* " For example, the way you jump around here, if you were in Alumhare
someone would have fixed your Daa in a New York minute." *
Joe your above statement is killing me.
Best,
Mboge
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> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:55:52 +0000
>
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: So The Village idoits call for some respect (In Maafanta)
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Laye, your small mindedness is exposed yet again. There are thousand and
> one villagers who are not affected by Baba's masterpiece, Including myself.
> But it seems you are so petty, an independent analysis of interesting
> subjects like this stale you.
> There are countless radio station, Internet chat forums where, books are
> criticise, poems subjected to vigorous commentaries, i refer you the 'riot
> of writers', and BBC radio five live weekly book/film critics.
> I don't bothered with love poems Laye, I respect Baba thus airing my views
> on his poem. Bari as the Mandinka would say,, 'mondinya'.
> Baba should distance himself completely from those whose sole way of
> looking at broad issues is been defensive. He should also distance himself
> from the clan crowds who unfortunately try to flood this topic for pettiness
> sake. *Baba has written scores of satires, and critical pieces for over
> fifteen years, so Laye, Baba don't need your protection or defending. Carry
> on with man worshipping. *
> *I think it is good for Baba and his writings that, people analyse his
> thoughts in completely different ways. The attitude of faking accolades is
> not taking us anywhere.*
> *Thank you so so, a nice this so and so. This is nonsensical and
> buffoonery. Let us be critical with issues, and stop pretending.* Laye,
> you should have known that by now. your are incapable of winding me up. I
> looked at the poem in two separate angle, one of them been the perception it
> will have on a villagers, bearing in mind, only Baba can say for sure what
> was going on in his mind at the time of penning the poem. The obvious
> reference which is too simplistic is to look at the poem, stanza by stanza.
> I took an overall view of the piece. The piece convey to us a critical
> message. Me being a villager is not an issue. I have lived in more than four
> cities in my life including our own, therefore, why should i be jitery over
> a few line poem?
> Baba, be aware of false pretenders, they clamour to let others think for
> them, don't at all encourage them. There are those gambian writers who find
> it hard to leave out arrogance in their writings, their personal prejudices
> reflect in the smallest jot of ink drop, I have no time for those.
> *My final word on the piece is that, the usage 'idiot' was an
> exaggeration. No one is an idiot, if Yahya was an idiot he wouldn't have
> been capable of ruling us for over fifteen years with all our Buhabas and
> mister every disciplines up to today.* Therefore underestimating our
> opponents makes us all idiots. If the poem is about some erstwhile editors
> who can't seems to leave people' privacy alone, again they are not idiots,
> since they have made us all fear their dirty hands. Laye, life is not a
> simple road leading to Brikama.
> Suntou
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:14 AM, A Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Baba:
>
> I think it's time you tone down the poems a bit. The Village Idiots are
> very jittery these days. You're causing too much heartache man.....tone it
> down bro, please. Perhaps a love poem will do next time. Village Idiots are
> romantic beasts too you know...
>
> -Laye
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> Indeed, indeed Suntou. You display a very keen sense of perception in your
> insightful and deep analysis of my poem. You definitively bring a fresh new
> perspective to it and propose a discursive angle that is hard to beat. Quite
> amazing, really. That's the spirit brother. Thanks and keep those sharp
> intellectual juices flowing.
>
> Baba
>
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> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:58:40 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: So The Village idoits call for some respect (In Maafanta)
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> The poetic license you use Baba allow me to see the village setting in
> the poem as allusive. The village idiot paints a disrespectful picture. It
> further cement the unfortunate attitude some has of villagers. It is good
> that you expose to us your village roots, which is fine but sadly your poem
> is too harsh on the villager in question.
> The dissatisfaction in the poem is that, one would expect a season writer
> or commentators like yourself to be open minded and less sarcastic of your
> perceive targets. But in this case you were not.
> The villager who may have incur your wrapt is place in and among the union
> of villagers and bashed for crimes only you felt the pain about.
> I am only expressing my take on the poem. I am sure you willl allow for
> diverse analysis of it, since that is the essence of dropping it in the
> public.
> Another vital area villagers will find discouraging is that, a man of your
> statue is fit to become a broad base leader, but if your ink depict a
> villager that tragic way, what hope should they have of Baba salvaging
> anything for them.
> The poem is bigger than the few line Baba. Villagers continue to say, the
> setting was unhelpful. The villager in question may be guilty according to
> you, since we can only assume here, only you are sure. Is Yahya Jammeh
> indeed a villager? Are we villagers any more, yourself and all of us
> absconded villagers. The story continuous.
> No offense intended.
> Suntou
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> Suntou,
>
> I am surprised at your interpretation of my poem as an assault on
> villagers. I wonder where on earth you got the idea that I am calling all
> villagers idiots. Let me just say loud and clear that I am a villager, my
> father is a villager, and my mother is a villager. So are all my
> grandparents and great grandparents. Indeed, I come from an ancestry of
> villagers. That said, I will let you put the pieces together.
>
> Baba
>
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> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:40:55 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: So The Village idoits call for some respect (In Maafanta)
>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> *The latest Poem of Brother Gallah at Maafanta can be slice in many
> different bits. Moreso using poetic license to allow for different
> interpretation. Our famous villager is Yahya Jammeh. But this poem is not at
> all an affair for Yahya. We the villagers demand that, town folks allow
> us the respect we deserve. An end to little assault on villagers. Village
> idoit, indeed, they may have read the masters avoid the obvious. treating
> light weights issues with magic pens. Indirecting continuously whilst aiming
> higher. I say, respect to villagers.*
> *www.maafanta.com*
> **
> *And so the tears flowed….*
> *by Baba Galleh Jallow*
>
> And so the tears flowed
> For the death of the children
> Conceived in the throes of anger
> Born into the arms of fear
> Strangled by the claws of evil
> Clad in garments of prickly good!!
>
> And so the tears flowed
> At the demise of honest thought
> At the rape of the people’s intellect
> The bastardization of love and piety
> The ascendancy of slimy rot
> Donning the robes of high order!!
>
> And so the tears flowed
> At the passing of the truthful bard
> At the era of the village idiot
> Turned saint
> At the specter of the mean village crook
> Turned champion defender of the poor!!
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