Oko,
Extend our heartfelt condolences and sympathies on the sad demise of our
brother Musa Sey. He was a very friendly person. To Allah ( SWT ) we all
belong and to Him is our return. May his soul rest in perfect peace. Aameen
!
El-Mustapha Fye & Family
Uppsala - Sweden
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From: "oko drammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Gambian Educator Musa Sey Passes Away
> AbdouKarim, Thanks,
> For good people like Musa Sey they deserve praises. He spend most of his
> time encouraging young scholars inventors and composers and that's how we
> meet on the Ifangbondi trail. He used to invite me to the Apolo hotel,
> Talk Of The Town, Sahara Night with his Famous Friends like Njie Sahara,
> Late Dunda Mr. Alkali Jarju, Ebou Janha Jew, Comrade Sillah and Koto
> Chikim and sometimes Saihou Ceesay They were the generous gang of
> intellectuals and open-hearted Gambias. They gave away everything they had
> to the common people. We should call them the Pitifuls.Everything they
> had, they gave away to help.
> He spoke the most dramatic English langauge especially when he would meet
> with brother and friend Foday Jarjussey. I lived with Foday at Kelebess in
> Bakau Wassulung kunda together with Jali Nyama Suso and Samson Gassama so
> I do see Musa almost everyday after work (5pm-6pm) and we would go to
> Sambous bar together with the Legend ,although Jali Nyama (RIP). After
> this meeting we would end our eveings with Ifangbondi singing the Fula
> song i.e: Yolele, Njando Faro ( Simba nam) and Kange- Kalis.The social
> life of Mussa Sey was a full force.
> A whole book can be written on this note.
> But as in Music so in life.
> ALL THINGS MUST PASS.
> Oko Drammeh
> A Friend and brother
>
> ABDOUKARIM SANNEH <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Oko
> Thanks for such a good remark and anyone who knows Teacher will give the
> same remark. He is full of life and character and thus care about people
> around him. Bala is a man of culture, so love his pularr and Basse for
> that matter. I was very very sad this morning to learnt about his death.
> May his soul rest in perfect peace.
>
> oko drammeh wrote:
> Sad News Indeed,My condolences to his friends, students and family
> members.
> Musa Sey, Yai Seete, Yai Jubay.
> He was a good friend and brother and one of the big fans, big sponsor and
> of Ifangbondi and Gelewarr and the Afro Manding Sounds. A goodman indeed.
> I have my good days with him, a very remarkable character.
> May his soul resat in perfect peace.
> Oko Drammeh
> From Amsterdam
>
> ABDOUKARIM SANNEH wrote: It is really a sad news. My condolences to the
> rest of his family. May his soul rest in peace.
>
> bailo jallow wrote:
>
> BY EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
> The sudden and shocking death has been announced of Musa Amadou Sey,
> veteran Gambian educator and public administrator. Musa Sey or Bala as he
> was affectionately called, died today (Monday December, 17th.2007) and was
> laid to rest this evening at his native Basse. For the past year Bala was
> battling a sickness that saw him hospitalized at the Royal Victoria
> Hospital Sanatorium (locally called Wencho) for a few months. He recovered
> and was discharged, returned to Basse where he peacefully passed away.
> Born in cosmopolitan Basse in the late 1940s, Musa attended the village
> primary school in colonial Gambia from where he proceeded to Armitage High
> School in George Town in the McCarthy Island Division. At armitage Musa
> was a trailblazer noted for his charisma, camaraderie and captivating
> brilliance that endeared him to both staff and students. He exhibited a
> keen application to academics and was noted for his quick wit and
> marvelous grasp of the English Language recalls his good friend and
> brother, Miami University Political Science Professor Dr. Abdoulaye Saine.
> In debates, seminars and symposia, Bala brought the best out of his sharp
> intellect and left Armitage High ever grateful for the resounding sense of
> success. Musa Bala was a debater per excellence; one of the most brilliant
> Gambians I know remarks a devastated soft-spoken Professor Saine.
> When Musa wrote the School Certificate Examinations in the early, 1960s,
> he climaxed to the Yundum Teachers' College and after a year, he proceeded
> to the Sixth Form at The Gambia High School, the only class in the entire
> nation. From The Gambia high school he was destined for greater academic
> heights and so he matriculated to the prestigious Ile Ife University in
> the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the tutelage of Professor Wole
> Soyinka who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He read
> Linguistics and English Language graduating with highest honours returning
> home with the golden fleece; a very unpretentious being yet one with a
> penchant for intellectual discourse. In the gallery of Gambian
> intellectuals, Musa Sey will be remembered as a very fine mind, a peculiar
> creed, a towering personality, an intimidating disposition with little
> patience for stupidity especially, with those who spoke and wrote wrong
> English.
> The last time I saw him in 1995, he had as always, a copy of the latest
> edition of Readers' Digest.
> He was the premiere Administrative Officer at the African Center for
> Democracy & Human Rights Studies and had worked at various others offices
> and establishments that almost all knew him. Musa Sey taught English
> Language at The Gambia College, and at almost all the premiere high
> schools in the country-Saint Augustine's, Gambia High, Muslim High and
> Armitage. In 1992, he briefly served as Editor of The Gambia Daily
> Observer. He once served as Deputy Divisional Commissioner under the late
> NIA Chief Daba Marena at his native Basse. Two loving daughters, Yaya Sey,
> 17 and Yawureh Sey, 13 survive Musa Sey. May the Almighty God grant Musa
> Sey's gentle, loving and caring soul eternal peace in Heaven. Given the
> larger than large life Musa Sey lived, and his great contributions towards
> Gambian education, I would borrow these immortal lines for his tombstone:
> "Tanto nomini nullum par eloguim"
> posted @ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:02 AM by egsankara
> The above article was culled from the Gambia Echo on-line newspaper
> Musa Sey was one of the most dedicated educationists that there ever would
> be in our nation. He loved imparting knowledge to others with a sense of
> humour and fun. He was a strict diplinarian at Armitage and a great source
> of assurance to all students.
>
> May his soul dwell forever in the gardens of jannah. Amen!
>
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