Karalang and habib,

Thanks for your comments on the above subject, but this was actually an old
posting, about a month ago. I don't have a clue how it resurfaced.

Ebrima Ceesay,
birmingham, UK.


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>Subject: Re: Directory of Progressive Gambian Intellectuals
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:05:19 EDT
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>Ceesay,
>        Your idea of  a directory of progressive Gambian Intellectuals is
>laudable.But I am not comfortable with the word 'progressive' in the title
>of
>your directory.
>       The word 'progressive' is both loaded and connotative.In the heydays
>of
>a the bi-polar world (not to say Cold War) which  is  now a phenomenon of
>the
>past,the word was used to refer to people with leftist leanings,
>intellctuals
>or not.And I don't think that the word has yet lost this meaning.By the
>same
>token you don't want to tell me that all the Gambian intellectual yor going
>to put in this directory,including you ,are of the left.
>         As a suggestion, you should perhaps omit the word to avoid this
>implied controversy.
>
>                                   KOLI TENGELA
>
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