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GAMBIA-L Digest 76
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Mr Sissoho's Case by SANG1220@aol.com 2) by ABDOU <at137@columbia.edu> 3) New "demo" issues of The Observer by Francis Njie <c3p0@xsite.net> 4) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) by "Alpha Robinson" <garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> 5) RE: THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE by BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 6) RE:(PART4) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE by BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 7) New member by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 8) Re: Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) by "Alpha Robinson" <garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> 9) Need email of The Observer by David Gilden <dgilden@tiac.net> 10) New member by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 11) Fwd: SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Living Under by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 12) Fwd: LIBERIA-POLITICS: Voting for Real Peace by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 13) Fwd: Beijing Followup #89 by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 14) Fwd: ENVIRONMENT: Activists Leery of West African Oil Pipeline by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 15) Fwd: Report from GK '97 Alternative: "Lo by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 16) by Liz Stewart <liz@stanne.com> 17) criminal law and punishment by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> 18) New member by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 19) SV: (PART3) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRBE IN AFRICA by "Momodou S Sidibeh" <momodou.sidibeh@stockholm.mail.telia.com> 20) Re: New member by Liz Stewart <liz@stanne.com> 21) Re: Gambia's new electoral commission by binta@iuj.ac.jp 22) Re: Gambia's new electoral commission by Andrea Klumpp <klumpp@kar.dec.com> 23) New member by "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu> 24) Re: Sierra Leone army chief backs female circumcision (fwd) by Ancha Bala-Gaye u <bala7500@mach1.wlu.ca> 25) FORWARDED MESSAGE by ABDOU <at137@columbia.edu> 26) FORWARDED MESSAGE by ABDOU <at137@columbia.edu> 27) New member by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 28) UNITED NATIONS: U.S. Group Urges Payments With No Strings by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 29) Introduction of new member Habib Diab Gh by hghanim@nusacc.org 30) Re: Introduction of new member Habib Diab Gh by "Numukunda Darboe(Mba)" <ndarboe@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu> 31) International Organisation for Migration by TSaidy1050@aol.com 32) Re: International Organisation for Migration by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 33) First Ladies Club !!! by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 34) Gambian Group to perform in Seattle by ASJanneh@aol.com 35) Iranian Foreign Minister Visits Gambia by ASJanneh@aol.com 36) New Members by momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) 37) Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. by "A BITTAYE" <mae96ab@wye.ac.uk> 38) IOM by Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> 39) RE: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> 40) RE: First Ladies Club !!! by Ceesay Soffie <Ceesay_Soffie@ems.prc.com> 41) Re: IOM by binta@iuj.ac.jp 42) HIV/GAMBIA/SENEGAL by Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> 43) Re: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. by binta@iuj.ac.jp 44) Fwd: DEVELOPMENT: German Agency Taking To Third World Know-how by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 45) Fwd: WEST AFRICA: Nigerians Learn How to Talk to their Neighbours by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) 46) Re: IOM by sarian@osmosys.incog.com (Sarian Loum) 47) RE: Introduction of new member Habib Dia by "Numukunda Darboe(Mba)" <ndarboe@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu> 48) RE: HIV/GAMBIA/SENEGAL by BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 49) Re: IOM by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 50) AE-CHAIRS> Research positions (fwd) by "N'Deye Marie N'Jie" <njie.1@osu.edu> 51) NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA by TSaidy1050@aol.com 52) Re: Introduction of new member Habib Diab Gh by TSaidy1050@aol.com 53) Jobs at the HIID (fwd) by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 54) Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA by Latir Downes-Thomas <latir@earthlink.net> 55) Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 56) Re: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 57) Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA by Liz STewart <liz@stanne.com> 58) Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA by Latir Downes-Thomas <latir@earthlink.net> 59) News about the motherland...CMAG concluding statement. by madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> 60) Re: IOM by sarian@osmosys.incog.com (Sarian Loum) 61) Re: IOM by WANTI WANTI CAAN GETTI AND GETTI GETTI NUH WANTI <ABARROW@rr5.rr.intel.com> 62) Re: IOM by WANTI WANTI CAAN GETTI AND GETTI GETTI NUH WANTI <ABARROW@rr5.rr.intel.com> 63) Ayi Kwei Armah by Gabriel Ndow <gndow@Spelman.EDU> 64) Re: Ayi Kwei Armah by Gabriel Ndow <gndow@Spelman.EDU> 65) RE: Ayi Kwei Armah by BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> 66) Re: IOM by TSaidy1050@aol.com 67) Re: IOM by TSaidy1050@aol.com 68) Re: IOM -Reply by Ndey Drammeh <NDRAMME@wpo.it.luc.edu> 69) Re: SV: (PART3) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRBE IN AFRICA by Laura Munzel <lem10@columbia.edu> 70) Re: New Members by "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <msjaiteh@mtu.edu>
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:19:06 -0400 (EDT) From: SANG1220@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: SANG1220@aol.com Subject: Mr Sissoho's Case Message-ID: <970706181904_-259209628@emout19.mail.aol.com>
I am appalled at what I see as ineptitude on the part of the defense in this case. Somebody ought to bring them on malpractice charges. (a) It is counsel's responsibility to research thoroughly the provisions of Diplomatic Immunity as set forth by the state depart.,(b) Whether Gambia government register him as special advisor on a special mission for the Gambia. This according to what is presented was noy done otherwise the judge would find for Sissoho. If Mr Sissoho wants to be philantrophic fine, but don't be a fool on top of it. I can see giving money to a high school marching band, but I cannot see spending $180,000.00 plus legal fees on those lawyers or $10,000.00 on a masseuse that did not do anything to earn it.This is utterly ridiculous and these lawyers should be made to pay. They could have plea-bargain the case using his philantrophic adventures to his advantage and telling the judge that his behaviour reflect the way business is done in West Africa. The judge is more inclined to believe this than the "lane brain idea of an affirmitive defense. Those of you in the Miami area familiar with this case should help get another counsel for him an provide us with transcripts of the case or the case number so we can retrieve it on court t.v's web site. If Mr. Sissoho's religious beliefs don't allow him to enjoy the amenities of weatern life , for god's sack stay the hell away from it. Again anybody familiar with this case, please supply us with more details.
Thanks
Daddy Sang
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 20:00:55 -0400 (EDT) From: ABDOU <at137@columbia.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.970706192814.5336A-100000@terve.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi folks, Daddy Sang wrote : "I am appalled at what I see as ineptitude on the part of the defense in this case." Perhaps the reason Mr. Sissoho lost the case is that he had no case. After all, he has admitted to attempting to bribe a U.S. official. Even if he had diplomatic immunity, which circumstantial factors such as Mr. Sissoho's illteracy would most likely preclude, the intent of immunity is not to facilitate the commission of petty crimes. It says a lot about The Gambian government that it is spending its few and scarce resources in the defense of an admitted lawbreaker. This unusual energy from the moribound and corrupt Gambian bureaucracy coupled with the fact that Mr. Sissoho continues to be housed by poor Gambian taxpayers makes me wonder if this is the first time that he has attempted to bribe public officials. After all, there are many individuals in The Gambia who are wealthier than Sissoho and who have invested a lot more money in the economy but who continue to live in their own houses and are not guarded by Gambian soldiers as is the mysterious Sissoho. The growing American unwillingness to accept the abuses of diplomatic priviledges is welcome and will hopefully refocus the energies of Gambian diplomats towards carrying out their duties as envoys of Gambian taxpayers. Thanks and bye for now, -Abdou.
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Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 22:01:49 -0500 From: Francis Njie <c3p0@xsite.net> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New "demo" issues of The Observer Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970706220149.006e2278@xsite.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Gambia-L:
Please find more demo issues from June, courtesy of Abdou Touray and Momodou Camara, at...
http://www.xsite.net/~c3p0/observer
Regards, Francis
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 09:31:22 + 0200 MET From: "Alpha Robinson" <garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) Message-ID: <61B190095F@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Jose Forlani <gg33@ihw.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de> To: "'Aline Clerc'" <aline.clerc@dgr.epfl.ch>, "'Anne Boulland'" <anne.boulland@airliquide.com>, "'Blaise Fleury'" <blaise.fleury@ibap.dgc.epfl.ch>, "'Bruno Merz'" <bmerz@gfz-potsdam.de>, "'Didier Robert'" <didier@inser.ch>, "'Francois Georgy'" <fgeorgy@ibm.net> To: "'Jonathan Trail'" <jonathan.trail@ebay.sun.com>, "'Jordi Montserrat'" <montserrat.itv@srpv.ch>, "'Marc Riedo'" <marc.riedo@dgr.epfl.ch>, "'Martine Forlani'" <martine.forlani@ehl.ch>, "'Olivier Girard'" <olivier.girard@bakom.admin.ch>, "'Philippe Girard'" <philippe.girard@tsr.srg-ssr.ch> To: "'Philippe Noirjean'" <Pnoirjean@atge.automail.com>, "'Piroska Simonkay'" <pircsi@indigo2.vsz.bme.hu> Subject: WG: (Fwd) WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 08:56:14 +0200
---------- Von: Petra Kastner-Klein[SMTP:petra.kastner-klein@bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de] Gesendet: Thursday, July 03, 1997 11:13 AM An: Merz; Rau Matthias; Baerlund Ilona; Lehmann; Zehe Erwin#10.5.1995 S(rz09); Disse Markus; Fedorovitsch Evgeni; Bardossy Andreas; Casper Markus; Muster; Badde Oliver; Klein Petra; Schmitt-Heideri Betreff: (Fwd) WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd)
>Return-Path: <rculrike@uxmail.ust.hk> >From: <rculrike@uxmail.ust.hk> >Subject: (Fwd) WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) >To: GG12@ihwhp2.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Petra Klein) >Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 09:24:33 +0800 (HKT) >Cc: richiardone@to.infn.it (renzo richiardone), thor@cmr.no (Thor Gjesdal), > stockhause@ifu.fhg.de (Martina Stockhause) > >Forwarded message: >>From kornblueh@dkrz.de Tue Jul 1 22:15:06 1997 >From: kornblueh@dkrz.de (Luis Kornblueh) >Message-Id: <199707011413.QAA10815@regen.dkrz.de> >Subject: (Fwd) WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) >To: rculrike@uxmail.ust.hk (Ulrike Niemeier) >Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:13:26 +0200 (MET DST) >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >----- Forwarded message from Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen ----- > >>From claussen@pik-potsdam.de Tue Jul 1 16:01:34 1997 >Return-Path: <claussen@pik-potsdam.de> >Received: from fire.dkrz.de by regen.dkrz.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) > id QAA09041; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 16:01:16 +0200 >Received: from s8.pik-potsdam.de (s8.pik-potsdam.de [193.174.19.132]) > by fire.dkrz.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP > id PAA16404 for <mpi@dkrz.de>; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:57:05 +0200 (MET DST) >Received: from ws41.pik-potsdam.de by s8.pik-potsdam.de (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) > id AA27402; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:58:13 +0100 >Received: by ws41.pik-potsdam.de (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) > id AA22366; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:58:12 +0100 >From: "Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen" <claussen@pik-potsdam.de> >Message-Id: <9707011558.ZM18780@ws41.pik-potsdam.de> >Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:58:12 +0000 >X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) >To: mpi@dkrz.de >Subject: (Fwd) WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) >Content-Length: 3305 > > >--- Forwarded mail from erhard@pik-potsdam.de (Markus Erhard) > >Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 15:50:25 +0100 >To: pikall >From: erhard@pik-potsdam.de (Markus Erhard) >Subject: WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) > >>From: Koppisch <koppisch@rz.uni-greifswald.de> >>Subject: WG: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) >>To: hermann.heilmeier@uni-bayreuth.de >>Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 20:18:30 METDST >>Cc: erhard@pik-potsdam.de >>X-UIDL: be52144d0c9370a99ae4dd2831d73b08 >> >> >> >> >>---------- >>Betreff: fwd: (Fwd) Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) >> >>I'd like to bring the following to your attention: >> >>------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >> >>Date sent: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:44:50 -0700 >>From: Frank Hirtz <fwhirtz@ucdavis.edu> >>Subject: vote! >> >>A few Neo-Nazi groups are trying to create (again) a usenet >>group where they want to keep in contact with each other >>regarding their activities. I believe it is not necessary >>to dwell further on these activities. >> >>The group is rec.music.white-power. >> >>To create such a group, they have to win a referendum that is >>always organised when a new usenet group is created. All persons >>with an email address, and only those, can vote in this >>referendum. >> >>It is IMPORTANT to vote only once, otherwise the vote is >>cancelled. >> >>To prevent the creation of this group, you have to: >> 1. Send this message to people you know >> 2. Send an email to the following address: >> music-vote@sub-rosa.com >> with as contents (not 'subject') ONLY the following line: >> I vote NO on rec.music.white-power >> >> Since the vote is automatic, it is important to send the exact >> line as it is given above, without adding anything, not even >> a name. >> And please send it only once or it becomes invalid ! Also, please >> FORWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WITH AN E-MAIL >> ADDRESS >>___________________________________________________________________ >>Frank Hirtz Department of Human and Community Development >> University of California, Davis >> Davis, CA 95616 >> Tel: (916) 752 8928; Fax: (916) 752 5660 >>___________________________________________________________________ >> >>Barbara Praetorius >>Deutsches Institut f=FCr Wirtschaftsforschung - German Institute for = >>Economic=20 >>Research >>DIW, K=F6nigin-Luise-Str. 5, D-14195 Berlin >>Phone ++49 (30) 89 789 676 Fax ++49 (30) 89 789 200 = >>http://www.diw-berlin.de=20 >> >>Tjark Goerges >>Dept. of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science >>Kiel University >>24118 Kiel, Germany >>Olshausenstr. 40 >>Phone +49-431-880-3194 >>Private +49-4340-9794 >>Fax +49-431-880-1625 >>email:tgoerges@plantnutrition.uni-kiel.de >>http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/plantnutrition_soilscience >> >> >> >> >> >> >----------------------------------------------- >Markus Erhard >Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research >P.O.Box 60 12 03 >D-14412 Potsdam >phone: +49 331/288-2539 >FAX: -2600 >email: erhard@pik-potsdam.de >----------------------------------------------- > > > >---End of forwarded mail from erhard@pik-potsdam.de (Markus Erhard) > >-- >Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen Tel.: +49 (0) 331 288 2522 >Potsdam-Institut fuer Klimafolgenforschung Fax : +49 (0) 331 288 2600 >Postfach 601203 >D- 14412 Potsdam >Germany e-mail: claussen@pik-potsdam.de > >----- End of forwarded message from Prof. Dr. Martin Claussen ----- > >-- > \\\\\> (-0^0-) >--------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo----------------------------- > > Luis Kornblueh Tel. : +49-40-41173289 > Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology Fax. : +49-40-41173366 > Bundesstr. 55 > D-20146 Hamburg Email: kornblueh@dkrz.de > Federal Republic of Germany > > Key fingerprint = B3 69 B2 FC 81 65 F4 E7 44 45 EA 1A 82 BF D3 A6 > > >-- > > __o > _`\<;_ > ___(_)/_(_)______________________________________________________________ > > Ulrike Niemeier email: rculrike@uxmail.ust.hk > Research Centre tel: +852 2358 6910 > University of Science fax: +852 2358 1334 > & Technology > Clear Water Bay > Hong Kong > _________________________________________________________________________ > > > > >><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >> Dipl.-Phys. 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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jose Forlani Tel: 0049 / (0)721 / 608 42 22 FAX: 0049 / (0)721 / 66 13 29 Email: gg33@ihwhp2.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de Jose.Forlani@bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institut fuer Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft Universitaet Karlsruhe (T.H.) Kaiserstrasse 12 D-76128 KARLSRUHE Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privat: Markgrafenstrasse 32 D-76133 KARLSRUHE 0049 / (0)721 / 38 07 13 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:48:08 +-300 From: BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: "'GAMBIA-L@U.WASHINGTON.EDU'" <GAMBIA-L@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> Subject: RE: THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE Message-ID: <01BC8ACB.C4083E40@dihb.qatar.net.qa>
****** THE GENESIS OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE*******
Even if Dr.Leakey is wrong in positing that black humanity is the Adam and Eve of Non-Black humanity, he is definitetly right in saying that the whole of black humanity is genetically related. And if that is accepted,it must also be accepted that the various languages that black people speak are also genetically related.That, plus its relationship with ethnic feeling is what we want to look at in this and the coming installments.
At present, black africa has about 1800 languages, and that constitutes about 30% of the total number of languages on the entire planet.That sounds very depressing of course!And maybe that is why one writer once commented to the effect that: "Africa is so linguistically confused that it cannot communicate with itself,never mind communicat with the rest of the world." But before we can plunge into our continent's language puzzle, we need to inform ourselves of a couple of facts about the nature of language.Language is basically nothing more than an instrument to talk about the world around us; and that world could be the physical one that we see around us or our own inner experiences and thoughts or those of the group we belong to.That being the case, if there is an upheaval or a lot of quick changes has taken place in either the physical or experiential world of the people,their language quickly changes to reflect the new reality.It would follow from that that the languages of societies that are relatively stable tend to change less than the languages of the societies that experience change more often.Now, let us assume that a group of one thousand mandikos left upper Egypt after the invasion of the Hykos 1800 years before the birth of Christ and headed east towards Sudan; then headed south towards Ethiopia .And let us assume that after three hundred years of stay in Ethiopia some of the descendants of those Mandinka speaking people decided that they didn't like to stay in Ethiopia any longer so they also packed their bags and headed west and eventually reached the Atlantic Ocean (West Africa) around the time that Jesus Christ was born.And let us assume further that after 400 years of settling down in West Africa, a Caravan Trading Mission came from Egypt to buy some west African gold and salt from the West African Mandikos; and let us say that it turned out that the head of the mission was incidentally none other than a descendant of the upper Egypt Mandinkas who had decided not to migrate from Egypt in the first place.Now,the fact that the head of the mission is also a mandinka is communicationally irrelevant because neither party would be able to talk to each other without the service of a translator.If this same person (head of the mission), after finishing his business in West Africa, went to Ethiopia and met the descendants of those Mandinkas that had settled there,he would again have to get himself a very able translator or else he would never be able to communicate with his cousins.Now, in Linguistics,the Mandinka language that the upper Egyptian speaks is the Mother Language for both the West African and Ethiopian Mandinka ,and these last two are the the Daughter Languages to the upper Egyptian one.Now,if a group of languages related in the manner that we have just described,they are said to be genetically related but because members of these three Mandinka languages cannot directly talk to each other without the service of a translator,they (the three languages) are said to be mutually UNINTELLIGIBLE.So, now we know that even if a group of languages have a commonality of origin, but cease to communicate to each other consistently for a prolonged period of time,there would come a day when they would not be intelligible to each other.This is the kind of thing that has more or less happened to our languages in Africa.And we will soon try to demonstrate that by giving real examples,but for the mean time we want to talk about the the tribal aspect.
We cannot understand black africa's obsession with tribe without first going back again to where it all started,namely, egypt,because the sins of the fathers has throughout history had a cruel way of visiting the sons (and dauthers).So,Egyypt was devided at one time into thirty provinces and each province in turn was devided into a number of districts and it goes without saying that the people living in any given district (neighbourhood) are more or less related to each other by blood.And for administrative reasons,each district was assigned a flag on which an animal or a bird is drawn(pictogram) on it,a very practical way of identifying who comes from where.This procedure was necessary because every district was assigned by the state to perform a specific service or profession as its contribution to the national development.Now let us say that a given district is given a flag on which a goat is drawn and that the profession of the people is carpentry; they would as time went on be known as the Goat Clan or the Carpenters,since they alone would have the goat as their symbol.This division and specialisation of labour evntually led to the heridetary transmission of trades(and also the begining of TOTEMIC names for black people eg.Jatta,Manneh,Njie),thus carpenter fathers teaching their sons all the secrets of carpentry and the sons in turn teach their sons etc.And no one would have anything to do with any other profession different from th the one ones own clan was specialised in.It became a taboo of almost a religious proportion either not to perform the trade your people are famous for or to venture into new ones.People who did that were dismembered and cut off from the group.That was tantamount to a death sentence in the ancient world,because one belonged to the Clan and not to onesself or to ones parents.Because it was the clan thatt gave the individual its identity,livelihood,culture and security. And anyone attempting to abuse those previliges would be doing it at the pain of death.It was very rare for anyone in Egypt of those days to even contemplate such a thing!
We need to say one more thing here before concluding this installment.One of the secrets of ancient egypts strenght in almost all her four thousand years of history was its linguistic homogenity.A villager from any part of egypt on a visit to Thebes or Memphis (the capitals) would talk in his dialect to the urbanites and be perfectly understood by them.So we can now conclude by saying that the fierce Clanishness that had been learnt and internalized in the profession oriented districts of Ancient Egypyt well before the Great Migrations somehow interplayed and interacted with the new languages acquired after the Treks to produce a black person that is almost incapable of thoughts and actions that trancend the immediate concerns of the Ethnic group he belongs.The Grip of History, as it turns out ,can be so cruel and overpowering sometimes!
In our NEXT INSTALLMENT, we will talk about the black languages and how most of them are genetically related.And until then????.
Regards Basssss!
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:51:37 +-300 From: BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: "'gambia-l@u.washington.edu'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE:(PART4) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE Message-ID: <01BC8ACC.24946E00@dihb.qatar.net.qa>
---------- From: BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH[SMTP:kolls567@qatar.net.qa] Sent: 02/NEiU CaCea/1418 11:48 O To: 'GAMBIA-L@U.WASHINGTON.EDU' Subject: RE: THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE
****** THE GENESIS OF LANGUAGE AND TRIBE*******
Even if Dr.Leakey is wrong in positing that black humanity is the Adam and Eve of Non-Black humanity, he is definitetly right in saying that the whole of black humanity is genetically related. And if that is accepted,it must also be accepted that the various languages that black people speak are also genetically related.That, plus its relationship with ethnic feeling is what we want to look at in this and the coming installments.
At present, black africa has about 1800 languages, and that constitutes about 30% of the total number of languages on the entire planet.That sounds very depressing of course!And maybe that is why one writer once commented to the effect that: "Africa is so linguistically confused that it cannot communicate with itself,never mind communicat with the rest of the world." But before we can plunge into our continent's language puzzle, we need to inform ourselves of a couple of facts about the nature of language.Language is basically nothing more than an instrument to talk about the world around us; and that world could be the physical one that we see around us or our own inner experiences and thoughts or those of the group we belong to.That being the case, if there is an upheaval or a lot of quick changes has taken place in either the physical or experiential world of the people,their language quickly changes to reflect the new reality.It would follow from that that the languages of societies that are relatively stable tend to change less than the languages of the societies that experience change more often.Now, let us assume that a group of one thousand mandikos left upper Egypt after the invasion of the Hykos 1800 years before the birth of Christ and headed east towards Sudan; then headed south towards Ethiopia .And let us assume that after three hundred years of stay in Ethiopia some of the descendants of those Mandinka speaking people decided that they didn't like to stay in Ethiopia any longer so they also packed their bags and headed west and eventually reached the Atlantic Ocean (West Africa) around the time that Jesus Christ was born.And let us assume further that after 400 years of settling down in West Africa, a Caravan Trading Mission came from Egypt to buy some west African gold and salt from the West African Mandikos; and let us say that it turned out that the head of the mission was incidentally none other than a descendant of the upper Egypt Mandinkas who had decided not to migrate from Egypt in the first place.Now,the fact that the head of the mission is also a mandinka is communicationally irrelevant because neither party would be able to talk to each other without the service of a translator.If this same person (head of the mission), after finishing his business in West Africa, went to Ethiopia and met the descendants of those Mandinkas that had settled there,he would again have to get himself a very able translator or else he would never be able to communicate with his cousins.Now, in Linguistics,the Mandinka language that the upper Egyptian speaks is the Mother Language for both the West African and Ethiopian Mandinka ,and these last two are the the Daughter Languages to the upper Egyptian one.Now,if a group of languages related in the manner that we have just described,they are said to be genetically related but because members of these three Mandinka languages cannot directly talk to each other without the service of a translator,they (the three languages) are said to be mutually UNINTELLIGIBLE.So, now we know that even if a group of languages have a commonality of origin, but cease to communicate to each other consistently for a prolonged period of time,there would come a day when they would not be intelligible to each other.This is the kind of thing that has more or less happened to our languages in Africa.And we will soon try to demonstrate that by giving real examples,but for the mean time we want to talk about the the tribal aspect.
We cannot understand black africa's obsession with tribe without first going back again to where it all started,namely, egypt,because the sins of the fathers has throughout history had a cruel way of visiting the sons (and dauthers).So,Egyypt was devided at one time into thirty provinces and each province in turn was devided into a number of districts and it goes without saying that the people living in any given district (neighbourhood) are more or less related to each other by blood.And for administrative reasons,each district was assigned a flag on which an animal or a bird is drawn(pictogram) on it,a very practical way of identifying who comes from where.This procedure was necessary because every district was assigned by the state to perform a specific service or profession as its contribution to the national development.Now let us say that a given district is given a flag on which a goat is drawn and that the profession of the people is carpentry; they would as time went on be known as the Goat Clan or the Carpenters,since they alone would have the goat as their symbol.This division and specialisation of labour evntually led to the heridetary transmission of trades(and also the begining of TOTEMIC names for black people eg.Jatta,Manneh,Njie),thus carpenter fathers teaching their sons all the secrets of carpentry and the sons in turn teach their sons etc.And no one would have anything to do with any other profession different from th the one ones own clan was specialised in.It became a taboo of almost a religious proportion either not to perform the trade your people are famous for or to venture into new ones.People who did that were dismembered and cut off from the group.That was tantamount to a death sentence in the ancient world,because one belonged to the Clan and not to onesself or to ones parents.Because it was the clan thatt gave the individual its identity,livelihood,culture and security. And anyone attempting to abuse those previliges would be doing it at the pain of death.It was very rare for anyone in Egypt of those days to even contemplate such a thing!
We need to say one more thing here before concluding this installment.One of the secrets of ancient egypts strenght in almost all her four thousand years of history was its linguistic homogenity.A villager from any part of egypt on a visit to Thebes or Memphis (the capitals) would talk in his dialect to the urbanites and be perfectly understood by them.So we can now conclude by saying that the fierce Clanishness that had been learnt and internalized in the profession oriented districts of Ancient Egypyt well before the Great Migrations somehow interplayed and interacted with the new languages acquired after the Treks to produce a black person that is almost incapable of thoughts and actions that trancend the immediate concerns of the Ethnic group he belongs.The Grip of History, as it turns out ,can be so cruel and overpowering sometimes!
In our NEXT INSTALLMENT, we will talk about the black languages and how most of them are genetically related.And until then????.
Regards Basssss!
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:25:00 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New member Message-ID: <19970707102651.AAA54636@LOCALNAME>
Gambia-l, Susan Hayes has been added to the list. Welcome to the Gambia-l, we look forward to your contributions.
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 16:44:36 + 0200 MET From: "Alpha Robinson" <garob1@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Neo-Nazis on the NET (fwd) Message-ID: <3E9A334C9@cip.hx.uni-paderborn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
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Sorry about the 'unreadable' nature of the previous mail. It was sent in a hurry. For those interested, here is the essential part of the forwarded message. Thanks. Alpha
>>A few Neo-Nazi groups are trying to create (again) a usenet >>group where they want to keep in contact with each other >>regarding their activities. I believe it is not necessary >>to dwell further on these activities. >> >>The group is rec.music.white-power. >> >>To create such a group, they have to win a referendum that is >>always organised when a new usenet group is created. All persons >>with an email address, and only those, can vote in this >>referendum. >> >>It is IMPORTANT to vote only once, otherwise the vote is >>cancelled. >> >>To prevent the creation of this group, you have to: >> 1. Send this message to people you know >> 2. Send an email to the following address: >> music-vote@sub-rosa.com >> with as contents (not 'subject') ONLY the following line: >> I vote NO on rec.music.white-power >> >> Since the vote is automatic, it is important to send the exact >> line as it is given above, without adding anything, not even >> a name. >> And please send it only once or it becomes invalid ! Also, please >> FORWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WITH AN E-MAIL >> ADDRESS >>___________________________________________________________________ >>Frank Hirtz Department of Human and Community Development >> University of California, Davis >> Davis, CA 95616 >> Tel: (916) 752 8928; Fax: (916) 752 5660 >>___________________________________________________________________
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:06:36 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilden <dgilden@tiac.net> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Need email of The Observer Message-ID: <l03102800afe67db41f23@[204.215.135.128]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Does anyone have an email address for the The Observer? Thanks Dave
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 22:58:45 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New member Message-ID: <19970707220041.AAA38758@LOCALNAME>
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 21:13:47 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Living Under Message-ID: <3021660061.179450892@inform-bbs.dk>
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*** 03-Jul-97 ***
Title: SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Living Under Siege
By Lansana Fofana
KOIDU, Sierra Leone, Jul 3 (IPS) - The eastern district of Kono took a battering during Sierra Leone's civil war as rebels and government forces battled for control of its gold and diamond fields.
Now it's under pressure again as a result of a month-long interruption of road transport by a militia opposed to Sierra Leone's military junta.
''Foodstuff, petrol, kerosene and other essential items have stopped coming in and we now survive on reserves. Pretty soon these may run out,'' Sahr Komba, a civil servant resident in Koidu, Kono's main town, tells IPS.
''People here must brace themselves for worse to come,'' he adds. ''Because of the blockade by the Kamajors, transport vehicles have not been plying the highway leading to and out of the town. Things are getting worse.''
The Kamajors, said to number over 10,000, are hunters whom the then govenment organised into militias about three years ago to help the military fight Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.
However, after a May 25 coup that ousted civilian president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, the RUF teamed up with the military while the Kamajors, angered by the overthrow, turned their guns on the ruling Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
The hunters, who have blocked the main highway between Koidu and Freetown, 320kms to the west, have vowed to fight the military junta and its allies of the RUF, which now calls itself the People's Army, until Tejan Kabbah is reinstated.
''We will fight till the AFRC/RUF government is kicked out,'' Kamajor Kinnie Morie told IPS. ''Our cause is to restore democracy and we can't sit back and see this country being ravaged by armed thugs.''
After making several unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the Kamajors from their strongholds in the southeast of the country, the AFRC/RUF forces turned their attention to Kono. The two sides fought recently for the control of the Freetown-Koidu highway but the hunters still occupy parts of it.
Last week the AFRC offered to sign a truce with the militias and repeated an earlier offer for them to join it as the RUF had done. ''We believe the Kamajors are our brothers and so we don't intend marginalising them,'' an AFRC official told IPS this week.
But the Kamajors have turned down the offers and have continued blocking transport to and from Kono.
The gold- and dismond-mining area also used to be Sierra Leone's breadbasket, but the rebel war that started in 1991 chased farmers from their fields. Armed clashes that broke out months after a November 1996 peace accord delayed the resumption of agriculture. Then came the coup and the blockade.
Since the war, Kono's roughly 500,000 people, some of them migrant miners from other West African countries, have had to depend on Freetown for essential goods, including rice, the staple in Sierra Leone. The blockade has thus hurt the area's residents.
''Before the military coup and the Kamajor blockade, rice used to be sold for 23,000 leones a (50-kg) bag but now the price has soared to 60,000 leones,'' complains Saffia Fanday, a public servant in Koidu. ''Petrol which was sold at 4,000 a gallon now goes for 30,000.''
The leone exchanges at 1,000 to the U.S. dollar.
''The situation in Kono is bad enough,'' says Charles Sesay, a relief worker based here. ''There is no good drinking water, no medicines in the government-run hospital, no electricity and now food and other vital items have stopped coming in. This is alarming.''
According to Sesay, epidemics could break out if the situation continues. ''Already children have been dying daily because of the lack of proper health care services and there is the looming threat of cholera, measles and other outbreaks,'' he says.
According to some reports, about 10 children have been dying each day in Kono, where all schools have been closed since the blockade. (END/IPS/LF/KB/97)
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 21:18:25 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: LIBERIA-POLITICS: Voting for Real Peace Message-ID: <827981790.179451146@inform-bbs.dk>
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*** 02-Jul-97 ***
Title: LIBERIA-POLITICS: Voting for Real Peace
By Attes Johnson
MONROVIA, Jul 2 (IPS) - As Liberia moves towards elections, people here agree on one thing: any vote at the Jul. 19 polls must be a vote for peace and stability.
''We want our children to be educated in order to be able to face the challenges of tomorrow,'' says Gloria Talawarian, a taylor in downtown Monrovia. ''We want elections for peace and security.''
Similar calls have been issued by participants in the various street parades and rallies that have added a dash of colour to the election campaign, which started on Jun. 16.
''We are tired of living like beggars in our own home ... or living in Greystone,'' said one of the hundreds of People's Democratic Party of Liberia (PDPL) backers who marched in mid-June in support of PDPL presidential hopeful George Toe Washington.
Greystone is a private residential area for Americans. Thousands of people sought refuge there when they were forced from their homes by factional fighting that broke out in Monrovia in April 1996, seven months after the country's factions agreed to end a civil war they began in 1989.
The fighting ended in June 1996 and since the start of this year, a West African peacekeeping force, ECOMOG, has been disarming the factions. However, many of the combattants have been unwilling to hand in their weapons and this has forced the West African peacekeepers to carry out searches in various parts of the country. On Jun. 26, ECOMOG disclosed that it had recovered 7,000 hidden arms since February.
Liberia's church officials are also worried that the election may be marred by violence. In a Jun. 18 press release, the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC) urged political parties and their supporters to be tolerant of one another's views and to refrain from character assassination during the campaign.
It also called on the parties to educate their followers so as to prevent them from engaging in acts that could ignite violence.
''Activities of all contending parties should aim at providing deliverance for those who have been cut off from normal life due to the long-running civil war and create democratic empowerment for our people, thereby allowing them to freely participate in the process,'' ran the appeal, signed by LCC Secretary-General Rev. Stephen Muin.
But at least four parties, including the Unity Party (UP), headed by former UN Development Programme (UNDP) Africa Director Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- one of the two frontrunners --, have complained that their activists had been the victims of violent attacks. The complaints were submitted on Jun. 18 to the Independent Electoral Commission (IECOM).
At a four-hour meeting he held on Jun. 24 with representatives of political parties, ECOMOG Commander General Victor Malu charged that some presidential candidates, whom he described as ''troublemakers'', were plotting to kill their opponents.
He also warned against violence. ''While ECOMOG is escorting anybody to campaign, if you throw stones at that person, you will be throwing stones at ECOMOG and, as such, ECOMOG will retaliate by throwing bullets (at you),'' Malu said.
In the meantime, IECOM itself has not had an easy time of it. It was only on Jun. 25 that its 6,500 registrars began the task of registering voters.
The Commission has not yet received all the money it has been promised by the Liberian and foreign governments for the organisation of the election, and the registration drive has been snagged by logistical problems.
Up to last weekend, some of the 2,000 registration centres had not yet been equipped, while getting to those that are already functioning is not always easy.
''People are finding it hard to turn out to register due to the poor weather (heavy rains) each day, coupled with the state of the roads that have been abandoned due to the war,'' said taxi driver Peter Mulbah. ''Bridges have been destroyed. Vehicles can't move about freely.''
Amid all the snags, Liberians hope that the election will go smoothly and usher in a new era for the troubled country.
There are around 1.2 million people of voting age in the small West African nation. The main contenders in the presidential race are Johnson-Sirleaf and former rebel leader Charles Taylor of the National Patriotic Party (NPP).
''We don't care who wins,'' Oldman Says Dahn, an elderly farmer from Nimba county in the north, told IPS. ''All our concern is to sleep and get up in peace again, send our children to school and grow our food once again.'' (END/IPS/AJ/KB/97)
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 21:20:44 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: Beijing Followup #89 Message-ID: <954662878.179451378@inform-bbs.dk>
GLOBALNET 89
International Women's Tribune Centre, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, Tel: (1-212) 687-8633. Fax: (1-212) 661-2704 . e-mail: iwtc@igc.apc.org
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July 1, 1997
by Anne S. Walker
UPDATE ON UN EVENTS AROUND WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
Appointment of Mary Robinson as High Commissioner for Human Rights! UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, in announcing this appointment, said "I think it is one of the most important appointments that I will have the opportunity of making in my term." It is expected that Ms. Robinson will assume her duties before the 52nd session of the UN General Assembly (September 1997). Mary Robinson, currently President of Ireland, participated in the work of the International Committee of Jurists in Geneva between 1987and 1990, and was special rapporteur to the Council of Europe's Interregional Meeting on the theme "Human Rights on the Dawn of the 21st Century.". She is the first woman to be appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights.
CEDAW Meets in New York July 7 - 25, 1997. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) opens its 17th Session at the UN in New York at 10.00am, Monday July 7th. The 23 experts of CEDAW, who serve in their personal capacity, monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and came into force in 1981. The Convention has so far been ratified by 160 countries. Last year, the Committee revised its guidelines for reporting by inviting Governments to include information on measures taken to implement the Beijing Platform for Action. The Committee also urged the UN/CSW to prepare an Optional Protocol to the Convention which would allow individuals and groups the right to petition the Committe directly about violations of women's rights. The 23 expert members of CEDAW for this session are: Charlotte Abaka (Ghana); Ayse Feride Acar (Turkey); Emna Aouij (Tunisia); Tendai Ruth Bare (Zimbabwe); Desiree Patricia Bernard (Guyana); Carlota Bustelo del Real (Spain); Silvia Rose Cartwright (New Zealand); Miriam Yolande Estrada Castillo (Ecuador); Ivanka Corti (Italy); Aurora Javate de Dios (Philippines); Yolande Ferrer Gomez (Cuba); Aida Gonzalez Martinez (Mexico); Sunaryati Hartono (Indonesia); Salma Khan (Bangladesh); Yung-Chung Kim (Republic of Korea); Ahoua Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso); Anne Lise Ryel (Norway); Ginko Sato (Japan); Hanna Beate Schopp-Schilling (Germany); Carmel Shalev (Israel); Lin Shangzhen (China); Kongit Sinegiorgis (Ethiopia); and Mervat Tallawy (Egypt). For further information, contact Ann Marie Erb-Leoncavallo, UN Department of Public Information. Tel: (1-212) 963-0499. Fax: (1-212) 963-1186.
Two Special Consultations Between NGOs and CEDAW Experts Planned: These will be held on July 10 and 17 from 1:15 - 2:45 pm in Conference Room 7 for NGOs that have information to present to CEDAW on the situation of women in the nine countries that are presenting reports: Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia; Bangladesh; Israel; Italy; Luxembourg; and Namibia. NGOs interested in attending the CEDAW session and/or the two consultations should contact: Koh Miyaoi, NGO Liaison in the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (UN/DAW). Tel: (1-212) 963-8034. Fax: (1-212) 963-3643
CEDAW Sessions in 1998: CEDAW meets again in New York from 12 - 30 Jan. 1998 with a pre-session from 5-9 Jan. 1998. For further information contact Ann Marie Erb-Leoncavallo of UN/DPI at address given above.
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session in 1998: UN/CSW will meet from 2 - 13 March 1998. Priority themes for this session are: Violence Against Women; Women and Armed Conflict; Human Rights of Women and; The Girl Child. In 1998, the United Nations will be celebrating 50 years since the signing of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 1948, and groups worldwide are planning special commemorative events that will take place during this year. Women's groups are planning to make the CSW session a focus of their ongoing concern for women's human rights, and much discussion is taking place in various parts of the world about ways to do this. Watch for a special edition of Global Faxnet that will carry as much information as possible about plans and preparations for March 1998. If you have information about plans in your country or region, please let us know!
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 21:12:23 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: ENVIRONMENT: Activists Leery of West African Oil Pipeline Message-ID: <632942558.179450570@inform-bbs.dk>
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*** 03-Jul-97 ***
Title: ENVIRONMENT: Activists Leery of West African Oil Pipeline
By Pratap Chatterjee
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul. 3 (IPS) - Three of the World's largest oil companies - Exxon, Shell and Elf - are finalising plans to pour billions of dollars into a 1,000 kms pipeline from southern Chad to a tanker port in Cameroon.
Environmental activists from AfriÂXKðQ]ðWÛ,ÜÕK-ÛP[YðZÂXKðð however, are coincerned that the new project may turn into a nightmare for the ecology and human rights - as happened with the Shell exploration programme in the Niger delta.
For Chad - a landlocked country ranked among the poorest in the world - the project promises a major stimulus to the economy which depends on cotton exports for half the national income.
For Cameroon - which depends on oil revenues for half its income - the project could bring investors to outlying northern oilfields which it badly needs to supplement its dwindling coastal reserves.
The World Bank is considering making a 370 million dollar loan for the four billion dollar project through the International Development Association and the International Finance Corporation, branches of the multilateral institution that advance loans to the world's poorest countries and to the private sector.
Critics fear the loan could well be abused in both countries, which have been involved in corruption and human rights abuses while having little experience in the environmental problems caused by pipelines.
''We are especially worried about water pollution since the pipeline will cross several of our largest rivers, which are used by local communities for their daily needs,'' says Louis Djomo, coordinator of of the African Forest Action Network (AFAN), a network of 60 West and Central African non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
He points to Ogoniland in neighboring Nigeria where more than 30 years of Shell oil exploration has polluted drinking water, and caused fish to disappear from the rivers. Crops now cannot grow on large stretches of now-infertile land in the ogoni region.
The Doba basin has been a historic centre for Christian and animist rebel groups that have opposed the Muslim-dominated north for the past 30 years.
''There is a lot of talk about the coming oil bonanza in N'Djamena, but Chadian human rights monitors fear that the oil will lead to an increase in repression and human rights violations in the South,'' says Irene Mandeau, who heads Amnesty International's working group on Chad. Local people report that problems have already arisen.
About three years ago Dingamtolem Ajikolmian, a local peasant, heard that an airplane was to land on a nearby field, so he decided to take his children to witness the rare event. Nervous Chadian security forces protecting Exxon staff shot and killed Ajikolmian in front of his children, according to Claudia and Martin Duppel, volunteers from Germany who lived in the Doba region for several years.
Activists also do not believe that the wealth from this new project will trickle down to those in need. Transparency International, an international coalition fighting corruption in international business transactions, ranks Cameroon among the world's 10 worst offenders in corrupt practices.
In Chad corruption is so severe that Western donors have insisted that public finances be controlled by a Swiss company called Coteca, according to the British Economist magazine.
Reporters and activists, who have visited the area, report that the consortium officials have been extremely uncooperative about releasing information and they found it difficult to assess a true picture of the situation.
Initially Exxon officials even refused to turn over basic project documents to U.S. government officials, but became more forthcoming after thir actions received unfavorable publicity in the media.
Company officials now say that the project documents will be made available later this year. ''I think that the environmental documents will answer a lot of questions. But until they become public, I'm afraid that we cannot answer anything in definitive terms,'' says Miles Shaw, an Exxon spokesman in Houston.
Shaw also told IPS that the human rights situation had improved dramatically in recent months. ''Everybody has a slightly different view of human rights but the groups in Doba have signed a recent treaty and everything is quite calm now,'' he told IPS.
Shaw says that so far the companies have only done exploration work and other oil industry experts say the pipeline could deliver between 150,000 and 250,000 barrels per day from the Kom, Miandoum, Bolobo and Sdigui fields.
These reserves are estimated at 900 million barrels and would be delivered to an offshore platform near the Cameroonian port of Kribi. Cameroon would eventually like foreign companies to consider extending the pipeline to draw oil from Logone and Birni across the border.
In the United States the project has come in for heavy criticism from Korinna Horta, an economist with the Washington office of the US Environmental Defense Fund, who has led international opposition to the project.
''Exxon, Shell and ELF are not in the business of devolving power, redistributing wealth or dismantling corrupt and brutal governments,'' she says. ''Project approval would mock the Bank's stated mission of poverty alleviation, and signal that the Bank's new emphasis on cooperation with the private sector will amount to little more than a corporate welfare program.''
The German parliament, which has ordered an investigation into the Bank involvement in this matter, also raised questions on the idea that the pipeline project would alleviate poverty.
Bank officials disagreed. ''Our decision on the loan will be taken on the basis of how the income from the project will be used for the local people,'' says Philippe Benoit, the task manager for the loan.
Alleviating poverty in these countries could be quite easy, says Horta. The World Bank itself estimates that a Central African health care package including neo-natal care would cost about just 12 dollars per year per person.
Benoit says the Bank has begun to work on these matters. ''We already have structural adjustment, health and education programmes in Chad. We're seeing encouraging signs that the situation has improved in the country,'' he told IPS.
The concerns of Horta and Mandeau are shared by other groups like Les Amis de la Terre (Friends of the Earth) in France and the African Forest Action Network (AFAN), an umbrella organisation that represents some 60 groups in Central and West Africa.
The activists consortium has vowed to fight to prevent the project from going forward. ''We have to avoid a new Ogoniland,'' says Helene Ballande of Les Amis de la Terre whose volunteers are gearing up to send protest letters to Elf. (ENDS/IPS/pc/elf/97)
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 21:23:35 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: Report from GK '97 Alternative: "Lo Message-ID: <2047606750.179451609@inform-bbs.dk>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT) From: sage <jesse@tao.ca> To: gkd97@tristram.edc.org Subject: local knowledge - global wisdom report
Local Knowledge Global Wisdom Report
The Media Collective is an excuse to hack reality. However, in this age of Information Warfare, it can be difficult to find reality.
The World Bank and the Government of Canada just finished hosting a conference in Toronto called 'Global Knowledge for Development'. The Media Collective upstaged and infiltrated the Global Knowledge conference, and found very little reality offered by the World Bank and surrounding Corporate and Government Sponsors.
In this report I'm going to reflect on a four day period between June 22 and June 25, in which I helped organize a counter-conference called 'Local Knowledge - Global Wisdom', protested in the streets against the 'Global Knowledge' conference, then with the help of a colour scanner, internet, and colour printer, reproduced copies of the badge necessary to gain entry to the World Bank's invitation only, $750 admission, Global Knowledge '97 (GK97).
I consider this 4 day period as the Local Knowledge - Global Wisdom conference (LK), organized by the Media Collective. There were a number of good reasons for us to organize this counter-conference: dramatic technological changes underway locally, regressive techno-fascist regime in power provincially, international trade agreements dissolving sovereignty and nation-states, and a potential audience of international visitors in town for the GK97 event. We wanted to perform a public education event, for our friends and community locally, as well as international participants in GK97.
The World Bank scheduled the the Global Knowledge event to coincide with the Earth Summit being held in New York, where many of the progressive and anti-corporate NGOs would be spending their time and resources. The few who attended Global Knowledge would not necessarily have the ability to resist, deflect, or derail the World Bank and Co.'s attempt to manufacture consent, and push through an agenda of free market, privatized communication, technocratic, surveillance state.
Sunday June 22nd
We assembled speakers for Local Knowledge who would present a critical if not radical perspective on the 'Information Revolution' and the society of the 'Global Market'. Organized only three weeks ahead of time, with the help of community radio and community networks, over 120 people participated in the first day, including folk travelling from Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia (including a South African caucus of 20 people). Sunday began with everyone taking the opportunity to introduce themselves to the group, and make a brief statement on why they were there, or what they wanted to hear about.
Anna Melnikoff began the event by saying a few words on the art of communication and the generation of knowledge. Change comes through conversation, and development results through a democratic process involving tolerance and diversity.
I followed after Anna and spoke on the politics of the global village. I defined the information revolution as: the overthrow of sovereign governments and the empowerment of private capital. National trade liberalization has brought international trade regulation (MAI, WTO, APEC), national communication deregulation has spawned international corporate concentration. The new state is based on the politics of connected intelligence (the market and the network), and the religion of virtual reality (consumerism, and pay-per-choice).
Dr. Bhausaheb Ubale, former Canadian Human Rights Commissioner, presented a talk on the impact of technology on development. He explained that technology could be used to speed up the development process, however if not accompanied with sustainable rises in livelihood, such as clean air and water, access to jobs or income, that the technology could be employed solely by an entrenched and shrinking elite.
Felix Stalder spoke about the new environments that contain an old story, employing the processes of connection, translation, and disconnection to illustrate how the financial networks use new technology to appropriate new powers, while perpetuating the same control narrative. His talk is available online at: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/~stalder/html/old-new.html
PJ Lilley made a fun and provoking presentation, in which she drew a context of the 'traps of sustainable development' as proposed by the World Bank. Presenting an image of a newly paved highway with a sign indicating a turn to the right, she argued that the current global development agenda is neither for people nor progressive/social ideals.
A vegan feast for peace was served by the local Food Not Bombs group, and a dub poet and hip-hop artist performed near the end of lunch. After the dark topics discussed in the morning session, the lunch was a peaceful way to relax and remember why we're here.
The first speaker after lunch was Sydney White, who spoke about electronic treasuries, cashless societies, and the privation of social welfare systems with the implementation of bio-metric scanning in the form of fingerprint identification. Sydney discussed how first Metropolitan Toronto passed legislation to privatize the digital management of the welfare system to a subsidiary of Citibank, as well as plans by the Harris regime to implement the same program provincially, except on a larger scale that includes the health system, and various other government services such as licensing, and taxation.
Marjaleena Repo then spoke about NAFTA (North American Free Trade) and the expansion into MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investments). While discussing the various efforts being waged to resist and cancel these international agreements, Marjaleena also warned about the dissolution of national sovereignty.
The conference then split up into three concurrent sessions: off-line struggles, on-line struggles, and organizing culture and media. These three sessions covered topics and groups such as No to APEC, Friends of the Lubicon, Citizens for Local Democracy, Catalyst, Media Collective, TAO Communications, Students against Neo-Liberalism, Web/APC, OPIRG, Universal Access, ENDA, the McLuhan Program, Information War, and Public Encryption.
Sunday ended with an open general session discussing issues from the day. Plans were also made for a march to be held in the early evening down to the venue holding the Global Knowledge conference. 42 people gathered in the early evening summer sun, half on bikes, some carrying signs like 'free your mind' or 'free global knowledge', and we all walked the dozen or so blocks from the University of Toronto (LK) to the Sheraton Centre (GK97). The unruly mob walked down the middle of the street, blocking traffic on St. George, Beverley, and Queen Sts, employing a megaphone to broadcast news about the global corporate agenda envisioned by the world bank, the resistance celebrated by those marching, and the promise of free beer at the end of the line, for those who joined in on the march. As the march proceeded, we were met with loud car horns from irate drivers, smiles from sympathetic pedestrians, and television coverage by pre-warned media.
When we arrived at the main entrance to Global Knowledge, we were met with a red carpet, and security guards scrambling to block the doors. We the people demanded entry to the conference but the security guards held strong. No longer than 60 seconds after we arrived, a member of the Metro Police Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism unit came out and begin asking who we were, and what was our intent, the Prime Minister of Canada, and the President of the World Bank were due to arrive soon. Shortly thereafter half a dozen police from 52 division arrived and peaceably removed us from the red carpet, wherein it was quickly rolled up and removed.
Joined by dissident participants from inside the Global Knowledge event, we stayed and blocked the main entrance for over an hour, sitting and standing in the sun, having a fun end to a long day. Some of us got into the building through other entrances, but the inside had tight security and multiple secret service agents, as several heads of state (from Canada, Costa-Rica, and Uganda) were slated to give speeches. After we found out that the motorcades were diverted to underground entrances, we decided to meet at a patio for dinner and more discussion.
Monday June 23 International Independent Media Federation
The second day of Local Knowledge, Monday June 23rd, didn't begin until late in the afternoon. After the long first day, and even longer first night, those who could, slept in late on Monday. Global Knowledge meanwhile began early, and had sessions given by the likes of Jean Monty CEO of Northern Telecom, one of the world's largest suppliers of telecom equipment, the global information infrastructure itself.
The schedule for the second day of Local Knowledge was open. It began with a demonstration made by Scott Anderson of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, of the Southern Development Gateway, a web site employing frames and java to organize and present sustainable development info. Running concurrent to this demonstration was an open forum on tools for action, organizing, and other issues that were brought up through the first day's events.
In the late afternoon Local Knowledge also hosted a meeting of the International Independent Media Federation. Participants in this meeting included the host Media Collective, the Association for Progressive Communications (international internet network), Videazimut (international network of independent video and community media), and AMARC (international network for community media), many of whom were in town for the Global Knowledge event. Topics discussed in this meeting were greater collaboration, and the need for an independent and grassroots federation to organize alternatives to the global corporate cocacolonization.
That night as part of the weekly McLuhan Seminars, a presentation was made by Guizhi Wuang on 'The Psychological Processes of Chinese Characters'. Guizhi, who is China's top McLuhan Scholar gave a fascinating presentation on the analogic nature of the Chinese alphabet, as well as drawing on the many parallels between Chinese linguistic culture and characteristics of the Internet.
Tuesday June 24 and Wednesday June 25 Infiltrating Global Knowledge
Participants of the Local Knowledge event received an invitation to the Women's Breakfast being held at the Sheraton Centre as part of Global Knowledge. Using a colour photocopier we reproduced this invitation so as to enable as many people as possible to attend the morning event. However while reproducing invites to the breakfast, we also reproduced the badges necessary to get into the entire GK conference. In so doing, GK quickly became part of LK97 as loudmouthed radicals gained entry to the GK proceedings. My badge had the name Taylor Mead, others had badges with names like Indiva Dual.
The breakfast, held in honour of the role of women in creating, maintaining, and sharing knowledge, was a large, grandiose affair, with James Wolfenson, president of the World Bank, making patronizing remarks on the role of women in technology. While the breakfast itself was meant to be a celebration and call for increasing participation of women in all aspects of society, it quickly became a sign of how far women need to go. The large majority of participants in the GK event were men, primarily men from the developed world, but more so, men in power. Many people left the breakfast feeling that it did not accurately reflect the ongoing struggle for women's equality and liberation. Once again the World Bank was able to tone down any notions of change, and replace them with the illusion that the status-quo was making accommodations that could address any and all inequalities.
After the breakfast Local Knowledge participants split up and went to some of the sessions being offered as part of GK. I decided to go to the session titled: "The Role of the State in Creating and Enabling Environments for Private Investment and Access: Policy Regulatory Frameworks" which featured panellists from the World Bank, World Trade Organization, Teledesic, UNESCO, and the Governments of Uganda and Chile. I felt that a more accurate title for the panel would be: "The Information Revolution: Overthrowing the Nation-State and Empowering Private Capital".
The presentations made as part of this panel were extremely dry, and instinctively internalizing a rabid free market ideology. As with other LK participants in other sessions, I made two comments to the panel which were met with mixed responses.
The first remarks I made challenged the notion that we were heading into a new era of competition, but perhaps what we were witnessing was a transitory phase, between the breakdown of national and regional monopolies towards the formation of a global monopoly. I cited the recent flurry of communication and media mergers, and subsequent lack of any new competition from outside players. I reminded the panel that traditionally state monopolies existed to ensure that the operators remained accountable and in the public interest, ensuring that access levels were just, if not universal. I asked the panel what international body would be able to regulate this emerging global monopoly. The moderator of the panel immediately remarked that it was a good question, however the representative from the World Bank offered a puzzling remark stating: 'It is narrow minded to believe that international capital will be dominant.' ???
The second remark I made, along the lines of content and culture, was to remind the session that it was convergence that was driving communication deregulation, the dissolution of barriers between telecom and broadcast, which was supposedly heralding a new era of interactive, participatory media. However I challenged this notion of convergence, citing that among the largest shareholders of the telecom companies were the content and digital companies. That in fact convergence was also a metaphor of concentration, and the companies who are building the communication channels are also ready to provide consumer content to fill those same channels. While the electronic commons is a nice metaphor, that implies equal participation in the new media environment, the barriers to this new arena are economic. Historically the policies used to circumvent these barriers were cross-subsidization or some form of government assistance, which would be against international law once the WTO and MAI took effect.
The type of comments I was giving to this particular session, as well as the responses I received, were indicative of the rest of the GK event. Meeting up in the corridors and hallways, Local Knowledge participants reflected that it felt as if we were on another planet. The people organizing and speaking at GK seemed to be part of another reality, another consensual hallucination. Another agenda was driving GK, and not only did most GK participants have no clue what it was, but those who did and wanted to dissent, were unable to. The channels of power were moving too fast for any diversion to have any effect. With our various radical comments in various sessions were able to reach the audience and make friends and allies from all over the world, however the panellists and organizers would not budge, and their conception of a successful conference which heralded the ability for 'technology to eliminate global poverty' continued unabated.
One session featured a partnership between the World Bank and Walt Disney Company, wherein the World Bank would pay for bio-genetic scientists from around the world to make presentations at Disney World's Epcot Center, and learn the magic of communication, and the Disney diatribe of fun and fantasy. At GK, Disney had a whole slew of environmental propaganda touting their 'environmentality' and their commitments to sustainable development.
The reality at GK was just too weird. It was so crafted and so virtual that resistance was almost futile. However those of us who were in the audience, found strength in our numbers, and made contacts and started relationships with our friends in struggle around the world. We'd meet afterwards and talk about what was really going in our own localities, our own cultures. In each session the people either in dissent or in question of the dominant agenda, were always the largest in number. The people were on our side, but in a conference organized by the World Bank, for organizations in the International Development Community, we did not have the support of power. Power was in the form of large global bodies like the World Bank, like the global communication corporations, like the Disneys, the Unievers, the Coca-Cola's, and the Nike, who sponsored the Global Knowledge Event.
The corporate consensual hallucination, that the World Bank offered as reality, was completely disconnected with real people. People from Africa, Asia, South America, Europe and North America over the four days came together and spoke about the reality of their locality. On a face to face basis, when we met with all these different people, our visions of struggle and change were reaffirmed. We understood clearly what the interests of power were envisioning, and even more directly the consequences of their actions, and the response needed from we the people. When we spoke with all the people from all over the world, we found a common thread of disenchantment with the neo-liberal global regime, mixed with eagerness and energy to resist, while building alternatives.
Global Knowledge is free, and access must be universal. There is an international popular movement of the social, and it is waging a revolution. Everyone is involved, but not everyone realizes it.
The Information War has been unleashed to deny us our true reality. It knows no boundaries, and seeks no prisoners, only participants as consumers. The fight for our mind is a fight against reality. We are not fighting, merely defending ourselves. Reality is natural, we generate it as we breathe. By denying us reality, replacing experience with consumer desire, the Information War denies us our humanity.
In calling for peace, we are calling for life. In calling for peace, we are calling for human-centred development. In calling for peace we are calling for a democratic reality that all may have opportunity to engage equally. In calling for peace we are calling for a free mind with free knowledge.
The Media Collective is a peace movement in an age of Information War.
Jesse Hirsh - jesse@tao.ca - jesse@lglobal.com P.O. Box 108, Station P, Toronto, Canada, M5S 2S8
http://www.tao.ca/~jesse
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 15:08:58 -0700 From: Liz Stewart <liz@stanne.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Message-ID: <l03102803afe71973dffe@[38.216.19.3]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 11:41:31 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> To: "'gambia'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: criminal law and punishment Message-ID: <9B236DF9AF96CF11A5C94044F3219031101081@dkdifs02.dif.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
A note in Gambia Observer turned me on. I=B4m a bit surprised of a = severe sentence. Even this man pleaded guilty of being in possession of forged money (D10), compared with other sentences I=B4ve observed in Gambian News, I think this is too much. Will there not be shown consideration for his situation ? - Maybe he is poor, unemployed, have a family without any food or what else...Is he the producer the money himself ? Is he previously convicted of assult ? Has he allready used false money and in that way made "profit" from possessing it and loss for another person ?- Compared to the "stories" we often hear about the people in power who stole millions, or the bribe-stories and what those people = has got for sentence, I think this is out of proportion. I think comming back to his neighbours and family after being convicted and maybe a = very short imprisonment would be enough punishment and an exampel for others ? But one year !!
And even the attackers on the Farafenni-camp beyond any doubt made a severe and serious crime against the state and the people in the camp, = I think that death-sentences are too much. Why has The Gambia taken the step to put death-sentence into the penal code ? Has it been there allways or what ? By who and how will the sentences be carried out? Is there anything on that from the Gambia ?
If the state escalate it=B4s aggression, become more harsh in it=B4s actions, that will be a signal to it=B4s people, and will be met with more aggressive and violate crimes and actions - escalation on both sides, I think ?=20 Asbj=F8rn Nordam
(mine underlinings)=20 Boy Gets One Year Sentence For Forging Currency
One Ebrima Ceesay, 22, of Wellingara Village in the Kombo North District, was on June 10, 1997, convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment after he had been found guilty of being in possession of forged Gambian currency. According to the prosecution, the accused on March 3rd, 1997, without lawful authority, had in his possession forged currency of two five dalasis notes and a D50 note while he knew they were false.
The accused pleaded guilty to the possession of the two five dalasis notes but objected to that of the D50 note. At this point, the police prosecutor, 1042 Kujabi, dropped the D50 note charge against the = accused and requested the court to proceed after tendering both "monies". The presiding magistrate Musa Y. Gassama, explained to the court that, "it is an offence contrary to Section 334 of the Criminal Code, and according to the provisions of the law, any person found in possession of such currency without = lawful authority, whether the person knows it to be false or not, is guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment of seven years." In his plea for mitigation, the accused begged for mercy. Magistrate Gassama, in effecting sentence, told the accused that although the amount involved was small, it was a very serious offence and "we will not encourage such acts in the society, and based on that I convict and sentence you to one year imprisonment without any fine option."=20
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 13:08:23 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New member Message-ID: <19970708122812.AAA12702@LOCALNAME>
Gambia-l, Dodou Jobe has been added to the list. Welcome to the Gambia-l, we look forward to your contributions.
Please send a brief introduction to: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Momodou Camara
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 15:30:34 +0200 From: "Momodou S Sidibeh" <momodou.sidibeh@stockholm.mail.telia.com> To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: SV: (PART3) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRBE IN AFRICA Message-ID: <199707081337.PAA00761@d1o2.telia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hello Everyone, While I have been away, I notice that some fellow Stockholmers joined the list. I must also choose this opportunity to welcome them to this BANTABA. I completely agree with Mr. Njie in that Bass' narration is not value-free. However, my Toma seems to be more than generous to Bass, which as a matter of fact, is not bad at all. I think, though, one must remind Bass of his promise since the first installment that "...we also will use the word Ethnic and Ethnicity from now on...". This was certainly done not without some reservation. It is only in part 4 that I notice some movement towards fulfilling that promise, the very title of the submissions notwithstanding.
There seems to be very little to argue about Laura Ellen Munzel's statement that race is a social construction. I want only to ask whether the anthropological view did not grow from Darwinian biology? Also, I too have no strong reasons to believe that our lives are any happier than say, that of other animals, and I also reject the theory that history progresses in linear fashion. Much evidence suggests a cyclic order. I think, however, that Laura Munzell needs to explain why she thinks, say, the Waorani Indians (in the Brazialian rainforest) or tribes people in the jungles of Indonesia - some of who live in large tents amidst tree-tops, and practice cannibalism - are not "locked in some kind of arrested development". Kindly excuse me for this late response. Momodou Sidibeh.
---------- > Från: M. Njie <mn015@students.stir.ac.uk> > Till: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > Ämne: RE: (PART3) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRBE IN AFRICA > Datum: den 3 juli 1997 16:41 > > Food for thought indeed! While Bass most probably does not > want to portray a Eurocentric view of culture, that's the > impression one gets with aspects of his piece. History is > rarely a value-free narration of events, and the type of > sources one consults can influence one's thinking. > > I am in no way suggesting that Bass should change his > style, but it seems to me that the way he wants to go about
> it will engender so much controversy that his main message may
> be lost in the process. Passing references can be made to > other peoples and languages, but the main focus should be on > tribalism and languages in Africa/The Gambia. Laura and Joern have > made very good points and should be taken into account. > > Regards, > MOMODOU > > On Wed, 2 Jul > 1997, Laura Ellen Munzel wrote: > > > Gambia-l, > > > > Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted Bass's original messages. Please > > excuse my therefore incomplete response to his posting. However, there > > were two main points I hope to debate with others: > > > > 1) What is race? It seems to me definitions of race have changed > > throughout time. Different areas of the world also tend to see race in > > different ways. Physical variations definitely exist in people. How > > these are interpreted is up for grabs, though. It's a viewpoint stemming > > from cultural anthropology: race is a social construction. > > > > 2) I don't believe there is any proof that human societies "developed" > > along any type of fixed pattern. The idea that we all started off as > > hunters & gatherers, progressed through to agricultural societies, and > > ultimately to today's techologically oriented civilization stems from the > > early 20th century. It is a eurocentric viewpoint which places a European > > type society at the summit of "advanced" civilization. > > > > Another aspect of this belief is that there are some societies in which > > the so-called earlier developmental stages of civilization still exist. > > i.e. any "remote" and "untouched" ethnic groups you can think of. Why? > > There is absolutely no reason to believe such peoples are locked in some > > kind of arrested development. > > > > Anyway, food for thought. I'd be interested to hear responses! > > > > Laura > > > > > > >
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:13:38 -0700 From: Liz Stewart <liz@stanne.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: New member Message-ID: <l03102802afe8866aa1b9@[38.216.19.3]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>My name is Elizabeth Stewart Fatti...and I have been involved with The >GAmbia for over around 14 years now, as my late husband and son are >Gambians, and the latter, is currently living there. I have visited three >times in the past years and plan to continue trips at least once, but >hopefully two times a year. I am now in possession of a Mandinka >dictionary and Grammar Manual, and am studying Mandinka. My interest is >also academic as well as personal...I did my undergraduate work in >anthropology and am in contact with anthropologist Dr. David Gamble, one >of the world's leading authorities on The GAmbia. I like to read current >news and info about The GAmbia as well, and do most of my research on the >internet. Gambian fiction is also of interest to me.
> > >******************************************************* > 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: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:04:17 +0900 (JST) From: binta@iuj.ac.jp To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Gambia's new electoral commission Message-ID: <199707091259.VAA06748@mlsv.iuj.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Gambia-l,
I guess the appointment of Bishop Johnson is timely. As far as I can remember, Bishop Johnson is one of those few leaders ( of course including Bishop M. Cleary) who constantly reminded the former government of its responsibility to the Gambian people. I hope he can maintain that momentum of national service. BTW, does anyone know who the other members of the committee are?
Lamin.
Archbishop To Chair Gambia's Electoral Commission
July 7, 1997
BANJUL (APS) – The Head of the Anglican Church in Gambia, the Right Rev. Tilewa Johnson has been appointed the chairman of the country's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).
Reacting to his appointment, the head of the church described the gesture as a big honour to Christians who comprise less than five per cent of the country's 1.1 million people.
Gambia, predominantly Muslim is one of the smallest countries in Africa, measuring about 11,295 sq.km.
Bishop Johnson, who spoke to APS in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on June 28 after attending the June 23-25 executive committee meeting of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), said the IEC is composed of five persons.
The team, which represents a cross section of the Gambian community includes an Islamic scholar.
The IEC team was sworn in for a seven-year term on June I2 at State House Banjul by President Yahya Jammeh.
According to Gambia's Anglican Primate, the team has adopted fairplay, integrity and transparency as its motto.
"We decided to adopt the motto in our last meeting before we were sworn in. We intend to use it as our guiding spirit," he told APS.
"It is our hope and prayer that with God's constant guidance and the inspiration derived from the motto, the IEC ship will stay afloat and in the right direction no matter how stormy and strong the under current might be," said Bishop Johnson referring to his address at the swearing in ceremony .
Commenting on transparency, the Anglican clergyman said; "In this work and in our motto, we want to tell the electorate in this country and the entire world community that we have nothing to hide as far as our electoral operations and financial transactions and policy are concerned," he said.
And added; "By these words in our motto, we are saying that we are not only committed to conducting free and fair elections, but free, fair and transparent elections. It is in this context and understanding that we use the word 'transparency' in IEC circles."
On fairplay, Archbishop Johnson said members of the team ought to pray constantly for what it takes to be God-fearing and God-honouring, impartial and just umpires and referees in the election's arena of this country.
"Let us do everything within our power to put all political party leaders, and indeed their activists and supporters, at ease especially those in the opposition, he pointed out.
The Gambian church leader, who is also a member of the AACC general committee and the vice chairman of the organization's Refugee and Emergency Services, said the institution of the IEC has come at the right time after the country has had its democratically elected government following a span o f two years of military rule, between I994 and I996. The incumbent government of President Jammeh, replacing ousted Dawda Jawara, was instituted in January this year.
Describing the appointment of the IEC as one of the best moves made by President Jammeh's government, Archbishop Johnson noted that his team hopes to be a real watchdog of Gambia as far as matters pertaining to the electoral business are concerned.
The commission will endeavour to venture into many areas in line with its current mandate such as educating Gambians on their right to vote and also make sure that the rules governing the electoral process are not interfered with, either by the incumbent government or opposition political parti es.
The formation of the IEC is a spill-over from the previous Provisional Independent Electoral Commission (PIEC) which worked during the transitional period, between 1994 and 1996.
Rev. Johnson, formerly a member of PIEC, said part of their work was to convince the military junta to reduce their time in office from four years to two and also draft the current constitution.
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 16:03:45 +0200 From: Andrea Klumpp <klumpp@kar.dec.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Gambia's new electoral commission Message-ID: <33C39A41.4D83@kar.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
binta@iuj.ac.jp wrote: > > Gambia-l, > > I guess the appointment of Bishop Johnson is timely. As far as I can remember, Bishop > Johnson is one of those few leaders ( of course including Bishop M. Cleary) who constantly > reminded the former government of its responsibility to the Gambian people. I hope he can > maintain that momentum of national service. BTW, does anyone know who the other > members of the committee are? > > Lamin. >
Rev. Solomon Tilewa Jhonson, Chairman
Mr. Mustapha Carayol, Commissioner for financial matters and supervision of IEC regional offices
Alhajie Saja Fatty, Commissioner responsible for Chieftaincy and Alkaloship Elections
Mrs. Fanny Freeman, Commissioner responsible for supplementary registrations and voter education
Ms. Fatma Baldeh, Commissioner responsible for Local Government Elections, public relations and media.
IEC motto: Fair-play, Integrity and Transparency.
Regards, Andrea
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 10:00:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu> To: Gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New member Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970709095930.5211H-100000@saul9.u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Habib Diab Ghanim has been added to the list. We welcome him and will look forward to his introduction and contributions. Thanks Tony
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:03:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Ancha Bala-Gaye u <bala7500@mach1.wlu.ca> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Cc: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Sierra Leone army chief backs female circumcision (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9707091716.A1089-0100000@mach1.wlu.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Actually, all I can say about the situation with the Bongo women (?????) is that, everyone has a weak spot, and with these women, it is the fact that people are pressuring them to change what they know for what they don't. And this guy (????) is promising to help them hold on to their practise.........so of course they'll vote for him. He's going to help them hold onto what they know and believe in. It's a psychological game that politicians play with civilians.............I promise to TRY and get you what you want IF you vote for me. People fall for it all the time.........but I guess one can't doubt every politician ha????
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:56:29 -0400 (EDT) From: ABDOU <at137@columbia.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: FORWARDED MESSAGE Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.970709185451.14535A-100000@terve.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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I started learning Mandinka with the books which Dr. David Gamble published, along with a tape of a Gambian repeating phrases out of the book. **The WEC also has a few good books on the Mandinka language** WEC PO Box 2351 Serrekunda Gambia Golf Rd 14 Fajara Tel 495221 Fax 391137 Hildegard Damm Marlies Luck Mandinka Books And of course you can download the Peace Core Mandinka manual's (in PDF format) from Andy Lyons Gambian web site: http://grove.ufl.edu/~alyons/langabot.htm *Cora Connection Your West African, Manding Music Source* http://www.drive.net/kora.htm
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MY URL ON THE WWW= http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~at137
A FINITE IN A LAND OF INFINITY. SEEKING BUT THE REACHABLE. I WANDER AND I WONDER. ALAS, ALL RESPITE IS FINAL. *******************************************************************************
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:58:22 -0400 (EDT) From: ABDOU <at137@columbia.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: FORWARDED MESSAGE Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.970709185641.14535B-100000@terve.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
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This is Fatim Cham -Jalllow from Banjul saying hello to all brothers and sisters.This is a very effective means of communicating and I hope to contribute to Gambia-l in the future. Fatim
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MY URL ON THE WWW= http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~at137
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:56:07 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New member Message-ID: <19970710145811.AAB15906@LOCALNAME>
Gambia-l, Abdoulay Manneh has been added to the list. Welcome to the Gambia-l, we look forward to your contributions.
Please send a brief introduction to: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Momodou Camara
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:18:11 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: UNITED NATIONS: U.S. Group Urges Payments With No Strings Message-ID: <19970710162015.AAA8024@LOCALNAME>
Gambia-l, It seems to be very quite on the list these days, perhaps because of exams and holidays. However, I hope that those of you around enjoy reading the forwarded IPS news.
I would like to welcome all the new members who have recently been added to this Gambian electronic Bantaba (Pencha bi).
Some time ago Gambia together with some other African countries lost their voting rights in the U.N General Assembly for having arrears but its a different treatment when it comes to the case with the United States of America.
Read below.
Momodou Camara
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Copyright 1997 InterPress Service, all rights reserved. Worldwide distribution via the APC networks.
*** 06-Jul-97 ***
Title: UNITED NATIONS: U.S. Group Urges Payments With No Strings
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 6 (IPS) - A U.S. organisation promoting the interests of the United Nations has launched a nationwide campaign to force the United States Congress to sanction payment of U.S. dues -- with no strings attached.
''We have urged the U.S. President (Bill Clinton) to take this issue to the country at large,'' says John Whitehead, chairman of the U.N. Association of USA.
The Association is lobbying Senators and Congressmen through its network of more than 30,000 members in 175 U.S. cities.
The U.S. owes about 1.3 billion dollars in arrears to the United Nations. Last month a bipartisan group in Congress, however, agreed to pay about 819 million dollars -- but only if the world body meets 38 conditions imposed by lawmakers.
''We have urged President Clinton to insist that the Senate's 38 conditions precluding payment of U.S. dues to the U.N. be stripped from the foreign affairs authorisation bill in the upcoming House- Senate Conference Committee,'' Whitehead said.
Backing the Whitehead appeal was Elliot Richardson, co-chair of the Association's National Council and a former U.S. Defence Secretary.
The Senate bill, sponsored by Republican Senator Jesse Helms and Democratic Senator Joseph Biden authorises payment of 819 million dollars in arrears over the next two years, but stipulates that the world body must first meet dozens of conditions.
Whitehead said the proposed legislation in its current form does not serve U.S. interests. ''Rather, it asserts Congress' right to dictate terms to the U.N.'s 184 other member countries, bypasses Presidential authority, and submits the world body to micromanagement by a single nation's legislators,'' he added.
Whitehead and Richardson say that some of the ideas in the legislation are useful -- ''if negotiated rather than dictated'' -- while others are ''ill-conceived.''
The Association has strongly objected to the unilateral demand for reductions in the U.S. rate of assessment, which would force the other member states to add a fifth of the U.S. share to their own U.N. assessments.
The U.S. share of the U.N.'s regular budget is about 312 million dollars a year -- the equivalent of about 1.11 dollars per U.S. citizen.
Currently, Washington pays 25 percent of the U.N.'s regular budget and 31 percent of the peacekeeping budget. But Congress wants this reduced to 20 percent and 25 percent respectively.
However, instead of requesting the 185-member General Assembly to change this assessment rate, Congress wants to usurp the powers of the U.N.'s highest policy making body.
Both the 15-member European Union and the 132-member Group of 77 developing nations say this is totally unacceptable. The U.S. so far remains isolated on the issue of conditional payments to the world body.
At a press conference last week, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Washington has offered to pay about two-thirds of the debt it owes to the United Nations. ''But that also comes with conditions and benchmarks, which I am told by my American friends, is going to be a challenge for U.S. diplomacy in trying to sell it to the other 184 member states.''
Annan said what will actually happen at the end of the day is difficult to predict. ''Will the benchmarks or conditions, as announced, be retained? Will they be modified?
''If they do stand, can President Clinton, who has the certification right, give these benchmarks and conditions practical and functional interpretation in such a manner that it will not maintain the tension with the Organisation... I do not know.''
The Association, meanwhile, is also objecting to a demand that all U.N. accounts be supervised by a Congressional agency and that future U.N. conferences be held in only just four cities worldwide: New York, Vienna, Geneva and Rome.
Whitehead is also unhappy that Congress wants about 5.0 percent of U.N. professional staff positions left vacant as part of an effort to downsize the world body.
Last year the U.N. bureaucracy stood at about 10,000 employees worldwide. But this has been downsized to about 9,000, mostly through attrition. Of this, about 4,800 are based in the Secretariat in New York.
Among the other conditions are a requirement to cut foreign aid to nations whose U.N. diplomats owe unpaid parking fines and full notification and consultation with Congress on all U.N. peacekeeping operations.
The U.S. Congress also wants an Inspector-General appointed to probe waste and mismanagement in three U.N. specialised agencies: the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva.
Congress is also demanding that the U.S. have a seat on the U.N.'s budgetary committee from which it was ousted in a free and fair voting last year.
It also wants budgetary cuts not only in the Secretariat but also in all of the U.N.'s 16 specialised agencies.
The conditions laid down by Congress, the Association said, ''will cast a long shadow over our conduct of multilateral diplomacy as well as undercut our leadership at the United Nations and America's image as champion of the rule of law.'' (END/IPS/TD/RJ/97)
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:40:18 -0500 From: hghanim@nusacc.org To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu, caita@nusacc.org Subject: Introduction of new member Habib Diab Gh Message-ID: <TFSJZOHM@nusacc.org>
Peace be unto all of you My name is Habib Diab-Ghanim I am a Gambian of Lebanese origin, born in Banjul No 6 Dobson street. I went to St.Augustines's high school .In the early seventies I came to the USA for further studies. I have a Bsc degree in business Adm, banking diplomas from the American Institute of Banking and did some graduate courses in computerized Banking/Accounting.
I am married to Veronica Ghanim (Nigerian origin ) and have four children -two boys and two girls- two are in college .one in high school and Aly the last one in middle school. We live in the Washington Metropolitan area.
I just wanted to get in touch with the folks back home and find out a little about the business climate now that the dust has settled after the last coup . May God help and guide the present leaders towards the right path and hope they will learn from the mistakes of the past administration without any vengeance or revenge for the sake of the ordinary citizens and a peaceful community as we have all enjoyed in the past.
Best regards Habib ************************************** National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce 1100 New York Avenue, N.W. Suite 550 East Tower Washington, D.C. 20005 Voice: (202) 289-5920 Fax: (202) 289-5938 **************************************
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 97 12:10:40 EDT From: "Numukunda Darboe(Mba)" <ndarboe@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Introduction of new member Habib Diab Gh Message-ID: <ndarboe.1218938680A@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu>
Welcome aboard Mr. Diab.
Hopefully you will find this Bantaba resourceful, and we are looking forward to your contributions.
Numukunda
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:29:52 -0400 (EDT) From: TSaidy1050@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: International Organisation for Migration Message-ID: <970710142950_41133508@emout03.mail.aol.com>
Gambia -l,
I hope this information will serve some of the members in the near future. There is an organisation based in Switzerland called International Organisation for Migration (IOM) whose main aim is to fight the brain drain in the developing countries.
They would pay for air fare and the shipment of personal effects for African Professionals/Graduates in the developed World who want to return back to their home land.
They would also help those who intend on being self-employed to settle by providing other types of assistance other than air and freight costs.
They have offices in most capitals of developed countries. For those interested the address is as follows: -
International Organisation for Migration 17 routes des Morillons P.O.Box 71 CH - 1211 Geneva 19 Switzerland Tel: 41.22-717 9111 Fax: 41.22-798 6150 Email: makonen@geneva.iom.ch
Mr. James H. H. Fleming Operation Assistant- Africa International Organisation for Migration 1750 K Street, N.W. Suite 1110 Washington, D.C. 2006 TEL: (202) 862- 1826 FAX: (202) 862- 1879
Those of you who want to come back or who have friends who are considering going back home to settle, can contact this organisation for assistance. Peace
Tombong Saidy
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: TSaidy1050@aol.com Cc: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>, ; Subject: Re: International Organisation for Migration Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970710124911.24836B-100000@netinfo1.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Mr. Tombong Saidy,
Thank you very much for the info. provided below, the couple of thousands or so dollars saved by some of us intent on going back after finishing school will go a long way in helping us settle down.
I know am being greedy, but I hope personal effects will include a car and not just computers and books..should the later be the case, it is still a very good gesture.
As Bass would say, keep up the good work down there.
Cheers,
Madiba. -- ************************************************************************** ** Madiba Saidy ** ** Surface and Interface analysis and reactivity division ** ** Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) ** ** The University of British Columbia ** ** Vancouver. ** **************************************************************************
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 TSaidy1050@aol.com wrote:
> > > Gambia -l, > > I hope this information will serve some of the members in the near future. > There is an organisation based in Switzerland called International > Organisation for Migration (IOM) whose main aim is to fight the brain drain > in the developing countries. > > They would pay for air fare and the shipment of personal effects for African > Professionals/Graduates in the developed World who want to return back to > their home land. > > They would also help those who intend on being self-employed to settle by > providing other types of assistance other than air and freight costs. > > They have offices in most capitals of developed countries. For those > interested the address is as follows: - > > International Organisation for Migration > 17 routes des Morillons > P.O.Box 71 > CH - 1211 Geneva 19 > Switzerland > Tel: 41.22-717 9111 > Fax: 41.22-798 6150 > Email: makonen@geneva.iom.ch > > Mr. James H. H. Fleming > Operation Assistant- Africa > International Organisation for Migration > 1750 K Street, N.W. > Suite 1110 > Washington, D.C. 2006 > TEL: (202) 862- 1826 > FAX: (202) 862- 1879 > > Those of you who want to come back or who have friends who are considering > going back home to settle, can contact this organisation for assistance. > Peace > > Tombong Saidy > >
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:19:49 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: First Ladies Club !!! Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970710131834.24836E-100000@netinfo1.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Ya Sophie, Jabou and Ancha,
Sorry for not responding to your postings about the first ladies...nothing personal, I've just been busy attending conferences and training a new grad. student in my Lab., hence my long silence.
Y'all have a good weekend.
Madiba. -- ************************************************************************** ** Madiba Saidy ** ** Surface and Interface analysis and reactivity division ** ** Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) ** ** The University of British Columbia ** ** Vancouver. ** **************************************************************************
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: ASJanneh@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Gambian Group to perform in Seattle Message-ID: <970710204027_2024205365@emout03.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART.BOUNDARY.0.6450.emout03.mail.aol.com.868581627"
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SEATTLE, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Bumbershoot, The Seattle Arts Festival a= nnounces the headliners for its twenty-seventh annual arts extravaganza a= t the Seattle Center this Labor Day weekend, August 29 - September 1. =
=0D Featuring over twenty-five indoor and outdoor stages, exhibit halls and p= erformance sites, Bumbershoot hosts over 2,000 artists and performers fro= m the Northwest and around the world. Since 1971, Bumbershoot has grown = in breadth and depth to showcase the gems of music, literary arts, dance,= visual arts, theater, comedy, film, kids performances and Bumbershoot tr= ademark spectacles and rituals. =
=0D Bumbershoot remains strongly committed to presenting regional talent and = this year's Festival offers over 1000 artists and performers from the noo= ks and crannies of the Northwest. As a forum for arts of all disciplines= , the Festival features a wide ranging line-up of national rising stars a= nd living legends as well as international artists, such as those from WO= MAD (World Of Music And Dance). =
=0D "We have art and artists from as far away as Madagascar, Barcelona, China= and outer space sharing stages with some of the greatest talents in our = own backyard. When these 2000 creative minds converge at Seattle Center = over Labor Day weekend, it will literally transform the city," said Festi= val Producer Sheila Hughes. "This year Bumbershoot will be more like a c= ultural and artistic vortex than a traditional festival." =
=0D This year's Bumbershoot Headliners include: =
=0D Budweiser Mainstage in the Stadium =
=0D On Friday: Alt-rock gods Foo Fighters with female punk band L7 opening, = On Saturday: Northwest punk-popsters Sleator-Kinney; modern pop band Bui= lt To Spill; legendary punk rockers Sonic Youth; folk singer-songwriter S= hawn Colvin; funky jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood; Grammy award-winning = rocker Beck. On Sunday: Versatile singer-songwriter Michael Penn; count= ry pop-rock band Wilco; pop singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow; world-African = vocalists Zap Mama; rootsy-rhythm heroes The Neville Brothers. On Monday= : Hip-hop masters Spearhead; the soulful Joan Osborne; musical pioneer Da= vid Byrne; Jammin' groove rockers Blues Traveler. =
=0D United Airlines Opera House =
=0D On Friday: Bluegrass duo Jerry Douglas & Russ Barenberg open for Northwe= st fiddle hero Mark O'Connor. On Saturday: Tuatara, featuring REM's Pet= er Buck, open for storyteller/singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock; gospel l= egends The Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Clarence Fountain; Pacific Nor= thwest Ballet performs stellar new works on Saturday and Sunday evenings.= On Sunday: Compadres James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez open for Canadian c= hanteuse Jane Siberry; renowned writer and author of The English Patient,= Michael Ondaatje. On Monday: Jazzy-groovin' Wayne Horvitz & The Four Pl= us One Ensemble; African-American influenced jazz group Art Ensemble of C= hicago; comedy showcase with comedian and former talk show host Jon Stewa= rt in Laff-A-Million with Jon Stewart & Friends. =
=0D The Rhythm Stage =
=0D On Friday: Country rockers The Picketts; Latino rockers Los Lobos. On Sa= turday: The Justin Vali Group of Madagascar; techno-Scottish band Shoogl= enifty; funky rockers Cake. On Sunday: The Luaka Bop Records Showcase wi= th Appalachian singer-songwriter Jim White, Indian-infused modern rockers= Cornershop, world-African vocalists Zap Mama, rock-funk trio Geggy Tah = and hip-hop/ska/Latino-influenced band King Chango. On Monday: Zimbabwe= an wonders Bhundu Boys and Pa Jobarteh Kaira Trio of The Gambia; ska fest= with Let's Go Bowling, The Toasters and The Skatalites. =
=0D Washington State Lottery Bumbrella Stage =
=0D On Friday: Techno-Scottish band Shooglenifty. On Saturday: Funksters Gal= actic; psychedelic jazz band Critters Buggin. On Sunday: Japanese drumme= rs The Sanuki Manno Taiko on Sunday and Monday; Zimbabwean wonders Bhundu= Boys and Pa Jobarteh Kaira Trio of The Gambia; honky-tonk yodeler Don Wa= lser; soulful funk-rockers Zuba; Southwestern lounge lizards Friends of D= ean Martinez. On Monday: Bumberdrum X, the Festival's traditional percus= sion extravaganza, a part of Closing Ceremonies. =
=0D Sidewalk Mural Stage =
=0D On Friday: King of surf guitar Dick Dale. On Saturday: Spicy female trio = Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women; rollicking blues belter Candye Kane & The= Swingin' Armadillos; the Latino King El Vez. On Sunday: Legendary blues= man James Cotton; Zydeco master Terrance Simien. On Monday: Cajun favori= tes Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys; pop acoustic rockers Dog's Eye View= ; folk-western band Tarnation; guitar slingin' bluesman Jimmy Thackery. =
=0D The Rock Arena =
=0D On Saturday: Ska-steady Engine 54; ska-pop-rockers Reel Big Fish; Seattle= rockers Sweet Water; psychedelic popsters Pond. On Sunday: Hard-rockin'= pop band Subminute:radio; punk trio MxPx; rock quartet Super Deluxe; pop= rockers Goodness; New York's groove-heavy Soul Coughing. On Monday: Pop= -folkster Jeremy Enigk; transcendent psychedelic band Spiritualized; Seat= tle space-rockers Sky Cries Mary. =
=0D DMX Northwest Court Stage Presented by TCI =
=0D Bumbershoot's newest outdoor stage for singer-songwriters and folk and ac= oustic music features on Friday: Storyteller-singer Steve Forbert. On Sa= turday: New Mexico duo Bill and Bonnie Hearne; Seattle chanteuse Karen Pe= rnick. On Sunday: Folk-punk influenced singer Cindy Lee Berryhill; Austr= alian singer-songwriter Ben Lee; rootsy bluesman Chris Smither. On Monda= y: Former Throwing Muses vocalist and guitarist Kristin Hersh; storytelle= r-singer Amy Rigby; and the now famous Bumbershoot Wild Card. =
=0D Bagley Wright Theatre =
=0D Friday through Monday: Now York's acclaimed Ensemble Studio Theatre Prese= nts: The LA Project, four new one-act comedy plays. On Friday: Seattle = novelist and recipient of the fourth annual Bumbershoot Golden Umbrella A= ward, Tom Robbins; On Saturday: Literary artist and author of Bastard Out= Of Carolina, Dorothy Allison; On Monday; Acclaimed Northwest Afrikan Ame= rican Ballet; United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. =
=0D Also offered over the four days is the second annual 1 Reel Film Festival= featuring independent short films. There are 40 food and beverage booth= s at Taste of Seattle, nearly 90 booths at the Art Market and Internation= al Bazaar and over 60 small and independent presses at the Bumbershoot Bo= okfair which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. =
=0D Ticket Information: Admission for kids is FREE all weekend, courtesy of A= T&T (must be 12 and under, accompanied by an adult). Daily adult tickets= are $9 in advance and $10 at the gate; seniors are $1. Special discount= weekend passes are $16 for two days or $29 for 4 days (only at Western W= ashington PayLess Drug Stores). Advance tickets are available beginning = August 4 at Western Washington PayLess Drug Stores, Ticketmaster Ticket C= enters or by calling 206-628-0888 (agency charges apply). =
=0D One daily ticket is good for entrance to all performances, exhibitions an= d special projects on a first-come, first-served basis. Festival entry d= oes not guarantee concert seating and schedule is subject to change. The= Space Needle, Fun Forest and Pacific Science Center are not included wit= h a Bumbershoot ticket. The Children's Museum offers a discount with a B= umbershoot ticket. =
=0D For Festival information, call the Hotline at 206-281-8111 or visit the w= eb site at www.bumbershoot.org. =
=0D NOTE: Bumbershoot(R) The Seattle Arts Festival is produced and presented= by One Reel in collaboration with the Seattle Center. =
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:43:27 -0400 (EDT) From: ASJanneh@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Iranian Foreign Minister Visits Gambia Message-ID: <970710204325_-1695274121@emout05.mail.aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART.BOUNDARY.0.20816.emout05.mail.aol.com.868581805"
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BANJUL, July 10 (Reuter) - Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati vis= ited the tiny West African state of Gambia on Thursday and told state tel= evision that he saw much scope for cooperation between the two countries.= =
=0D Velayati, who had talks with President Yahya Jammeh, said he had invited = him to a December islamic summit in Tehran. =
=0D ``I believe that there is much room for cooperation between Gambia and Ir= an. I hope my country will open very soon an embassy in Banjul,'' he said= =2E =
=0D 15:43 07-10-97 =0D
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:28:59 +0200 From: momodou.camara@post3.tele.dk (Camara, Momodou) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: New Members Message-ID: <19970711093111.AAD33652@LOCALNAME>
Gambia-l, Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI (National Agriculture Research Institute) and Mr. Manneh of Gambia College have joined the Gambia-l.
We welcome them and look forward to their contributions.
Best regards.
Momodou Camara
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:19:30 GMT From: "A BITTAYE" <mae96ab@wye.ac.uk> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. Message-ID: <2EBAC79287C@lister.wye.ac.uk>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:28:59 +0200 > Reply-to: gambia-l@u.washington.edu > 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 Members
Mr. Bruce-Olivier congratulations and welcome to the Gambia-l. As a NARI member of staff, I feel delighted that you now have e-mail facility. I am sure this will go a long way to ease communication. I look forward to access your direct address. Any personal mails for me can be sent to: MAE96AB@wye.ac.uk Best regards!!!!
A. Bittaye.
Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI> Gambia-l, > Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI (National Agriculture Research > Institute) and Mr. Manneh of Gambia College have joined the Gambia-l. > > We welcome them and look forward to their contributions. > > Best regards. > > Momodou Camara > >
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:22:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> To: <Gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: IOM Message-ID: <199707111122.NAA21653@online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Tombong
That was a very nice and one sided piece aboout IOM. The IOM is an advising organ for governments of developed countries on migrants than of what you wrote. IOM is also responsible for the advising og the above mention governments concerning Migration and Health especially on refugees and asylumseekers. This is an institution of the IOM and it is called the INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH. (ICMH). This is a type of civilised repatriation from the IOM. ICHM is a joint venture created by IOM and the University of Geneva with the support of the World Health Organisation (WHO) The centre aims to improve the health of migrants, refugees and asylumseekers in their country of settlement, by easing the process of adapting to a new society and decreasing the social cost caused by the preventable disease. excess of disablity, and the effects of maladjustment. ICMH will carry out its work in close association with governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions. Close collaboration with governments is to give information of your health especially HIV and to reduce social cost is to repatriate you through IOM.
They review available information on migrants and refugee health in selected group of receiving countries. This survey will provide insight as to what kind of migrant and refugee health information is available to national authorities for planning and evaluation purposes.When it happens that you are HIV positive then plans for repatriation is on the desk organise by the IOM. These surveys starts from the refugee camps and the aim of the studie is follow the migrants to their new countries. In the matter of Hiv the west is more sophisticated than were the migrants and refugees came from. There are also some positive sides of the ICMH.
I am neither dicouraging or advising anyone not what you desired but i want to throw a little bit of light on the subject.
Next time Tombong give all the bit of it but not the littlE bit.
With kind regards
Omar S. Saho, KONSULENT Ullevaal University Hospital Dept. for STD and HIV NORWAY
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:31:39 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Asbj=F8rn_Nordam?= <asbjorn.nordam@dif.dk> To: "'gambia-l@u.washington.edu'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. Message-ID: <9B236DF9AF96CF11A5C94044F3219031101089@dkdifs02.dif.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello friends, now it becomes more exiting, and this is exactly what I was expecting, when I saw the news from Gambia, that there were possibilities of getting better and faster and more direct communications to our friends, families, institutions. Till now I have only got few advices, so maybe I=B4m running too fast offering to pay = the service-subscription on Gambia College -email-line and the same for GTTI, and I=B4m still vaiting for Mr. Jammeh of the college to answer = my personal letter of introduction and suggestion. A friendof mine says, = by running so fast I force my ideas on the people in the Gambia. And if there is anything I will not, that is it. If the students at Gambia College and GTTI and other institutions should decide themselves, = I=B4ll show patience and wait for them to come up with suggestions. Asbj=F8rn Nordam > ---------- > From: A BITTAYE[SMTP:mae96ab@wye.ac.uk] > Sent: 11. July 1997 14.19 > To: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List > Subject: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. >=20 > > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:28:59 +0200 > > Reply-to: gambia-l@u.washington.edu > > 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 Members >=20 > Mr. Bruce-Olivier congratulations and welcome to the Gambia-l. > As a NARI member of staff, I feel delighted that you now have=20 > e-mail facility. I am sure this will go a long way to ease=20 > communication. I look forward to access your direct address. =20 > Any personal mails for me can be sent to: MAE96AB@wye.ac.uk > Best regards!!!! >=20 > A. Bittaye. >=20 >=20
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:45:18 -0400 From: Ceesay Soffie <Ceesay_Soffie@ems.prc.com> To: "'gambia-l@u.washington.edu'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: First Ladies Club !!! Message-ID: <C69DB1B2BFFBCF11B5D3000000000001012C06@Cry1.prc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain
Madiba, welcome back!!!! Miss your contributions.
Peace - Ya Soffie
> ---------- > From: madiba saidy[SMTP:msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 1997 4:19PM > To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List > Subject: First Ladies Club !!! > > Ya Sophie, Jabou and Ancha, > > Sorry for not responding to your postings about the first > ladies...nothing > personal, I've just been busy attending conferences and training a new > grad. student in my Lab., hence my long silence. > > Y'all have a good weekend. > > Madiba. > -- > ********************************************************************** > **** > ** Madiba Saidy > ** > ** Surface and Interface analysis and reactivity division > ** > ** Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) > ** > ** The University of British Columbia > ** > ** Vancouver. > ** > ********************************************************************** > **** > > >
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:48:08 +0900 (JST) From: binta@iuj.ac.jp To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <199707111342.WAA02166@mlsv.iuj.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Dr. Saho,
Thanks for giving us a more balanced view on the Migration stuff. Since Tombong posted his version, I have always wondered why such an institution could be so generous. You explanation shed more light on what could have been an embarrassing situation for those who would have ventured to apply. Doctor, we need people like you in our midst.
Lamin Drammeh.
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:50:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> To: <Gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: HIV/GAMBIA/SENEGAL Message-ID: <199707111350.PAA14462@online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Andrea
Thanks for your concern my boy is healthy and ok. I was very busy in preparation of the 5th European Conference on HIv/AIDS which i am co-ordinating due to Norway is host country this year. I read your todays mail and the attached articles with amusement, Jabou, Lat, Momodou,Ylva and Lamin. As HIV/AID is a very sensitive issue it is not always been discussed as a subject of concern but stigmatising and isolation. It is very difficult to find a Gambian/Senegalese to admit their HIV/AIDS status. One they will be stigmatised as the black sheep and for women it worse the first thought of the mind is prostitution. Then the isolation comes or the self isolation to be discovered.
We should be very care of jumping into the conclusion sex when we happened to know one who is been infected with HIV. The risk of transmission could be Blood transfusion, Perinatal, Sexual Intercourse, Injecting Drugs, Health Care, Household and many other.
In the Gambia out of 29, 670 test, 1.7 % are found hiv positive, and Vertical transmission (mother to child) out of 322 test 5.3 % are found HIV-positive. This test were just conducted in 1994 - 1996. The over all number of HIv postive in the Gambia since the begining of the epedemi is almost 2000. AIDS cases reported to the World health organisation for the Gambia is 410 cases by july 1996. As for Senegal the number of AIDS cases reported to the World Health Organisation is 1, 573 as the same period as Gambia july 1996. The HIV cases in Senegal is as high approx. 6000, 1996.
As today is friday and weekends i will be going into our database, tomorrow feed you with more information. The yearly reports comes every 6 months that means to say statistics reports comes in january and july.
I will be writing on some dilemmmas of the Virus in the Gambia and the trenches of infection, safe sex or safer sex.
I agreed with Lat that any level of infecton is bad.
A nice weeked to all you
With kind regards
Omar S. Saho, KONSULENT Ullevaal University Hospital Dept. for STD & HIV OSLO, Norway
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:55:09 +0900 (JST) From: binta@iuj.ac.jp To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. Message-ID: <199707111349.WAA02236@mlsv.iuj.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Now that Dr. Manneh of Gambia College has joined the List, perhaps he will be interested in some of the discussions we had about education in the Gambia, and about Asbjorn's pledge.
Welcome on board all new members. Madiba, we missed you! BTW, does anyone know the whereabouts of List veterans Morro Ceesay, Famara Sanyang, and the others 'at large'? I miss their insightful views.
Lamin.
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Date: 11 Jul 1997 14:49:58 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: DEVELOPMENT: German Agency Taking To Third World Know-how Message-ID: <624033758.198852319@inform-bbs.dk>
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*** 07-Jul-97 ***
Title: DEVELOPMENT: German Agency Taking To Third World Know-how
By Ramesh Jaura
BONN, Jul 7 (IPS) - Germany is making more use of local know-how in its development cooperation projects in the countries of central and eastern Europe and the developing world.
Some 6,500 persons -- 1,459 of them in senior and supervisory positions and other as supporting staff -- were working last year in about 2,750 projects launched by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in 135 countries worldwide.
As available German resources for official development assistance continue to shrink, these locally resourced projects are seen as a key means of meeting Germany's strategic commitments to sustainable development and global human security.
The projects themselves range from poverty alleviation schemes and programmes to integrate soldiers into civilian life, to support for the building of an independent judiciary.
By last year four local staff were being recruited for every one German expert taken on by the GTZ -- the agency charged by the German federal ministry of economic cooperation and development (BMZ) to execute projects in the field of technical cooperatio n.
''We do not plan or evaluate a project without involving local or regional experts who are well-versed in (its) cultural and socio-economic impact,'' says Bernd Eisenblaetter, senior director- general of the GTZ. This is a significant plank of capacity de velopment policy in the partner countries, he adds.
According to an official report, the number of persons recruited locally last year was up by 2.9 percent on the previous year when nearly 6,320 specialists were engaged in projects implemented in the countries, regions or neighbouring continents of their origin.
This was nearly four times the number of German experts dispatched last year to supervise projects in 45 countries in Africa, 28 in Asia and the Middle East, 23 in Caribbean and Latin America, and some 20 in central and eastern Europe as well as the form er Soviet republics.
The report, published recently, cites A.P. Munshi, director of the Tanzanian Association of Consultants (TACO), who, it says, underscores the credo of Bonn's aid policy: ''Foreign experts can supplement the local know-how, they cannot substitute it.''
Last year 34 out of 656 German experts and consultants in Africa were based in Tanzania, which ranked second behind Egypt that headed the list with 41. Kenya (31), Burkina Faso and Morocco (28), Zimbabwe (27), Malawi (26) and Ghana (24) trailed behind.
In Asia and the Middle East, where altogether 489 German experts were deployed, Indonesia hosted the largest number (59), followed by Saudi Arabia (51), China (37), India (36) and Thailand (32). Five German experts were deployed in the Palestinian self-r ule areas.
The new GTZ official report highlights the Philippines as a successful example of its policy of deploying regional experts. The agency's five-man team implementing a forestry project is led by Navin K. Rai from Nepal, who previously managed a similar pro ject back home.
Countries in the Caribbean and Latin America were hosting 224 German experts, 26 of whom were based in Brazil, 18 in Guatemala, 17 in Honduras and 16 each in El Salvador and Nicaragua, 15 in Peru and 14 each in Bolivia and Colombia.
Russia had the largest number of German experts, 15 out of the 66 working in the former Soviet republics and central and eastern Europe.
But there are situations when no adequate local know-how is available, a local or regional expert confronts plain resistance or his advice falls on deaf ears of a partner country government. In such cases, it is advisable to appoint a German expert to su pervise a project.
For instance, there was no alternative to dispatching foreign legal experts to countries such as Rwanda and some others in South America. They were required to help build up independent judiciary and other democratic structures in the wake of the end of protracted and bloody civil wars.
But then there are also cases where the partner countries wish to have German experts. Besides oil producing states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) buy German know-how to train local experts.
The GTZ was set up in 1975 to implement projects of technical assistance within the framework of Germany's economic cooperation with the developing lands of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Since 1991, after the unification of Germany and the end of cold war, the autonomous agency owned by the federal German government, has been widening its field of activities to central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.
''Development policy in the next century will by no means be confined to financial transfers to our partner countries,'' says Wighard Haerdtl, state secretary in the ministry of economic cooperation and development, who also heads the board of directors
of the GTZ, based in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main. (END/IPS/RAJ/RJ/97)
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Date: 11 Jul 1997 14:47:39 GMT From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Fwd: WEST AFRICA: Nigerians Learn How to Talk to their Neighbours Message-ID: <1989214174.198852025@inform-bbs.dk>
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*** 07-Jul-97 ***
Title: WEST AFRICA: Nigerians Learn How to Talk to their Neighbours
By Remi Oyo
LAGOS, Jul 7 (IPS) -- Although Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, for years it has been an isolated nation surrounded by French-speaking neighbours such as Niger, Chad, Benin and Cameroon.
As the current chair of the 16-nation Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS), General Sani Abacha has decided that it is time for Nigerians to learn to speak to their neighbours, and has called for a vigorous French language programme in the country.
''Because of the differences in the language we inherited from our colonial masters, there has been a vacuum in communications with our neighbours,'' Abacha said earlier this year.
''We in Nigeria must re-examine, re-assess our circumstances as a nation, and our circumstances as a people. It is in our interest to learn French,'' the Nigerian leader said.
Abacha also said that this language gap had undermined the realisation of the regional aspirations and goals of Nigeria and its neighbours within ECOWAS. Nine of ECOWAS members are French- speaking.
''These French-speaking countries are our kith and kin...Nigeria will embark on a vigorous language programme that should ensure that our people within the shortest possible time become bilingual,'' Abacha said.
Nigerian government officials are beginning to translate Abacha's statement into an official policy to make French compulsory in all Nigerian schools.
According to Bruni Aguesse, linguistic attache at the French Embassy here, the federal government has approached France for help.
''We are already speaking with the Ministry of Education (in the federal capital territory) about assistance for the training of teachers and installation of pre-requisite requirements,'' Aguesse told IPS. ''We have signed seven (similar) agreements with different states...''
Nigerians out of the school system can study the language at the eight 'Alliance Francaise' centres scattered across the country, with the newest one in the eastern city of Owerri.
A novel approach to teaching French in this West African country has been the course offered in the 'Nigerian Tribune', one of the national newspapers, which began in June.
The paper promised: ''We shall take you through the study of the French language. If in six months you cannot converse with the French President Jacques Chirac, then you didn't read the 'Tribune'.''
Biodun Oduwole, editor-in-chief of the newspaper, told IPS that the paper had taken the stance, because Nigerians ''generally become ostracised at international levels'' when they only converse in English.
''Nigerians are generally uncomfortable and absolutely incapable of conversing in any language other than English,'' Oduwole said in a telephone interview from his base in Ibadan, 120kms north of here.
Oduwole related his experience at the March meeting of the International Press Institute (IPI) in Spain. ''I had a personal experience at the IPI conference in Spain where our Spanish colleagues spoke little English and I spoke no Spanish. It was only the smatterings of French that I could muster that helped us through simple transactions,'' Oduwole said.
''That situation can be replicated in other encounters by other Nigerians. In addition, when the Head of State announced the need for Nigerians to become bilingual, the 'Tribune' thought it was good for us to start preparing grounds with our readers,'' the newspaper's editor-in-chief said.
Reactions to the newspaper's French course have been ''absolutely marvellous and fantastic'', Oduwole said citing a 10 percent increase in the sales of the newspaper when the course runs on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The paper's daily circulation is more than 100,000 copies, he told IPS.
The reponse to the French language course, Oduwole added, has ''encouraged us to take the decision that by the 20th lesson, a translation of a substantial portion of the newspaper's major news stories will be carried also in French''. Readers' feedback in French will also be encouraged.
Ade Ojo, a professor of French, said there is a need for more French teachers in Nigeria, and for those already teaching the language to make it interesting.
Ojo disclosed at the celebration of the French Day last week that Nigeria needs about 35,000 teachers to achieve a meaningful spread of the language. Statistics reveal that the current number of French teachers is a third of this figure. (end/ips/ro/pm97)
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:34:51 -0700 From: sarian@osmosys.incog.com (Sarian Loum) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <199707111734.KAA00965@thesky.incog.com>
Omar,
Thank you for clarifying things. I knew there had to be another side of Tombong's propaganda cause that was too good to be true and thats why I didn't take heed given that it came from him. I do not take Tombong's postings seriously (hes lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned) because theres always hidden agenda, misleading & lack of factual evidence in his postings.
Tombong - please do us a favor and present information as it is and stop the B.S., but then again thats asking you to be a different person. Please use this forum for what it was intended to be and not to suit your political career/needs. That is very unappreciative.
cheers,
sarian
> From olafia@online.no Fri Jul 11 04:26:36 1997 > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:22:45 +0200 (MET DST) > From: Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> > To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > Subject: IOM > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-To: <Gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > X-Authentication-Warning: pilt.online.no: Host ti01a05-0019.dialup.online.no [130.67.1.83] didn't use HELO protocol > X-Sender: olafia@online.no (Unverified) > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > Tombong > > That was a very nice and one sided piece aboout IOM. The IOM is an advising > organ for governments of developed countries on migrants than of what you > wrote. IOM is also responsible for the advising og the above mention > governments concerning Migration and Health especially on refugees and > asylumseekers. This is an institution of the IOM and it is called the > INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH. (ICMH). This is a type > of civilised repatriation from the IOM. ICHM is a joint venture created by > IOM and the University of Geneva with the support of the World Health > Organisation (WHO) The centre aims to improve the health of migrants, > refugees and asylumseekers in their country of settlement, by easing the > process of adapting to a new society and decreasing the social cost caused > by the preventable disease. excess of disablity, and the effects of > maladjustment. ICMH will carry out its work in close association with > governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions. Close collaboration > with governments is to give information of your health especially HIV and to > reduce social cost is to repatriate you through IOM. > > They review available information on migrants and refugee health in > selected group of receiving countries. This survey will provide insight as > to what kind of migrant and refugee health information is available to > national authorities for planning and evaluation purposes.When it happens > that you are HIV positive then plans for repatriation is on the desk > organise by the IOM. These surveys starts from the refugee camps and the aim > of the studie is follow the migrants to their new countries. In the matter > of Hiv the west is more sophisticated than were the migrants and refugees > came from. There are also some positive sides of the ICMH. > > I am neither dicouraging or advising anyone not what you desired but i want > to throw a little bit of light on the subject. > > Next time Tombong give all the bit of it but not the littlE bit. > > With kind regards > > Omar S. Saho, KONSULENT > Ullevaal University Hospital > Dept. for STD and HIV > NORWAY > > > >
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 13:53:10 EDT From: "Numukunda Darboe(Mba)" <ndarboe@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu> To: "The Gambia and Related Issues Mailng List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: Introduction of new member Habib Dia Message-ID: <ndarboe.1219031230A@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu>
Hello Guys, any comments and ideas on this?
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From: hghanim@nusacc.org To: ndarboe Subject: RE: Introduction of new member Habib Dia
Thanks Mr. Darboe I think it is a great idea for this group to try and get the businessmen get more confidence to invest in the Gambia in the positive fields of commerce . We have enough hotels and some in the entertainment industry . It may be a good idea to get a priority list of our needs in the gambia as the first step then proceed from there . I can coordinate that since that is what I do at the Chamber of Commerce. Any suggestions or comments Habib
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Welcome aboard Mr. Diab.
Hopefully you will find this Bantaba resourceful, and we are looking forward to your contributions.
Numukunda
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:56:41 +-300 From: BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: "'gambia-l@u.washington.edu'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: HIV/GAMBIA/SENEGAL Message-ID: <01BC8E44.7416C1A0@dikh.qatar.net.qa>
Doc! Welcome back! and thanks for the Med Info about the Senegambian Region.And keep up the good work down there!
Regards Bassss!
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Andrea
Thanks for your concern my boy is healthy and ok. I was very busy in preparation of the 5th European Conference on HIv/AIDS which i am co-ordinating due to Norway is host country this year. I read your todays mail and the attached articles with amusement, Jabou, Lat, Momodou,Ylva and Lamin. As HIV/AID is a very sensitive issue it is not always been discussed as a subject of concern but stigmatising and isolation. It is very difficult to find a Gambian/Senegalese to admit their HIV/AIDS status. One they will be stigmatised as the black sheep and for women it worse the first thought of the mind is prostitution. Then the isolation comes or the self isolation to be discovered.
We should be very care of jumping into the conclusion sex when we happened to know one who is been infected with HIV. The risk of transmission could be Blood transfusion, Perinatal, Sexual Intercourse, Injecting Drugs, Health Care, Household and many other.
In the Gambia out of 29, 670 test, 1.7 % are found hiv positive, and Vertical transmission (mother to child) out of 322 test 5.3 % are found HIV-positive. This test were just conducted in 1994 - 1996. The over all number of HIv postive in the Gambia since the begining of the epedemi is almost 2000. AIDS cases reported to the World health organisation for the Gambia is 410 cases by july 1996. As for Senegal the number of AIDS cases reported to the World Health Organisation is 1, 573 as the same period as Gambia july 1996. The HIV cases in Senegal is as high approx. 6000, 1996.
As today is friday and weekends i will be going into our database, tomorrow feed you with more information. The yearly reports comes every 6 months that means to say statistics reports comes in january and july.
I will be writing on some dilemmmas of the Virus in the Gambia and the trenches of infection, safe sex or safer sex.
I agreed with Lat that any level of infecton is bad.
A nice weeked to all you
With kind regards
Omar S. Saho, KONSULENT Ullevaal University Hospital Dept. for STD & HIV OSLO, Norway
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:57:30 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: Sarian Loum <sarian@osmosys.incog.com> Cc: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>, ; Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970711114228.28965A-100000@netinfo2.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Ms. Loum,
With all due respect, don't you think you are a little bit harsh on Tombong?? All the guy did is forward second-hand info. which we all do. Are you now advocating that whoever intends to forward info. to the list should do a thorough research adout it...know all the details etc before hitting the send key?
He afterall provided some contact addresses which anyone interested could have reached for further details. This is what I did after replying his mail, 'cos it did sound too good for it to be real.
I don't see any propaganda in his posting, perhaps I don't have "trained" eyes.
As for Dr. Saho, thanks a lot for clarity...but why add "Next time give all the bit of it not the little bit"? What if it is only the little bit he has to offer.
Cheers,
Madiba.
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Sarian Loum wrote:
> Omar, > > Thank you for clarifying things. I knew there had to be another side of Tombong's propaganda cause that was too good to be true and thats why I didn't take heed given that it came from him. I do not take Tombong's postings seriously (hes lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned) because theres always hidden agenda, misleading & lack of factual evidence in his postings. > > Tombong - please do us a favor and present information as it is and stop the B.S., but then again thats asking you to be a different person. Please use this forum for what it was intended to be and not to suit your political career/needs. That is very unappreciative. > > cheers, > > sarian > > > > > From olafia@online.no Fri Jul 11 04:26:36 1997 > > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:22:45 +0200 (MET DST) > > From: Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> > > To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > > Subject: IOM > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > X-To: <Gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > > X-Authentication-Warning: pilt.online.no: Host ti01a05-0019.dialup.online.no [130.67.1.83] didn't use HELO protocol > > X-Sender: olafia@online.no (Unverified) > > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > > > Tombong > > > > That was a very nice and one sided piece aboout IOM. The IOM is an advising > > organ for governments of developed countries on migrants than of what you > > wrote. IOM is also responsible for the advising og the above mention > > governments concerning Migration and Health especially on refugees and > > asylumseekers. This is an institution of the IOM and it is called the > > INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH. (ICMH). This is a type > > of civilised repatriation from the IOM. ICHM is a joint venture created by > > IOM and the University of Geneva with the support of the World Health > > Organisation (WHO) The centre aims to improve the health of migrants, > > refugees and asylumseekers in their country of settlement, by easing the > > process of adapting to a new society and decreasing the social cost caused > > by the preventable disease. excess of disablity, and the effects of > > maladjustment. ICMH will carry out its work in close association with > > governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions. Close collaboration > > with governments is to give information of your health especially HIV and to > > reduce social cost is to repatriate you through IOM. > > > > They review available information on migrants and refugee health in > > selected group of receiving countries. This survey will provide insight as > > to what kind of migrant and refugee health information is available to > > national authorities for planning and evaluation purposes.When it happens > > that you are HIV positive then plans for repatriation is on the desk > > organise by the IOM. These surveys starts from the refugee camps and the aim > > of the studie is follow the migrants to their new countries. In the matter > > of Hiv the west is more sophisticated than were the migrants and refugees > > came from. There are also some positive sides of the ICMH. > > > > I am neither dicouraging or advising anyone not what you desired but i want > > to throw a little bit of light on the subject. > > > > Next time Tombong give all the bit of it but not the littlE bit. > > > > With kind regards > > > > Omar S. Saho, KONSULENT > > Ullevaal University Hospital > > Dept. for STD and HIV > > NORWAY > > > > > > > > >
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:26:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "N'Deye Marie N'Jie" <njie.1@osu.edu> To: africans@iastate.edu, gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: AE-CHAIRS> Research positions (fwd) Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970711152422.307f41a6@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:39:38 -0400 (EDT) >>To: fabegrad@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu >Subject: AE-CHAIRS> Research positions > >>Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 09:56:58 -0700 >>From: bmjenkins@ucdavis.edu (Jenkins) >>Subject: AE-CHAIRS> Research positions >>>To: ae-chairs@maat.reeusda.gov >> >>Following are two position descriptions, one for a post-graduate researcher >>(PGR), the other for a graduate student research assistant (RA). I would >>appreciate your forwarding these to anyone who you think might be >>interested/qualified for these positions. Thanks very much! >> >>Bryan >> >> >> >>***************************************************************************** >>POSITION DESCRIPTION >>Post-Graduate Researcher >> >>Department: Biological and Agricultural Engineering >> >>Project Title: Harvesting and Handling Rice Straw for Off-Field Utilization >> >>Background: USDA is funding a study of harvesting and handling >>practices to improve the costs associated with the acquisition and >>utilization of rice straw. California legislation mandates a reduction in >>the amount of straw that may be open burned for disposal, and growers are >>eagerly searching for alternative straw applications. The major objectives >>of the project are 1) to characterize the current capabilities, costs, and >>constraints in harvesting and handling rice straw as a resource for >>commercial products and energy, and 2) to investigate alternative handling >>strategies for straw, and evaluate specialized equipment and system >>designs. The project was proposed as a five year study, and is currently >>funded for the first year. >> >>Responsibilities: The primary responsibility of the position in the >>first year is to carry out an assessment of the current state-of-the-art in >>rice straw harvesting, handling, and utilization. This includes conducting >>an in-depth literature review of straw and related crop harvesting >>techniques; conducting a survey of farmers, custom operators, and >>industries involved in off-field handling or utilization of rice straw; >>carrying out time and motion studies of actual straw harvesting operations; >>compiling data for use in economic and GIS models to evaluate costs and >>impacts of off-field utilization. The work also involves working with >>graduate students and other project team members supporting these and other >>parts of the project. >> >>Qualifications: PhD or MS degree in engineering or related field. Ability >>to work with industry personnel. Good written, verbal, and interpersonal >>communication skills needed. Experience with literature reviews and report >>and proposal preparation. Knowledge of machine design and computer >>programming, especially spreadsheets. Desire to conduct field work. >>California Drivers License must be obtained. Familiarity with engineering >>economic analyses and GIS strongly desirable. >> >>Salary: $30,528-33,276/year commensurate with qualifications, plus >>benefits. Funding past the first year dependent on successful conduct of >>first year effort and submittal of proposal for continuing effort. >> >>Available: Immediately >> >>To apply Contact: >> Bryan M. Jenkins, Professor >> Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering >> University of California >> Davis, CA 95616-5294 >> phone: 916 752 1422 fax: 916 752 2640 >> email: bmjenkins@ucdavis.edu >> >>The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity >>employer, with a strong institutional commitment to the development of a >>climate that supports equality of opportunity and respect for differences >>based on gender, cultural ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation. In >>that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from >>individuals who would enhance the diversity of our workforce. >>***************************************************************************** >> >>***************************************************************************** >>POSITION DESCRIPTION >>Graduate Research Assistant >> >>Department: Biological and Agricultural Engineering >> >>Project Title: Harvesting and Handling Rice Straw for Off-Field Utilization >> >>Background: USDA is funding a study of harvesting and handling >>practices to improve the costs associated with the acquisition and >>utilization of rice straw. California legislation mandates a reduction in >>the amount of straw that may be open burned for disposal, and growers are >>eagerly searching for alternative straw applications. The major objectives >>of the project are 1) to characterize the current capabilities, costs, and >>constraints in harvesting and handling rice straw as a resource for >>commercial products and energy, and 2) to investigate alternative handling >>strategies for straw, and evaluate specialized equipment and system >>designs. The project was proposed as a five year study, and is currently >>funded for the first year. >> >>Responsibilities: Primary responsibility is to develop a geographic >>information system (GIS) model incorporating major rice producing regions >>and transportation networks in California to be used in projecting costs of >>large-scale straw handling operations and identifying potential >>infrastructural and environmental impacts. Assist in preparation of an >>in-depth literature review of straw and related crop harvesting techniques >>and in conducting a survey of farmers, custom operators, and industries >>involved in off-field handling or utilization of rice straw. Occasional >>field work to support other efforts of the project may be required. >> >>Qualifications: Must enroll as graduate student at University of >>California, Davis. Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication >>skills needed. Familiarity with GIS strongly desirable. >> >>Salary: $15,772/year. In-state fees paid by project. Funding past the >>first year dependent on successful conduct of first year effort and >>submittal of proposal for continuing effort. >> >>Available: Immediately >> >>To apply Contact: >> Bryan M. Jenkins, Professor >> Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering >> University of California >> Davis, CA 95616-5294 >> phone: 916 752 1422 fax: 916 752 2640 >> email: bmjenkins@ucdavis.edu >> >>The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity >>employer, with a strong institutional commitment to the development of a >>climate that supports equality of opportunity and respect for differences >>based on gender, cultural ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation. In >>that spirit, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from >>individuals who would enhance the diversity of our workforce. >>***************************************************************************** >> >>----------------------------------***--***---------------------------- >>Bryan M. Jenkins, Professor |phone 916 752 1422 >>Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept. |fax 916 752 2640 >>University of California | >>Davis, CA 95616 |bmjenkins@ucdavis.edu >> >> >> >> > > >
----------------------------------- N'Deye Marie N'Jie Graduate Research Associate The Ohio State University Rm 260 Agricultural Engineering Bldg 590 Woody Hayes Drive Columbus, OH 43210
Fax: (614)292-9448 Phone: (614) 688-3445 (W) E-mail: njie.1@osu.edu
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:50:44 -0400 (EDT) From: TSaidy1050@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <970711185043_41276622@emout11.mail.aol.com>
Gambia-l,
I will try to be providing a weekly news summary on The Gambia. The news summary will be mainly based on what the Newspapers reported. I will try to be as regular in this matter as possible.
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL FORMED
The National Security Council and the Armed forces Council have been formed as required by the Constitution. The Members were sworn in at the State House yesterday, Thursday, July 10th, 1997.
National Security Council
1. Chairperson- H.E. Mrs Isatou Njie-Saidy, The Vice- President 2.Hon. Major Momodou Bojang (Rte) - Secretary of State for Interior 3. Lt. Colonel Momodou Badjie 4. Lt. Colonel Samsudeen Sarr 5. Mr. Famara I. Jammeh - Inspector General of Police 6. Mr. Samba Bah - Director General of the NIA
The Armed Forces Council
1. Chairperson- H.E. Mrs Isatou Njie-Saidy, The Vice- President 2. Colonel Baboucarr Jatta-Commander of Gambia National Army 3. Capt. Momodou Sarr - Marine Unit 4. Mr. Omar Abdoulie Njie Barrow- Permanent Secretary, Dept. of Defence
THE FIRST LADY TO LAUNCH FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
The First Lady has started a nation wide tour on Tuesday, July 8th, to meet with Gambian women in the provinces and to discuss how her foundation can help in empowering them. The organisation which is to be launched July 18, 1997, will be called Foundation for Women's Socio-Economic Advancement.
The details on the Foundation such as aims and objectives will be provided to list as soon as it is available.
NO REVOLT AT MILE 2 PRISONS, SAYS SOS BOJANG
There has been a rumour in town that there was a revolt by the prisoners at the Central Prisons, Mile 2, and that there were some fatalities. This was also reported by the press and in response to this The Secretary of State for Interior, Hon. Major Momodou Bojang (Rte), called a News Conference on Wednesday, July 9, 1997.
He denied every thing that was reported particularly the fact that one Omar Njie was killed. Omar Njie was well and alive, and has been transferred to Janjanburey Prisons. He challenged the reporters to go visit him to verify his statement.
The prison was raided following a tip-off about drug trafficking. Some drugs were found plus other contrabands, and as a result the Commissioner of Prisons, Modou Ceesay, was retired. In fact some prisoners were enjoying prisons as if they were living in a five star hotel, according the Hon. Bojang. He said some a prisoner had a cellular phone and was making international calls.
FOOTBALL NEWS Real de Banjul football Club won both the FA Cup and the League. They also won the Super Cub. They won Hawks 1-0 in the FA finals last week.
NEW MAYOR FOR BANJUL
Mr Samba Faal, the former Town Clerk, has been made the Mayor of Banjul, and he will man that post until the local government elections. The elections are expected to take place sometime in 19998.
NEW AMBASSADOR FOR THE US
Mr. Crispin Gray-Johnson has been appointed as the new Gambian Ambassador to the US, and he will be coming to Washington sometimes next Month.
Peace Tombong
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:53:21 -0400 (EDT) From: TSaidy1050@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Introduction of new member Habib Diab Gh Message-ID: <970711185316_1690790607@emout13.mail.aol.com>
Welcome Habib, i am sure you will contribute a lot in this cyber bantaba.
Peace Tombong Saidy
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:16:57 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Jobs at the HIID (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970711161254.5520B-100000@netinfo2.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Netters,
This might be of interest to some of you.
Good luck and have a great weekend!!
Madiba. **************************************************************************
HIID is Harvard University's principal center for research, teaching, and policy advising related to developing and transitional economies. Harvard University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Note: Positions fall under two categories: Academic and Administrative. Within these categories, recent positions are listed first. The letters "S.I.C.." at the end of the job description indicate that there is a strong internal candidate (a current Harvard staff member) in consideration for this position. Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer. See Harvard University Home Page for salary range and additional job opportunities.
Position Title: Ethiopia, Public Investment Program Specialist, Project Associate
Requisition #: 74658
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills: M.A. in economics or M.B.A. in finance or related degree. Experience with public investment programs in developing countries required. Knowledge of project cycle components including identification, design, appraisal, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation required. Four years of experience in developing countries, preferably in Africa, highly desirable. Experience in project appraisal and establishing project appraisal units within developing countries desired. Fluency in English required.
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Public investment program specialist serves on a two year project in a developing country setting. Assists both the central and regional governments in establishing a public investment program. Advises the government in the policies and procedures for implementing a public investment program.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Ethpip, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Slovakia, Senior Environmental Health Advisor, C4EP Project, Project Associate
Requisition #: 74576
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills: Master's degree or Ph.D. in public health, preferably with specialization in environmental health, occupational health, or industrial hygiene with five years' relevant experience required. Developing country experience, demonstrated project management skills and expertise in environmental risk assessment and management required. Experience in the development of educational programs and professional certification programs in environmental health, or industrial hygiene preferred. Experience in community health promotion programs desirable.
Duties and Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. The advisor is responsible for implementation of environmental risk assessment and health programs as part of Central and Eastern European Environmental Economics and Policy Project (C4EP) team in Bratislava, Slovakia. The advisor manages the environmental risk assessment and management/community health promotion demonstration project; coordinates development of professional education programs and curriculum materials in environmental health, occupational health, and industrial hygiene, and integration of those programs and materials into the existing medical education system in Slovakia. Position is located in Bratislava, one hour from Vienna.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Slovaenv, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Ethiopia, Accounting Specialist, Project Associate
Requisition #: 74253
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills: Master's in accounting or related degree, MBA or Ph.D. preferred. Experience with government accounting systems, particularly single entry systems and modified single entry systems required. Experience with accrual on accounts payable and receivable without a closed balance sheet highly desirable. Experience in Ministry of Finance in developing country desired. Experience with accounting systems, particularly former British systems, a plus. Fluency in English required.
Duties & Responsibilities: Assists a two year project in lesser developed country on tasks related to developing policies, regulations, formats, and procedures required to strengthen expenditure control systems in central ministries and regional governments.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Ethacct, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu
Position Title: Palestine, Chief of Party, Technical Assistance to the Palestinian Health Authority (TAPHA) Project, Project Associate
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Requisition #: 74A88
Hours Per Week FTE: Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills:
Graduate degree in public health, preferably in health management, planning or economics with 10 years experience managing public health projects or systems in developing countries required. Extensive experience with health policy reform, negotiations skills with ministries of health, and project management required. Experience with economics and financing at primary and secondary health care levels; health services organization and management; policy research; health management information systems; and pharmaceutical production desired. Middle East experience or fluency in Arabic preferred, but candidates with significant health project management in developing countries considered. Willingness to reside in Middle East for 1.5 years.
Duties/Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Responsibilities include; mobilizing local and expatriate consultants; coordinating technical activities; defining public sector role; designing and implementing health insurance, cost-containment, and efficiency of health services; developing health management information systems; harmonizing the MOH with UNWRA/NGO health services; and improving care quality. Manages TAPHA project research activities and leads technical area.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment -Palcop2, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, or Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Mozambique, Sustainable Capacity Building and Economic Decision-Making, Project Associates
Requisition #: 77409, 74410, 74411
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills: HIID seeks candidates with a Ph.D. in economics, finance, or other relevant degree with substantial experience in developing countries. Familiarity with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and multi-sector experience required. Successful experience in advising governments of developing countries is a desired asset. Experience with macroeconomic modeling, information systems, or central bank or finance is highly desirable. Fluency in Portuguese is strongly preferred. Project start up likely in early 1997.
Duties & Responsibilities: HIID is undertaking a five-year strategic economic advisory and capacity building project in Mozambique. A four person advisory team will work with a counterpart team from the Ministry of Planning and Finance. The advisors work on economic and financial issues in areas including: development of a comprehensive and effective strategy for a rapid economic growth; the Government of Mozambique's (GoM) response to requests and requirements of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and other donors; the GoM's management, restructure, and reduction of external debt obligations; developing a program for the sale of treasury bills; devising a program of tax reform; enhancing the GoM's program of privatization and regulatory simplification; and advising the GoM on promoting production for exports and dealing with liberalized trade in southern Africa (including tariff restructuring).
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Mozambique, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Institute Associate\Policy Fellow: Education
Requisition #: 74126
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week : Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills: Must have Ph.D. in education or related discipline (anthropology, economics, political science, or sociology), demonstrated interest in problems of education in developing countries, and prior field experience. Minimum five years experience analyzing policy and program issues in developing countries; high quality publications; ability to communicate analytic concepts to students and senior policy-makers; a capacity and continued willingness to develop and manage overseas advisory and training projects and undertake extensive overseas residence and/or travel desirable. May require Spanish language ability and Latin America experience.
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Plays a leading role in research, teaching and overseas activities, including managing and administrating overseas projects; transmitting field experience to the Harvard community and involving faculty in overseas projects; undertaking overseas travel to develop and manage overseas projects and advise developing country institutions; and participating in policy and personnel decisions. Terms are up to five years with consideration for promotion to fellow. Works on Cambridge and overseas projects.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Ediapf, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Health Economist: Development Associate or Institute Associate
Requisition #: 64842
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Education, Experience, Skills: This position will either be a development associate or institute associate appointment, dependent upon a candidate's background and qualifications. A development associate is a one to five year appointment with the possibility of promotion. Institute associate is a career appointment with an initial three year term. In both positions time is divided between overseas service and periods of research, project management, and possibly teaching at Harvard University. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in health economics with experience in economic evaluation of health programs and interventions in developing countries. Experience in health care finance, health insurance, and sustainability necessary. Skills in project management and implementation, analysis, writing, and publications of related issues required. Fluency in French or Spanish is highly desirable. Familiarity with donor agencies and organizations providing assistance in international health also desirable.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Hltheco, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Associate
Requisition #:
Salary Grade: 90
Hiring Range: DOE
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills: Applicants are required to have: a Ph.D. in either agriculture, anthropology, economics, education, environment, health, macro economics, micro finance, money and banking, political economy, political science, population, public policy, sociology, or urban development with a central concern for developing countries. Desired, but not required are: at least five years of experience carrying out analyses of policy and program issues in developing countries; a record of high quality publications; a demonstrated capacity to communicate analytic concepts to students and senior policy makers alike; a demonstrated ability to develop and manage overseas advisory and training projects; and, a demonstrated capacity and continued willingness to undertake extensive overseas residence and/or travel.
Duties & Responsibilities: The Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) seeks associates in international development fields. Positions are for terms of up to five years and involve work in Cambridge and in HIID projects overseas. HIID associates play a leading role in the research, teaching and overseas activities of the institute, including management and administration of the overseas projects. They are responsible for transmitting field experience to the Harvard community and involving Harvard faculty in overseas projects. Associates are expected to undertake substantial overseas travel in connection with their responsibilities for developing and managing the institute's overseas projects and acting as advisors to developing country institutions.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Humandevas, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: International Environment Program, Director's Staff Assistant III
Requisition #: 73370
Salary Grade: 8
Hiring Range: $25,104-$30,720 Hours Per Week: Full Time
Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills: Candidates must have a H.S. diploma, college preferred; 3+ yrs. related experience. Excellent organizational, prioritization, time management, detail orientation, interpersonal communication, judgement, editorial, proofreading and phone skills needed for fast paced deadline driven program. Ability to work independently and as a team player while under pressure; ability to follow through on complex projects. Knowledge of WordPerfect, Microsoft Word for Windows, E-mail, and PageMaker essential. Experience with Lotus 1-2- 3/Filemaker Pro/Paradox helpful. Keyboarding 60+ wpm. Overtime hours after 5:00pm required.
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Seeking a candidate to be the primary assistant to the IEP Director. Serves as first information contact for all internal and external inquiries. Responsible for: daily activities, heavy telephone traffic, filing, faxing, typing correspondence, reports, and manuscripts; preparation of expense reports/internal forms. Arranges domestic/international travel; tracks voluminous overseas communications and schedules vital to project work. Supervises student assistant(s). Serves as liaison when Director travels abroad. Assists in organizing meetings, workshops, research projects and performs related job duties when needed.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Sa3env, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)495-8190, or Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu
Positing Title: International Environment Program, Staff Assistant II
Requisition #: 72302
Salary Grade: 6
Hiring Range: $1776-2176 month
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills: High school diploma required; college degree preferred. Minimum 1-2 years office experience; must have excellent telephone, interpersonal and organizational skills; ability to handle several tasks simultaneously; knowledge of Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and database software (Paradox preferred); efficient and accurate keyboarding and data entry skills (55wpm); experience using E-mail strongly preferred. Ability to work independently and with others, prioritize multiple tasks, exercise good judgement, and take initiative. Knowledge of Central/Eastern European language desirable
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Reports to project administrator of Central and Eastern Europe Environmental Economics and Policy Project. As a member of International Environment Program team, is responsible for filing, faxing, photocopying, and complex distribution of mail in a fast -paced environment. Maintains current contact information on overseas project staff members; prepares weekly courier pouches to overseas advisors; word processes short documents; monitors the submission of field accounting reports; answers voluminous telephone/in-person inquiries; sends/receives orders for supplies and publications; coordinates office equipment maintenance. Performs related duties as required.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment Sa2env, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)495-8190, or Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu
Position Title: International Environment Program, Technical Secretary
Requisition #: 73362
Salary Grade: 9
Hiring Range: $2268-$2778 month
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills: H.S. diploma required; 2+ years office/technical production experience; excellent organizational, time-management, editorial, and communication skills. Ability to work well under pressure on complex, multiple projects with attention to detail, independence, and professionalism essential. Superior PC desktop publishing, Excel, and PageMaker skills; familiarity with Windows 95, MS-Word; basic Macintosh skills required. Experience translating files and using Email/Internet for transferring files essential. Keyboarding 60+ wpm. Must be able to work as part of a team. Must be flexible to regularly work overtime. Final candidates will be tested.
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Reporting to the Director, provides desktop publishing/editorial support for the International Environment Program. Responsible for: word processing, editing complex proposals, manuscripts, technical papers/case studies and course materials. Maintains databases/hard-copies of publications, coordinates requested mailings. Designs newsletters, brochures, advertising, and presentation materials for projects/workshops; finalizes publications for printing and/or creates camera-ready publications; copy edits work. Coordinates work of related vendors. As a member of a team assists with daily clerical/administrative duties, such as: faxing, file management; answering phones.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment-Techsec, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)495-8190, or Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu
Position Title: Staff Assistant III
Requisition #:
Salary Grade: 8
Hiring Range: $25,104-$30,720 Hours Per Week: Full Time
Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills: High school diploma, college preferred; three to five years of related experience. Excellent organizational, prioritization, time management, detail orientation, interpersonal communication, judgement, editorial, proofreading and telephone skills needed. Excellent English skills necessary; WordPerfect skills required. Ability to work independently and as a team member while under pressure to follow through on complex projects. Spanish skills helpful.
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. Supports two academics who teach international development courses at the Kennedy School of Government and who work on projects in Bolivia. Performs office support duties, including composing and typing project-related, correspondence, maintaining filing system, and organizing production of project and research reports. Assists with manuscript editing and the planning of conferences and meetings. Serves as liaison when supervisors travel abroad. Coordinates support for short-term, overseas consultants. Provides support for courses taught by supervisors, including summer program. Act as liaison between students and supervisors. Performs related job duties as required.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment SAIII-MG, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, or Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Staff Assistant III
Requisition #:
Salary Grade: 8
Hiring Range: $25,104-$30,720 Hours Per Week: Full Time
Required/Preferred Education, Experience, Skills: High school diploma, college preferred; 3- 5years related experience. Excellent organizational, prioritization, time management, detail orientation, interpersonal communication, judgement, editorial, proofreading and telephone skills required. Ability to work independently and as a team member while under pressure to follow through on complex projects. Ability to work with multiple supervisors; problem solve, and accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously in an environment with frequent interruptions. Strong computer skills and ability/initiative to learn new programs from documentation only.
Duties & Responsibilities: Harvard Institute for International Development. . Supports members of Health Office. Performs office support duties including: composing and typing project-related correspondence; maintains filing and database systems; provides editing and library research on related projects. Sends faxes, e-mails, distributes mail and, photo-copies; orders supplies, and equipment; answers telephones, and makes travel arrangements. Liaises with finance office tracking invoices and, preparing expense reports. Assists in workshop organizing. As a member of the project team, performs additional duties as needed.
Referral Instructions: Send cover letter and resume by mail: HIID Recruitment-helsa3, One Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Fax (617)496-8190, or Email to profrec@hiid.harvard.edu.
Position Title: Staff Assistant III
Requisition #:
Salary Grade: 8
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 19:31:54 -0400 From: Latir Downes-Thomas <latir@earthlink.net> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <33C6C26A.E75D38A7@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
TSaidy1050@aol.com wrote: > > Gambia-l, > > I will try to be providing a weekly news summary on The Gambia. The news > summary will be mainly based on what the Newspapers reported. > I will try to be as regular in this matter as possible.
I just want to thank Tombong for providing us with this information. I think most of the list would agree with me that any information or news from back home that is shared on Gambia-L is welcome.
While we may take some info with a dash of salt based on the source, let us not get into the habit of attacking the messenger. When corrections are in order I believe they should be made and I'm sure they will be well received without the need of damning the author of the original message.
Thanks.
Lat
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:59:31 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: Latir Downes-Thomas <latir@earthlink.net> Cc: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>, ; Subject: Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970711165825.12324A-100000@netinfo2.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Lat,
My Sentiments!!!
Cheers,
Madiba.
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Latir Downes-Thomas wrote:
> TSaidy1050@aol.com wrote: > > > > Gambia-l, > > > > I will try to be providing a weekly news summary on The Gambia. The news > > summary will be mainly based on what the Newspapers reported. > > I will try to be as regular in this matter as possible. > > I just want to thank Tombong for providing us with this information. I > think most of the list would agree with me that any information or news > from back home that is shared on Gambia-L is welcome. > > While we may take some info with a dash of salt based on the source, let > us not get into the habit of attacking the messenger. When corrections > are in order I believe they should be made and I'm sure they will be > well received without the need of damning the author of the original > message. > > Thanks. > > Lat >
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:02:08 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: binta@iuj.ac.jp Cc: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>, ; Subject: Re: Welcome to Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970711170041.12324C-100000@netinfo2.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Lamin,
Thanks brother!! I am happy to be back.
Have a good weekend!
Madiba.
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 binta@iuj.ac.jp wrote:
> Now that Dr. Manneh of Gambia College has joined the List, perhaps he > will be interested in some of the discussions we had about education > in the Gambia, and about Asbjorn's pledge. > > Welcome on board all new members. Madiba, we missed you! BTW, does > anyone know the whereabouts of List veterans Morro Ceesay, Famara > Sanyang, and the others 'at large'? I miss their insightful views. > > Lamin. >
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:20:48 -0700 From: Liz STewart <liz@stanne.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <l03102802afec7e0e7383@[38.216.19.3]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Dear Lat
I am writing from San Francisco, California. I am delighted that you will be sending news of The GAmbia. Thanks a bunch for all the effort! Liz Stewart Fatti -
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:27:44 -0400 From: Latir Downes-Thomas <latir@earthlink.net> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA Message-ID: <33C6CF80.CD290EA9@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Liz STewart wrote: > > Dear Lat > > I am writing from San Francisco, California. I am delighted that you will > be sending news of The GAmbia. Thanks a bunch for all the effort! > Liz Stewart Fatti -
Tombong Saidy will be the one sending his synopsis of the news from The Gambia. Like yourself, I was just expressing my appreciation of his efforts :-)
Lat
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:37:23 -0700 (PDT) From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: News about the motherland...CMAG concluding statement. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970711173357.16382A-100000@netinfo2.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Commonwealth News Release
11 July 1997
SEVENTH MEETING OF THE COMMONWEALTH MINISTERIAL ACTION GROUP ON THE HARARE DECLARATION (CMAG)
Marlborough House, 10-11 July 1997
CONCLUDING STATEMENT
1. The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on the Harare Declaration (CMAG) held its seventh meeting at Marlborough House in London on 10-11 July 1997 to review developments in the Gambia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone and to consider preparations for its Report to the October 1997 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
The Gambia
2. The Group welcomed the report of the Commonwealth Secretariat Assessment Mission which visited The Gambia on 24-27 March 1997 and requested the Secretary-General to implement its recommendations for technical assistance in consolidating the democratic transition.
3. At the same time, it reiterated its previous concern about the lack of a fully inclusive political system in the Gambia. In that context, CMAG urged the Government of The Gambia to remove without further delay the ban on certain political parties and individuals contained in Decree No. 89 and, in the political environment so created, demonstrate its stated commitment to human rights and the rule of law. Furthermore, CMAG called on the Government of The Gambia to investigate allegations of harrassment of the Opposition.
Nigeria
4. Recalling the statement made by its Chairman in Abuja in November 1996 that "CMAG will, in pursuance of its mandate, remain engaged with Nigeria and seek to have access to the widest possible cross-section of views from Nigeria", the Group received oral presentations from a number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and representatives of Nigerian civil society. These included four Nigerian NGOs, viz. the National Democratic Coalition of Nigeria, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, the Democratic Alliance of Women in Nigeria, and the Civil Liberties Organisation. CMAG also heard representations from three pan-Commonwealth organisations - namely, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the Commonwealth Trade Union Council and the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association - as wel as from three international groups, viz Amnesty International, Article 19 (which also represented Human Rights Watch/Africa) and the International Crisis Group.
5. The representations made to CMAG expressed strong concerns over what was seen as a deteriorating situation in respect of human rights and the rule of law in Nigeria. Equally strong concerns were raised about the Nigerian Government's transition programme, which is perceived as being pursued without unfettered and free participation, as well as its likely outcome. The representation also raised the question of the growing numbers of Nigerian exiles in neighbouring and other countries and their need for assistance. CMAG was urged by all to recommend the CHOGM more effective measures to be taken by the Commonwealth and the wider international community to persuade Nigeria to live up to its commitments under the Harare Commonwealth Declaration.
6. The information which CMAG gathered from these exchanges with the NGOs was considered to be extremely useful and will, along with the information already gathered from the Nigerian Governement and other sources, inform the Group's deliberations and eventual recommendations to Commonwealth Heads of Government.
Sierra Leone
7. CMAG, recalling statements by its Chairman and the Commonwealth Secretary-General and by others, including the Summit of the Organisation of African Unity, condemned the military "coup d'etat" of 25 May 1997 in Sierra Leone which resulted in the overthrow of the democratically elected government. The Group called for the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of the democratically elected government of Sierra Leone under President Tejan Kabbah. It urged the international community to continue to deny recognition to the present illegal regime in Freetown and decided, in accordance with the Milbrook Action Programme, that pending the restoration of the legitimate government, the participation of Sierra Leone in the councils of the Commonwealth would be suspended.
8. The Group welcomed the efforts to restore the legitimate Government of Sierra Leone currently being undertaken by the Economic Community of West African States. At the same time, the Group took note that these efforts were being taken in accordance with the decision taken by the OAU and that they were being carried out in co-ordination with the United Nations. CMAG called on the international community fully to support the objectives of these efforts.
Next meeting
9. CMAG decided to hold its next meeting in London on 11-12 September 1997 to formulate its recommendations to CHOGM
Cheers,
Madiba.
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:42:00 -0700 From: sarian@osmosys.incog.com (Sarian Loum) To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <199707120042.RAA01196@thesky.incog.com>
Madiby,
I don't think I'm a little harsh with Tombong, on the contrary I'm lenient given Tombong's history on this list. Please take a look at the archives and pay close attention to his postings, that'll give you an idea about his style and why I wrote what I wrote.
I'm not advocating nothing but since Tombong took it upon himself to be the APRC spokesperson, I expect him to divulge all and not withhold information even if its to his/their disadvantage. Moreover since hes a public official he owes us the truth no matter how incriminating and not partial bits and pieces of info.
cheers,
sarian
> From msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca Fri Jul 11 12:05:07 1997 > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:57:30 -0700 (PDT) > From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> > X-Sender: msaidy@netinfo2.ubc.ca > To: Sarian Loum <sarian@osmosys.incog.com> > cc: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>, > ;@unixg.ubc.ca > Subject: Re: IOM > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Ms. Loum, > > With all due respect, don't you think you are a little bit harsh on > Tombong?? All the guy did is forward second-hand info. which we all do. > Are you now advocating that whoever intends to forward info. to the list > should do a thorough research adout it...know all the details etc before > hitting the send key? > > He afterall provided some contact addresses which anyone interested could > have reached for further details. This is what I did after > replying his mail, 'cos it did sound too good for it to be real. > > I don't see any propaganda in his posting, perhaps I don't have "trained" > eyes. > > As for Dr. Saho, thanks a lot for clarity...but why add "Next time give > all the bit of it not the little bit"? What if it is only the little bit > he has to offer. > > Cheers, > > Madiba. > > On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Sarian Loum wrote: > > > Omar, > > > > Thank you for clarifying things. I knew there had to be another side of Tombong's propaganda cause that was too good to be true and thats why I didn't take heed given that it came from him. I do not take Tombong's postings seriously (hes lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned) because theres always hidden agenda, misleading & lack of factual evidence in his postings. > > > > Tombong - please do us a favor and present information as it is and stop the B.S., but then again thats asking you to be a different person. Please use this forum for what it was intended to be and not to suit your political career/needs. That is very unappreciative. > > > > cheers, > > > > sarian > > > > > > > > > From olafia@online.no Fri Jul 11 04:26:36 1997 > > > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:22:45 +0200 (MET DST) > > > From: Olafiaklinikken Olafia <olafia@online.no> > > > To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > > > Subject: IOM > > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > > X-To: <Gambia-l@u.washington.edu> > > > X-Authentication-Warning: pilt.online.no: Host ti01a05-0019.dialup.online.no [130.67.1.83] didn't use HELO protocol > > > X-Sender: olafia@online.no (Unverified) > > > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN > > > > > > Tombong > > > > > > That was a very nice and one sided piece aboout IOM. The IOM is an advising > > > organ for governments of developed countries on migrants than of what you > > > wrote. IOM is also responsible for the advising og the above mention > > > governments concerning Migration and Health especially on refugees and > > > asylumseekers. This is an institution of the IOM and it is called the > > > INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH. (ICMH). This is a type > > > of civilised repatriation from the IOM. ICHM is a joint venture created by > > > IOM and the University of Geneva with the support of the World Health > > > Organisation (WHO) The centre aims to improve the health of migrants, > > > refugees and asylumseekers in their country of settlement, by easing the > > > process of adapting to a new society and decreasing the social cost caused > > > by the preventable disease. excess of disablity, and the effects of > > > maladjustment. ICMH will carry out its work in close association with > > > governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions. Close collaboration > > > with governments is to give information of your health especially HIV and to > > > reduce social cost is to repatriate you through IOM. > > > > > > They review available information on migrants and refugee health in > > > selected group of receiving countries. This survey will provide insight as > > > to what kind of migrant and refugee health information is available to > > > national authorities for planning and evaluation purposes.When it happens > > > that you are HIV positive then plans for repatriation is on the desk > > > organise by the IOM. These surveys starts from the refugee camps and the aim > > > of the studie is follow the migrants to their new countries. In the matter > > > of Hiv the west is more sophisticated than were the migrants and refugees > > > came from. There are also some positive sides of the ICMH. > > > > > > I am neither dicouraging or advising anyone not what you desired but i want > > > to throw a little bit of light on the subject. > > > > > > Next time Tombong give all the bit of it but not the littlE bit. > > > > > > With kind regards > > > > > > Omar S. Saho, KONSULENT > > > Ullevaal University Hospital > > > Dept. for STD and HIV > > > NORWAY > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 97 02:06:31 PDT From: WANTI WANTI CAAN GETTI AND GETTI GETTI NUH WANTI <ABARROW@rr5.rr.intel.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <9707120906.utk20581@RR5.intel.com>
Sarian,
The fact of the matter is that, we are not talking about what Tombong did sometime back...we are talking about this issue of IOM. I think you are being subjective in your judgement based on what happened in the past. Tombong did deserve a credit if he did just forward this message....that's all a man can do..like Madiba mention. If you want to know the issue in depth call or email the contact number he provided.
I don't know Tombong personally but with the facts available he did deserve a credit regardless of what happen yesterday. I do not support Tombong's government but I think it's worth giving "Devils his due", if we want to be a society based on meritocracy.
Paece,
Pa-Abdou
SARIAN wrote:
Madiby,
I don't think I'm a little harsh with Tombong, on the contrary I'm lenient give n Tombong's history on this list. Please take a look at the archives and pay close attention to his postings, that'll give you an idea about his style and why I wrote what I wrote.
I'm not advocating nothing but since Tombong took it upon himself to be the APRC spokesperson, I expect him to divulge all and not withhold information even if its to his/their disadvantage. Moreover since hes a public official he owes us the truth no matter how incriminating and not partial bits and piece s of info.
cheers,
sarian
> From msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca Fri Jul 11 12:05:07 1997 > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:57:30 -0700 (PDT) > From: madiba saidy <msaidy@unixg.ubc.ca> > X-Sender: msaidy@netinfo2.ubc.ca > To: Sarian Loum <sarian@osmosys.incog.com> > cc: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>, > ;@unixg.ubc.ca > Subject: Re: IOM > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Ms. Loum, > > With all due respect, don't you think you are a little bit harsh on > Tombong?? All the guy did is forward second-hand info. which we all do. > Are you now advocating that whoever intends to forward info. to the list > should do a thorough research adout it...know all the details etc before > hitting the send key? > > He afterall provided some contact addresses which anyone interested could > have reached for further details. This is what I did after > replying his mail, 'cos it did sound too good for it to be real. > > I don't see any propaganda in his posting, perhaps I don't have "trained" > eyes. > > As for Dr. Saho, thanks a lot for clarity...but why add "Next time give > all the bit of it not the little bit"? What if it is only the little bit > he has to offer. > > Cheers, > > Madiba. > > On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Sarian Loum wrote: > > > Omar, > >
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 97 02:10:24 PDT From: WANTI WANTI CAAN GETTI AND GETTI GETTI NUH WANTI <ABARROW@rr5.rr.intel.com> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <9707120910.utk20971@RR5.intel.com>
Sarian,
The fact of the matter is that, we are not talking about what Tombong did sometime back...we are talking about this issue of IOM. I think you are being subjective in your judgement based on what happened in the past. Tombong did deserve a credit if he did just forward this message....that's all a man can do..like Madiba mention. If you want to know the issue in depth call or email the contact number he provided.
I don't know Tombong personally but with the facts available he did deserve a credit regardless of what happen yesterday. I do not support Tombong's government but I think it's worth giving "Devils his due", if we want to be a society based on meritocracy.
Paece,
Pa-Abdou
SARIAN wrote:
Madiby,
I don't think I'm a little harsh with Tombong, on the contrary I'm lenient give n Tombong's history on this list. Please take a look at the archives and pay close attention to his postings, that'll give you an idea about his style and why I wrote what I wrote.
I'm not advocating nothing but since Tombong took it upon himself to be the APRC spokesperson, I expect him to divulge all and not withhold information even if its to his/their disadvantage. Moreover since hes a public official he owes us the truth no matter how incriminating and not partial bits and piece s of info.
cheers,
sarian > > Ms. Loum, > > With all due respect, don't you think you are a little bit harsh on > Tombong?? All the guy did is forward second-hand info. which we all do. > Are you now advocating that whoever intends to forward info. to the list > should do a thorough research adout it...know all the details etc before > hitting the send key? > > He afterall provided some contact addresses which anyone interested could > have reached for further details. This is what I did after > replying his mail, 'cos it did sound too good for it to be real. > > I don't see any propaganda in his posting, perhaps I don't have "trained" > eyes. > > As for Dr. Saho, thanks a lot for clarity...but why add "Next time give > all the bit of it not the little bit"? What if it is only the little bit > he has to offer. > > Cheers, > > Madiba. > > On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Sarian Loum wrote: > > > Omar, > >
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 05:57:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Gabriel Ndow <gndow@Spelman.EDU> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Ayi Kwei Armah Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970712054151.2067A-100000@acc5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Greetings: I wish to inform the group of the noted African writer Ayi Kwei Armah's recently published novel - OSIRIS RISING. For those who may not know, Armah is the author of 'The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born', 'Two Thousand Seasons' and other novels. I had the wonderful opprtunity to meet him recently while he was visiting Atlanta to promote his new work. Armah now resides in Senegal with his family. It is of great joy to me personally to see some of our greatest writers drawing inspiration for their works from our great ancestors who resided along the banks of the Nile! >OSIRIS RISING, Armah's sixth novel, takes its narrative structure from Africa's oldest source, the Osiris-Isis myth cycle. Its content has the urgent relevance of tomorrow's news. The protagonist, Ast, an African-American scholar, travels to Africa seeking lifework and love. She finds both. But in the moment of discovery, she also finds that this is only seed time in Africa. Before future harvests and love's consummation, the continent's creative ones must discover ways, old and new, to end the millennial rule of destroyers.
OSIRIS RISING is published by PER ANKH an 'African printing and publishing company founded and managed by (Armah's) friends committed to the emergence of a quality African book industry.'
In peace, LatJor.
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:20:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Gabriel Ndow <gndow@Spelman.EDU> To: "GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Ayi Kwei Armah Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970712061639.2067B-100000@acc5> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Apologies, the last sentence of my posting was not complete. It should be: >PER ANKH is an African printing and publishing company founded and managed by friends (of Armah) committed to the emergence of a quality African book industry.
LatJor
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:47:27 +-300 From: BASSIROU DODOU DRAMMEH <kolls567@qatar.net.qa> To: "'gambia-l@u.washington.edu'" <gambia-l@u.washington.edu> Subject: RE: Ayi Kwei Armah Message-ID: <01BC8ECA.25A8F8E0@difg.qatar.net.qa>
Latjor! Thanks! And keep up the good work down there!
Regards Bassss!!
---------- From: Gabriel Ndow[SMTP:gndow@Spelman.EDU] Sent: 07/NEiU CaCea/1418 08:57 O To: GAMBIA-L: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List Subject: Ayi Kwei Armah
Greetings: I wish to inform the group of the noted African writer Ayi Kwei Armah's recently published novel - OSIRIS RISING. For those who may not know, Armah is the author of 'The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born', 'Two Thousand Seasons' and other novels. I had the wonderful opprtunity to meet him recently while he was visiting Atlanta to promote his new work. Armah now resides in Senegal with his family. It is of great joy to me personally to see some of our greatest writers drawing inspiration for their works from our great ancestors who resided along the banks of the Nile! >OSIRIS RISING, Armah's sixth novel, takes its narrative structure from Africa's oldest source, the Osiris-Isis myth cycle. Its content has the urgent relevance of tomorrow's news. The protagonist, Ast, an African-American scholar, travels to Africa seeking lifework and love. She finds both. But in the moment of discovery, she also finds that this is only seed time in Africa. Before future harvests and love's consummation, the continent's creative ones must discover ways, old and new, to end the millennial rule of destroyers.
OSIRIS RISING is published by PER ANKH an 'African printing and publishing company founded and managed by (Armah's) friends committed to the emergence of a quality African book industry.'
In peace, LatJor.
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 07:25:39 -0400 (EDT) From: TSaidy1050@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <970712072539_-1795550347@emout12.mail.aol.com>
For some reasons i did not see Omar's posting, can he please send it to me directly before i can respond to him and Serian. Or any body can send it to me, i think, i mistakenly deleted his posting.
Peace Tombong
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 08:26:34 -0400 (EDT) From: TSaidy1050@aol.com To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM Message-ID: <970712082633_-1829125558@emout15.mail.aol.com>
Omar S. Saho,
Thank you for the additional information on IOM. I am not saying whether the IOM is good or bad, all I am doing is to provide the information for those who might want to use their services. If I had known about other aspects of IOM, I would have gladly informed the list.
While I was in the US, I did help four Gambians through IOM to come back to The Gambia. In fact our new member, Dr. Bruce-Oliver of NARI, would have been the fifth Gambian to benefit from IOM last year. But The Gambia Government decided to foot the bill because the process was a bit too long.
I don't think it is necessary for Saran to say " Tombong - please do us a favor and present information as it is and stop the B.S., but then again that's asking you to be a different person".
Those who want to know more about IOM can contact them directly, simple as that.
Peace
Tombong
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 12:49:07 -0500 From: Ndey Drammeh <NDRAMME@wpo.it.luc.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: IOM -Reply Message-ID: <s3c78bf5.020@wpo.it.luc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline
>>> <TSaidy1050@aol.com> 07/12/97 07:26am >>> Tombong wrote:
>While I was in the US, I did help four Gambians through IOM to come >back to >The Gambia. In fact our new member, Dr. Bruce-Oliver of NARI, would >have been >the fifth Gambian to benefit from IOM last year. But The Gambia >Government >decided to foot the bill because the process was a bit too long.
Tombong,
If you helped four people to returned home through IOM, how come you did not know about the so-called "other aspects" of the organization? I am sure you must have had numerous contacts with the group. While I appreciate your efforts in trying to provide us with helpful info, I am just curious as to why you did not give us the full picture.
Ndey Kumba
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:37:26 -0400 From: Laura Munzel <lem10@columbia.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: SV: (PART3) THE CANCER OF LANGUAGE AND TRBE IN AFRICA Message-ID: <33C7F916.80B690E7@columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Dear Momodou,
You are correct when you say modern anthropological theory evolved in part from some biological principles, as well as Darwinism. While the theories based on biology and Darwinism are valuable precursors to current anthropology, I don't think they are considered as holding much validity today.
"I also reject the theory that history progresses in linear fashion. Much evidence suggests a cyclic order. I think, however, that Laura Munzell needs to explain why she thinks, say, the Waorani Indians (in the Brazialian rainforest) or tribes people in the jungles of Indonesia - some of who live in large tents amidst tree-tops, and practice cannibalism - are not 'locked in some kind of arrested development'."
It seems your conception of a "cyclic" order still contains the central tenet of Bass's post which I wanted to argue against: That there exists a hierarchy of societal development. When you cite cannabalism as a symptom of arrested development, you are in effect agreeing with the linear view of societal advancement. This is just what I disagree with. What proof exists that cannablism or living in trees is a lower form of society? Moral indignation against cannabilism seems to have influenced your conclusion. But can this be scientific?
Best regards, Laura
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:30:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <msjaiteh@mtu.edu> To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: New Members Message-ID: <199707130230.WAA23670@hemlock.ffr.mtu.edu> Content-Type: text
> > Gambia-l, > Mr. Samuel J. Bruce-Olivier of NARI (National Agriculture Research > Institute) and Mr. Manneh of Gambia College have joined the Gambia-l. > > We welcome them and look forward to their contributions. > > Best regards. > > Momodou Camara >
A big welcome to all new members. Sami we are glad to have you back.
Malanding Jaiteh
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