Mr. Gassama,
I understand where Hamjatta is coming from. In fact I think I know a cousin
of his who used to live in this same area I live in the hood of WV.I have
never met him, but another Gambian who used to be here and now in NY told me
about him. May be he know a Mr. Kuyateh who also went to scvhool from here.
There are a few Gambians around where I live, but I have no doubt that there
are some who might be able to testify to who I am. brininging Ambassador Sey
to the picture and his family is really going to low below the belt. This
would not discourage me.
I am gald that none of the List managers tried to unsubscribe me because of
my words to Mr. Kanteh. If this small boy not even from the hatch yet is
trying to go low on Essa through me, I say to him to think twice. Being a
baby is not an excuse to be foul.

Lamin Ceesay.


>From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Attn: ESSA BOKARI SEY
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:40:57 +0000
>
>Hamjatta,
>
>Even if Lamin Ceesay is Essa Bokar Sey, why bring his family and broken
>marriage into the picture? For God's sake engage the guy like a man and not
>stoop this low to make your point.
>
>Have a good day, Gassa.
>
>>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Attn: ESSA BOKARI SEY
>>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:39:29 EDT
>>
>>Prince,
>>
>>Of course, "Lamin Ceesay" or "Lams Ceesay" is the new nom de guerre of
>>Essa
>>Bokarr Sey - our newly DEMOTED Ambassador to Taiwan. Unbeknownst to Essa,
>>i
>>deliberately paraded his DEMOTION just to kick him in the guts so he will
>>resort to mouthing obscenities and the rest of the mumbo jumbo he is so
>>fond
>>of rambling when he is feeling psychotic. You see of all the APRC
>>operatives,
>>Essa, arguably, has the worst form of ACUTE INFERIORITY COMPLEX
>>psychiatrists
>>would ever prescribe for anyone. Perhaps the only individual that can
>>rival
>>him for that crown would have to be Jammeh himself. That in itself should
>>help explain why Essa and Jammeh are such close buddies....birds of the
>>same
>>feather, as the adage goes, will invariably stick together! Thus i
>>calculated
>>in my mind that if i dared make mention of Essa's DEMOTION - from being
>>Gambia's Ambassador to France to the lowly post of Ambassador to Taipei -
>>he
>>would go beserk and say things that will ultimately unmask him. And boy
>>did
>>my calculation get it so right!
>>
>>Most importantly, his reaction merely helped confirm to me a story of
>>friend
>>mine once told me about Essa Bokarr Sey. This friend of mine - as it
>>happens,
>>a distant relative of Essa's - told me that subsequent to Essa's
>>appointment
>>as Gambia's new ambassador to France, the first thing he did was to
>>divorce
>>his first wife of many years with whom he had some children. What was this
>>poor woman's crime - if any? Her crime, as it happened, turned out to be
>>one
>>of perception: that she wasn't of the right pedigree or stock to partner
>>an
>>ambassador. See, Essa reckoned that this woman is an unrefined commoner
>>who
>>wouldn't fit into the role of an ambassador's wife and or properly help
>>him
>>carry out his ambassadorial chores which, of course, includes entertaining
>>the creme de la creme of your host nation and the diplomatic corps of that
>>country. In a nutshell, Essa thought that his old wife is what we would
>>call
>>in Gambian slang a "local" - any Gambian knows how socially condescending
>>and
>>dismissive this social parlance can be, especially as it relates to
>>"class"
>>and status in society. How this woman could be an unrefined commoner
>>without
>>class, i never fully fathomed. Or rather, i never bothered to ask my
>>friend.
>>
>>A speculation, therefore, is well in order. It may well be the case that
>>Essa's first marriage was a traditionally arranged one with a native of
>>Kuntaya who in his imagination doesn't fit into the class category of
>>sophistication and refinement; qualities he seemed to believe an
>>ambassador
>>couldn't do without in a wife. But i suspect - gauging by Essa's behaviour
>>and utterances here and elsewhere - that there is more to this than our
>>nouveau elite or "joegbu ess" told his friends and family. Perhaps, Essa
>>was
>>merely trying to short-cut or hide his OWN shortcomings as a "local" who
>>would find it difficult to mingle in the sophisticated milieu of French
>>diplomatic and social life? Anyone familiar with French hauteur, snooty
>>elitism and snobbery, especially as they relate to their so-called
>>sophistication in food and wine, would perhaps understand "local" boy
>>Essa's
>>fidgety apprehensions about life in France as an ambassador without the
>>"proper" companion to groom him. In the event, Essa divorced this poor
>>woman
>>and went head-hunting for a more refined and sophisticated woman to help
>>him
>>socialise and organise his new life as ambassador of the Gambia to the
>>Champs
>>D' Elyss. Essa i can confirm has found his refined and sophisticated new
>>woman and they are happily married. I wonder whether our Essa is now
>>paying
>>the appropriate alimony to the "local" woman he left for the refined and
>>sophisticated woman he is currently with.
>>
>>We pause here to speculate whether with the new Madam Sey in attendance,
>>Essa
>>had succeeded in waltzing or fox-trotting his way into French society and
>>its
>>diplomatic corps? Whether now our "joegbu ess" or nouveau elite can hum
>>Chopin's "Nocturne" or Rameau's "Castor et Pollux" or Claude Debussy's
>>"Preludes" as he reads his daily "Le Figaro", whilst the cultured Madame
>>Sey
>>hones her French cuisine skills in the kitchen? Whether Essa has now been
>>taught the "proper" table manners, social etiquettes and how to
>>appropriately
>>toast his hosts? In short, has Essa's new acquisition "civilised" him
>>enough
>>to call himself a refined and sophisticated gentleman? I pray this is the
>>case. For if you can abruptly end a long term relationship on the stupid
>>premise that the woman who mothered your children is an unrefined
>>commoner,
>>then to that individual, women are mere acquisitions to be purchased and
>>sold
>>when they are past their use. Perhaps, the Sisterhood, in light of my
>>revelations, would want to take Essa to task?
>>
>>More to the point, those who know Essa well shouldn't have been caught
>>aback
>>when he ditched his "local" woman for one with social status. I learn that
>>soon after the AFPRC took over and Essa was rewarded for being a comedian
>>in
>>residence at the Jammeh State House, first thing he pondered about was to
>>move to the Fajarahome from his modest LatriKunda. Now, he thought moving
>>to
>>the Fajara from his modest home in LatriKunda would enhance his social
>>status
>>because he is one of those class obsessed Gambians who seem to think that
>>anyone living in Fajara is high up in the social ladder. Thus our Essa
>>went
>>to live in Fajara and nowadays, he seems to imagine and indeed, persuading
>>himself that he is a different Essa now. So in his mind, he is no longer
>>the
>>"local" boy from Kuntaya. In his dreams - maybe.
>>
>>I repeat this sad story of Essa's not out of malice but to tell a moral
>>narrative in the AFPRC/APRC story which we take for granted: the extent to
>>which inferiority complex and class warfare were, amongst others, a factor
>>in
>>the July 22nd Coup. In essence, this story is a reminder to all and sundry
>>how a group of low-lives stole power in the Gambia in name of rectifying
>>past
>>wrongs only to institutionalise such wrongs; and helped worsen such wrongs
>>and in effect made them a way of life in the Gambia by wasting our scarce
>>resources on profligacies that they think will help them square with
>>imagined
>>class status. We tend to under-estimate the ripples of class obsession,
>>warfare and rhetoric inherent in the so-called July 22nd "revolution".
>>Then
>>again, we ignore the class strands of July 22nd at our own perils.
>>
>>Essa Bokarr Sey:
>>
>>As per your comment that Taipei has more geopolitical clout than Paris,
>>only
>>the uninitiated in geopolitics would utter such nonsense. Perhaps, in the
>>cheque-book diplomacy - that is the cornerstone of your gov't's foreign
>>policy - Taipei carries more geopolitical weight than Paris by virtue of
>>the
>>fact that Taipei is trying to buy herself international recognition
>>whereas
>>Paris has no such clamouring. But in the real world of the teutonic shifts
>>of
>>geopolitical manouevring and out-manouevring, Taipei is a poodle compared
>>to
>>Paris'  Rottweiler stature. I hope i have helped you with your ignorant
>>query.
>>
>>Essa, mouth as many obscenities as you can as it will never corrode this
>>fundamental moral truth: you will always be an oaf afflicted with acute
>>inferiority complex. Buying yourself a house in Fajara or marrying into a
>>family you think has the right social status will never corrode this
>>truth.
>>I
>>will, however, concede that try is all you can do. So keep trying ole boy.
>>Just remember that you will always be the same Essa Bokarr Sey from
>>Kuntaya.
>>No amount of social and artificial grooming and ill-gotten gains can alter
>>this fact. There is simply no corner too dark for you to hide from
>>yourself.
>>
>>Hamjatta Kanteh
>>
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