Thank you very much Malik Kah this is nothing but the whole truth .No one
will be able to say it any better than you did .
Luntang
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From: malik kah <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: Is Senghor a true son of Africa or not?
> As we ponder about the demise of Leopold Senghore, it is right that we
> subject him to a discour for Zeng belong to a breed of politicians that
will
> always intrests us Africans. After all these were the protagonists that
> fashioned the foreign as well as the socio-economic policies whose effect
we
> still live with, hence what they stood for and what things they said is as
> much relivant now as it was then.
>
> It is apparent that Senghore was opposed to Senegals indepence as oppose
to
> the aspirations of the people at the time. He was one of those success
> samples of the french policy of assimilados, he was what was termed then
as
> coconut, black from the outside but white in the inside. His whole
> comportment was white hence he earned the admiration and support of the
> French establishment.
>
> This was Senghores oulook and at this point in time the wind of change was
> fast blowing in Africa, the people were demanding the right to self rule
and
> a genuine independce, hence it was very important for the colonial masters
> to have loyal servants to whom they can entrust their administration
without
> hinderance, where they failed to cultivate such proteges they engaged in
> bloody battles to subjugate the people into submission. A lot of people
> confronted the colonial masters, hence they preffered to die as matyrs
and
> patriots than be subjugated. A lot of genuine Sons and Daugthers were
> executed, those obstinate ones that survived and led their people to
> Independence were sanctioned and turned into pariah states. Infact many
of
> them through dirty plots hatched by the colonialists were either murdered
> or overthrown. It was in such a climate that Senghore was the darling of
> the colonial masters hence he was a suspect collaborator and this was
> important because the colonial masters needed alliances to continue their
> presence so as to justify their involvement in the internal affairs of our
> countries, with the likes of Senghore they were using Senegal as a
> launching pad.
>
> This is why Senghore's acts needs to be put in a historical context, yes
he
> was highly educated, well respected academic but that does not exonerate
his
> policies for it was people like him that has mortgaged the future the
> consequence of which we now live with .
>
> The arrangements and self intrests that manifested at this embryonic stage
> of nation building has left us poorer and weaker and being one of those
> principal architects he must be remembered differently by the radical
> African, the ones that had called for a programme of independence and not
> dependence. The road championed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nkurumah, Saikou
> Touray, Modibo Keita as well as Patrick Lumumba is well documented it
> testifies to the intrests that were being defended by their
contemporaries.
> In fact the blue print of their calling is what EUROPE is now implementing
> in full, from monetary union to military as well as trade and economics.
> These people were ahead of their time at a time when Senghore was being
> celebrated as a poet laureate these people were carving and strategising
the
> future of the continent. No wonder they were feared by the colonial
masters,
> the respect they commanded was evident, wherever, they appeared in Europe
> the media would follow every utterance they made. These people can never
be
> forgotten, after all Senghore before he passed out was nearly forgotten.
> History has absolved Nkrumah, so whatever critics may say, on balance he
> contributed more to the African conciousness than any of us or Senghore
may
> ever do. Their roles were different one was loved by the African people,
the
> other by the Europeans, take you position and define yourself.
>
> He went for dependency and got all the support and now all that support
> turned out to be the debt that is slowly strangling. With such an approach
> Senghore must be ranked amongst those that failed us.
>
> >From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Is Senghor a true son of Africa or not?
> >Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:49:05 +0000
> >
> >You see, you do use your head sometimes. It sometimes seems that we are
> >programmed in such a way that any view that is unconventional is to be
> >dismissed as lacking merit or irrelevant. For example, people would
rather
> >remember Kwami Nkrumah for his speeches and vision rather than the way he
> >tried to implement that vision. Nobody, in his right mind, would deny the
> >fact that Dr. Kwami Nkrumah was both an intellectual and a visionary. But
> >try to talk about his short-comings and you are labelled "Anti-Nkrumah".
> >The
> >fact remains that Dr. Kwami Nkrumah was one of the first dictators that
> >Post
> >colonial Africa
> >produced. It is also a fact that one of the most repressive legislations
> >ever passed in any country in Africa was the Preventative Detension Act
> >(PDA). This piece of thrash was used by Nkrumah and those close to him or
> >in
> >uniform to jail inocent people for indefinite periods just because they
> >dared ask where the country was heading. Instead of explaining his vision
> >of
> >Ghana to those who were better placed/equiped to implement them, he
treated
> >them as insurbodinate anarchists. This is were President Jammeh differs
> >from
> >the rest of those Pan-Africanists. You people may not believe it now, but
> >time will tell.
> >
> >Have a good day, Gassa.
> >
> >
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