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>From: sulayman Nyang <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: OBITUARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:48:21 -0700
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>Dear Colleagues:
>                 I am writing to announce the sudden
>death of our good friend and brother Alhaji Bai Abi
>Phall. He died suddenly on Monday at Laurel Hospital,
>Montgomery County, Maryland. For those of you who do
>not know much about this brother, let me give you a
>brief account of his life and times:
>
>
>                    OBITUARY
>
>                Alhaji Bai abi Phall: A Gambian Who
>                Labored Hard for his Contemporaries
>
>
>              Alhaji Bai Abi Phall has returned to his
>Creator. Like those before us he too has taken the
>path which all of us will eventually take. During his
>life he went through the stages of socialization most
>young Gambians of the colonial era experienced. The
>son of Pa Essa Faal, a private contractor whose
>reputation among the colonial Gambians was far and
>wide. His father earned the distinction of being the
>Gambian contractor who built more wharves than any
>other contractor. Throughout the Provinces the name
>Essa Faal was known among many villagers and
>townspeople. Young Bai Abi shared this commitment to
>public service with his father. He joined the Boy
>Scouts of the Gambia and excelled in many ways. Later
>he became a member of the Zegoza, one of the earliest
>Gambian youth groups projecting a modern outlook in
>mode of dress and social activism. It was groups like
>this that pioneered much of the changes that many
>Gambian youths now take for granted. What later came
>to be known in the provinces as Kompinos were in many
>ways modelled after these urban-based youth groups.
>           Mr. Phall attended the Methodist Boys High
>School in Banjul. After finishing his education he
>joined that small but growing caravan of aspiring
>Gambians who went to the United Kingdom for higher
>education. He studied the medical and health sciences
>and worked in England for many years as a physician's
>assistant. He emigrated to the United States of
>America in 1969 and worked at the Washington Hospital
>Center in Washington, D.C. Bai abi Phall was one of
>the first Gambians who emigrated to the United States.
>After almost five years in the United States of
>America he decided to answer the call of duty and
>returned to the Gambia. He was one the first team of
>teachers to open the Gambia School of Public Health in
>Banjul. During his tenure at this institution he
>gained fame and recognition among Gambians not only
>for his dedicated services to the community but his
>radio broadcasts on health and medical issues in the
>country.
>          Alhaji Bai Abi Phall spent many years in the
>Gambian Civil Service. During his years of service he
>became known to almost all his contemporaries. He was
>definitely a man who gave much of himself to others.
>He gave medicine to the sick, school lunch money to
>the youth and fish money to relatives,friends and
>neighbors. In classical  Wolof terminology he would
>have been described as Samba yek nyep. This is to say,
>he was someone who cares for most if not all who came
>his way.
>            Alhaji Bai Abi Phall whose last name is
>spelt differently from his cosuins(the Faals) in
>Banjul and elsewhere in the Gambia, took this decision
>to assert his independence and to capture phonetically
>the sound of his name which many of his American and
>British friends confuse with the English verb fall. He
>is survived by his wife Hania and five daughters. May
>his soul rest in peace. We express our condolences to
>the family and to the in-laws, Habib Ghanim, Ghanim
>Diab of Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, Kathleen and Fatwa,
>Amira Diab Jagne and all others in Gambia, Lebanon,
>United States of America and elsewhere.
>
>
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