Jabou,

I agree with you on the Western Hypocrisy. It is my view that the 
International community must shear itself of the abiding hypocrisy, which 
has bedeviled its relationship with African governments in the past. This 
will take me a little bit back to the cold war period. The cold war era 
witnessed the celebration of crass hypocrisy on the part of the Western 
governments in their relationship with African despots. During the cold war, 
the United States government for example had a policy of unquestioned 
support for friendly dictatorships. The IMF and the World Bank have been 
what characterize as a spectacular failure in pursuing governance reforms in 
Africa as basis for their credit extensions. This is because most Western 
governments allow their banks to be the laundry houses for these dictators 
and their cronies that steal their people blind. World Bank and IMF cannot 
claim ignorance of the fact that the credits they extended to these rogue 
dictators like Mobutu, Babangida and others ended up in numbered accounts in 
foreign banks very far and lost to the uses and intentions for which the 
credits were extended in the first instance.

When the Africa left argues that these institutions (namely IMF, World Bank 
as well as Western governments) knew perfectly well that the Mobutu regime 
was turning aid into the dictator’s villas in the French Riviera, and 
chateaux in Switzerland. But the aid dollars kept flowing. And despite the 
window dressing rhetoric from these institutions about the importance of 
“local ownership” of development programs, “capacity-building”, and 
“participation” in poverty alleviation programs, it is still business as 
usual behind the scenes. Their principal goal still remains to maximize the 
loan portfolio to the developing countries, in the guise of fighting 
poverty. And this is why despite outcry from the Kenyan opposition, 
Christian churches, and the press, during Moi era the World Bank continued 
cutting deals behind the scenes with the incompetent and venal Moi 
government in Kenya –even to the extent of seconding Kenyan World Bank 
employees to Moi’s public service. The IMF and World Bank’s demands that 
those responsible for the massive heist under Goldenberg be brought to 
justice was put to rest as the regime was persuaded to adopt face-saving 
anti-corruption legislation so that aid can resume. For this reason I would 
agree with Ginny that the European neither the Americans should not cry foul 
for this deadly migration to the so called Promised Land that we all know is 
not a promise land. For the simple reason that they are party to it, the 
sadness of it all is we are the ones loosing, we are the ones who have 
thousands of our people in such a tragic and unfortunate situations.



The Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh

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>Subject: Re: SV: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade / Ndey
>Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:47:59 EDT
>
>Ndey,
>
>all you have said is quite true and  the reason for this state of affairs 
>is
>because our so-called leaders spend all  their time and energy trying to
>refine the art of stealing what little assets we  have and how to disguise 
>that art
>while also refining how to lie to the people  instead of really taking 
>stock
>of the state of the country and devising ways to  move the machinery of 
>state
>in the most efficient manner and in a way that best  serves the 
>populations.
>In other words, the job of African  governments is  seen by those in charge 
>as
>an opportunity to form a mafia colaition with all  willing participants and
>rob the country with a few crumbs trickled down to  the   suffering masses 
>every
>once in a while and to treat this token  as a personal gift of benevolence
>from the despotic leader. These days, they  have even learned the art of 
>saying
>the right things to deceive those with  genuine good will in the 
>international
>community. Our leaders in Africa have  surpassed their colonial masters in
>the art of deception and economic rape of  their people and the more 
>despicable
>a dictator the longer they will stay with a  pat on the back from those who
>would never get away with or condone such  behaviour in their own 
>countries.
>African dictators are rewarded by the few  opportunists at home who benefit 
>from
>their illegal and illegitimate activities  and those abroad who also 
>benefit
>by their presence because they can lend more  money at higher interest 
>rates
>and have the upper hand in access to the natural  resources of Africa. It 
>is the
>most heinous crime in human history and people  are getting away with it
>because of the long line of collaborators on our  continent ever willing to
>participate in the economic enslavement of their own  people so long as 
>they make a
>few bucks from the process. Witness Darfour if you  will and ask yourselves
>who are the major players who buy oil from Sudan and  those oil contracts 
>are
>far more precious to them that the lives of Africans,  and that is why 
>despite
>the outcry of the decent people in the World, these same  governments are
>engaged in empty rhetoric on the subject because they must do  all they can 
>to
>maintain the status quo so that their partners in crime in the  Sudanese
>government stay right where they are. Instead, they send food aid with  a 
>lot of press
>coverage while pushing for U.N troops to go in and once they go  in, the 
>U.N
>being the tool of the super powers nations that it is today, these  troops 
>will
>stay in and  their mission will be to make sure that Bantustans  are
>maintained to keep the masses marginalized while the leaders of these  
>nations and
>their partners continue with the business of conducting their  lucrative 
>trade
>while once again on the African continent, the people of a  resource rich 
>region
>continue to wallow in poverty.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>In a  message dated 10/7/2006 5:25:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>Omar,
>
>This is really heartbreaking  when one seat helplessly watching our people
>taking desperate measures to  get themselves out of this poverty circle. 
>The
>song has turned a fresh page  of the realities back home. This deadly and
>unfortunate situation is a clear  manifestation of the failure of our 
>nation
>states because they can no longer  deliver positive political goods to our
>people. Our governments have lose  legitimacy and now illegitimate.
>Governments exist to deliver political  goods security, education, health
>services, economic opportunity,  environmental surveillance, a legal
>framework of order and a judicial system  to administer it, and fundamental
>infrastructural requirements such as roads  and communications facilities 
>to
>their citizens.  In the reverse most  of our governments honor these
>obligations in the breach. They increasingly  forfeit their function as
>providers of political goods to warlords and other  nongovernment actors. 
>Our
>governments are no longer able or willing to  perform the job of a
>nation-state in the modern world.
>
>They are  unable to provide security the most central and foremost 
>political
>good  across the whole of their domains. Citizens depend on states and
>central  governments to secure their persons and free them from fear. But
>most of our  states are unable to establish an atmosphere of security
>nationwide.
>
>
>Couple with this our institutions are weak and flawed  it is only the
>executive institution that functions. If legislatures exist  at all, they 
>are
>rubber-stamping machines. Democratic debate is noticeably  absent. The
>judiciary is derivative of the executive rather than being  independent, 
>and
>citizens know that they cannot rely on the court system for  significant
>redress or remedy, especially against the state. Bureaucracy has  long ago
>lost its sense of professional responsibility and exists solely to  carry 
>out
>the orders of the executive and, in petty ways, to oppress  citizens. The
>armed forces are highly politicized. Infrastructures are  destroyed or
>deteriorated, thus the more potholes or main roads turned to  rutted 
>tracks.
>As our people continue to use these deadly routes to Europe  for a better
>leaving our rulers siphon funds from the state.
>
>What  does the feature hold for such a people, nation, countries, and
>continent?  This is a question that I always asked myself. Looking at my 
>two
>boys I  asked myself what their generation will be like. Will it be better
>than ours  or is Africa going to be worse?
>
>
>
>The Struggle Continues!!
>Ndey  Jobarteh
>
>
> >From: OMAR DRAMMEH  <[log in to unmask]>
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> >To:  [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: SV: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade  there are Europeans involved 
>and
> >well paid.
> >Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006  10:13:29 +0200
> >
> >
> >Sidibeh/Oko/Bailo,
> >
> >I hope  the SOPI Coalition is listening. The song is pregnant with 
>meaning
> >giving a vivid picture of the harsh realities not only in Senegal but in
> >many African countries. We don`t have to look far away to see that. The
> >level of deprivation is alarming and having to take such a risk on those
> >rickety fishing boats on such a perilous route shows how desperate the  
>bulk
> >of the people are.
> >
> >Bailo pointed out the valid point  of the failure of political 
>independence
> >and it makes me wonder whether  this mass exodus of African migrants is 
>not
> >a form of reverse  colonisation; the coloniser being colonised by its 
>former
> >subjects. Is  it a case of the chicken coming home to roost? And the
> >situation is made  worsening with the level of organised crime as Oku 
>cited.
> >
> >Happy  weekend.
> >
> >regards,
> >Omar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  > From: oko drammeh [[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: 2006-10-06  14:32:06 CEST
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject:  Re: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade there are Europeans 
>involved
> >and well  paid.
> > >
> > > This is prophecy/ not an overstatement.
> >  >
> > >   If you need what Africa has,
> >  >   and you can't do without it
> > >   and don't  want to pay for it.
> > >
> > >   You will create  problems for thoes people only to make them weak 
>and
> >maintaining them in  the clutches and machenary of exploitation and 
>inhuman
> >treatment.
> > >
> > >   It seems like Africans  are still under the conspiration theory of 
>the
> >CURSE OF HAM (decendants  of black race) by his father prophet Noah in 
>the
> >Abrahamic  religions.
> > >
> > >   RELIGION RULE THE WORLD
> >  >   That Denial of peace and prospertity to the Black Africans and  the
> >punishment sent to them said by most religions is an order of god.  This 
>has
> >cause poverty, wars, deaths and an unsettled Africa. This is  the root of
> >all our problems. It is holy.
> > >
> >  >   Be wise Africa,
> > >   you are the richest  continent
> > >   but yet with the poorest people.
> >  >
> > >   You have been duped !
> > >
> >  >   Oko
> > >
> > >
> > > bailo jallow  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >   Omar,
> >  >
> > > Thanks for sharing this moving clip of a song that is spot on  for the
> >reasons of the desperate quest of young able bodied Africans to  reach 
>the
> >shores of the promised land. As reflected by the song, it is  primarily
> >because political independence from the yoke of colonialism  have thus so
> >far failed to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of Africans.  In other 
>terms,
> >we, Africans have been failed by our political class,  i.e both those in
> >civvies and uniforms. They seem to only take care of  themselves.
> > >
> > > Very sad indeed!
> > >
> > >  Bailo
> > >
> > > bailo jallow wrote:
> > > Testing,  testing, just testing.
> > >
> > > Bailo
> > >
> > >  OMAR DRAMMEH wrote:
> > > Fols,
> > >
> > > Thought this  might be of interest. It portrays the plight of the 
>African
> >migrant  including Gambians in their journey to the "Promise Land".
> > >
> >  >
> > > http://www.studiosankara.com/sunugaal.html
> >  >
> > > Regards,
> > > Omar
> > >
> > >
> >  >
> > >
> > >
> > >  
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