Soffie, thank you for this wonderful tribute to Satang.  Our responsibility
as lovers of progress is to pick up from where she left off to reach her
intended destination - liberation of the youth, women, and those at the
bottom of our society.  We cannot be tired now, for we have a big task ahead
of us.  Let us continue to push for change, as she did to her end.  If we
were fighting at 100%, let us increase out effort to 150% and more until our
task is accomplished - getting rid of the AFPRC for good.  Satang may not
have physically reached the promised land with us, but we as a people will
reach there with Satang if we continue to fight as she did.  I did not know
her personally, but have read and followed her works and the many kind words
and tribute to her legacy is a clear testimony of what she stood for.  The
struggle continues.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou






>From: "Ceesay, Soffie" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>Subject: Thanking You
>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:58:18 -0800
>
>On behalf of Satang's family and on behalf of all those who looked up to
>her
>as a model for what and how they can contribute to a better society in the
>Gambia and the world over, thank you.  Thank you for the words, the
>feelings, and the support.  Satang will live in our hearts and in our
>conduct as we pick up from where she left off.  Her work and her writings
>speak to who this woman was and I am honored to have known her, however
>briefly.  I wish and I wish and I wish for so many things that we could
>have
>done together, with her guiding me, us, everyone, to help bring about the
>kinds of opportunities for our women and youth that we yearn.  She acted
>and
>she was effective.  She has touched so many lives.
>
>To those who still support the AFPRC and think they are good for the
>country, take your blinders off.  They are a source of grief for all
>forward
>thinking Gambians and have been the number one source of grief to my
>departed sister.  The harassment and the threats from the NIA as well as
>the
>taunts added to her stress no end.  Her position has always been to help
>Gambia's disenfranchised secure a chair at the policy table and for that
>the
>AFPRC and the NIA targeted her.
>
>Well, her work, which was her life, will not be in vain.
>
>Again, thank you.
>
>Soffie B. Ceesay
>
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