Dr. AbdouKarim Sanneh,
Kindly re-read the article and summarise your impression for us.
I will also do so and as promised will really comment on that article. Unfortunately I have not had time to do so and have been spending time getting down with Omar Pene & Super Diamono with (Tiki-Tiki, 25 ans)
The central issue is whether or not Yahya has a cure for Aids.
A far fetched example: If some German quack claims that he can cure Aids, even if that person is the German Chancellor, in questioning the unlikelihood of such an achievement prior to it being verified, I’m not going to write an article about her ( Merkel) in which I would situate the improbability in the kind of context that Marco Evers creates for President Jammeh: that is, I would not feel called upon to give a rundown of Hitler and his Race Ideology of Aryan Supremacy and the horrors of the Nazi holocaust, nor would I have to give a run down on that German cannibal we all read about not so long ago, or the history of European wars, their slave trading etc etc.
I am speaking for myself, not for you. I am not your personal representative and so feel free to disagree with me, ignorant as I am and proud too. I read the article and shared some of my reaction with you.
There is the connotative and the emotive.
I'm sure you have feelings, music probably moves you too. One has to read and comprehend and I'm not a school teacher of someone else's reaction to what they read and understand.
President Jammeh does not belong to the category of Bokassa, Amin or Mobutu or any of those guys because he is trying to relieve some AIDS patients from their suffering.
I did read and comprehend Kwame Anthony Appiah's “In My Father’s House”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Kwame+Anthony+Appiah+%E2%80%9CIn+My+Father%27s+House%E2%80%9D&btnG=Search
About race, anti-Semitism, Colonialism, post-colonialism etc, we live in this world and are aware.
The Cameroonian Achille Mbembe also wrote “On the post colony” Ousman Sekka recommended it to me and I took his advice and haven’t regretted it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Achille+Mbembe+%E2%80%9C+On+the+postcolony%E2%80%9D++&btnG=Search
Have patience Aboukarim,
Like a patient,
Cornelius
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> From: ABDOUKARIM SANNEH <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/03/12 må PM 01:29:12 CET
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Re: FWD:THE QUACK IN GAMBIA - African Despot 'Cures' AIDS
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> Cornelius Edward Hamelberg
> What is the racist overtones and mockery you are talking? I can agree with you that the political economy of the western media manufacture their own conscience when reporting matters folding in our continent. It is a sick joke if you subscribe to the idea that an African despot like Yaya Jammeh can cures a deathly disaease like HIV/AIDS. I know you are a cyber jockery but as a growth up you need to reason before dragging us into the racist nonsense you are trying to peddle. It has nothing to do with the content of this article. I am proud of my race and I know with the mindset of Yaya Jammeh running the show in our continent we shall never create another future that will astonish the world.
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> Cornelius Edward Hamelberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There are plentiful overtly explicitly racist overtones and mocking instances that only the infinitely less sympathetic idea of an old colonial master himself, would see the Gambia in that way.
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> Understandably, the history of that perception continued from this later date:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+The+Berlin+Conference+&btnG=Search
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> Here are the clear examples from the first three paragraphs of the Der Spiegel article and the created context is Africa, but what an Africa, and what more should you not expect?
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> “Quack”
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> “Hardly anyone in the country dares challenge him and, unfortunately, many actually believe him.”
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> What kind of sarcasm is this? :
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> “It’s hard to make a name for yourself as a tyrant in Africa; the standards are pretty high.”
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> ” Jean Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, believing himself to be the thirteenth apostle, had himself crowned emperor and is said to have enjoyed the occasional meal of human flesh. In Congo, the kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko built an airstrip for his chartered Concorde jets in the middle of the rain forest. Now, the president of the West African state of Gambia is doing his best to add his name to the list.”
> ”Yahya Jammeh, 41 years old, has been the president of bitterly poor Gambia since seizing power in a putsch in 1994. In the three so-called elections since then, he has not relinquished his seat.”
> HAS NOT RELINQUISHED HIS SEAT? HE WAS RECENTLY RE-ELECTED WITH 67.23% OF THE DEMOCRATIC FREE AND FAIR VOTE.
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