Oko cannot respond, because else were he claim his email is hacked. He lost
control over the email account.       That reminds me. "A deposed champion
wrestler always have an excuse."  Fantasy and brinkmanship. Suntou
On 19 Jul 2013 17:49, "Badou Jobe" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  *Oko's Kunta Kinteh Agenda*
>
> We, Ifang Bondi, never had anything to do with Alex Haley.
>
> Haley never worked with Ifang Bondi into(?) his Roots project and he never
> invited us to make some of the music.
>
> We were never asked by the American Embassy to promote Kunta Kinteh in the
> USA.
>
> We never had any ambition to be part of Alex Haley's or Oko's dreams of
> transforming *all of gambia into Kunta Kinteh-USA- Africa meeting point
> for history culture & education.*
>
> We never had any intention to express our artistic vision on Roots, The
> Gambia & Kunta Kinteh.
>
> In short, we were never part of Oko's Kunta Kinteh agenda.
>
> We belonged to those Gambians who didn't remember Kunta Kinteh, simply
> because Kunta Kinteh never existed.
>
> Everyone knew that the Kunta Kinteh story was fiction, even worse, that
> Haley stole the Kunta Kinteh story from another novel "African" by
> Courlander, who promptly took him to court. In the end Haley had to pay him
> $ 650,000 in damages. Other scholars proved that more of Haley's claims
> were fake. Check Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley  / "Plagiarism
> dispute and other criticism"
>
> The Gambia owes Haley for the creation of a major tourist attraction, but
> Kunta Kinteh has no more links with the reality as Walt Disney's Snow White
> has.
>
> James Island was renamed after a fake character fabricated by an American
> writer who ripped it off from yet another American writer.
>
> "*What use to be a source of Shame in is now acceptable norm in the
> gambia.*" Indeed.
>
> Badou Jobe
>
>
>
> KUNTA KINTEH
>
> Alex Haley worked with Ifangbondi into his ROOTS PROJECT and invited the
> band to make some of the music. Senemie was contacted and Samson Gassama,
> Badou andyself with the American Embassy planned on promoting Kunta Kinteh
> in The USA. The Jealous reign of that time buried the dreams of Alex Haley
> because we wre going to be in the mix. All of gambia was going to
> transformed into a Kunta Kinteh- USA-Africa meeting point for history
> culture & education together with Goree & Elmina in Ghana. Our artists are
> not given chance to express thier artistic vision on Roots, the Gambia &
> Kunta Kinteh and much more. [----- ] You know  more to do with James Island
> & Kunta Kinteh than a by-passer. We have a Kunta Kinteh agenda.BUT Who
> remembers Kunta Kinbteh, only Gambians. this isld news, we have to reinvent
> it and repackage it.
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