Omar,

This is really heartbreaking when one seat helplessly watching our people 
taking desperate measures to get themselves out of this poverty circle. The 
song has turned a fresh page of the realities back home. This deadly and 
unfortunate situation is a clear manifestation of the failure of our nation 
states because they can no longer deliver positive political goods to our 
people. Our governments have lose legitimacy and now illegitimate. 
Governments exist to deliver political goods security, education, health 
services, economic opportunity, environmental surveillance, a legal 
framework of order and a judicial system to administer it, and fundamental 
infrastructural requirements such as roads and communications facilities to 
their citizens.  In the reverse most of our governments honor these 
obligations in the breach. They increasingly forfeit their function as 
providers of political goods to warlords and other nongovernment actors. Our 
governments are no longer able or willing to perform the job of a 
nation-state in the modern world.

They are unable to provide security the most central and foremost political 
good across the whole of their domains. Citizens depend on states and 
central governments to secure their persons and free them from fear. But 
most of our states are unable to establish an atmosphere of security 
nationwide.


Couple with this our institutions are weak and flawed it is only the 
executive institution that functions. If legislatures exist at all, they are 
rubber-stamping machines. Democratic debate is noticeably absent. The 
judiciary is derivative of the executive rather than being independent, and 
citizens know that they cannot rely on the court system for significant 
redress or remedy, especially against the state. Bureaucracy has long ago 
lost its sense of professional responsibility and exists solely to carry out 
the orders of the executive and, in petty ways, to oppress citizens. The 
armed forces are highly politicized. Infrastructures are destroyed or 
deteriorated, thus the more potholes or main roads turned to rutted tracks. 
As our people continue to use these deadly routes to Europe for a better 
leaving our rulers siphon funds from the state.

What does the feature hold for such a people, nation, countries, and 
continent? This is a question that I always asked myself. Looking at my two 
boys I asked myself what their generation will be like. Will it be better 
than ours or is Africa going to be worse?



The Struggle Continues!!
Ndey Jobarteh


>From: OMAR DRAMMEH <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: SV: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade there are Europeans involved and 
>well paid.
>Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:13:29 +0200
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>
>Sidibeh/Oko/Bailo,
>
>I hope the SOPI Coalition is listening. The song is pregnant with meaning 
>giving a vivid picture of the harsh realities not only in Senegal but in 
>many African countries. We don`t have to look far away to see that. The 
>level of deprivation is alarming and having to take such a risk on those 
>rickety fishing boats on such a perilous route shows how desperate the bulk 
>of the people are.
>
>Bailo pointed out the valid point of the failure of political independence 
>and it makes me wonder whether this mass exodus of African migrants is not 
>a form of reverse colonisation; the coloniser being colonised by its former 
>subjects. Is it a case of the chicken coming home to roost? And the 
>situation is made worsening with the level of organised crime as Oku cited.
>
>Happy weekend.
>
>regards,
>Omar
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: oko drammeh [[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 2006-10-06 14:32:06 CEST
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade there are Europeans involved 
>and well paid.
> >
> > This is prophecy/ not an overstatement.
> >
> >   If you need what Africa has,
> >   and you can't do without it
> >   and don't want to pay for it.
> >
> >   You will create problems for thoes people only to make them weak and 
>maintaining them in the clutches and machenary of exploitation and inhuman 
>treatment.
> >
> >   It seems like Africans are still under the conspiration theory of the 
>CURSE OF HAM (decendants of black race) by his father prophet Noah in the 
>Abrahamic religions.
> >
> >   RELIGION RULE THE WORLD
> >   That Denial of peace and prospertity to the Black Africans and the 
>punishment sent to them said by most religions is an order of god. This has 
>cause poverty, wars, deaths and an unsettled Africa. This is the root of 
>all our problems. It is holy.
> >
> >   Be wise Africa,
> >   you are the richest continent
> >   but yet with the poorest people.
> >
> >   You have been duped !
> >
> >   Oko
> >
> >
> > bailo jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >   Omar,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing this moving clip of a song that is spot on for the 
>reasons of the desperate quest of young able bodied Africans to reach the 
>shores of the promised land. As reflected by the song, it is primarily 
>because political independence from the yoke of colonialism have thus so 
>far failed to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of Africans. In other terms, 
>we, Africans have been failed by our political class, i.e both those in 
>civvies and uniforms. They seem to only take care of themselves.
> >
> > Very sad indeed!
> >
> > Bailo
> >
> > bailo jallow wrote:
> > Testing, testing, just testing.
> >
> > Bailo
> >
> > OMAR DRAMMEH wrote:
> > Fols,
> >
> > Thought this might be of interest. It portrays the plight of the African 
>migrant including Gambians in their journey to the "Promise Land".
> >
> >
> > http://www.studiosankara.com/sunugaal.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Omar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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