I would like to make one or two points clear before I freeze from the
story of the music of the gambia, past, present and future, which
includes Ifangbondi and the legend Paps Touray.

I will freeze this subject because of respectful means to some of you
people out there who want me to bury the subject.

One point clear here is that I quoted that Paps Touray was a friend of
Leopold Sidar Senghore, this was a fact. This has nothing to do with me
personally, I am not a writer, I am not a friend of  Senghore, nor do I
kow him personally. Ideologically, I am a Krumaist and a Toureist. It is
strange to see this line as an answer or a response to the important and
progressive points I submitted for debate on the net.

For all of you who want me to write more about the story of the gambian
music, past, present and future, I will find other means to publish
these materials , either in book or Cd or whatever, but it is a story
that's worth knowing, as a means of information and education. To say
'stop the information' or 'kill the information', it is unwise, except
when they are untrue or undiciplined and unfounded. But to have a
genuine music industry in the gambia but to have a music industry with a
marketable economy, we have to follow the patterns of the past to shape
the future. We cannot build the future without knowing the past.

It is hypocritical to say that we are all brothers and sisters and that
we must not talk amongst ourselves but keep our mouths shut and leave
things the way they are and everything is fine. Africa has been going on
too long in this trend. We need a new approach to our problems and
frustrations, in a respectful and intelligent way, for the way forward.


Oko Drammeh
sotokoto music

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