Oko D!

Sorry for the blunder I made putting your private message to me online. I
actually began replying to you privately but when I mentioned Dr. Saine's
name, decided to change the address and send to the L instead. In the
process I forgot to delete the message at the bottom.

Very sorry! I always keep private messages private.

Regards,

Kabir


"Amadu Kabir Njie" <[log in to unmask]>



> Hi Oko!
>
> I have read part of your posting; not bad but I think you missed the
> reporter's point by a wide margin. I always try as, practically as
possible,
> to separate the message from the messenger.
>
> What the guy tried to do is reproduce what rappers in Dakar claim; that
rap
> (taasu and kebbetu) originated from West Africa and their rapping only
means
> that rap has finally returned home, to which I entirely agree. Tuut Njie,
> Yamundow Jobe, etc., and those before them, are testimony to that.
>
> Dr. Saine once wrote on Gambia-L that even the origins of jazz has been
> traced to West Africa. That it is the word 'jahass' that has been
corrupted
> into the name jazz!
>
> Did you know that in present-day Cuba there is still 'Kankurang' with
> 'jafoo' and cutlasses, danced the same way we do in The Gambia? Or that
> Yoruba dances and songs are still alive there centuries after being
brought
> there by kidnapped Africans?
>
> So though rap in its present form may have originated in New York, the
fact
> still remains that Africans have rapped for centuries.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kabir.
>
>

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