Hi, Saiks happy new year to you, Sister Ndye, and Baa Sambou. Tell Ndye I
heard her message in my phone and was awaiting to hear again, any way give
all of them my best wishes Ba Sambou in particular.

>From: saikss <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Is Senghor a true son of Africa or not?
>Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:43:44 +0100
>
>Dyda,
>
>Fanon wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Sealed into that crushing objecthood,I turned beseechingly to
>others.Their
>attention was a liberation,running over my body suddenly abraded into
>nonbeing,endowing me once more with an agibility that I thought lost,and by
>taking me out of the world,restoring me to it.But just as I reched the
>other
>side,I  stumbled,and the movements,the attitudes,the glances of  the other
>fixed me there,in the sense in which a chemical solution is fixed by a
>dye.I
>was ingignant;I demanded an explaination.Nothing happened.I burst apart.Now
>the fragments have been put together again by another self……"
>
>It was not the African people who were looking for recognition from the
>White.
>For them it was a question of the right to self-determination. It was the
>responsibility and duty of the White to recognised and respect what is
>different from them.
>  However Seng, like many of his counterparts did fought to get this
>recognition, one, their contribution in mastering and advancing the
>Culture;
>the literature, the Lanuage, the philosophy etc of the White man, has been
>of
>great significance, Seng will always be remembered for such a great role.
>It was no accident, or intellectual inferior complex why Anta Jobe insisted
>that had Seng understood the great African civilisations were built by men
>of
>great minds he would not have attributed the ability to think to one race
>but
>understand that it is human. Negritude lived to demand recognisation from
>the
>White Man and this was not the agenda of the African people and thus this
>Ideology as a political movement lived to exist only in the heads of its
>founders.
>Yes it is true that when we have to judge the importance of a political
>party
>in terms of the number of seats they have in parliament then LDMPT,Ande
>Jeff,
>etc will be of little significance. But if we are to see politics from a
>wider
>perspective, away from that narrow definition then we will see the
>importance
>of these parties in the political development of Senegal. After Seng, the
>involvement of these Political parties, he banned, proved that Senegal was
>denied the contribution of some of the greatest minds in Senegal.Infact if
>they happen to be able to win only one seat, it is democratic for those who
>voted for them to be represented by those they voted for. The fact that
>they
>were invited to the reconciliation governement, with LDMPT having two
>ministerial posts, shows that it is far from the truth that these were
>insignificant political parties in Senegal.Ande Jeff played, perhaps the
>greatest role in bringing and holding alive the coalition of opposition
>parties that brought the PS government out of power. For almost 15 years
>Ande
>Jeff have been struggling to hold this alliance together with all the
>contradictions that were involved. This is the very reason why all these
>political parties are over seeing important ministerial post as Works and
>Communication.Seng had a great problem in handling his opponent, he was
>very
>brutal, no compromise, he will also be remembered. The role and position of
>these political parties, since after Abdou Joof lifted the ban on them
>proved
>that there banning was undemocratic.
>I never said that Seng was able stop the Gambia from getting independence,
>he
>could never do so, there was no power on earth that could stop the Gambian
>masses from gaing their Independence, and they were very determind. What I
>said was that he worked against the Independence of the Gambia. That he was
>more interested in having the Gambia been part of Senegal. Even the cross
>boarder attacked on poor, defenceless Gambian farmers by the Senegalese
>army
>was seen as a deliberate effort to provoke a military conflict that would
>give
>the Senegalese army and explanation to invade the Gambia.
>If the Senegalese army participated in the Liberation war in Guinea Bissau
>it
>was not to help the PAIGC to liberate the conutry. The Senegalese army
>killed
>and short at PAIGC arm forces. I have since been marking consultation on
>your
>assertion that Senegalese forces were fighting together with the Liberation
>forces without any success. What is known is that Seng have been given
>support
>to the known anti PAIGC party who were based in Senegal, thanks to the
>efforts
>of the Bissauian people, Savimbi never emerged in this spart of the
>continent.
>In fact many are saying that the tension between these two countries are as
>a
>result of the role that Senegal was playing in that war.
>Wishing you and all at the POINT a happy new year.
>
>For Freedom
>Saiks
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >===== Original Message From The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]> =====
> >Deyda, I think you are missing the point about Seng. The issue about
>Seng.
> >Is not about the platitude of the philosophy or doctrine of negritude,
>far
> >From it. After all Seng. Lived in an era when black people all over the
> >World were struggling for recognition, hence the slogans "black is
> >Beautiful" "black power" am "black
>
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