would go a long way in my education of that position.
> > Is this > colorstruggle > really > what we want? "White" against "Black" on the racefield, economically, politically etc.? > "Black" identity in my opinion should be unecessary just as "White" identity is. > It is maybe theoretically today, but could be the thing to aim at. > I am not clear what the last sentence, you wrote, means but I think I understand the thrust of your overall statement. The color struggle, whether or not you approve, is a reality. It will not go away by ignoring it or wishing it away. This is not to say that every White person in the world is seeking to oppress every Black person, however there are enough people who have this on their agenda. And this struggle occurs in significant number on many fronts. This describes the machinations of institutional racism which operates structurally behind the scenes, rather than on the conscious individual, level. In this context, a Black identity is very, very necessary.
> >>You keep confusing recognition, with evaluation, which are not the same. > > Well, you seem to be hung up on details. > Conserning Evaluation & recognition. > Toubab can be a evaluation if you think about it; > - I am a foreigner, > - I have a lot of money, (to give away) ("toubab, give me some Dalasi...") > - I can help them in any way they need, > - I am nice, > - I can take them to Europe, etc. > Just to be a little Nitty Gritty back. > > The difference between the shaping of people and the shaping of a mountain is that people > can chose > to > change or "reshape" it self based on intelligence and knowledge. That is what gives me > hope. > "The devil is in the details," Mr Torstein. People have the ability to reshape themselves indeed, however we cannot completely escape our individual or collective history. In fact, history is one of the tools used to reshape that future. The Spanish born philosopher, George Santayana once said, "Those who do not remember the past, are condemned to relive it." Mr. Torstein, there are far too many of us who have little or no memory of the past, while there are some aspects of the past which I loathe to relive.
A Black solidarity, with an accurate sense of history and a viable strategy to address current realities, would preclude us from reliving the most painful and destructive periods of our past. As the Jewish community states day-in, day-out "Never again!" (Do you criticize Jewish solidarity on the basis of their experiences?)
>>My point is, that whereas you are prepared to deny the > obvious, I am > NOT, > > because it is not inherently value laden. Different doesn't necessarily mean better; it > doesn't > > necessarily mean worse. It simply means DIFFERENT. > > You have a good point here, that there can be grouping based on color, without any > negative > components > attached to it..but do you believe it yourself?! > Sure, and why not?? This is an interesting turn of events (actually I find it incredible), as I have been reading the numerous posts generated by this list. Curiously, one of the posts is a response you made to Chakys concerning the reference to color in your own land. The exchange went as follows:
>>This man who comes from a country where black people are still referred >>to as "neger" and in whose language everything bad is black (svart) >>should either put up or shut up.
>-Actually, as far as I know, the word "neger" is a word coming from the word >"negro" meaning Black in Spanish (Now where did I here the word Black used >before?!? And from whom >?!?). >My understanding is that it is used as a polite word (esp.among older people) for >describing a person of dark skincolor. >It is rather clumsily I admit considering that the word has negative historical use, >but mostly it is not used for anything else than description.
In this response you wasted no time in defending the use of a color term as being a "polite word" How do you reconcile your statement to Chakys, and the above rhetorical question directed to me? Is it that a reference to color can be muted or polite in your language, but cannot be in any other language? This is not to mention that there is a difference between the connotation of "negro" or "black" in Spanish, and another derivative of the same word, the infamous "n - - - - r" word. "Negro" in Spanish is value neutral, as far as I know, although the other derivative is not. "Negrita" is a term of endearment in Spanish, "n - - - - r" in context is not! Is this an issue of trying to have it both ways?
> But maybe I have had some positive influence on you, regarding color and > how to > look at it?! > I already have positive ideas of color and know very well how to look at it.
> Re: Caps lock. > I was not the one using capital letters in the mail. > I don't know how long you have been on e-mail/Internet but it is > actually considered rude and "shouting" as e-mail ethics go. > > No lecturing of course, just a tip. > Mr. Torstein, thank you for the reminder (or tip as you put it) on e-mail etiquette (or ethics as you put it). Caps can be used as emphasis to indicate where one would either underline, italics, or bold a selection of text, as there are a few of the older mail readers which cannot handle this underline, italics or bold in the formatting. Whatever the case, if you could point out in my message to you where I SHOUTED (either a sentence, a phrase, or a word) which would warrant this "tip," I would be most grateful. Thank you again.
Have a good and prosperous day.
M W Payne
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 23:37:22 -0500 From: M W Payne <awo@mindspring.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Color Debate Message-ID: <347A5602.EE99C0D8@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Good day Ms. Munzel and other Gambia-lers,
I am happy to meet you at the Bantaba. > >Laura Munzel wrote: > > Dear Mr. Payne, > > You said: > ...the idea of racism revolves around the issue of power and how that power > influences collective behavior. Blacks have never been in such positions of power to > influence collective behavior... > > You say that black people can't be racist because they can't influence collective behavior, > and white people can be racist because they can affect collective behavior. What's ironic > is that although you base your view on historical and political context, there is still a > determinism expressed based solely on race. Isn't it very possible that a wealthy black > individual would have more influence on collective behavior than poor white trash? > Economic status makes a difference, I think - not just race. > Ms. Munzel, I have no problem with the idea that economics is an integral part of this equation. However, I am curious to find out if you are saying that a Black person (male or female) with money (or economic status), is in an equal position to influence events as a White male with money? Are there equal institutional supports for both sets of individuals? Furthermore, I see no reason to use the type of racial epithets that you do, Ms. Munzel. To essentialize economic status, I think leads us to the make the same mistakes that Marx made in his often brilliant analysis, when he ignored both gender and race.
> You might respond that the example given of a black man/woman who is wealthy, or a > black man/woman who is in a position of power is the exception rather than the rule. You > mention that: ...Blacks have never been in similar positions of power on a global > basis. Is there such a thing of being in power on a global basis? I would say there are > more pockets of power which play out differently across different contexts of economic > status, social status, political status. > This is well put, but to deny that idea that power exists on a global basis is, more than the word, interesting. In viewing recent events in the Asian stock market and its repercussions on the west would give us some indication that there are some global economic forces at work here. Moreover, I find it interesting that in an institution such as Columbia, which gave rise to a school of anthropologists during the fifties and sixties, who talk about the new international division of labor, and who could point to multi-national corporations, which have an impact upon people across geo-political boundaries, could produce a question like "Is there such a thing of being in power on a global basis?" The answer to that question, depending upon your theoretical orientation and breadth of understanding of such issues, in my estimation, has to be "Yes!"
Do the managers of Shell Oil and similar corporations have power which extend beyond national boundaries? Ask the widow of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
> In saying the above, there is no arguing the fact that we are all carrying around the histories > of our races. We are treated differentially based on our color. People die because of > their color. The affects on peoples' lives are very real.
> Basing a political position solely on race is limiting. First, it stems from the same ideology > which got us into this mess in the first place. Second, by viewing race as the single > significant factor in a political struggle, opportunities are missed for alliances based on > other determiners. > Ms. Munzel, do not think for a moment, that I am limiting race (or color as Mr. Torstein would have it) as the single factor in a political struggle (although, I do give it primacy as a "significant" factor). Nor does this position preclude alliances based on anything else. What I would say first and foremost, however, is that the basic platform should revolve around the issue which formed the basis of the original attack, and then coalitions should be formed with other groups only AFTER having formed that initial primary solidarity.
That is my position Ms. Munzel.
Thank you and have a pleasant day.
M W Payne
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:06:35 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp2.erols.com Subject: Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang Message-ID: <347A951B.60B3@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
A. Loum wrote: > > Gambia-l, > > I am happy and proud to announce the return of Dr Sulayman Nyang, fellow > St Augustine's alumnus and distinguish professor to The Bantaba. As many > of you remembered, Dr Nyang used to provide us with educational and > insightful contributions. > He was away at The University of Hartford where he served as The > Henry Luce Forum Visiting Professor of Abrahamic Religions. This chair was > created to foster interfaith dialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims > where he was the first occupant of this postion. This is something that > Gambians/friends of The Gambia should be proud of to have one of its sons > rise to such a level of academic prominence in The United States. > Dr Nyang, congratulations and welcome aboard once again. > > Thanks > Tony Loum > > > ******************************************************************************* > ******************************************************************************* > > Anthony W Loum 206-543-4360 Voice > Supervisor, Foster Business Libary 206-616-6430 Fax > University of Washington tloum@u.washington.edu > Box 353224 > Seattle, Wa.98195-3200 > > ******************************************************************************* > ******************************************************************************* > Welcome back Professor Hope to see you soon Habib
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:11:50 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp2.erols.com Subject: Re: Another act of terror Message-ID: <347A9656.1D54@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MJagana@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 97-11-21 01:25:23 EST, you write: > > << I have three questions for you....you may wanna respond to them or not > at all. BTW, I am not trying to provoke you...some people think I am > notorious in that regard. I'll not try to ridicule you either should you > respond. It will help me a lot in contributing to this thread if you > answer the questions below: > > 1. Do you believe that all arabs are muslim?? > > 2. Do you believe that all Egyptians are arabs?? > > 3. What is/are the reason(s) behind such acts af terror?? > >> > > Dear Jai, > > I believe that no one can provoke me. I very well respect people to speak > their mind, I do not care what people think about me. There is only one > person that can provoke me, THAT IS ME, MYSELF AND I. > > There are Jewish Arabs ( a small minority in the middle east), Christian > Arabs ( I have a personal friend from this class, we went to school together > in Cambridge) and finally there are Muslim Arabs. > > All Eygptians are not Arabs. > > The only way I or you for that matter can know what is the reason behind such > acts of terror is to talk to the people who are behind such acts. Or those > who participated in such acts. > > Another way of knowing the reason is to take the subjective view of the > media. > > Peace to you > > MOMODOU JAGANA > > THE MIND IS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES. > PLEASE KEEP IT ALIVE. > READ A BOOK. > > (TJF)Momodou With all due respects, I think the sister was just trying to make a valid point not provoking you. We have to look at both angles and your answer to her questions bring light to the pertanent subject that raised this issue in the first place --your blanket grouping of one group of people (Arab/ Muslims) under the unjust classification of terrirists. peace Habib
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:14:01 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp2.erols.com Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <347A96D9.2B71@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MJagana@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 97-11-19 23:50:00 EST, you write: > > << I have also wondered why "no US president had made a state visit to > Africa > >since 1978." > > I thought Hillary just returned from a trip to Uganda and some other > countries in eastern and sounthern Africa(*grin*) :-) > > Cheerio, >> > > I BELEIEVE HILLARY IS THE WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT , NOT THE PRESIDENT. > > MOMODOU J
Momodou Hillary represented the President of the USA during her last visit to Africa. FYI
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:15:18 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp2.erols.com Subject: Re: Another act of terror Message-ID: <347A9726.5488@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MJagana@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 97-11-21 18:59:07 EST, you write: > > << MR MOMODOU. > THAT IS NOT CALLED KILLING. > THAT IS CALLED SELFDEFENCE, AND IS (SHOULD BE) DECIDED BY > THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > (I hope some understand my understatement by overstating with > Cap.letters...) > >> > Dear Trostien,, > > WHO MAKES THE LAW ? PEOPLE > > MOMODOU JWell said Trostein
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:24:59 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Dr Sulayman Nyang Message-ID: <9711250624.AA29178@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Tony Loum, you wrote: > > Gambia-l, > > I am happy and proud to announce the return of Dr Sulayman Nyang, fellow > St Augustine's alumnus and distinguish professor to The Bantaba. As many > of you remembered, Dr Nyang used to provide us with educational and > insightful contributions. > Dr Nyang, congratulations and welcome aboard once again. > > Thanks > Tony Loum
Brother Nyang,
What a pleasure to hear from you again!
After almost a year of silence, I guessed that you may have abandoned us for good. It is indeed a pleasure to know that you are still around and doing wonderfully well. I was so happy to read your email today.
I hope that once you finally settle down, you will briefly update us on the assignments that you have been busily working on. For the benefit of the new members of the list, I also think it would be wonderful if you could reintroduce yourself, as many of them may have heard about you from one source or the other. It's really nice to have you back, Doc!
Regards, Moe S. Jallow ======================================================================== mjallow@sct.edu mjallow@hayes.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:48:55 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp1.erols.com Subject: Thanksgiving Message-ID: <347A9F07.7DA8@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hope you all have a nice and enjoyable turkey day Does it not remind you of Harri -Tobaski or Easter Nan Buru celebration of families and friends. I suggest we get a Halal killed turkey (or you go to the farm and do it yourself) and invite your closest Gambian neighbour or friend. Let us join the celebration if we can afford it. Why not?? Dr Nyang any thoughts or opinion on this
Should we be part of it of not ? Habib
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 03:25:37 -0500 (EST) From: Mbk007@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Waiting to exhale.....NOT!!!! Message-ID: <971125032536_413473522@mrin43.mail.aol.com>
Please say no more. Sister 'J' seems very angry and negative, and hopes she realizes that a lot of us have been offended. I have always wondered why she always has something negative to say regarding most of the postings she replies to. A word of advice: please always try to be positive and nice to people especially in this bantaba, for we will have to deal with each other sooner or later. What people think of you now might hold for a long time, and it's not too late to start getting along with the crowd.
Thanks M.B. Krubally.
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 06:33:57 +0300 From: "Bassirou Dodou Drammeh" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Race and color Message-ID: <01bcf952$f6579260$ec2185c2@q-tel.qatar.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Archi, Thanks for the attachment and keep up the good work down there!
Regards Bassss! -----Original Message----- From: archibald.graham@commit.gm <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 9:06 AM Subject: Re: Race and color
>Dear L-ers > >I have followed with great interest for some time now your recent dicussion >on the above subject. > >As a follow up on the matter at hand, I did some research on it and found >out an interesting article in the August 22 1993 Issue of the Awake >magazine on this subject under the heading "Why is race such an issue". > >I thought it might also be of interest to some of the List's member, to >that end I have attached pages 5 to 8 of the article (as a Windows Write >3.0 document) for any who might be interested. > >Thanks for the time and space on the List > >Archi >
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Friends, nice to be back after one month of summer-holidays, of which some 3 weeks was spend in The Gambia. M.B.Krubally is right. We must = try to treat one another as mutual "friends" on this gambia-list. I have = met some 6 persons, which I only knew from the gambia-list. And that was a great experience. Meeting people who you only knew from the internet = can be a good experience for life. Thanks to all of you who found the time to spend with me. I have a lot of piles waiting at my desk, so please have patience to get my news from "home". Asbj=F8rn Nordam
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:05:41 -0500 (EST) From: MJagana@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <971125070541_-487850939@mrin79>
In a message dated 97-11-25 01:33:35 EST, you write:
<< Momodou Hillary represented the President of the USA during her last visit to Africa. FYI >> Dear Habib,
FYI, I very much know that, but there is a significant difference in the language of diplomacy, for the president to personally visit Africa and to be represented by the wife.
So FYI I am informed >.......take a chill pill
momodou J
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:11:47 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: On the list again Message-ID: <9711251411.AA33692@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Friends, nice to be back after one month of summer-holidays, of which > some 3 weeks was spend in The Gambia. M.B.Krubally is right. We must = > try > to treat one another as mutual "friends" on this gambia-list. I have = > met > some 6 persons, which I only knew from the gambia-list. And that was a > great experience. Meeting people who you only knew from the internet = > can > be a good experience for life. Thanks to all of you who found the time > to spend with me. I have a lot of piles waiting at my desk, so please > have patience to get my news from "home". Asbj=F8rn Nordam
Absjorn,
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Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:39:00 +0300 From: "BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: On the list again Message-ID: <01bcf9af$deccfba0$7e2385c2@kolls567> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Asbjorn!! Welcome back! We are very glad to have you back ,and keep up the good work down there.
Regards Bassss! -----Original Message----- From: Asbjrn Nordam <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Date: 25//1418 08:19 Subject: On the list again
Friends, nice to be back after one month of summer-holidays, of which some 3 weeks was spend in The Gambia. M.B.Krubally is right. We must try to treat one another as mutual "friends" on this gambia-list. I have met some 6 persons, which I only knew from the gambia-list. And that was a great experience. Meeting people who you only knew from the internet can be a good experience for life. Thanks to all of you who found the time to spend with me. I have a lot of piles waiting at my desk, so please have patience to get my news from "home". Asbjrn Nordam
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:55:48 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Test Message-ID: <9711251855.AA66098@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Pardon me...
This is just a test.
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:37:31 -0500 (EST) From: "N'Deye Marie N'Jie" <njie.1@osu.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: jacka@einstein.franklin.edu, jackr@franklin.edu Subject: Fwd: Time to discard English names -- a moment of reflection Message-ID: <2.2.16.19971125153616.46476426@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Gambia-l:
Here's one of those thought provoking articles that makes you take a moment to reflect on it. REad on......>
>>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:35:49 -0800 >>Reply-To: A Discussion of Sierra Leonean Issues ><LEONENET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> >>From: Prince Dugba <pndugba@UCDAVIS.EDU> >>Subject: Time to discard English names >>To: LEONENET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >> >>Forwarded. One of those thought-provoking articles you had like to >share. >>__________________________________________ >>Letter to a Kampala Friend: >>Time to discard English names >>The Monitor November 17, 1997 >> >>By Dr. Muniini Mulera in Toronto >> >>Dear Tingasiga: >> >>Last month's news report that Madera Hospital in Soroti would be >re-named >>"Princess Diana," in tribute to the late Princess of Wales, brought a >smile >>to my face. >> >>I could just imagine the pride with which Soroti Municipality MP, Mike >>Mukula, informed the peasants of Soroti, that their hospital would now >have >>a civilized Christian name. >> >>While Mukula was announcing the good news to his grateful constituents, >Sir >>John Woodward, an ex-colonial administrator, was returning to Uganda, >where >>he had not set foot since 1962. >> >>As he flew over Lake Victoria, Sir John's mind filled with great >memories >>of glorious exploits in the old protectorate, where he had made a >career of >>christianizing the natives and ridding them of pagan names like >Muniini, >>Onyango and Gidudu. >> >>He began to wonder what might have become of the civilized names his >>predecessors had so lovingly given to Uganda's lakes, mountains, water >>falls and national parks. >> >>Turning to the African passenger next to him, Sir John asked: "What do >you >>call this lake these days?" >> >>Looking somewhat surprised, the Mukiga man replied: "Lake Victoria, of >>course!" >> >>"Didn't the natives call it Nnalubaale, or something like that?", the >>Englishman continued. >> >>The Mukiga thought for a moment, wondering what was wrong with this >muzungu. >> >>"Only the Luganda newsreader on Radio and TV refers to it by that name, >>when he is talking about the weather. Otherwise everybody uses its >proper >>name of Lake Victoria." >> >>"Really?", Sir John said, as he sank back into his seat. >> >>After clearing immigration, the Englishman was driven to Lake Victoria >>Windsor Hotel for refreshments and some rest, in preparation for a >guided >>tour of the country. >> >>At the hotel, Sir John was offered a breakfast menu which featured >various >>items with French and English names. >> >>Spying an item called "Continental Breakfast", he asked the waiter >which >>continent this referred to. >> >>"I don't quite sure but let me check, sir" the young man replied, >before >>scampering off to confer with the head waiter. >> >>Sensing an opportunity to impress the visitor, the head waiter walked >over >>to Sir John's table and proudly informed him that this breakfast was >>straight from Europe. >> >>"Ah! But do you have an African continental breakfast?", the old man >asked, >>beginning to sound more proud of Africa than his hosts. >> >>"Not really. But sir, we have other foods you can choose from." >> >>After a hearty meal of a nameless breakfast of fresh fruit and juice, >Sir >>John hired a taxi to take him on a guided tour of Kampala, the city >where >>he had spent four decades earlier. >> >>The driver, who introduced himself as Nehemiah, was very delighted to >be >>asked to drive a European, and he indicated his pleasure with a wink >and a >>thumbs-up sign to his envious colleagues. >> >>"Do you have an African name?" Sir John inquired, as the car made its >way >>past the Botanical Gardens. >> >>"Yes sir. They call me Wagumbuluzi Kyaba Naky'Omusajja Kyawa Munne, but >I >>prefer Nehemiah. It says in the Bible that Nehemiah, son of Hachaliah, >was >>a great man." >> >>The Englishman made a grunting noise, obviously unimpressed by >Nehemiah's >>Biblical scholarship. >> >>As they entered Kampala, Sir John noted, that the Queen's Way and the >>Queen's Clock Tower had survived the various battles for Kampala. >> >>They soon came upon Siad Barre Avenue, next to Parliament Buildings. >> >>Wasn't Siad Barre a nasty dictator somewhere in Africa?" Sir John >asked, >>adding: "I find it rather remarkable that Uganda's leaders drive along >this >>street everyday." >> >>Nehemiah remained silent. Turning onto De Winton Road, he pointed to >The >>Monitor's old office, which was located right across from Siad Barre >Avenue. >> >>Sensing the irony, Sir John informed his driver that an independent >>newspaper like The Monitor would never have lasted twenty four hours in >>Siad Barre's Somalia. >> >>As they drove through Kampala and the tree-lined boulevards of >Nakasero, >>Kololo and Bugolobi, the conversation turned to politics. >> >>Nehemiah, a Muganda, proudly informed the visitor that President >Museveni >>had restored the dignity of the Baganda by giving them their king. >> >>The Kabaka, Sir John learned , was the repository of Buganda's culture >and >>traditions. Indeed he was officially known as a "Cultural Institution". >> >>"What are your Kabaka's names?", Sir John asked, confessing that he had >not >>kept up with developments in the colonies. >> >>"Our beloved Kabaka is Ronald Edward Frederick Muwenda Mutebi II, son >of >>Sir Edward Frederick Walugembe Mutesa II, grandson of Daudi Chwa, great >>grandson of Kabaka Mwanga, whom your people exiled to Seychelles." >> >>There was a long silence. Sir John began to smile, realising the irony >of >>African "cultural institutions" carrying English names. >> >>"I never realised what we were doing to their minds," he whispered. >> >>When Nehemiah asked him what he meant by that, Sir John pretended not >to >>have heard the question. >> >>Sir John asked to be driven to Makerere University. The place was as >>European as he had left it thirty five years earlier, save for the >absence >>of Europeans and Asians. >> >>The students and teachers preferred to be called by their civilized >>Christian names. >> >>However, one middle-aged gentleman, who introduced himself as Professor >>Engineer Dr. Alai Mokili, seemed to be one of the few who had rejected >>European names, which he called slave names. >> >>"You see sir," the engineer explained, "one of the few sensible things >that >>the ex-dictator of Zaire did for his people was his attempt to get them >to >>take pride in African names. Mobutu's policy of "authenticity" which he >>decreed in the early 70s, had transformed him from Joseph Desire to >Mobutu >>Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Zabanga, which, meant 'The Cock That Leaves >No >>Hen Unturned.'" >> >>"And did the Zaireans follow the cock's example?", Sir John asked. >> >>"Oh yes, they did," Mokili declared. "We began to hear of names like >Kengo >>wa Dondo, Kamanda wa Kamanda and Mbaliga Nzonga. That was when I gave >up my >>slave names of Christopher Columbus, much to my family's distress. My >old >>man said I had betrayed God." >> >>Sir John's face lit up with excitement. Finally, here was an African >who >>seemed to be interested in his cultural identity. There was hope after >all. >> >>He invited the engineer to join him the following morning, on a journey >to >>the Mountains of the Moon and then to Kigezi, where he had served as >>District Commissioner in the 1950s. >> >>Nehemiah agreed to be their chauffeur, having become a keen student of >the >>two gentlemen. >> >>"I will be very happy to take you anywhere, Sir. I want you to call me >>Wagumbuluzi, and not Nehemiah any more sir." >> >>Sir John smiled, already feeling that the trip was bearing fruit. >> >>They set off before dawn, and arrived at Kasese's Hotel Margheritta in >the >>early afternoon. >> >>"Good Lord," Sir John moaned, "you have never changed the name of this >>hotel?" >> >>"Oh, we should not change that name," Mokili replied. "You see, I do >not >>think we should change the names which you folks gave to buildings and >>roads. Those were your creations, and so they should retain your >names." >> >>Sir John and Wagumbuluzi looked puzzled. >> >>"But Professor," Wagumbuluzi started, "I thought you wanted African >names?" >> >>The professor was smiling, just like he usually did whenever he had a >>student cornered, trying to solve a mathematical puzzle. >> >>"You see," he said, "nobody should change names which others have given >to >>things. That is why we say it was very arrogant of the Europeans to >rename >>our great mountains with names like Elgon, Margheritta peak, Mt. >Stanley, >>and so on. Those mountains over there were known as Rwenjura (where it >>rains a lot). The Europeans mispronounced them as Rwenzori, and got rid >of >>the great names which the Africans had given to each of the mountains >>thousands of years ago. That was very arrogant." >> >>Mokili had given a lot of thought to this subject. He continued: >>"Similarly, our great lakes were desecrated with names like Edward for >Lake >>Rwitanzigye, Victoria for Nnalubaale and so on. I do not even know what >>Lakes Albert and George were called before the Europeans came." >> >>Wagumbuluzi was smiling. "You mean those things which Europeans created >>should retain European names, and those which they found here should go >>back to their African names?" >> >>The Professor leaned back, pleased that he had made intellectual >connection >>with the young man. >> >>"You see, Wagu, unless we reclaim our identity, we are going to >disappear >>as a race. We need to revert to those cultural symbols like proper >African >>names, which re-affirm our great heritage." >> >>The Professor then closed his eyes. He had been talking all day, and >>feeling exhausted, he sank back in his seat and fell asleep. >> >>Wagumbuluzi suggested that they head for Kabale via Ntungamo. By the >time >>they got there, it was too dark to continue their journey to Kabale. >> >>"Is there a place we can stay in this town?", Sir John asked. >> >>Wagumbuluzi pulled up in front a small duka (kiosk)-type building. >> >>On it was written, in white paint, "HILTON HOTEL." >> >>"Good Lord," Sir John whispered, "a Hilton Hotel in Ntungamo!" >> >>He closed his eyes in prayer. "Lord Jesus, forgive Her Majesty Queen >>Victoria, and her descendants, for the terrible things we did to these >>people's minds." >> >>From the corner of his eye, Wagumbuluzi could see the Englishman >reaching >>for a handkerchief to wipe tears from his eyes. >>______________________________________________________________ >>Prince Dugba >>pndugba@ucdavis.edu >>University of California, Davis. >> >> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:29 -0500 From: globexinc@erols.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <347B3871.3340@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
MJagana@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 97-11-25 01:33:35 EST, you write: > > << Momodou Hillary represented the President of the USA during her last > visit to Africa. FYI > >> > Dear Habib, > > FYI, I very much know that, but there is a significant difference in the > language of diplomacy, for the president to personally visit Africa and to > be represented by the wife. > > So FYI I am informed >.......take a chill pill > > momodou J
Momodou I like your style and language. !! What is a chill pill and where can I get one ?.Since you know so much about these wonder chill pills and probably tried them also,does it have any after effects?? (laugh) Moe, tell me how I can get the money pill. Please Brother Habib ps I hope you can take a joke! I enjoyed yours.
-- MZ
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:45:45 PST From: "Jobst Mnderlein" <joppl@hotmail.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <19971125214545.19007.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain
1)Is there anyone on the list who understands/reads German? I have finished part of my Diploma-thesis on "Civil society in the Gambia. Democratisation and societal Organisation in the current transformation processes" (written in German - I'm sorry) and would love to get some feed back. Anyone who is interested please let me know.
2)Analysing quite a lot of the literature on the GAmbia I found to words/expressions I would love to know the translation of: - "terri" (like in "terri kafo") and - "sosolasso" (which was an NCP slogan some time ago)
3) Is there anyone on the list who is member of any Gambian Youth organisation, e.g GYF, NYSS, Youth Front against Drugs and Alcohol... I would like to find out what you know and think about the situation of the youth in the Gambia,how do they participate in social life, culture, politics and so on
I'm sorry that my contributions are mostly questions, but at the moment I find it very difficult to get more involved in the discussions that I don enjoy a lot. p.s.: Can anyone help out. by default I deleted a lot of unread messages, this is wahat i sent to the listproc: >GET GAMBIA-L.LOG9711A and what came in return: Subject: Error Condition Re: Invalid request GET: missing arguments Syntax: GET <archive | path-to-archive> <file> [/password] [parts]
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:30:48 -0500 (EST) From: SANG1220@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: SANG1220@aol.com Subject: Dr. Nyang Message-ID: <971125193048_1570645330@mrin47>
Let me join the chorus and welcome you back to the bantaba (burk, long time) Happy to hear of your position and like the others, look forward to reading your postings. Thanks Daddy Sang
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 20:15:21 -0500 From: Abdou Touray <abdou@cs.columbia.edu> To: Gambia-l List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Jammeh's Wealth Message-ID: <347CC9A9.365DE0B0@cs.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hey folks, You might be interested in reading a short CNN article to be found at the following URL: http://cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9711/15/AP001063.ap.html The article for example says: " The German report renewed speculation as to where Jammeh found the money to make several generous donations recently. The 31-year-old leader who came to power in a 1994 coup recently bought 22 new pickup trucks for his army and in June gave $10,000 to the Organization of African Unity. " It is increasingly looks like Jammeh is in fact a more astute manager of his meagre salary than Jawara ever was with his. A rich African President is always cause for pause. Abdou.
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 20:22:53 -0500 From: Abdou Touray <abdou@cs.columbia.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Message-ID: <347CCB6D.85EF9D7A@cs.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi, Per getting postings from the archives, our archive covers from January 31st, 1996 to October 19th, 1997 . The discussions are divided into 90 parts. Getting any piece of correspondence involves two steps: (i) Send a command on line by itself to listproc@u.washington.edu to retrieve a list of the files. The command is: index gambia-l -all In return you will get output that looks like: gambia-l.log9601e (1 part, 3956 bytes) -- We did it ! gambia-l.log9602a (1 part, 60055 bytes) -- Re: We did it ! gambia-l.log9602b (1 part, 7037 bytes) -- GAMBIA-L digest 1 : : gambia-l.log9710c (1 part, 183620 bytes) -- GAMBIA-L digest 89 gambia-l.log9710d (1 part, 299771 bytes) -- GAMBIA-L digest 90 These files are in chronological order; gambia-l.log9710d contains the latest discussions in October of 1997. (ii)Send a command on a line by itself to retrieve the file of discussions that you want. The command is: get gambia-l FILENAME where FILENAME is the name of the file such as gambia-l.log9710c. Retrieving a file will take a long time as the archives are stored on tape drives. Additionally be careful that you do do not swamp your own mailbox as these files are very huge. For example, we have generated close to 30 Megabytes of discussions which is about 40, 000 pages of hard copy [Disclaimer: these are all rough estimates] !
-Abdou.
Jobst Mnderlein wrote:
> 1)Is there anyone on the list who understands/reads German? I have > finished part of my Diploma-thesis on "Civil society in the Gambia. > Democratisation and societal Organisation in the current transformation > processes" (written in German - I'm sorry) and would love to get some > feed back. Anyone who is interested please let me know. > > 2)Analysing quite a lot of the literature on the GAmbia I found to > words/expressions I would love to know the translation of: > - "terri" (like in "terri kafo") > and > - "sosolasso" (which was an NCP slogan some time ago) > > 3) Is there anyone on the list who is member of any Gambian Youth > organisation, e.g GYF, NYSS, Youth Front against Drugs and Alcohol... > I would like to find out what you know and think about the situation of > the youth in the Gambia,how do they participate in social life, culture, > politics and so on > > I'm sorry that my contributions are mostly questions, but at the moment > I find it very difficult to get more involved in the discussions that I > don enjoy a lot. > p.s.: Can anyone help out. by default I deleted a lot of unread > messages, this is wahat i sent to the listproc: > >GET GAMBIA-L.LOG9711A > and what came in return: > Subject: Error Condition Re: Invalid request > GET: missing arguments > Syntax: GET <archive | path-to-archive> <file> [/password] [parts] > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:56:19 -0500 From: "Pa-Mambuna O. Bojang" <paomar@iglou.com> To: "gambia-l@u.washington.edu" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: ZONE II IN THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <347B9DE3.33C177AC@iglou.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Happy Turkey day to everyone.
I understand Zone II soccer tournament should be kicking off in the Gambia this weekend. Could our fellow babtaba mates in the Gambia be kind and keep us posted about game results as the are palyed? How many and which countries are taking part in the competition? I wish our Scorpions the best of luck. SCORPIONS ALL THE WAY!!
GOD BLESS!!
Pa-Mambuna, Lexington
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:42:07 + 0100 MET From: "Alpha Robinson" <garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Message-ID: <1AA48413247@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Jobst, you may please get in touch at: Garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de. It seems my mail to you did not reach you or???
regards Alpha
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <9711261455.AA25618@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello Gambia-L,
The message below was fowarded to me by a friend. Despite my busy schedule lately, I would like to hear your comments on this while I reserve mine for later. However, I have a few questions to ask:
1. Would Nelson Mandela have survived and be president today if it wasn't for Winnie's role in the liberation srtuggle?
2. During the apartheid struggle, wasn't Winnie the one who scarified her life and happiness to so as to keep the struggle and the Mandela name alive?
3. Doesn't she deserve respect, when we think about the fact that she was the one who consistently traveled (to Washington) to lobby sanctions against the white regime of South Africa?
4. Finally, is Winnie Mandela the enemy... or is it the whites? Do you still remember when blacks were treated like dogs? Brtutalized, maimed, beaten, burned, shot...you name. And now here we are proclaiming her a bad person. What a "sell-out"!!!!
Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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THE PRESENT:
Today, November 24, l997 Winnie Madikizela-Mandela faces a week long testimony before The Truth and Reconciliation Committee in Johannesburg. Headed by Desmond Tutu, this committee is charged with inquiring into human rights violations during the long history of apartheid in South Africa. Based on these testimonies, people who confess to have violated human rights could be granted amnesty, and others awarded limited compensation. Why is Winnie before this commission? Being falsely accused, tried and convicted in l991, why would she need amnesty for anything she allegedly may have done during apartheid? Having being sentenced and fined, why amnesty? Focus of the testimony are allegations that Winnie kidnaped, beat and killed some of the youths that were part of the Mandela Football Club, and more specifically the death of Stompie Stepei. The youths of the football club were bodyguards for Winnie, whose life was constantly in danger due to the South Africa Security Police. Often, Winnie's bodyguard were infiltrated by spies of the Security Police. Winnie has denied all the above charges, and I whole heartedly believe her. Whatever she did, she did for the Struggle. If she killed or ordered someone killed, she probably did it for her own safety. This testimony is not about truth or reconciliation. It is about power within the ANC. Despite her so called conviction, her alleged embezzlement and firing from her position as deputy minister, Winnie still remains strong and popular to large numbers of South Africans. Why is Winnie subpoena to appear before this committee? Because she has angered the leadership of the ANC by challenging the preferred candidate for Deputy President. Winnie's bid for the deputy presidency has rattled senior party officials, who fear she may come out as a favorite. This position would open the way to the highest position in the land after Nelson Mandela retires in l999. This therefore, is ply to weaken Winnie politically. THE PAST: Winnie was born in small village called Bizana, in the Transkei region. She recieved a diploma in Social work for Jan Hofmeyer School, and a B.A in Political Science, with major in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannnesburg. She was introduced to Nelson Mandela in 1956 by Oliver Tambo's girlfriend who happen to be Winnie's friend. Two years later, the two got married. Nelson Mandela was tried for treason and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, Winnie was the life, the breath and the mouthpiece of Nelson Mandela. Except for her bravery, Nelson would have languished and died unforgotten in prison. Winnie 's bravery and no-nonsense character not only earned her international respect, but brought the struggles of South Africa to the forefront. Winnie Mandela can be single- handedly credited with keeping her husband's name alive during the 27 years of imprisonment. The world would never forget the day Nelson Mandela walked out of prison with Winnie by her side. What did Winnie get for 27 years of struggle in keeping Nelson Mandela's and the South African dream alive? Divorce papers and a position as junior deputy minister, from which she was fired shortly. Oh, how soon the world forgets! Winnie was constantly watched, spied on by the Security Police, harrassed, raided, banned from Soweto, and put in solitary confinement for 18 months, most of which was spent in total darkness. Oh, how soon Nelson forget that he owns his very life to God and Winnie. Infidelty? Winnie was not open or disrespectful about it. Her alleged accomplice also devoted all his efforts to the struggle and getting Nelson out of prison. Winnie is human, and humans make mistake. Could Nelson not find it in his heart to forgive Winnie? On this matter she said: I do not understand how a man who speaks of forgiveness and reconciliation, a man who forgave a system that imprisoned him for 27 years, could not do the same in his own house. THE FUTURE: Ted Koppel, on an interview last week, ask Winnie what the future holds. She simply replied: I do not know. I never planned everything that has happened so far. I did not choose to be in the center of the South African struggle, God put me there. I have watched in painful silence my character being butchered in the media. I have witnessed my contribution to this democracy being villified and ridiculed. I have agonised over the deafenning silence of friends who stand and watch with sadistic pleasure over this. I have watched state serial killers recieve state pardons and treated better by the highest authority. I intend to testify before the The Truth Commission. I intend to bare my soul to the scrutiny of my country. I beg that it be done in public. I beg that these issues be tested by the vigilance of the public. Let me claim decent treatment once and for all. For all she has done for her country and our continent, is this what she deserves? Winnie will live through this week, and will emerge stronger than ever, she will remain: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, The Great.
SOME FAMOUS QUOTES: -------------------
I AM SADDEN BY ALL THIS. I AM VERY FOND OF HER. SHE IS THE ICON OF THE STRUGGLE. WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT. Bishop Desmond Tutu on Winnie November 25, l997
I STAND BEFORE YOU ALL WOMEN, FULLY AWARE OF THE ACCUSTIONS HURLED AT ME. BUT I STAND DEFIANT, TALL AND STRONG BECAUSE THE STRUGGLE IS STILL GOING ON AND I'M STILL IN IT. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela April 19, 1997
THE HONORABLE WINNIE MANDELA HAS BEEN FOR 30 YEARS HARASSED, THROWN IN PRISON, ISOLATED AND BEATEN, BUT SHE NEVER LOST HER RESOLVE. Prof. Hasan Sisay Chico State University November 15, 1995
GLOBALLY, WOMEN HAVE A DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL OUR SISTERS. IN SOUTH AFRICA WE CAN TEACH YOU THE GAME. WOMEN ARE EMPOWERED THROUGH EDUCATION. THIS IS WHERE WE MUST START. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Chico State University April 15,1995
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:10:12 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: ZONE II IN THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <9711261510.AA44758@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Pa-Mambuna, you wrote:
> Happy Turkey day to everyone. > > GOD BLESS!!
Happy Turkey day to you too, bro! Wishing you all the best on this great day of American tradition called THANKSGIVING. But for us, we can just think of it as TOBASKI...eat till you drop!
Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:21:59 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: ZONE II IN THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <9711261521.AA43980@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Pa-Mambuna, you wrote:
> I understand Zone II soccer tournament should be kicking off in the > Gambia this weekend. Could our fellow babtaba mates in the Gambia be > kind and keep us posted about game results as the are palyed? How many > and which countries are taking part in the competition? I wish our > Scorpions the best of luck. > SCORPIONS ALL THE WAY!!
Questions for anyone:
1. When was the last time the SCORPIONS won the cup?
2. What is the hottest first division team in the Gambia? I used to be a HAWKS fan ... is the team still in existence?
3. Who is the best soccer player in the country at this point in time?
4. Will the professionals abroad be participating in ZONE II tournament?
5. Is basketball still a big game in the Gambia (Banjul)? If so, who is the Michael Jordan of the Gambia basketball clubs?
Thanks for any reponses?
Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:33:11 -0500 (EST) From: Gunjur@aol.com To: Gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Dr. Sulayman Nyang Message-ID: <971126103310_195538004@mrin45.mail.aol.com>
Welcome and a big hello to Dr. Sulayman Nyang, an old friend l have not seen or talked to in a long time. Congratulations for continuing to excel. Please feel free to contact me at my private e-mail address.
Sister Jabou Joh.
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:37:17 -0500 From: Ceesay Soffie <Ceesay_Soffie@prc.com> To: "'gambia-l@u.washington.edu'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <C69DB1B2BFFBCF11B5D300000000000152DD54@Cry1.prc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain
> Winnie will live through this week, and will emerge stronger > than ever, she will remain: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, The Great. > > YES, YES, YES - SHE WILL FOREVER STAND TALL, HER FORTITUDE UNSHAKEN FOR SHE KNOWS WHAT THE STRUGGLE IS ABOUT - SHE HAS LIVED THE STRUGGLE!!!. I AM WITH YOU MAMA WINNIE.
ALLUTA CONTINUA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soffie
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:35:11 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Fwd: Time to discard English names -- a moment of reflection Message-ID: <9711261535.AA34166@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
N'dey Marie, you wrote:
> Gambia-l: > > Here's one of those thought provoking articles that makes you take a moment > to reflect on it. REad on......> > > > > >>Letter to a Kampala Friend: > >>Time to discard English names > >>The Monitor November 17, 1997
Great reading, N'dey Marie. Just great!
Thanks
Regards, Moe S. Jallow ======================================================================== mjallow@sct.edu mjallow@hayes.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:40:06 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Thanksgiving Message-ID: <9711261540.AA10954@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Habib, you wrote: > > Hope you all have a nice and enjoyable turkey day > Does it not remind you of Harri -Tobaski or Easter Nan Buru celebration > of families and friends. > I suggest we get a Halal killed turkey (or you go to the farm and do it > yourself) and invite your closest Gambian neighbour or friend. > Let us join the celebration if we can afford it. Why not?? > Dr Nyang any thoughts or opinion on this > Should we be part of it of not ? > Habib
Happy Turkey day to you too, brother Habib.
Great suggestion...and will do!
Regards, Moe S. Jallow ==================================================================== mjallow@sct.edu mjallow@hayes.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:52:06 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <9711261552.AA47946@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Habib, you wrote:
> Momodou Jagana, you wrote: > > > So FYI I am informed >.......take a chill pill > > > > momodou J > > Momodou > I like your style and language. !! > What is a chill pill and where can I get one ?.Since you know so much > about these wonder chill pills and probably tried them also,does it have > any after effects?? (laugh) > Moe, tell me how I can get the money pill. Please > Brother Habib > ps I hope you can take a joke! I enjoyed yours.
Brother Habib,
Hehehe... I like that one. Yes, Jagana, show give us the money pill instead.
Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:56:12 -0500 From: msjaiteh@mtu.edu (Malanding S. Jaiteh) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: msjaiteh@mtu.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <199711261556.KAA10457@aspen.mtu.edu>
> From GAMBIA-L-owner@u.washington.edu Wed Nov 26 10:04:47 1997 > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) > From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) > To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > Subject: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > Hello Gambia-L, > > The message below was fowarded to me by a friend. Despite my busy schedule > lately, I would like to hear your comments on this while I reserve mine > for later. However, I have a few questions to ask: > > 1. Would Nelson Mandela have survived and be president today if it wasn't > for Winnie's role in the liberation srtuggle? > > 2. During the apartheid struggle, wasn't Winnie the one who scarified > her life and happiness to so as to keep the struggle and the > Mandela name alive? > > 3. Doesn't she deserve respect, when we think about the fact that she > was the one who consistently traveled (to Washington) to lobby > sanctions against the white regime of South Africa? > > 4. Finally, is Winnie Mandela the enemy... or is it the whites? > > Do you still remember when blacks were treated like dogs? Brtutalized, > maimed, beaten, burned, shot...you name. And now here we are proclaiming > her a bad person. What a "sell-out"!!!! > > Regards, > Moe S. Jallow >
Moe, I think that Winnie and many of South Africa's leaders did a lot during the Apartheid days to be admired for. However, when it comes to what is going on now and what the former husband can do, it should be clear that he or everyone else in the Truth Committee took up their jobs to carry out their responsibilities WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR! It is all part of the PRICE South African must pay for equallity under the the law.
Malanding jaiteh
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:08:49 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Hermeneutics of STOP sign (fwd) Message-ID: <9711261608.AA55736@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
HERMENEUTICS (=the study of the meaning of scripture) IN EVERYDAY LIFE Suppose you're traveling to work and you see a stop sign. What do you do? That depends on how you exegete (=interpret) the stop sign. 1. A postmodernist deconstructs the sign (knocks it over with his car), ending forever the tyranny of the north-south traffic over the east-west traffic. 2. Similarly, a Marxist refuses to stop because he sees the stop sign as an instrument of class conflict. He concludes that the bourgeois use the north-south road and obstruct the progress of the workers in the east-west road. 3. A serious and educated Catholic rolls through the intersection because he believes he cannot understand the stop sign apart from its interpretive community and tradition. Observing that the interpretive community doesn't take it too seriously, he doesn't feel obligated to take it too seriously either. 4. An average Catholic (or Orthodox or Coptic or Anglican or Methodist or Presbyterian or whatever) doesn't bother to read the sign but he'll stop if the car in front of him does. 5. A fundamentalist, taking the text very literally, stops at the stop sign and waits for it to tell him to go. 6. A seminary-educated evangelical preacher might look up "STOP" in his lexicons of English and discover that it can mean: 1) something which prevents motion, such as a plug for a drain, or a block of wood that prevents a door from closing; 2) a location where a train or bus lets off passengers. The main point of his sermon the following Sunday on this text is: when you see a stop sign, it is a place where traffic is naturally clogged, so it is a good place to let off passengers from your car. 7. An orthodox Jew does one of two things: a) Take another route to work that doesn't have a stop sign so that he doesn't run the risk of disobeying the Law; b) Stop at the sign, say "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, king of the universe, who hast given us thy commandment to stop," wait 3 seconds according to his watch, and then proceed. Incidently, the Talmud has the following comments on this passage: R[abbi] Meir says: He who does not stop shall not live long. R. Hillel says: Cursed is he who does not count to three before proceeding. R. Simon ben Yudah says: Why three? Because the Holy One, blessed be He, gave us the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. R. ben Issac says: Because of the three patriarchs. R. Yehuda says: Why bless the Lord at a stop sign? Because it says, "Be still and know that I am God".... 8. A scholar from the Jesus Seminar concludes that the passage "STOP" undoubtably was never uttered by Jesus himself because being the progressive Jew that He was, He would never have wanted to stifle peoples' progress. Therefore, STOP must be a textual insertion belonging entirely to stage III of the gospel tradition, when the church was first confronted by traffic in its parking lot. 9. A NT scholar notices that there is no stop sign on Mark street but there is one on Matthew and Luke streets, and concludes that the ones on Luke and Matthew streets are both copied from a sign on a street no one has ever seen called "Q" Street. There is an excellent 300 page doctoral dissertation on the origin of these stop signs and the differences between stop signs on Matthew and Luke street in the scholar's commentary on the passage. There is an unfortunate omission in the dissertation, however; it doesn't explain the meaning of the text! 10. An OT scholar points out that there are a number of stylistic differences between the first and second half of the passage "STOP." For example, "ST" contains no enclosed areas and 5 line endings, whereas "OP" contains two enclosed areas and only one line termination. He concludes that the author for the second part is different from the author of the first part and probably lived hundreds of years later. Later scholars determine that the second half is itself actually written by two separate authors beause of similar stylistic differences between the "O" and the "P". 11. Another prominent OT scholar notes in his commentary that the stop sign would fit better into the context three streets back. Unfortunately, he neglected to explain why in his commentary.) Clearly it was moved to its present location by a later redactor. He thus exegetes the intersection as though the sign were not there. 12. Because of the difficulties in interpretation, another OT scholar amends the text, changing the "T" to "H". "SHOP" is much easier to understand in context than "STOP" because of the multiplicity of stores in the area. The textual corruption probably occurred because "SHOP" is so similar to "STOP" on the sign several streets back, that it is a natural mistake for a scribe to make. Thus the sign should be interpreted to announce the existence of a shopping area. If this is true, it could indicate that both meanings are valid, thus making the thrust of the message "STOP (AND) SHOP." 13. A "prophetic" preacher notices that the square root of the sum of the numeric representations of the letters S-T-O-P (sigma-tau-omicron-pi in the Greek alphabet), multiplied by 40 (the number of testing), and divided by four (the number of the world--north, south, east, and west), equals 666. Therefore, he concludes that stop signs are the dreaded "mark of the beast," a harbinger of divine judgment upon the world, and must be avoided at all costs.
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:12:48 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Humor: Any lawyers out there? Message-ID: <9711261612.AA47752@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hope you enjoy!
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Recently reported in the Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal, the following are 22 questions actually asked of witnesses by attorneys during trials and, in certain cases, the responses given by insightful witnesses:
1. "Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep,
he doesn't know about it until the next morning?"
2. "The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he?"
3. "Were you present when your picture was taken?"
4. "Were you alone or by yourself?"
5. "Was it you or your younger brother who was killed in the war?"
6. "Did he kill you?"
7. "How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?"
8. "You were there until the time you left, is that true?"
9. "How many times have you committed suicide?"
10. Q: "So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "And what were you doing at that time?"
11. Q: "She had three children, right?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "How many were boys?"
A: "None."
Q: "Were there any girls?"
12. Q: "You say the stairs went down to the basement?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "And these stairs, did they go up also?"
13. Q: "Mr. Slatery, you went on a rather elaborate honeymoon,
didn't you?"
A: "I went to Europe, Sir."
Q: "And you took your new wife?"
14. Q: "How was your first marriage terminated?"
A: "By death."
Q: "And by who's death was it terminated?"
15. Q: "Can you describe the individual?"
A: "He was about medium height and had a beard."
Q: "Was this a male, or a female?"
16. Q: "Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a
deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?"
A: "No, this is how I dress when I go to work."
17. Q: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead
people?"
A: "All my autopsies are performed on dead people."
18. Q: "All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go
to?"
A: "Oral."
19. Q: "Do you recall the time that you examined the body?"
A:"The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.."
Q: "And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?"
A: "No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing
an autopsy."
20. Q: "You were not shot in the fracas?"
A: "No, I was shot midway between the fracas and the navel."
21. Q: "Are you qualified to give a urine sample?"
A: "I have been since early childhood."
22. Q: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for
a pulse?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
A: "No."
Q: "Did you check for breathing?"
A: "No."
Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when
you began the autopsy?"
A: "No."
Q: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing
law somewhere."
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:27:03 -0500 From: globexinc@erols.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Thanksgiving Message-ID: <347C4DD7.4D20@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Modou Jallow wrote: > > Habib, you wrote: > > > > Hope you all have a nice and enjoyable turkey day > > Does it not remind you of Harri -Tobaski or Easter Nan Buru celebration > > of families and friends. > > I suggest we get a Halal killed turkey (or you go to the farm and do it > > yourself) and invite your closest Gambian neighbour or friend. > > Let us join the celebration if we can afford it. Why not?? > > Dr Nyang any thoughts or opinion on this > > Should we be part of it of not ? > > Habib > > Happy Turkey day to you too, brother Habib. > > Great suggestion...and will do! > > Regards, > Moe S. Jallow > ==================================================================== > mjallow@sct.edu mjallow@hayes.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Moe and have a great day. To all in the Gambia-l group -- Happy Thanksgiving peace Habib
ps I got a fresh ly halal killed turkey yesterday near Baltimore. -- MZ
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:39:39 -0500 From: globexinc@erols.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <347C50CB.22ED@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Malanding S. Jaiteh wrote: > > > From GAMBIA-L-owner@u.washington.edu Wed Nov 26 10:04:47 1997 > > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) > > From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) > > To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > > Subject: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > > > Hello Gambia-L, > > > > The message below was fowarded to me by a friend. Despite my busy schedule > > lately, I would like to hear your comments on this while I reserve mine > > for later. However, I have a few questions to ask: > > > > 1. Would Nelson Mandela have survived and be president today if it wasn't > > for Winnie's role in the liberation srtuggle? > > > > 2. During the apartheid struggle, wasn't Winnie the one who scarified > > her life and happiness to so as to keep the struggle and the > > Mandela name alive? > > > > 3. Doesn't she deserve respect, when we think about the fact that she > > was the one who consistently traveled (to Washington) to lobby > > sanctions against the white regime of South Africa? > > > > 4. Finally, is Winnie Mandela the enemy... or is it the whites? > > > > Do you still remember when blacks were treated like dogs? Brtutalized, > > maimed, beaten, burned, shot...you name. And now here we are proclaiming > > her a bad person. What a "sell-out"!!!! > > > > Regards, > > Moe S. Jallow > > > > Moe, I think that Winnie and many of South Africa's leaders did a lot during the Apartheid days to be admired for. However, when it comes to what is going on now and what the former husband can do, it should be clear that he or everyone else in the Truth Committee took up their jobs to carry out their responsibilities WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR! It is all part of the PRICE South African must pay for equallity under the the law. > > Malanding jaiteh
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I have high regards for Mrs. Winnie Mandella and her courage for the struggle which eventually lead to the freedom of President Mandella. Secondly, how many freedom fighters get praise from the western media?? I do not expect her to get a fair trial but if she did what is alledged a simple apology to me would suffice. ( Israel's prime minister - the late Menahem Began - did worst things like bombing the King David Hotel and killed many jews and Arabs in his fight for his country but after an apology he was forgiven and became the Prime minister . Winnie has not done similar killings but why are forgeting all her positive contributions to the African continent Amanza to Winnie
Habib -- MZ
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:42:46 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> To: "'Gambia-L'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia Message-ID: <9B236DF9AF96CF11A5C94044F3219031101164@DKDIFS02> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BCFA92.B6A95090"
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8 month back when I had to plan my tour to The Gambia I planned to go when The Gambia should host the Cabral Cup zone II in october. Unfortunately they later postponed from october as planned till november-december. But I manage to see interviews given from the Scorpions training camp in Ghana. And I was really disappointed. The players interviewed had allready started to think negative, and prepare all the excuses WHEN they failed. "The preparations started too late" "shirts were missing" etc, etc. Instead of positive thinking: "We started late, BUT we will be ready in time" "Even lack of shirts we train with great confidence and the play is better every day" or something like that. I ended my tour contributing to the Scorpions, and I did send them a small note, wishing good luck, but allso that they should "bite like scorpions" and not fear the senegalese. Some of my gambia friends have promissed to tape the matches and post them to Denmark. I do hope that I will come to see positive attitudes and great performance from the SCORPIONS. A big new scoreboard was build at the Bakau stadium. Like the national danish team means a lot to the danish, I do hope that the SCORPIONS will bring glamour to the Gambia. = Asbj=F8rn Nordam
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:41:26 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: FYI: FELLOWSHIP, African Development Dissertation Workshop (fwd) Message-ID: <9711261741.AA51300@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
FELLOWSHIP:
African Development Dissertation Workshop at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana May 7-10, 1998
THEME: The Arts and Humanities in Africa's Economic and Political Transitions
The wave of political and economic reforms that have swept over Africa in the last decade and the continent's earlier post-colonial experience affected not only people's relationship with markets and governments, but also their modes and content of self-expression, concepts of identity, and value systems. The forces behind these social, political, and economic movements are both internal and external and have expressed themselves in the popular culture as well as formal statements of recognized authorities. Hence theatre, music, film, literature, and the visual arts have both reflected and shaped economic and political developments in the continent.
The dissertation workshop on the arts and humanities in Africa's economic and political transitions will provide a venue for intensive discussion of research proposals relating to the arts in any manifestation to African development. The intent is to help students develop methodologically and theoretically rigorous research designs for doctoral work that is relevant to African development. While methodology will vary with subject matter and discipline, all proposals should include at least nine months of field work in Africa.
ELIGIBILITY: African students enrolled in doctoral programs in the behavioral and social sciences, fine and applied arts, and humanities are eligible. Students need not have advanced to candidacy, but must have a written dissertation research proposal. Applicants should submit a research proposal of 10 to 15 pages, a curriculum vitae, a list of graduate courses completed, and a letter of reference form their academic advisor or research supervisor.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 15, 1998
Address the application to: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Professor of History & Director of African Studies Center for African Studies 210 International Studies 910 S. Fifth Street Champaign, IL 61820
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Sue Swisher at the Center for African Studies at swisher@uiuc.edu or by telephone at 217-333-6335
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 12:49:09 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda Message-ID: <9711261749.AA52446@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
FYI, former Malawian president Kamuzu Banda has died in a Johannesburg clinic. He was believed to be 99 years old.
VOA's correspondent Alex Belida reports from South Africa: " Mr. Banda was flown to Johannesburg from his home in Malawi earlier this month after contracting pneumonia and falling into a coma. A spokeswoman at the clinic where he had been treated says he died Tuesday night of respiratory failure. Mr. Banda led malawi from its independence in 1964 until the country's first democratic elections in 1994 -- three decades in which he single-handedly controlled virtually every aspect of the nation's life, ruthlessly suppressing any opposition. after his ouster, he was charged with murder but acquitted.
The South African government Wednesday expressed regret at Mr. Banda's death. president Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the former Malawian leader, telling reporters that despite his public image and his links with the former apartheid government, Mr. Banda did many positive things people did not know about, including aiding the black liberation movement in Zimbabwe and providing the African National Congress with financial assistance. " (signed)
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Source: Voice of America
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:12:25 -0500 (EST) From: "N'Deye Marie N'Jie" <njie.1@osu.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu, africans@iastate.edu Subject: Graduate Students Needed (fwd) Message-ID: <2.2.16.19971126131111.22473514@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:17:44 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Jammeh's Wealth Message-ID: <9711261817.AA40650@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Abdou Touray, you wrote:
> > Hey folks, > You might be interested in reading a short CNN article to be found > at the following URL: > http://cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9711/15/AP001063.ap.html
Thanks for the URL. Yeah, it really makes one wonder if there is any truth in this. Do you not smell a rat?
The German Public television reported:
"... it had secretly filmed the gold in a Gambian warehouse and claimed that Mobutu associates were selling it on the international market. "
Well, when do we get to see it? Jobst, what's the latest on this in Germany?
Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:51:05 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: A Nigerian Prodigy Message-ID: <9711261851.AA50898@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This is incredible!!
Who amongst you remember when you were 5 years old? :-)))))))).
PANA news agency reports:
" ... a five-year-old Nigerian boy is preparing to take the British General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination in maths, following his excellent mastery of the subject in spite of his tender age.
But while the British media are hailing Joshua Bright as a prodigy, his parents say they are just nurturing a gift which all children have. Every child has a gift, and it is up to the parents and the teachers to identify the gift and encourage it, said Gbola Bright, Joshua's father, a chemistry graduate of the University of Lagos, one of Nigeria's major institutions of higher learning. Joshua began displaying his mathematical ability at the tender age of two after listening to times tables recorded on musical tapes which his father was using to teach older children maths. As soon as Joshua's father recognised his son's gift, the parents began giving him extra lessons in computer skills and basic maths.
His school in the East London Borough of Hackney, home to many Africans, noted: Joshua is always keen to contribute to class dicussion and displays a good memory for previous learning. However, he finds it difficult to wait his turn, usually knowing the correct answer, and will often answer for other children. Ironically, Hackney is one of the boroughs in the UK that government inspectors have identitified as several failing schools and institutions where educational standards are low. -------------------------------------
Source: PANA News.
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:59:18 -0500 (EST) From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia Message-ID: <9711261859.AA37108@st6000.sct.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Asbjorn, you wrote:
> 8 month back when I had to plan my tour to The Gambia I planned to go > when The Gambia should host the Cabral Cup zone II in october. > Unfortunately they later postponed from october as planned till > november-december. But I manage to see interviews given from the > Scorpions training camp in Ghana. And I was really disappointed. The > players interviewed had allready started to think negative, and prepare > all the excuses WHEN they failed. "The preparations started too late" > "shirts were missing" etc, etc. Instead of positive thinking: "We > started late, BUT we will be ready in time" "Even lack of shirts we > train with great confidence and the play is better every day" or > something like that. I ended my tour contributing to the Scorpions, and > I did send them a small note, wishing good luck, but allso that they > should "bite like scorpions" and not fear the senegalese. Some of my > gambia friends have promissed to tape the matches and post them to > Denmark. I do hope that I will come to see positive attitudes and great > performance from the SCORPIONS. A big new scoreboard was build at the > Bakau stadium. Like the national danish team means a lot to the danish, > I do hope that the SCORPIONS will bring glamour to the Gambia. > Asbjorn > Nordam
Asbjorn,
Thank you for the quick run down. I see that, when it comes to soccer, SENEGAL is still our biggest enemy :-))). Sounds very natural!
When will this rivalry end, if ever? Is SENEGAL still the dominant team?
Regards, Moe S. Jallow
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:17:02 -0800 (PST) From: "D. Singhateh" <dawdas@u.washington.edu> To: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96a.971126134821.27490B-100000@dante15.u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Mr. Jaiteh, I think you brought up a very interesting argument: rather, somewhat convincing. However, I think the problem in Winnie's case has something to do with what is referred to as "divide and rule". I think Winnie is one of the few icons of our time that we all could emulate (male and female alike). Instead, she is been made the scapegoat for South Africa's past. Nelson Mandela has been and will remain to be my hero, but I think he made a mistake that hum... guess it. I think Winnie deserves a lot not only from him but also from post apartheid south Africa in general. It is mind boggling how he (Mr. Mandela) and few of the elicits in ANC could distant themselves from Winnie after all she went through to free him and south Africa or perhaps I don't know any better. Either way, I think the sad plight of their relation certainly will remain to mark a watershed in south Africa's history or so I envisioned. Thanx, Dawdab Singhateh.
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Malanding S. Jaiteh wrote:
> > > From GAMBIA-L-owner@u.washington.edu Wed Nov 26 10:04:47 1997 > > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) > > From: mjallow@st6000.sct.edu (Modou Jallow) > > To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > > Subject: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > > > Hello Gambia-L, > > > > The message below was fowarded to me by a friend. Despite my busy schedule > > lately, I would like to hear your comments on this while I reserve mine > > for later. However, I have a few questions to ask: > > > > 1. Would Nelson Mandela have survived and be president today if it wasn't > > for Winnie's role in the liberation srtuggle? > > > > 2. During the apartheid struggle, wasn't Winnie the one who scarified > > her life and happiness to so as to keep the struggle and the > > Mandela name alive? > > > > 3. Doesn't she deserve respect, when we think about the fact that she > > was the one who consistently traveled (to Washington) to lobby > > sanctions against the white regime of South Africa? > > > > 4. Finally, is Winnie Mandela the enemy... or is it the whites? > > > > Do you still remember when blacks were treated like dogs? Brtutalized, > > maimed, beaten, burned, shot...you name. And now here we are proclaiming > > her a bad person. What a "sell-out"!!!! > > > > Regards, > > Moe S. Jallow > > > > Moe, I think that Winnie and many of South Africa's leaders did a lot during the Apartheid days to be admired for. However, when it comes to what is going on now and what the former husband can do, it should be clear that he or everyone else in the Truth Committee took up their jobs to carry out their responsibilities WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR! It is all part of the PRICE South African must pay for equallity under the the law. > > Malanding jaiteh >
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:17:42 -0000 From: "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <B0000019309@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> via Commit
Dear Folks, Regarding Mrs Winnie Madikezela-Mandela: On BBC Focus on Africa, 25/11/97; It was reported that "Baroness"Emma Nicholson was taking private prosecution on murder charges against Winnie on behalf of Stompie ??'s mother; now this Emma Nicholson if I recall was a short-lived Minsiter or junior minister under Margaret Thatcher..the latter and her cabinet was very famous in affording apartheid much needed breathing space in its latter years and also holding the ANC and Mandala as communist-terrorists; I think Nicholson should just simply be deported as an undesirable and unwanted element in Africa.. I don't care whether Winnie is guilty or innocent; Emma does not have a voice or vote in our affairs; it is like having the KKK decide on black on black crime
folks, I have used the utmost restraint in not calling the b******* the names she deserves in my opinion. pmj
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:52:49 PST From: "kebba trawally" <kaktra@hotmail.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: New member Message-ID: <19971127035254.16343.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain
Assalamu Alaikum, I thnk you very much for accepting into the Gambia list. In this regard, I would like to give a brief introduction of myself as require. I was born at Sukuta village, Jarra East District, Lower River Division in 1971. I attended Sukuta Primary School from 1980 to 1986. I then joined Nusrat High School from 1986 to 1991 for my Ordinary Level. From there I joined Sait Augustine's High School from 1991 to 1993 for my Advanced Level. After finishing my Advanced Level in 1993, I was fortunate to get admission into International Islamic University(Malaysia) in Jully 1994. I am now a final year student in Bachelor of Business Administration program with Finance as my concentration area. I do hope that my membership of Gambia list would be of great benefit to all of us. I wish everyone great success in all our engagements.
>From gambia-l-owner@u.washington.edu Tue Nov 18 11:55:12 1997 >Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) > by lists3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with SMTP > id LAA00226; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:50:13 -0800 >Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu (mx4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.5]) > by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP > id LAA57514 for <gambia-l@lists.u.washington.edu>; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:48:46 -0800 >Received: from relay2.inet.tele.dk (relay2.inet.tele.dk [194.182.149.111]) > by mx4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with SMTP > id LAA14835 for <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:48:42 -0800 >Received: (qmail 3960 invoked from network); 18 Nov 1997 19:48:12 -0000 >Received: from post3.tele.dk (194.239.134.166) > by relay2.inet.tele.dk with SMTP; 18 Nov 1997 19:48:12 -0000 >Received: from momodou ([194.239.169.252]) by post3.tele.dk > (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA14604 > for <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:48:09 +0100 >Message-Id: <19971118194808.AAA14604@momodou> >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:47:40 +0200 >Reply-To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu >Sender: GAMBIA-L-owner@u.washington.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) >To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> >Subject: New member >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > >Greetings, >Kebba A.K. Trawally has been added to the list. Welcome to Gambia-l >Kebba. We look forward to your contribution. > >You can send a brief introduction. Our address is: >gambia-l@uwashington.edu > > >regards >Momodou Camara > >******************************************************* > http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mcamara > >**"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's > possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible"*** >
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 07:48:07 +0300 From: "Bassirou Dodou Drammeh" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <01bcfaef$c8c654a0$f92185c2@q-tel.qatar.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mr.Jallow,
I don't think I could say it better myself!The Third Force,as Winnie calls them,with their racist friends around the world,esp.those of them in Britain, want to do everything that could help puncture Winnie's chances of becoming the future president of South Africa.
Thabo Nbeki may or may not be the next president of South Africa, but sadly for her enemies,the Mother of the Nation would sooner or later become the president of South Africa;and when that happens, she would do exactly what the white establishment and its friends are so scared of,namely,the real dismantlement of all the white power structures without which the real enpowerment of Shaka's children would never materialise.
Could the South African diamond giant,De Beers,for instance,ever imagine the day when 80 or 90% of its board members would be black men and women?! And what about the gold industry and the banks and how would most white families manage to clean up and feed themselves in a world in which they could no longer afford to pay black nannies and domestic helps to do that for them.These are the real stuffs that is scaring them to death,and who else could deliver that last blow to the remnants of apartheid than the very woman who has kept the liberation candle burning for twenty-seven eternal years.
Winnie,we are waiting! Come and rule over us,its your turn now.
Reagrds Basss! -----Original Message----- From: pmj@commit.gm <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, November 27, 1997 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
>Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> > via Commit > > >Dear Folks, >Regarding Mrs Winnie Madikezela-Mandela: On BBC Focus on Africa, 25/11/97; >It was reported that "Baroness"Emma Nicholson was taking private >prosecution on murder charges against Winnie on behalf of Stompie ??'s >mother; >now this Emma Nicholson if I recall was a short-lived Minsiter or junior >minister under Margaret Thatcher..the latter and her cabinet was very >famous in affording apartheid much needed breathing space in its latter >years and also holding the ANC and Mandala as communist-terrorists; >I think Nicholson should just simply be deported as an undesirable and >unwanted element in Africa.. >I don't care whether Winnie is guilty or innocent; Emma does not have a >voice or vote in our affairs; it is like having the KKK decide on black on >black crime > >folks, I have used the utmost restraint in not calling the b******* the >names she deserves in my opinion. >pmj > >---------- >> From: Modou Jallow <mjallow@st6000.sct.edu> > > >
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:51:40 PST From: "sarjo marenah" <smarenah@hotmail.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: introduction Message-ID: <19971127065141.16209.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain
Hillo members, My name is Sarjo Marenah,I was burn in 1975,in Kaur Janneh Kund ,Lower Saloum District,Central River Division. I started at Armitage High School for my O'levels,but soon transfered to Albert Academy in Freetown,Sierra Leone,where I completed both "O" and "A"Levels.Iam now pursuing my undergraduate degree in Accounting at The International Islamic University-Malaysia. I am a freshman student. It's a pleasure to join this L. Thank you.
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:43:32 -0500 From: nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Survey Message-ID: <19971127.114335.14726.0.nahak@juno.com>
Hello gambia-l, kindly complete this survey and return back to me at Unnisaa@aol.com
1) What is your ethnicity?
2) What is your Country of origin?
3) What is your highest level of education?
4) What is your gender? a)female b)male
5) What is your age? a)16-19 b)20-25 c)26-30 d)31-35 e)36-up
6) What do you think are the five most important things our governments and we must do to have a united Africa? a) b) C) d) e)
7) What are the five most important things our governments and we can do to stop ethnic conflict in Africa?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
8) What do you think are the five most important things we should do to avoid military violence in Africa? a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
9) What role should our governments and we play in order to stop corruption in Africa?
10) What are the five most important things we should do to unite with all African descendents around the globe? a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
11) What type of government do you think a united Africa should have and why?
THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS SURVEY! E-MAIL TO Unnisaa@aol.com
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:43:58 -0500 From: msjaiteh@mtu.edu (Malanding S. Jaiteh) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: <199711271743.MAA07226@rs1.mtu.edu>
> From GAMBIA-L-owner@u.washington.edu Thu Nov 27 11:43:57 1997 > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:43:32 -0500 > From: nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) > To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > Subject: Survey > X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-12,14-24,26-37,39-49,51-53,55-65,67-71 > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > Hello gambia-l, kindly complete this survey and return back to me at > Unnisaa@aol.com > > 1) What is your ethnicity? > > 2) What is your Country of origin? > > 3) What is your highest level of education? > > 4) What is your gender? a)female b)male > > 5) What is your age? a)16-19 b)20-25 c)26-30 d)31-35 e)36-up > > 6) What do you think are the five most important things our governments > and we must do to have a united Africa? > a) > > b) > > C) > > d) > > e) > > 7) What are the five most important things our governments and we can do > to stop ethnic conflict in Africa? > > a) > > b) > > c) > > d) > > e) > > 8) What do you think are the five most important things we should do to > avoid military violence in Africa? > a) > > b) > > c) > > d) > > e) > > 9) What role should our governments and we play in order to stop > corruption in Africa? > > > 10) What are the five most important things we should do to unite with > all African descendents around the globe? > a) > > b) > > c) > > d) > > e) > > 11) What type of government do you think a united Africa should have and > why? > > > > THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS SURVEY! E-MAIL TO Unnisaa@aol.com > Mr Gomez, please tell us more about your survey.
Malanding Jaiteh
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:12:47 EST From: MJagana <MJagana@aol.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <f4ce6c67.347db821@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
In a message dated 97-11-26 11:13:12 EST, you write:
<< show give us the money pill instead. >> Dear Moe,
The money pill is available @ A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED.
LOL
MOMODOU J
PS: DO NOT OVER DO THE TURKEY TOBASKI IS ON THE WAY (JOKE)
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:51:33 -0500 From: nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: <19971127.135136.4390.1.nahak@juno.com>
The purpose of the survey is to gather information on how Africa can work toward a United sustainable continent. This is not a school project. I believe in African Unity. Thanks for asking. MGOMEZ
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:15:13 -0800 From: "nari@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Brief introduction Message-ID: <B0000019409@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "National Agricultural Research Institute" <nari@commit.gm> via Commit
Dear Fafanding,
Greetings from NARI! How are you getting on with your studies? I hope life is treating you nicely in Malaysia.
Well, when I sighted your brief introduction on the screen, I decided to get in touch with you so that you will know that we also on the line. This means that you can now communicate with us very easily. Let me inform you that my position has changed hands from a socioeconomics supervisor to a Documentalist and, of course, with a higher grade. I am therefore responsible for the management of the NARI library and I have two Library Assistants who are currently undertaking 45 days on-the-job training in documentation in Niamey, Niger.
The Director General is very much concerned about my long-term training in the field of information managment and he is interested in placing me in an institution to pursue a Diploma in Library and Information Studies. But so far, we have not been successful in our efforts. So having seen your e-mail address, I thought it a good idea to find out from you whether there is any possibility for me to pursue the above area in colleges/universities in Malaysia? If possible, could you please let me have the details as soon as possible, so that I could send in an enquiry, on behalf of the DG, for information and an application form for the 1998/99 academic year.
With greetings to your fellow-Gambian students,
Yours sincerely,
Falankoi Janneh
---------- > From: fafanding fatajo <ffatajo@hotmail.com> > To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > Subject: Brief introduction > Date: Sunday, November 16, 1997 5:59 PM > > Dear Camara and core, > My name is Fafanding s Fatajo ( F.S.Fatajo) from Sallikenni Village > Cntral Baddibou North Bank Division. > I am currently studying in Malaysia. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:30:49 -0000 From: "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia Message-ID: <B0000019411@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> via Commit
Hi Mr. Jallow (Modou), regarding the rivalry between Gambia and Senegal; it is like the one between Nigeria and Ghana, it is a Big Bro-Small Bro kinda thingy.you know..incidentally Sierra Leone is the defending Champs and despite their current political problems and the fact that the Gambia Govt. decide to extend an invitation to the national team and sport minister of the exiled Tejn Kabba govt. as opposed to the illegal govt. of Koroma; the Sierra Leone team or Leone Stars arrived in Banjul with such a fanfare and carnival including a person masquerading Pres. Jammeh with boubous and prayers beads included..that I for one will NOT rule them OUT..so watch out for armchair coaching and commentary from this end ciao pmj ps for your general info. and knowledge: did you know that Amilcar Cabral was the nom de guerre of Abel Djassi..I picked that from the Zone 2 preparations..
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:19:27 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp3.erols.com Subject: Re: OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda Message-ID: <347DF1EF.1F26@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Modou Jallow wrote: > > FYI, former Malawian president Kamuzu Banda has died in a Johannesburg > clinic. He was believed to be 99 years old. > > VOA's correspondent Alex Belida reports from South Africa: > > " Mr. Banda was flown to Johannesburg from his home in > Malawi earlier this month after contracting pneumonia and falling > into a coma. A spokeswoman at the clinic where he had been > treated says he died Tuesday night of respiratory failure. > Mr. Banda led malawi from its independence in 1964 until the > country's first democratic elections in 1994 -- three decades in > which he single-handedly controlled virtually every aspect of the > nation's life, ruthlessly suppressing any opposition. after his > ouster, he was charged with murder but acquitted. > > The South African government Wednesday expressed regret at Mr. > Banda's death. president Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the > former Malawian leader, telling reporters that despite his public > image and his links with the former apartheid government, Mr. > Banda did many positive things people did not know about, > including aiding the black liberation movement in Zimbabwe and > providing the African National Congress with financial > assistance. " (signed) > > -------------------------------- > > Source: Voice of America > > ========================================================================> mjallow@sct.edu mjallow@hayes.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kamuzu Banda destroyed Malawi and put that country economy in total ruins. Although I do not wish any bad on another human being but I compare him to Mobutu. Let us put their wounds behind us and try to heal as fast as we can for there is no time to waste for the future of our children. Allah will be the best judge and each leader will be personally accountable for his evil deeds to his subjects. May his soul rest in peace Habib
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:33:23 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp3.erols.com Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: <347DF533.7708@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Michael J Gomez wrote: > > Hello gambia-l, kindly complete this survey and return back to me at > Unnisaa@aol.com > > 1) What is your ethnicity? > > 2) What is your Country of origin? > > 3) What is your highest level of education? > > 4) What is your gender? a)female b)male > > 5) What is your age? a)16-19 b)20-25 c)26-30 d)31-35 e)36-up > > 6) What do you think are the five most important things our governments > and we must do to have a united Africa? > a) > > b) > > C) > > d) > > e) > > 7) What are the five most important things our governments and we can do > to stop ethnic conflict in Africa? > > a) > > b) > > c) > > d) > > e) > > 8) What do you think are the five most important things we should do to > avoid military violence in Africa? > a) > > b) > > c) > > d) > > e) > > 9) What role should our governments and we play in order to stop > corruption in Africa? > > 10) What are the five most important things we should do to unite with > all African descendents around the globe? > a) > > b) > > c) > > d) > > e) > > 11) What type of government do you think a united Africa should have and > why? > > THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THIS SURVEY! E-MAIL TO Unnisaa@aol.comMr Gomez what will this survey be used for and who is requesting it ? (managers of Gambia-L or just you) Will the names of participants be be sold to a marketting group or not? Please give us some clarity thanks
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:35:17 -0800 From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "c:netscapeMAILSent"@smtp3.erols.com Subject: Re: Liberia on the US Message-ID: <347DF5A5.5FB2@erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MJagana wrote: > > In a message dated 97-11-26 11:13:12 EST, you write: > > << show give us the money pill > instead. >> > Dear Moe, > > The money pill is available @ A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED. > > LOL > > MOMODOU J > > PS: DO NOT OVER DO THE TURKEY TOBASKI IS ON THE WAY (JOKE)OK OK you win Habib
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:01:40 -0800 From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <m.gassama@swipnet.se> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <347E5034.491@swipnet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Pa Musa! I completely agree with you regarding Emma Nicholson. A documentary was shown on Swedish television about a month or two ago about the bodyguard she was "helping" and how she was "concerned" about his civil rights. I was rather pissed after I saw the documentary because I could see the hypocritical tactics she used with the intention of assasinating Winnie=B4s character. I pitied the bodyguard more because he typified the=
most ignorant among us letting himself be used for propaganda against a woman of Winnie=B4s stature by a woman who might have called him a ******=
had she not found any use for him. Regarding Nelson Mandela=B4s treatment of Winnie as posted by others, I must say that I was rather disappointed that Nelson Mandela could be so forgiving of the Apartheid establishment and not find it in his heart to forgive the woman who kept him and the struggle alive. Like the saying goes, "charity begins at home". I for one would have been convinced of Nelson=B4s forgiving nature if he had forgiven Winnie for the things she did during his time in prison. After all, she is only human and over twenty years is a long time. If she was the one imprisoned for such a long time, he probably would have married another woman or had many lovers without such a big fuss. Here are a few things Nelson said and wrote about Winnie which he now seems to have forgotten:
SOURCE: Benson, M. (1986) Nelson Mandela, Penguin Books.
"Had it not been for your visits, wonderful letters and your love, I would have fallen apart many years ago". (page 199)
"...I am solidly behind you and know too well that you suffer because of your love of and loyalty to the children and me, as well as to our large family." (page 195)
"Darling, just pack some of my clothes in a suitcase with my toiletries. I will be going away for a long time. You=B4re not to worry, my friends here will look after you. They=B4ll give you news of me from time to time= =2E Look well after the children. I know you=B4ll have the strength and courage to do so without me, I now know you are capable of that." (page 95)
"Your love and support...the charming children you have given the family, the many friends you have won, the hope of enjoying that love and warmth again, is what life and happiness mean to me....Yet there were moments...when I have wondered whether any kind of commitment can ever be sufficient excuse for abandoning a young and inexperienced woman in a pitiless desert, literally throwing her into the hands of highwaymen; a wonderful woman without her pillar and support at times of need. (page 238)
Here are some quotes from Winnie:
"...but the trip back is awful. I feel so empty....But I can=B4t help thinking of all these years of our lives that have gone down the drain, our best years. Nelson is sixty-three now, and I am like a young girl, still looking for the experience of married life." (page 211)
"...In fact during my visit he took off his shoes and showed it through the window. I saw his foot for the first time in twenty-one years". (page 221)
"That Margareth Thatcher should have the audacity to tell us, the oppressed people of South Africa, that we are wrong in calling for sanctions! I am appalled that a woman Prime Minister should be so insensitive to mothers spending their time collecting their children=B4s bodies from the streets" (page 249) Is Emma Nicholson still angry about Winnie=B4s uncompromising attitude towards that hypocritical Margaret Thatcher and wants to revenge through character assassination?
"We know what we want. Our aspirations are dear to us. We are not asking for majority rule; it is our right, we shall have it at any cost. We are aware that the road before us is uphill, but we shall fight to the bitter end for justice." (page 189)
"I was never there to hold my little girls=B4 hands, take them to school and intoduce them to their teachers....I have never met any of my children=B4s teachers. I couldn=B4t do that because it would have meant violating the terms of my banning order." (page 171)
"All I had was a plastic bottle with about five glasses of water, a sanitary bucket, three blankets and a sisal mat. About a week later I was transferred to a 'condemned' cell: a cell which usually holds prisoners who are going to be executed....Three white stewardesses brouht the food. They would then take the sanitary bucket, turn the lid upside down and put your plate of food on that. So I never ate." (page 177)
The quotes can go on and on. I sent these few quotes to serve as reminders of what Winnie went through and the role she played in both Nelson Mandela=B4s and the struggle=B4s lives. In these days when everyth= ing said about her is negative, I beg to differ and say that I personally stand behind her 100 percent. She is human and has committed some mistakes but if Nelson Mandela and South Africa can forgive the propagators of one of the world=B4s most brutal dictatorships, people who=
have committed murders uncountable, who have condemned generations of African people to destitution, then they can definitely forgive a woman who sacrificed what most of us would not even dream of sacrificing. She is a fighter and she will fight on, believe me. She has the support of grassroots South Africa and even though my support does not count in South Africa, she has my support as an African. Thanks. Buharry. BTW, are you Ousainou and Assan Jallow=B4s brother? -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
pmj@commit.gm wrote: > =
> Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> > via Commit > =
> Dear Folks, > Regarding Mrs Winnie Madikezela-Mandela: On BBC Focus on Africa, 25/11/= 97; > It was reported that "Baroness"Emma Nicholson was taking private > prosecution on murder charges against Winnie on behalf of Stompie ??'s > mother; > now this Emma Nicholson if I recall was a short-lived Minsiter or junio= r > minister under Margaret Thatcher..the latter and her cabinet was very > famous in affording apartheid much needed breathing space in its latter=
> years and also holding the ANC and Mandala as communist-terrorists; > I think Nicholson should just simply be deported as an undesirable and > unwanted element in Africa.. > I don't care whether Winnie is guilty or innocent; Emma does not have a=
> voice or vote in our affairs; it is like having the KKK decide on black= on > black crime > =
> folks, I have used the utmost restraint in not calling the b******* the=
> names she deserves in my opinion. > pmj > =
> ---------- > > From: Modou Jallow <mjallow@st6000.sct.edu>
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 23:10:10 +0300 From: "BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH" <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda Message-ID: <01bcfb70$76ea3260$c22385c2@kolls567> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I don't think I would lose a night's sleep over his demise! please,keep up the good work down there.
Regards Bassss! -----Original Message----- From: Habib Ghanim <hghanim@erols.com> To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Date: 28//1418 04:21 Subject: Re: OBITUARY: Malawi's Kamuzu Banda
>Modou Jallow wrote: >> >> FYI, former Malawian president Kamuzu Banda has died in a Johannesburg >> clinic. He was believed to be 99 years old. >> >> VOA's correspondent Alex Belida reports from South Africa: >> >> " Mr. Banda was flown to Johannesburg from his home in >> Malawi earlier this month after contracting pneumonia and falling >> into a coma. A spokeswoman at the clinic where he had been >> treated says he died Tuesday night of respiratory failure. >> Mr. Banda led malawi from its independence in 1964 until the >> country's first democratic elections in 1994 -- three decades in >> which he single-handedly controlled virtually every aspect of the >> nation's life, ruthlessly suppressing any opposition. after his >> ouster, he was charged with murder but acquitted. >> >> The South African government Wednesday expressed regret at Mr. >> Banda's death. president Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the >> former Malawian leader, telling reporters that despite his public >> image and his links with the former apartheid government, Mr. >> Banda did many positive things people did not know about, >> including aiding the black liberation movement in Zimbabwe and >> providing the African National Congress with financial >> assistance. " (signed) >> >> -------------------------------- >> >> Source: Voice of America >> >> ========================================================================> mjallow@sct.edu mjallow@hayes.com >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Kamuzu Banda destroyed Malawi and put that country economy in total >ruins. Although I do not wish any bad on another human being but I >compare him to Mobutu. Let us put their wounds behind us and try to heal >as fast as we can for there is no time to waste for the future of our >children. >Allah will be the best judge and each leader will be personally >accountable for his evil deeds to his subjects. >May his soul rest in peace >Habib >
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:02:09 -0000 From: "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <B0000019544@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> via Commit
Dear Buharry, Thanks for taking the time to send this very apt reminder..I am 29 years old and I still cannot comprehend nor do I think I ever will what it must have been or felt...the LADY is GREAT..and like all GREAT PEOPLE, other humans will try to PULL YOU DOWN; in her struggle and OUR struggle, when MANDELA had the luxury of conscience and she had to make LIFE and DEATH choices, her mistakes are understandable and acceptable..compared with the cold-blooded and calculated killing of Chris Hani or the calculated murders of Steve Biko and other heroes of the Struggle.. ps..I am not underestimating Mandela's struggle and the choice he made or had to make but i think and I know how it feels (in a little way) when your conscience is imprisoned and you live with the fact that you have to make choices to live, during the period of military rule in The Gambia, a very good and close friend and brother was a security detainee; for his sake and my own conscience, I never felt free during the 2 + years
in closing, Mr Buharry, yes I am Ouse and Assan's younger brother and I do remember you from Serre Kunda School and thanks again for reminding us and keeping things in their proper perspective.. pss: is there an e-mail address we can send our feelings and show our support..a little token of solidarity with the other but EQUALLY if not GREATER MANDELA ( WINNIE MADIKEZELA) pmj ----------
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:55:10 -0500 From: nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: <19971127.215513.3422.1.nahak@juno.com>
The purpose of the survey is to gather information on how Africa can work toward a United sustainable continent. This is not a school project. I believe in African Unity. Please be advised that the survey did not request anyone to provide his or her name. This is not a marketing survey. It will not be sold to anyone. The survey is open to anyone who is interested in responding to it. Feel free. The survey is from me, Michael Gomez. Thanks for asking. Check this webpage::: http://members.aol.com/Unnisaa/Unnisaa.html.or http://members.aol.com/Unnisaa/index.html
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 08:24:00 +0100 From: amadou.kabir.njie@nsw.no To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: RE: Cabral Cup II in the Gambia Message-ID: <347e7388.narud@relay.nsw.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=body.txt
PMJ
You wrote:
ciao pmj ps for your general info. and knowledge: did you know that Amilcar Cabral=
was the nom de guerre of Abel Djassi..I picked that from the Zone 2 preparations..
Was it not the other way round?; that Abel Djassi was the nom de guerre = =
of Amilcar Cabral? Or is it just my memory playing tricks on me?
A. Kabir Njie. =
--------------------------------------------------------------------- amadou.kabir.njie@nsw.no Narud Stokke Wiig AS R=E5dhusgt. 27 N-0158 OSLO NORWAY Tel: +47 22 33 06 70 Fax: +47 22 41 45 01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:40:42 +0000 From: "narb@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: DELISTING Message-ID: <v01520d00b0a46b575310@[149.212.100.55]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Sent by narb@commit.gm (National Agricultural Research Board) via Commit
Hi folks, I am proceeding on a one month leave and would kindly request to be delisted until 29 December 1997.
I wih the group a Merry X-mas.
Dr. Jeng : narb@commit.gm
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 07:50:48 PST From: "Theodor Stenevang" <stenevang@hotmail.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Please change my adress Message-ID: <19971128155108.12335.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain
Dear listadministrator,
I would like to have my address
stenevang@hotmail.com
changed, to be the following:
v97tst@stud.ki.se
Thank you
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 07:51:41 PST From: "Theodor Stenevang" <stenevang@hotmail.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Please change my adress Message-ID: <19971128155141.9928.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain
Dear listadministrator,
I would like to have my address on the list
stenevang@hotmail.com
changed, to be the following:
v97tst@stud.ki.se
and thereby remain on the list, only with another address than the present.
Thank you, Theodor Stenevang
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:40:32 -0500 (EST) From: BAKSAWA@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Subscription Message-ID: <971128174032_1206013781@mrin51.mail.aol.com>
List Managers:
Please add my sister Sailey Sey to the List. Her e-mail addres is:
seys@husson.edu Thanks in advance
Awa Sey
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:09:29 -0000 From: "archibald.graham@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Zone II Tourney - All roads lead to Independence Stadium Message-ID: <B0000019775@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Archibald H. R. Graham" <archibald.graham@commit.gm> via Commit
Dear Pa-Mambuna, Lexington
Further to your request of 26th Nov. on the list regarding the Zone II tournament, I am obliged to find and provide you with the following information which falls to my notice though not a football enthusiast:
Fixtures:
8 Countries taking part:
Group A Group B
A1 Gambia (GM) B1 Sierra Leone (SL) A2 Senegal (SEN) B2 Mali (MAL) A3 Cape Verde (CV) B3 Guinea Bissau (GB) A4 Mauritania (MAU) B4 Guinea Conakry (GC)
Timetable:
Nov 28 A1 (GM) - A3 (CV) A2 (SEN) - A4 (MAU)
29 B1 (SL) - B3 (GB) B2 (MAL) - B4 (GC)
30 A1 (GM) - A4 (MAU) A3 (CV) - A2 (SEN)
Dec 1 B2 (MAL) - B3 (GB) B4 (GC) - B1 (SL)
2 A1 (GM) - A2 (SEN) A3 (CV) - A4 (MAU)
3 B1(SL) -B2 (MAL) B3 (GB) -B4 (GC)
5 A WINNER GROUP A - 2ND GROUP B B WINNER GROUP B - 2ND GROUP A
7 3RD & 4TH PLACES LOOSER A - LOOSER B FINAL WINNER A - WINNER B
The kick off took place today.
The Scorpions made a decisive victory over the Cape Verde team by 3 goals to 1.
The first goal by the Scorpions was scored within the 1st 10 mins. of the 1st round while the other 2 within the 1st 15mins of the 2nd round.
Senegal had a lone goal draw with Mauritania after losing at least 2 penalties awarded them during their match.
Turnout at the Stadium today is estimated at about 25 to 30 thousand.
8 professional Gambian international players including Jatto Cessay from Europe came to beef up the Scorpions.
Looking forward to tomorrow's matches.
Archi
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:34:12 PST From: "sillah conateh" <sillahconateh@hotmail.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New member Message-ID: <19971129003413.20286.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain
Dear List manager,
Please include Mr. Musa Sonko in The Gambia List. His e-mail address is << msonko@hotmail.com >>. Your usual co-operation is highly appreciated.
Sillah Conateh.
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 00:21:55 -0000 From: "pmj@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: "gambia-l" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: re: zone II commentary from the arm chair Message-ID: <B0000019788@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> via Commit
Folks, It is my pleasure to indulge in this ..feel free to chip in ..The Gambia Scorpions thrashed Cape Verde 3-1 with goals in the 6th, 51st and 57th minutes by Ebou Silla, Jatto and Ebrima Sonko, all international players; I really can't remember who scored Cape verde's goal but it seems The Gambia is of with an excellent start..it could have easily been more. Senegal and Mauretania played to 1-1 draw with Mauretania playing superior tactical game and Senegal always failing to convert their chances into goals, including missing 2 penalties..(nb..I saw 1 penalty missed but have been told that a second was missed)..anyway Mauretania led through the first half with a single goal and Senegal only equalised in 4 minutes of injury time. I am still holding that for The Gambia to finally lift the Trophy..we must watch out for our traditional opponents..Senegal and defending champs, Sierra Leone. Tomorrow (Saturday) Sierra Leone plays Guinea Bissau; Mali versus Guinea Conakry.. ciao from Banjul pmj
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 20:00:22 -0800 (PST) From: "D. Singhateh" <dawdas@u.washington.edu> To: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: re: zone II commentary from the arm chair Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96a.971128194004.41412B-100000@dante08.u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi!! Pa Musa, Thanks for the wonderful piece below. It's very much appreciated and I hope you will find time to send in more as the games progress. Can't wait, starving for more, if you will. Thanks again, Dawda Singahteh.
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, pmj@commit.gm wrote:
> Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> > via Commit > > > Folks, > It is my pleasure to indulge in this ..feel free to chip in ..The Gambia > Scorpions thrashed Cape Verde 3-1 with goals in the 6th, 51st and 57th > minutes by Ebou Silla, Jatto and Ebrima Sonko, all international players; I > really can't remember who scored Cape verde's goal but it seems The Gambia > is of with an excellent start..it could have easily been more. > Senegal and Mauretania played to 1-1 draw with Mauretania playing superior > tactical game and Senegal always failing to convert their chances into > goals, including missing 2 penalties..(nb..I saw 1 penalty missed but have > been told that a second was missed)..anyway Mauretania led through the > first half with a single goal and Senegal only equalised in 4 minutes of > injury time. I am still holding that for The Gambia to finally lift the > Trophy..we must watch out for our traditional opponents..Senegal and > defending champs, Sierra Leone. > Tomorrow (Saturday) Sierra Leone plays Guinea Bissau; Mali versus Guinea > Conakry.. > ciao from Banjul > pmj > >
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 01:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: MJagana@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: <971129012738_632658374@mrin85.mail.aol.com>
In a message dated 97-11-27 14:57:09 EST, you write:
<< The purpose of the survey is to gather information on how Africa can work toward a United sustainable continent. This is not a school project. I believe in African Unity. Thanks for asking. MGOMEZ >>
Dear MR Gomez,
I would not mind to reply to your survey. But could you kindly elaborate on the recipints of these important statistics.
momodou J
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 01:07:26 -0600 From: Tamsir Mbai <mba4224@etbu.edu> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: re: zone II commentary from the arm chair Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19971129004607.0faf780a@etbu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Masters Pa Musa and Archibald, Thanx for the up-to-the-minute updates. CONGRATULATIONS to The Gambian SCORPIONS for an awesome start!!!! Good luck all the way!!! Gentlemen, I hope it would not be asking for too much to ask that you guys continue to feed us with the details as the games progress. Nice start, by the way. Pa Musa, you mentioned a few names from The Gambian side that are currently playing on international soil. Can you please tell us where they are playing, what team(s) they played for while they were in The Gambia, and how long they have been gone. This may help some of us to identify who these fellows are. I know Jatto, but the other two names are very unfamiliar. Maybe i have been gone too long. Anyway nostalgia is beginning to set in, so i better be going. Nice weekend everybody. It's Tamsir.
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:12:25 -0800 From: MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA <m.gassama@swipnet.se> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <3480BD79.6A36@swipnet.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Pa Musa! Yes, I thought it was you. It=B4s great that Gambia-l can bring us al= l together regardless of the distance between us. Regarding an e-mail address where we can send our support to Winnie Mandela, I am not aware of any. Maybe someone else can help. Maybe Moe can ask his South African friend who wrote the original thread. Have a nice weekend. Buharry.
P.S. Say hi to Ousainou and Assan who were my classmates. I have not seen Ousainou in over 14 years. I met Assan in London around 1991 when we both visited Alieu Secka when he was studying there. Once again, it is really nice to be able to get in touch despite the distance. D.S. -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
pmj@commit.gm wrote: > =
> Sent by "Pa Musa Jallow" <pmj@commit.gm> > via Commit > =
> Dear Buharry, > Thanks for taking the time to send this very apt reminder..I am 29 year= s > old and I still cannot comprehend nor do I think I ever will what it mu= st > have been or felt...the LADY is GREAT..and like all GREAT PEOPLE, other=
> humans will try to PULL YOU DOWN; in her struggle and OUR struggle, whe= n > MANDELA had the luxury of conscience and she had to make LIFE and DEATH=
> choices, her mistakes are understandable and acceptable..compared with = the > cold-blooded and calculated killing of Chris Hani or the calculated mur= ders > of Steve Biko and other heroes of the Struggle.. > ps..I am not underestimating Mandela's struggle and the choice he made = or > had to make but i think and I know how it feels (in a little way) when=
> your conscience is imprisoned and you live with the fact that you have = to > make choices to live, during the period of military rule in The Gambia,= a > very good and close friend and brother was a security detainee; for his=
> sake and my own conscience, I never felt free during the 2 + years > =
> in closing, Mr Buharry, yes I am Ouse and Assan's younger brother and I= do > remember you from Serre Kunda School and thanks again for reminding us = and > keeping things in their proper perspective.. > pss: is there an e-mail address we can send our feelings and show our > support..a little token of solidarity with the other but EQUALLY if not=
> GREATER MANDELA ( WINNIE MADIKEZELA) > pmj > ----------
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:05:44 +2000 From: mmjeng@image.dk To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikzela Mandela Message-ID: <199711291706.SAA08517@mail.image.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Police investigating two murders allegedly linked to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela found insufficient evidence to prosecute her, a police commissioner testified Friday. . George Fivaz told the commission looking into apartheid-era crimes that police responded to tips and pleas from relatives of the victims on several occasions, but did not find enough evidence to file charges. He described a key witness against President Nelson Mandela's ex-wife -- her former bodyguard Katiza Cebekhulu -- as unreliable because he kept changing his story.
I am sending the full story to the bush. Greetings Matarr M. Jeng.
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:02:01 -0500 From: nahak@juno.com (Michael J Gomez) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <19971129.130204.3430.0.nahak@juno.com>
Listmanager, unsubscribe me from the following e-mail addresses, mbg@guinness.som.cwru and mbg@guinness.som.cwru.edu. The only e-mail I want to keep with gambia-l is nahak@juno.com. Please take care of this as soon as possible. Thanks!!!!!
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 20:10:13 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: Questions of Real Legal Status of African Sla Message-ID: <19971129191207.AAC47484@momodou> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Gambia-l, FYI the mail below was sent to us and I just think it might me interesting for some of you.
Momodou Camara
------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- To: mcamara@post3.tele.dk From: djembe@inform-bbs.dk (Djembe Magazine) Reply-to: djembe@inform-bbs.dk (Djembe Magazine) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 14:56:38 +0100 Subject: Fwd: Questions of Real Legal Status of African Sla Organization: Inform
FORGET MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT! ARE WE STILL SLAVES BY U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND ARE THEY EXTORTING TAXES FROM US BASED UPON OUR LACK OF MUTUALITY WITH THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND OUR 'FORCED CITIZENSHIP' WITHOUT ASKING US IN 1865 AFTER ESTIMATES OF UP TO 150 MILLION OF US HAD DIED IN THE WORLD'S WORST HUMAN HOLOCAUST? THIS IS THE CLAIM OF 74 YEAR OLD BLACK ATTORNEY DR. ROBERT L. BROCK, EX-GARVEYITE, ATTORNEY FOR A BLACK CLASS ACTION TAX CASE THAT EXHAUSTED LEGAL REMEDIES THROUGH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THIS YEAR AND IS NOW IN THE UNITED NATIONS COURT, A VICTORY FOR AFRICAN SLAVE DESCENDANTS BY U.S. & IRS DEFAULT IN THE CASE (Leonard Ashton et al versus The United States Government and the Internal Revenue Service). PLEASE CONTACT DR. BROCK FOR ALL THE REAL CONCEPTS AND DETAILS, BUT SEE THE ATTACHED EXCERPT FROM BROCK'S BOOK. (Dr. Robert L. Brock, President, Self-Determination Committee, P.O. Box 15288, Washington, D.C. 20003, telephone number (202) 544-5366.
Excerpt from "Black Tax Rebellion in the U.S.A.: A Study" by Ida Hakim Article
(from PASSPORT TO FREEDOM: WITH REPARATIONS AND SELF-DETERMINATION, by Dr. Robert L. Brock, President, The Self Determination Committee, Washington, D.C.) "PROTECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW": Because of its past and present criminal acts, the United States of America has refused to ratify a number of different International Human Rights Treaties and Conventions. By doing this, it protects itself from an obligation of having to report to the United Nations. Evidence of this reluctance can be found in the arguments when Congress was deciding upon ratifying the Genocide Convention in 1970. This statement was directed toward Senators Church, Javits, Cooper, Symington and Pell of the Foreign Relations Sub-Committee: "At that time (referring to the 1950's) there was great alarm over the words, 'mental harm' but this committee slew that dragon by defining the words to mean 'permanent physical injury to mental faculties' and they set other guidelines which are available to you. Rather than ratification encroaching on our Constitutional law and authority, the very opposite can happen if we do not ratify as you will see by reading Article 8....Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and Suppression of acts of genocide or any other acts enumerated in this article 111....Gentlemen, do not take this cause lightly. I hold in my hand a letter to me dated February 8, 1970 from Thomas Drake, president of the United Alliance of African Organizations in which he states: "I sure would like to be there to discuss with you in particular the Genocide Covenant. It can be proven without a doubt that the act of genocide is being used at this present time against my people here in America." Please let me repeat that phrasing, 'against my people here in America.' You know that the Black Nations in the U.N. far outnumber us in their vote and actually numerically. What is to prevent any one of these Nations from bringing an action against those here in the United States who have committed Genocide, and they could well bring charges against every school board member who has voted for forced integration of our schools, federal judges who have issued decrees and the United States Supreme Court. I doubt if there is much you could do to stop the United Nations from bringing any of these guilty parties before an International Court of Justice. Certainly this argument makes clear the fear of retaliation and the knowledge of the criminality of forced assimilation. This fear is based on reality. When the rebellion of Blacks becomes a world issue, we will more than likely see help coming from Member States of the United Nations. If there is validity in Dr. Brock's arguments about a war of enslavement, 1st and 2nd class status based upon race and ethnicity, and one continuous act of force against Blacks to this day, then there are International Laws upon which the descendants of slaves can rely to protect themselves which the United States Government has ratified (perhaps believing that it would be able to escape charges on these issues). The following quotes are arguments of dr. Brock which point out the violations of Plaintiff's international rights: 1) "The taking of Ashton's property and the force of arms approach on Ashton to submit to the United States Jurisdiction violated International Law rights of Ashton under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Leonard Ashton is an international person with International Common Law Domicile in Africa. The acceptance of Human Rights Treaties by the aggressor United States, accused of Genocide, Slavery and denial of self-determination, Ashton takes, and has as beneficiary of all Treaties, and here charges the Judges and the United States with violation of his rights under International Law." 2) "The present system of taxing Plaintiff by a two tier system and citizenship by a two tier system is in violation of both the Genocide Convention against Plaintiff as a group, and the International Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery." 3) "The two citizenship denies Plaintiff the equal use of the Bill of Rights or First Ten Amendments due to Racial Discrimination distinction based upon color and slave descent. As to the First Ten Amendments being denied to Plaintiff in violation of the Treaties and Human Rights the following is stated: The Fourteenth Amendment citizen has no inherent constitutional right to any of the following: (a) peaceful assembly, (b) exemption from compulsory self-incrimination, (c) trial by jury in both civil and criminal cases, (d) right to bear arms, (e) prosecution by indictment of a grand jury, and (f) right to be confronted with witnesses, among others. The distinction between National and State citizenship and their respective privileges there drawn has come to be firmly established." 4) "Sovereign Immunity cannot be used for individual persons to defeat slavery and genocide as both of them are crimes by International Law, which is Public Law, whereas, the 13th Amendment is Private Law set to correct a local condition of ending slavery, caused and supported by the same government that allowed and participated in it, therefore Plaintiff seeks the International Law on slavery. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ARTICLE 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude and slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. For the purposes of the present Convention: a) Slavery means, as defined in the Slavery Convention of 1926, the status or condition of a person over whom any and all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised, and "slave" means a person in such condition or status. Plaintiff charges Defendant with slavery by taxation and for all other actions amounting to slavery. The following acts constitute captivity and slavery in violation of the Convention: Unilateral enactment of the 14th Article of Amendment legislation as legislative citizens with a grant periodically of civil rights and special privileges and immunities, one of them being the burden of taxation, to which Plaintiff objects, for the additional grounds touching no jurisdiction." 5) "Genocide is a crime under International Law, like piracy, torture, the Defendants by their failure to answer can, if apprehended, be tried in foreign States as in Filariga versus Pena-Irala, 630 F2d 876." 6) "That the Charter of the United Nations, upon ratification by the U.S. Senate, became the supreme law of the land, within constitutional provision, Article VI, Section 2, and once ratified, failure of an organ of government to pass measures or to do an act that is necessary to give effect to the ratified treaty cannot be offered as an excuse for avoiding the responsibility incurred or defeat Plaintiff's "rights", and that Defendant, United States, cannot 'adduce' its own constitution, laws, codes with a view to evading obligations incumbent on Defendant, United States, under International Law and under the Charter of the United Nations." 7) "Plaintiff maintains that according to his alien status that the charges alleged in this complaint fall within the 'core' of human rights violation on slavery, genocide, self-determination, crimes against humanity, requiring answer to disclaimer." 8) "In support of 'direct action struggle' to achieve liberties, freedom and self-determination, having disclaimed Defendants laws, the Black People will continue to use International Laws, such as: The U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2625: EVERY STATE HAS A DUTY TO REFRAIN FROM FORCIBLE ACTION WHICH DEPRIVES PEOPLE...OF THEIR RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE. Finally, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights indicates a place of primacy for self-determination." 9) "Petitioner has as one of its challenges against the IRS that of a disclaimer. The Petitioner uses only Treaties and Conventions and Covenants one of which is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Part II, Article 2, and under which Petitioner Ashton sues for the violations of his rights:Article 2: 3. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes: (a) To ensure that any person whose rights or freedoms as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity; (b) To ensure that any person claiming such a remedy shall have his right thereto determined by competent judicial, administrative or legislative authorities, or by any other competent authority provided for by the legal system of the State, and to develop the possibilities of judicial remedy; (c) To ensure that the competent authorities shall enforce such remedies when granted." In the United States of America, due to the efforts of Dr. Robert L. brock and Congressman John Conyers, both the Judicial and the Legislative remedies have apparently been exhausted. The Legislature has refused to take the first step toward considering a remedy (HR 40 tabled since its introduction in 1991), and as we have read, the judicial remedy is exhausted. The references listed in this study, plus many other references to International Laws, Covenants and Treaties in the legal briefs of Dr. Brock, seem to be thorough enough to verify that slave descendants have legal grounds and the United Nations has an obligation. As we know, the Lost Found Nation under the guidance of the Honorable Silis Muhammad, has already petitioned the United Nations for intervention and reparations, using the Human Rights laws which protect National Minorities. The Black Tax Rebellion gives further validity to the arguments of the Lost Found Nation, and those organizations (National Commission for Reparations and C.U.R.E./A.F.R.E.) that are assisting the international effort. The Honorable Silis Muhammad's plea must be heard now that rebellion against tyranny and oppression has begun to take place in earnest. Finally, we will provide an answer from the international community itself, to the question put forward in the beginning of this study: "Can the Black Tax Rebellion be defended, before Nations of the world, as rebellion against tyranny? Dr. Y.N. Kly, international legal scholar offers thee general types of claims available to (so-called) African Americans on pages 70-72 of his book, A POPULAR GUIDE TO MINORITY RIGHTS. Option one would be based on an agreement between the National Minority and their Government. (The exhaustion of domestic remedies means that this option has failed.) The second option would involve a claim under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights with references made to 'recourse...to rebellion against tyranny and oppression' set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the language in the Declaration of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation Among States. (Although Dr. Kly reminds the reader that he presumes it would be a democratic assembly of the Minority that would bring these claims, history tells us that rebellions are not begun by taking a vote.) Dr. Kly's third option is quoted herein: "The third option would probably be the most disruptive to positive relations between groups in the United States. African-Americans could claim they have a right to self-determination as a revolt against oppression and the violation of their human rights. This would call attention to the long history of gross violations of their human rights and the continuation of this pattern into the present." Dr. Kly's options in International Law for the slaves' descendants and their rebellion, seem to indicate that Blacks are correct in taking legal, non-violent actions, and they deserve the assistance of the world community. We in C.U.R.E./A.F.R.E. urge the Nations of the world to respond.Black Tax Rebellion in the U.S.A. is published by Ida Hakim for C.U.R.E./A.F.R.E., P.O. Box 6103, River Forest, Illinois 60305, and distributed by the Self Determination Committee, P.O. Box 15248, Washington, D.C. 20003, telephone# (202) 544-5366.
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 20:19:09 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New Members Message-ID: <19971129192102.AAA47614@momodou> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Greetings, Musa Sonko and Sailey Sey have been added to the list. Welcome to our Bantaba. Please send a brief introduction. Our address is: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Have a good weekend.
Regards Momodou Camara
PS. Congratulations to the Scorpions for the first victory. ******************************************************* http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mcamara
**"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible"***
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:59:01 -0500 From: "Pa-Mambuna O. Bojang" <paomar@iglou.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Zone II Tourney - All roads lead to Independence Stadium Message-ID: <3480AC44.AA944178@iglou.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Archi; Thanks for the Zone II info. Its wonderful to hear that the Scorpions won the tournament opener. Please keep us posted with the results as the tourney continues. Is my friend and former team mate (Gasimu Nying or Gas) still playing for the Scorpions? I have not the least doubt in mind that they will win it all. Go Scorpions!!
GOD BLESS!!
Pa-Mambuna, The BlueGrass State
archibald.graham@commit.gm wrote:
> Sent by "Archibald H. R. Graham" <archibald.graham@commit.gm> > via Commit > > Dear Pa-Mambuna, Lexington > > Further to your request of 26th Nov. on the list regarding the Zone II > tournament, I am obliged to find and provide you with the following > information which falls to my notice though not a football enthusiast: > > Fixtures: > > 8 Countries taking part: > > Group A Group B > > A1 Gambia (GM) B1 Sierra Leone (SL) > A2 Senegal (SEN) B2 Mali (MAL) > A3 Cape Verde (CV) B3 Guinea Bissau (GB) > A4 Mauritania (MAU) B4 Guinea Conakry (GC) > > Timetable: > > Nov > 28 A1 (GM) - A3 (CV) > A2 (SEN) - A4 (MAU) > > 29 B1 (SL) - B3 (GB) > B2 (MAL) - B4 (GC) > > 30 A1 (GM) - A4 (MAU) > A3 (CV) - A2 (SEN) > > Dec > 1 B2 (MAL) - B3 (GB) > B4 (GC) - B1 (SL) > > 2 A1 (GM) - A2 (SEN) > A3 (CV) - A4 (MAU) > > 3 B1(SL) -B2 (MAL) > B3 (GB) -B4 (GC) > > 5 A WINNER GROUP A - 2ND GROUP B > B WINNER GROUP B - 2ND GROUP A > > 7 3RD & 4TH PLACES LOOSER A - LOOSER B > FINAL WINNER A - WINNER B > > The kick off took place today. > > The Scorpions made a decisive victory over the Cape Verde team by 3 goals > to 1. > > The first goal by the Scorpions was scored within the 1st 10 mins. of the > 1st round while the other 2 within the 1st 15mins of the 2nd round. > > Senegal had a lone goal draw with Mauritania after losing at least 2 > penalties awarded them during their match. > > Turnout at the Stadium today is estimated at about 25 to 30 thousand. > > 8 professional Gambian international players including Jatto Cessay from > Europe came to beef up the Scorpions. > > Looking forward to tomorrow's matches. > > Archi
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 21:52:38 -0000 From: "archibald.graham@commit.gm" <gambia-l@commit.gm> To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Zone II Tourney - 2nd day Message-ID: <B0000019930@south.commit.gm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sent by "Archibald H. R. Graham" <archibald.graham@commit.gm> via Commit
Hi all on the list
Another day with the tournament has successfully ended.
The 1st match turned out to be a victory for the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone, with a 2 - 1 victory over Guinea Bissau after discounting 2 of the goals shoots of the Leone Stars disallowed by the referee.
The Leone Stars team, currently the Trophy's champions, is said to have been reinforced bearly 24 hours ago when some of the players successfully made their way through the borders of crisis striven Sierra Leone with the aid of the ECOMOG forces. Anyway despite their troubles back home they are apparently a formidable force that the Scorpions need not under rate. Their coordination during the match despite virtually no preparatory team workings leaves doubts in me of excuses made by some African international players that they would not perform well locally as they do on the international scene because it would take a while to get into the local team's rhythm.
The 2nd match between Guinea Conakry and Mali ended up in a deadlock with a goal-less draw.
If I were to opt for a replay of any of the matches played to date, I would not hesitate to request for this 2nd match of today between Guinea Conakry and Mali. The ball play was fast, the passes were accurate, and the technical formation satisfactory on both sides. It is also noteworthy that Guinea Conakry is the only team represented in the tournament that is qualified for the next continental Africa Cup 1998 in Burkina Faso. This appearance of theirs in the tournament would surely add to their experience build up for the Cup of Nations.
So far, Gambia is leading in Group A with 3 points followed by Senegal and Mauritania with 1 point each, whereas in Group B Sierra Leone leads with 3 points followed also by Guinea and Mali with 1 point each.
Tomorrow Gambia plays with Mauritania in the 1st match while Cape Verde takes on Senegal in the 2nd.
Nice weekend.
Archi
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:43:52 -0500 (EST) From: YULBSORE@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <971130004352_-86794784@mrin45.mail.aol.com>
hi
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:49:57 -0500 (EST) From: YULBSORE@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Message-ID: <971130004956_-690289951@mrin86.mail.aol.com>
hi buharry i am not sure if you will get this because this is my first time messing with the cumputer and i dont know what am doing this is amie secka just saying hi
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