Oko,
I hope you did not see my mail as hypocritical, by asking both of you to
bury the issue on the G-L, or to forget about it, or to take it privately. I
made the comments for the sake of peace! I fully respect your position, and
has nothing to say about it. The brotherly relationship I mentioned cannot
be wiped out between our families, as you honestly know that, it is not
fabricated. Badou has played the game of draught with me on so many
occassions, since my childhood at Potty Njie`s home. So, we always call each
other " Chuneh " and " Bawdor " as a joke between us. The respect I have for
both of you prompted me to intervene in the issue, with a clean heart. As I
said at the end of my previous mail, I am sincerely apologizing, if I may
have offended any of you about my comments.
Thanks
Elhadj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oko Drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: The Conspiration of Paps Touray
> I would like to make one or two points clear before I freeze from the
> story of the music of the gambia, past, present and future, which
> includes Ifangbondi and the legend Paps Touray.
>
> I will freeze this subject because of respectful means to some of you
> people out there who want me to bury the subject.
>
> One point clear here is that I quoted that Paps Touray was a friend of
> Leopold Sidar Senghore, this was a fact. This has nothing to do with me
> personally, I am not a writer, I am not a friend of Senghore, nor do I
> kow him personally. Ideologically, I am a Krumaist and a Toureist. It is
> strange to see this line as an answer or a response to the important and
> progressive points I submitted for debate on the net.
>
> For all of you who want me to write more about the story of the gambian
> music, past, present and future, I will find other means to publish
> these materials , either in book or Cd or whatever, but it is a story
> that's worth knowing, as a means of information and education. To say
> 'stop the information' or 'kill the information', it is unwise, except
> when they are untrue or undiciplined and unfounded. But to have a
> genuine music industry in the gambia but to have a music industry with a
> marketable economy, we have to follow the patterns of the past to shape
> the future. We cannot build the future without knowing the past.
>
> It is hypocritical to say that we are all brothers and sisters and that
> we must not talk amongst ourselves but keep our mouths shut and leave
> things the way they are and everything is fine. Africa has been going on
> too long in this trend. We need a new approach to our problems and
> frustrations, in a respectful and intelligent way, for the way forward.
>
>
> Oko Drammeh
> sotokoto music
>
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