Saint Cornelius Mohammed Edward Hamelberg,

I should not wish to share the oxygen in the same room with Mauricio. Even 
his own latino contituency chased him from a campaign podium in Skärholmen, 
a severe premonition of what was to come if he set foot in Alby. So he 
cancelled the meeting there.

You cannot avoid a collision with Nyamko. Perhaps you have never caught her 
in her acidic moods. When a university history researcher told her that she 
was a severe Uncle Tom she fumed like an angry mount nyiragongo. What 
blue-blooded Swedish politician would dare suggest that immigrant teenage 
girls could undergo inspection to ascertain they have not been subjected to 
some sort of butchery, without getting roasted in the media? Nyamko almost 
made it without a scratch! But like I said, even she has a right to a 
honey-moon!

Yes, the kanilai consitution is forever and ever. At least that is what the 
king has re-ordained. He has condemned the rest of the world to hell and 
will order even heavier chains for members of our growing community of 
descent. But the threats of tyrants cannot be bloodier than what they 
actually do; one reason leftists must not retreat into glib revolutionary 
jargon as essential epilogue to the struggles of ordianry people for 
democratic change.

Wasalaam, and thanks for the fresh air!

sidibeh


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Subject: Re: Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past


> Grand Sheikh Momodou Sidibeh , Asalamalaikum wa rahmatullah!
>
> With refrence to our Banatba, It's understood that a group has to go 
> through resolving conflicts as part of it's growth process. We are still 
> going through the teething phase. It should soon be the honeymoon, but is 
> it ever that with political discussion groups?
>
> Mauricio Rojas is certainly the beast with the fusk mentality and Nyamko 
> is  the Beauty.
> At least for now the has re-taken cover in the darkness where he feels 
> most at home, busy licking his wounds and if he ever rears his ugly skull 
> again,  he'll get some more lickings and bruises from us the honourable 
> immigrants who are not like him. It's time that we took a more active 
> stance in national affairs.
>
> No frontal collision please, just discussion & constructive suggestions as 
> far as sister Sabuni is concerned. In fact I have a several page document/ 
> programme for her.
>
> What you  so appropriately term the "de-racialised "Swedish mind ( apart 
> from the neutrals and those who were/ are not racial - excluding you and 
> me - might think that to be truly integrated we have to be success 
> stories  like her, and probably have to move to  Östermalmstorg on the way 
> to heaven...
>
> I have heard more about the Kanilai holy juice than your holy and 
> inviolable constitution..which unlike the word of the Almighty , can be 
> amended or even abrogated, or is it forever and ever?
>
> Sir Momodou, are you also subscribed to this IDEA?
>
> http://www.idea.int/news/editorial_nov06.cfm
>
> http://www.idea.int/parties/pp_in_africa.cfm
>
> http://www.idea.int/americas/linking_demo.cfm
>
> I thought that you were mourning  in Banjul........to you too , cheers and 
> please shed no blood or tears...
>
> sin-cerely,
>
> zinner Cornelius
>
> PS: One of my favourite pieces of Muziki by "the triumph of the underdog" 
> , a must read...
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-46%2CGGLJ%3Aen-GB&q=The+Black+Saint+and+the+sinner+Lady&meta=
>
>
>>
>> From: Momodou S Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 2006/11/17 fr PM 03:10:07 CET
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Ämne: Re: Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
>>
>> Saint Hamelberg!
>>
>> getting stuck with issues of itegration in Swedish society would bring 
>> about
>> a frontal collision with Nyamko*. Eventhough, I think she is more pest 
>> than
>> cure, her historic appointment as Scandinavia's first ever black minister 
>> is
>> of such significance that only a "deracialised" Swedish mind could afford 
>> to
>> ignore. Even her, as reactionary as she has shown herself, needs 
>> breathing
>> space to revel in her new-found power citadel.
>>
>>  Inspite of the mud slung on her even after the elections, I still prefer
>> her to Mauricio Rojas, if for nothing else, because at least she believes 
>> in
>> her own nonsenses; a property he apparently lacks!
>>
>> I smell a whiff of paranoia that you must disown. You have neither been
>> delisted nor have your words been misinterpreted. Traffic on Gambia-l the
>> past couple of weeks has been slow, perhaps because many active debaters
>> have been severely disillusioned by the results of the recent elections 
>> in
>> Gambia - where the Opposition, behind which most of us placed our weight,
>> was severely thrashed. So we are undergoing an unofficial period of
>> mourning, from which idealists like myself are yet to pull ourselves. 
>> Oops,
>> let us just say I am meaning myself and some stockholm-based radicals!
>>
>> Oh yes, there is much too much too look into. I've heard that Tariq Ali 
>> was
>> in Malmö recently. The climate at Bantaba cannot possibly be less 
>> soothing,
>> so you need to brew litres of coffee for upcoming locks of horns, if you
>> should wish to raise your voice.
>>
>> cheers,
>> sidibeh
>>
>> [* Nyamko Sabuni, has been appointed by prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt 
>> as
>> minister for integration and gender equality. She is one of four 
>> ministers
>> hailing from the Liberal party, a member of the right-wing coalition that
>> ousted the left from power on September 17th. Nyamko Sabuni, who arrived 
>> in
>> Sweden as a twelve-year old refugee from the democratic republic of 
>> Congo,
>> is perhaps Sweden's most powerful immigrant]. Except for her politics she
>> reminds me of my own comrade-sister Ndey Jobarteh!]
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Cornelius Edward Hamelberg" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
>>
>>
>> > Thanks for the links, Momodou,
>> >
>> > I read your last mail before reading this one..
>> >
>> > I haven't received any Listserv mail since my first and last posting 
>> > and I
>> > observe that since I joined, discussions have never been standing 
>> > still,
>> > so we must be in the doldrums just now or my words have been
>> > misinterpreted and I have been taken off the list?
>> > The "donkey" business was part of an exchange of fire between warring
>> > parties on Bantaba - and here too I am aware that it's a no-no....
>> >
>> > The whole idea of "Aliens" needs looking into....
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> From: Momodou S Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> Date: 2006/11/13 må PM 12:02:38 CET
>> >> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> Ämne: Re: Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
>> >>
>> >> Sister Jabou Joh, Cornelius Hammelberg,
>> >>
>> >> Please find below a couple of links to some sites that may shed more
>> >> light
>> >> on the issue of the Timbuktu Manuscripts. One of them is an online
>> >> exhibition where texts referring to subjects as diverse as medicine 
>> >> and
>> >> politics are displayed. The general effort to preserve these texts 
>> >> dates
>> >> back a couple of years now, with quite a number of scholars, both 
>> >> African
>> >> and American, involved in different aspects of the enterprise.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali/mali-exhibit.html
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/september/timbuktu.htm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=432
>> >>
>> >>  Many thanks to you all,
>> >> sidibeh
>> >>
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