Lamin B Jammeh,

You wrote"It is about time Gambians and Africans change their attiude towards  White people because they`re enemies and betrayers". This is your opinion. Mine is that there`re many others with good intentions for The Gambia and Africa at large. Last saturday "African Youth in Norway" celeberated its five year anniversary and those of us who were present would give  credit to some of the white folks gathered there for the success of this organization. And whenever I travel home the white folks who travel with me are`nt "enemies or betrayers". These are people who among other things go out their to give kids a better future-Education. Anytime you ask them they`ll give you an account of The Gambia contrary to that of Birgit & Joel Samuel. I`m reacting to your generalization, because I dont feel it is right to go that far.

Birgit & Samuel`s article is sure sprinkled with some bold assertions, that in a way shows their ignorance of The Gambia and her culture. A couple of weeks ago a Norwegian paper "VG" wrote an article about The Gambia with a similar title "Gambia-no problem", and there`re some remarks here too which some might not like though it does`nt come any closer to Birgit and Samuel`s. The picture that accompanied the article was that of an overweight white lady in bikini at the beach side and sitting by her a skiny Gambian brother. I got the message being portrayed here.

Albeit, Birgit and Samuel`s article contain some truth although exaggerated, and the truth hurts.

Regards,
Omar.

 
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Dato: 13. februar 2000 10:55
Emne: Re: No problem in The Gambia


>Dear members,
>I read with deepest regret and anger, the unscrupulous piece allegedly
>written by a GERMAN who was in The Gambia. This is another of the biggest
>insult that the Gambia and Gambians have experience as far as our
>relationships with the Europeans are concerned.
>
>Readers might recall a similar thing involving a British visitor to the
>Gambia who wrote a book called "Our Grandmother's Drum" The author's name is
>Mark HUdson.
>That book and this article by this stupid German are a betrayal to the trust
>of the people who they have befriended in their intentions to spy and lie
>about the traditions and values of the people for their vested interests.
>Most of these people do these things to get rich by selling the materials in
>the West.
>
>The contents of that book (Our Grandmother's Drum) and the article in
>question contain bunch of lies and bullocks. It is about time Gambians and
>Africans change their attitude towards the Write people because they are
>enemies and betrayers.
>
>Finally, as most list members suggested, every effort should be made to get
>the mailing address of Birgit & Joel Samuel so their mailboxes could be
>filled with protests to let them know that what they wrote about the Gambia
>was a bunch of lies, and nothing but lies!
>
>Good day everyone!
>Lamin
>Bedford, UK
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