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Momodou
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GAMBIA-L Digest 16
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: STATS GAMBIA-L and house cleaning
by "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <msjaiteh@mtu.edu>
2) Election dates
by momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara)
3) Re: STATS GAMBIA-L and house cleaning
by Amadou Scattred Janneh <AJANNEH@pstcc.cc.tn.us>
4) Re:
by C H Allen <C.H.Allen@ed.ac.uk>
5) Re:
by "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <msjaiteh@mtu.edu>
6) Signing Off
by onjie@gemini.nlu.edu (Omar Njie (MBA))
7) Re: Signing Off
by "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu>
8) New member
by "BOJANG,MAMBUNA" <MBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
9) Re: New member
by "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu>
10) ALD/Atlanta Conferences
by "BOJANG,MAMBUNA" <MBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
11) (Fwd) The western media
by "Famara A. Sanyang" <FAMARAAS@amadeus.cmi.no>
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:18:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <msjaiteh@mtu.edu>
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Cc: msjaiteh@mtu.edu
Subject: Re: STATS GAMBIA-L and house cleaning
Message-ID: <199605121618.MAA27973@cedar.ffr.mtu.edu>
Content-Type: text
I hope I am not too blunt about this, but don't you think we are not a
little bit paranoic about this security issue? I believe that anyone
subscribing to the list should be aware of the possibility of a third
party access to what they are saying. If they do not want that then
let them not contribute. And I think some of the silent folks are
doing just that. If they prefer doing that they should be allowed to do
just that. The right to remain silent should be everyones. Acting
unreasonabe without any apparent reason is conter-productive in a
number of ways. First one would ask if you folks in the faraway land
are so frightened (or concerned) about your families in the Gambia
what do you expect of those who do not only have their families in the
gambia but themselves? Also do you think we can become a credible
force for justice if fear of retaliation would prevent us from speakingthe
truth? Secondly why do you think one would allow me access to his
personal info if I would not allow him access to mine? We can only
trust each other, whether at a meeting place or in cyberspace.
Self-intro, limited access, delete inactive subscribers are all not
the solution, after all those we would call collaborators (if it ever
happen) would only come from within.
bye for now.
Malanding
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Date: 12 May 1996 23:28:15 GMT
From: momodou@inform-bbs.dk (Momodou Camara)
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: Election dates
Message-ID: <219217886.1099524@inform-bbs.dk>
Hi Gambia-l!
I just news of the election dates as follows:
Referandum 7th August
Presidential elections 11th September
National Assembly elections 11th December.
Can any one confirm this?
Momodou Camara
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:18:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Amadou Scattred Janneh <AJANNEH@pstcc.cc.tn.us>
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: STATS GAMBIA-L and house cleaning
Message-ID: <01I4NJHCDBTA001CCU@PSTCC6.PSTCC.CC.TN.US>
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Abdou:
Thanks for the info. It shows that Tony and I have been the most active in
the group.
LatJor:
Please take note of the topics suggested by Oumar; I agree my list places
too much emphasis on the military/militarism.
Tijan Sallah should be approached to see if he would be willing to discuss the
economic dimension/impact of AFPRC rule as someone suggested. Dr. Sallah is
with the world bank. Perhaps folks on the list could also volunteer or
be asked to address topics within their sphere of interest/expertise.
I may be inactive for a few days, I will get back as soon as possible.
Travelling to DC today, Atlanta on Friday, etc.
"Fo waati koteng!"
Amadou
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Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 14:50:16 +0100
From: C H Allen <C.H.Allen@ed.ac.uk>
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re:
Message-ID: <v0211010aadbe3ffbda44@[129.215.28.153]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Members may be interested in the following mailing to Leonenet - even
though it concerns militarism!
MIME-version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:14:21 -0400
Reply-To: A Discussion of Sierra Leonean Issues <LEONENET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Sender: A Discussion of Sierra Leonean Issues <LEONENET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: Jimmy Kandeh <KANDEH@urvax.urich.edu>
Subject: Re: Parallels <Liberia & Sierra Leone>
To: Multiple recipients of list LEONENET <LEONENET@mitvma.mit.edu>
VK,
I am currently revising a paper on "What Does the Militariat Do When it Rules?
AComparative Analysis of Military Regimes in Liberia, Sierra Leone and The
Gambia." A draft of this paper was presented at the 22nd annual Third World
Conference in Chicago, March 27-30, 1996. Although this piece does not speak
directly to the issue you are interested in, you might nonetheless find it
useful. I will be more than happy to send you a copy.
Cordially,
Jimmy Kandeh
Chris Allen
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Department of Politics Phone: (0)131-650-4248
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Editor: Africa Bibliography (Edinburgh UP for International African Institute)
Managing Editor: Review of African Political Economy (Carfax)
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Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:48:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Malanding S. Jaiteh" <msjaiteh@mtu.edu>
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re:
Message-ID: <199605141748.NAA00292@cedar.ffr.mtu.edu>
Content-Type: text
Is it possible to get a copy of Jimmy's paper?
Thanks, Malanding
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Date: Tue, 14 May 96 13:14:47 CDT
From: onjie@gemini.nlu.edu (Omar Njie (MBA))
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: Signing Off
Message-ID: <9605141814.AA01239@ gemini.nlu.edu >
Tony/Amadou:
Can you please sign me off the list as at today? I will not be here for the summer and
would not be using this account. I will let you know if the company I will be working for has
e-mail facilities.
Omar.
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Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 12:55:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu>
To: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Signing Off
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960514125500.10797C-100000@saul6.u.washington.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Omar Njie has been removed from the list as requested.
Thanks
Tony
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Omar Njie (MBA) wrote:
> Tony/Amadou:
>
> Can you please sign me off the list as at today? I will not be here for the summer and
> would not be using this account. I will let you know if the company I will be working for has
> e-mail facilities.
>
> Omar.
>
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:55:07 EDT
From: "BOJANG,MAMBUNA" <MBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
To: <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>
Subject: New member
Message-ID: <15MAY96.13952414.0058.MUSIC@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
Abdou/Tony,
Will you please add Buba Bojang to the list. I will have him write
a brief introduction as soon as possible. He goes to school down here
with me, and here is his address :
****** BBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU ******
GOD BLESS!!
PA-MAMBUNA.
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 11:07:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "A. Loum" <tloum@u.washington.edu>
To: The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List <gambia-l@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: New member
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960515110642.22083B-100000@saul2.u.washington.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Buba Bojang has been added to the list.
Thanks
Tony
On Wed, 15 May 1996, BOJANG,MAMBUNA wrote:
> Abdou/Tony,
> Will you please add Buba Bojang to the list. I will have him write
> a brief introduction as soon as possible. He goes to school down here
> with me, and here is his address :
>
>
> ****** BBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU ******
> GOD BLESS!!
> PA-MAMBUNA.
>
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 23:41:49 EDT
From: "BOJANG,MAMBUNA" <MBOJANG@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
To: <Gambia-l@u.washington.edu>
Subject: ALD/Atlanta Conferences
Message-ID: <15MAY96.25592912.0018.MUSIC@MUSIC.TRANSY.EDU>
Beloved Compatriots,
I was a little caught up with preparation for finals, but thank God
they are over for good.
This may sound as a farfetch idea, but I think we need to reconsider the
education system in the Gambia at our upcoming conferences. The ongoing
middle school system out there was intruduced the very year I left the
country, but I still don't think it helps our brothers/sisters or sons/
daughters. I'm sure during our time there a couple of us were given the
chance to retake the common entrance examination(I know I took it twice)
The youngsters there today are given only one chance meaning if you
don't score the cut-off mark then you are suppose to drop out of school.
Isn't that terrible? I believe all these are due to the low number of
secondary/high schools to educate our youths. I also believe the single
most vital resource of any nation is the education of her youths, so we
should talk about ways and means of improving our educational system for
our youngsters. In most of the primary/secondary schools in Gambian
villages kids have to even provide their own table and chair. I'm sure,
collectively we can come up with better solutions to this situation.
I do understand we have a lot of topics to debate on at the conferences,
but we can fit this in some were, since we don't meet that often.
Forgive me if I am out of line; I just happen to be a village boy, and I
know how hard I had to struggle to acquire the little knowledge I came
with into this country. In other words, I sum up with the words of
former U.S pres. NIXON.... " Only if you 've been to the bottom of the
valley can you see how nice it will be to be on top of the mountain".
One more thing.
TONY/ABDOU:
Please sign me off the list as of tuesday May 21. I will be graduating
that week, and I may not be able to use this address anymore. However, I
hope to sign on again after reflexing my muscles over the summer and get
prepared for a more rigorous graduate work in the fall.
MAY ALLAH GUIDE US IN OUR ASPIRATIONS TO ACHIEVE OUR DESIRED OBJECTIVES
(ameen).
Pa-Mambuna.
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:14:15 GMT+1
From: "Famara A. Sanyang" <FAMARAAS@amadeus.cmi.no>
To: gambia-l@u.washington.edu
Subject: (Fwd) The western media
Message-ID: <3264AAA64BC@amadeus.cmi.no>
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From: "ANDY-K" <AMADEUS/ANDYK>
To: famaraas
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 23:57:02 GMT+1
Subject: The western media
Hello Gambia-l,
I know that these are busy times, with exams, term papers and so on.
Look at how our sub region is being characterised.
West Africa slips slowly into chaos
and anarchy
Analysis by Alec Russell
THE RESUMPTION of fighting in Liberia is
the latest sign of West Africa's drift into an
anarchy which analysts believe could threaten
the concept of the nation state in the region.
Coups and counter-coups, corruption and even
cannibalism are nothing new in West Africa.
Yesterday's evacuation of Americans from the
capital, Monrovia, presents a mirror image of
events there six years ago when the Liberian
civil war began.
Western diplomats insist there is only one game
in town. As so many times before they will
threaten to withhold aid. In due course the
recalcitrant warlords will pause, and the money
will flow. However, all the while West Africa
seems to be slipping further and further into
disorder. In an article entitled "The Coming
Anarchy" published in the American journal The
Atlantic Monthly, the writer Robert Kaplan
says: "Tyranny is nothing new in West Africa
but it is now part and parcel of an increasing
lawlessness that is far more significant than
any
coup, rebel incursion or episodic experiment in
democracy.
"It is reverting to Victorian Africa. . .
coastal trading
posts . . . and an interior that is becoming
blank and
unexplored"
"There is no other place on the planet where
political maps are so deceptive, where in fact
they tell such lies, as in West Africa. It is
reverting to the Africa of the Victorian Atlas
.. . .
a series of coastal trading posts . . . and an
interior that is becoming blank and
unexplored."
The whole of West Africa is under stress and in
thrall to lawless soldiers. Nigeria, the local
giant,
is wallowing under a rapacious military regime.
Already this year there has been a coup in
Niger, an attempted one in Guinea and a palace
coup in Sierra Leone. While elections passed
off successfully there last month the army has
yet to prove it will stay in its barracks. The
authorities' writ in Sierra Leone and Liberia
extends only to a strip of coastline and a few
towns, just as in the middle of the last
century.
Dr Will Reno, a West African expert at Florida
International University, said that following
the
end of the Cold War, the old colonial
structures
are starting to fall apart.
"West Africa is not chaos. It's organised
chaos," he said. "It's astonishing how
diplomats
and aid organisations continue to delude
themselves about the nature of the state they
are
dealing with. The state in West Africa is just
a
shell."
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