In a message dated 3/10/03 1:14:10 PM Central Standard Time,
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> No, Satang's memory should not be the object of an injurious economics of
> vote-counting in an assembly where loyalty is worth a cynical 100,000
> dalasi.
>
> Satang Jobarteh's life, her struggles, her travails, her triumphs belong to
> the Gambian people. Her life is part of the narratives that make up our
> history, that shapes our memory; those things we narrate to generations yet
> unborn; we take pride in, we cherish because they tell the world who we are
> and what stories we own, what sorrows we carry, what songs we sing.
> A cynic, Oscar Wilde holds, is a person who knows the price of everything
> but the value of nothing. Every Gambian, even those members of  the
> National Assembly with wooden hearts, know that Satang Jobarteh's memory is
> priceless.
>

Brother Momodou Sidibeh,

It could not have been better said by anyone.
Satangs' life, courage and her work is indeed priceless, and does not and
will not be measured by a begrudged moment of silence in a Parliament
composed of many who  seem not to understand their role and responsibility to
 the people, much less appreciate the likes of Satang Jobarteh. It is too bad
that her life and work on behalf of the People was not cherished while she
came in to occupy that seat in the Paliarment chambers. There is no doubt
that she will be honoured by her country "a too little too late  and
begridged" recognition in Parliament notwithstanding." That is something that
no one can take away from her, even in death.


Jabou Joh

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