Nice Giuseppe.
Disclosure - Nana was my English / literature teacher at SAHS and someone I looked up to and he was a principled fellow. However, like many of our people, he has never missed an opportunity to hub nub with our Butcher (Their Friend). As citizens, we must draw the line no matter how we use to admire someone, are friends with or are related to one. Nana has crossed that line a long time ago and I for one will discuss him as evidenced by his transformation or adaptation. It is a shame but they are doing what they want to do and so the madness continues.


 Haruna.

 

 

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Che, remember when Hitler, Amin, Mobutu, Stalin, and many other Butchers were doing their monster deeds, there was the "intellectual class" right there to co-sign and sing along, so, it is no different for Yaya. Please do not be fooled by the description - "Prominent Gambian Writer". Hustles come in various forms and age or education is not a barrier. Nana is among the many who are packaged and ready for sale in that country. These people have over time convinced themselves of the "Good Deeds" of Yaya, just like FOX News has told a lie some many times that they cannot live without it and can never separate themselves from it. To them, they had an audience with HE and the notoriety to drag along. They help convince Yaya that we have lost our minds and they think "They are Patriots" and are there to defend their "Good President". Even though they are right in that country and the many murders, disappearances, executions, tortures, and the rampant abuse of their fellow citizens. 

"The book, he said, depicts the numerous development projects championed by the Jammeh administration."

Aahhhhh! Why is the book about the "Numerous Development Projects of the Jammeh Administration" as if that is the reality of the situation? For an educator, the students were massacred, why not about them; As a journalist, why not about Deyda, Chief Manneh, etc.; How about the latest - sacrifice of the 9 prisoners to his oracles; poisoning of hundreds to please his oracles, etc. You see where am headed with this. Do not be surprised that he (Nana) tells you that he is a Militant, for I have seen his type as old as Tati Perreh to Jaibalu to this Boy Murderer in Yaya and they have no qualms with it. They are also comfortable in their role for it is accepted by their families, friends, vous buddies, and the general environment. Contrary to what many here fight against, these guys and gals on the ground love the current set up for it temporarily favors them until the mad brain in Yaya calls their number and you see their loved ones all over place calling for a revolution. 

Disclosure - Nana was my English / literature teacher at SAHS and someone I looked up to and he was a principled fellow. However, like many of our people, he has never missed an opportunity to hub nub with our Butcher (Their Friend). As citizens, we must draw the line no matter how we use to admire someone, are friends with or are related to one. Nana has crossed that line a long time ago and I for one will discuss him as evidenced by his transformation or adaptation. It is a shame but they are doing what they want to do and so the madness continues.

Joe




Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:42:46 -0500
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Subject: [G_L] Did Jammeh buy every one? Nana Grey-Johnson's book on Jammeh's developments
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Is Jammeh really loved by Gambians or he got everyone's pocket. I think the diasporan Gambians are missing something about Jammeh... Your thoughts




President Jammeh receives prominent Gambian writer

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Friday, February 22, 2013
A prominent Gambian writer Thursday met His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh at State House in Banjul.
Shortly after meeting the Gambian leader, Nana Grey-Johnson, a veteran journalist cum writer, told reporters that he was at the presidency to discuss with the Gambian leader, about a book he is currently writing. The book, he said, depicts the numerous development projects championed by the Jammeh administration.
“I have discussed with him on how to put into writing some of the works he [President Jammeh] has been doing in this country which I am leading. There are books on the bookshelves about who he is and what he is. So I have brainstormed with him as to the possibilities of that happening and it looks like from what we discussed we are going to start putting things together and have a serious book on the president after 18 years. It is about time,” he remarked.
He continued: “We are just going to do head and shoulder types of account of what he believes in and what makes him tick. Basically that is what we are going to look at and we are just beginning to look at it and we have agreed on how to go about that.”
Johnson said he had written so many books before, including one on the former president of The Gambia, Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara.
“I interviewed people who know him [the former president] and I also asked some other people about their reaction to who he is. If you have all the materials put together then you decide on how you are going to present the subject. If you read other biographies you will see that, that is the basic framework to start talking about somebody in books,” he added.
When asked to disclose the time framework for the project, Johnson pointed out that they have just worked out an agreement and said he should be allowed to get back to his office and work on a time frame. “For that one you would have to wait,” he further stated.
Grey Johnson also presented President Jammeh a book on Edward Francis Small, the architect of Trade Unionism and print journalism in The Gambia.
Edward Francis Small, he said, was the one who organised the first political party in The Gambia in 1931. He further described him [Edward Francis] as a man, who deserves national attention.

Author: by Musa Ndow

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