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
 


Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:40:55 +0000
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Subject: So The Village idoits call for some respect (In Maafanta)
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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.
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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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