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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 11 Jul 2014 : 08:04:15
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He has done his quota for The Gambia. May his soul rest in peace.
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A Tribute: The Late Bubacarr Michael Baldeh
By Yero Jallow
Gainako Online: Published on — July 10, 2014
 It is a sudden and sad death. Buba Baldeh as was fondly called is from a political household, and among the early educated folks in Basse Mansajang.
Despite some of the political odds that accompanied Buba’s political career, notably his association with the former PPP as Minister of Youth and Sports, a government highly criticized for its leadership failures, and for partly serving Jammeh’s criminal regime as APRC youth mobilizer and Daily Observer editor, he was still a believer in democracy, activism, and encouraged great political participation in the Senegambian region. As Gainako has profiled hitherto, many of our political leaders became victims of the criminal or failed systems they agreed to serve willingly or unwillingly, and as such, it becomes part of their eulogies. This is better put as politics is a messy business.
For Buba’s favorite, like the many of his likes across geographical boundaries, were breaths of fresh air, challenging some of the system excesses and encouraging participation in nationalism, the pride of origin, and championing its cause especially the Pullagu (Pullaku) ethos. Every people or nation need their own champions, those that define them at system level, to give them representation, hope, recognition, inclusion, and to be counted as ones that matter in the larger sphere of national matters. The late Bubacarr was of the caliber despite political and ideological differences one may have with him..........................
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 06:15:00
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 Maafanta with Cherno Baba Jallow's tribute;
The late Honorable Bubacarr Baldeh, who recently died in Dakar, Senegal, at age 61, arrived on the political scene in 1982 as an outsider trying to fit in, or with a firmness of purpose to rattle the political cage and usher in a national narrative about him. In any case, Buba, in 1982, was the stormy petrel of Basse politics. Running as an Independent candidate for the Basse constituency that year, Buba single-handedly took on the entire PPP machinery. His rise defied gravity. His popularity ran rampant. It was partly because of his charm and wit, and partly also because of his unrepentant outspokenness. The PPP bigwigs descended on Basse to thwart his rise, but it was not to be. Buba was flying with it --- and with great aplomb!......Full Report |
Edited by - kobo on 16 Jul 2014 06:19:25 |
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sankalanka
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Posted - 16 Jul 2014 : 21:04:59
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Cherno, has done justice to this tribute by bringing alive all the good attributes, shortcomings and Hon Buba Baldeh's formidable presence, which gives a closer look into the man whose death we mourn and celebrate.
Great job, Cherno. Although I know him from a distance, your tribute has crystalized the image of his commanding presence noticeable at a chance encounter.
Thank you for making us know this honorable man more in death than when he was alive. |
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mbay
Germany
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Posted - 19 Jul 2014 : 14:38:37
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| May his soul rest in peace Ameen |
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