Hamjatta

Why on earth do you imagine that I'm referring to you? This really beats my
imagination. As I explained to Saul in a private conversation, 'Kangtei' was
meant to translate in Mandinka 'he who breaks his word, his promises'. And
'Tulubay' was meant to translate 'all ears' - he who hears everything. A few
days after that particular story came out, Soffie Ceesay asked me what the
names meant and I gave her this same explanation. She can testify to this.
That was days before Kujabi's tirade and your wrong allegations against me.
I had called God to witness me earlier today that I'm not writing about you
or anyone else on the L. Why do you insist that I am? You really are being
very unfair to me. Let me tell you one thing, please, never ever confront me
with this allegation in public. Please. I still have lots of respect for you
and for the last time, Hamjatta, I AM NOT WRITING ABOUT YOU OR ANYONE ON THE
L. OK?
Baba


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: MR. KNOW-ALL LAYS A PLAN
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:28:18 EST
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>saul,
>because i hold you in high esteem and look up to you [as i did to baba
>once], i will respond to this hiccup. as to the mail to kujabi, yes they
>are the words i use to everyone who call or raise concern about what was up
>to. see, saul you are one of the smartest and honest gambians i've come
>across but on this one you won't see it cos [and this is to paraphrase an
>obscure satirist who taught on deconstruction as a literary tool] when a
>good satirist satires, legally none can find them culpable of anything.
>guess what they are attacking an individual but generalising with such
>sublety that they are the only ones who can tell who they refer. but, aha,
>those who have been there and done that can figure it out. baba is perhaps
>the most gifted young gambian writer around. but he has his shortcomings:
>by his admission, he is petty and doesn't easily forgive. baba has never
>forgiven me for questioning an editorial his paper wrote way back in 2000.
>i know baba well enough to tell you t!
>hat he is no quitter; and when h
>e announces he is quitting upon being found out, believe me he knows what i
>said is true. of course he will deny it, and as my satirist tutor would
>point out, none can legally find him culpable of anything. because - guess
>what? - he was referring to everyone and none.
>as it is, i'm trying to come up with an appropriate response to the pdois
>statement; i just saw your message and feel compelled to reply to you.
>other than that, i would keep saying to what i say to everyone in private:
>baba is referring to none other than myself and else and going by what he
>keeps throwing at me, this is simply beyond him as a brother. now, i could
>have come after baba in public. i grant i'm no match when it comes to
>writing a satire; but by god i could be muddying this place with
>un-necessary polemic that is best devoted to the enemy. so i will resort to
>saying in private what i intimated to kujabi. had you called me recently, i
>would have lodged a complaint and sought advice, since on the face of it
>you are mates.
>saul, as i said to ron ealier last week, gambia-l is not a laundrette to
>launder the dirty linen of mates. i will not go down that drain. let baba
>continue to have his laughs at afang kangtei, when fate has it and we see
>again, i will tell him publicly my anguish and disappointment in his
>lampooning of a junior who used to hold in high esteem.
>saul, brother i thank you for your intervention.
>wishing you all the best,
>hamjatta kanteh
>
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