Sidi:
Thanks for mentioning Professor Haswell and her contribution and
friendship with The Gambia and Gambians.  She also made her mark. It was
only last night that Dr. Nyang and I were discussing, over the phone,
another friend of The Gambia, Professor David Gamble( who speaks
Mandinka and Wollof fluently).  Frankly, many scholars who are/were
friends of The Gambia come to mind.  Harry Gailey, the popular (Pa) Van
der Plas, Charlotte Quinn, who has written extensively on "The Mandingo
Kingdoms of Senegambia", Claude Welch, Jr., Peter Weil, who also wrote
on the "Mandinka Mansaya" and many more.

Please note that it is Professor Wiseman and not Arnold Hughes who was
diagnosed with cancer.  Also, accept my condolence on the passing of
your loved one.

Abdoulaye

Sidi Sanneh wrote:
>
> While we pay tribute to Professors Wiseman and Hughes, we should also
> recognise the scholarly works of yet another friend of The Gambia, the late
> Prof. Margaret Haswell a social anthropologist/economist. She has written
> extensively on rural development and devouted a good part of her academic
> life to the study of the village of Geineri(LRD). Her long association with
> and study of Geineri started in 1947; then a student. This remarkable
> British lady has left an indelible mark on the village of Geineri and to
> many a life in rural Gambia. I owe her a debt of gratitute for teaching me
> how to put a human face to the numbers. To Arnold Hughes, I pray for a
> remission of this horrible illness.
> sidi sanneh
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