Thanks Dr Katim Taurey for the innteresting and educative addition.
I ordered one of his cd . I am looking foward to it
Habib
"Katim S. Touray" wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Habib's posting below, reminds me of an exchange I had last year with Daniel
> Janke of Scratch Records about the spelling Yan Kuba. I wrote to say that we
> spelt the name as "Yankuba" in The Gambia, and not "Yan Kuba" as indicated. The
> reason I took the trouble to point this out was not that I wanted to play
> difficult, or follow the line of former President Senghore of Senegal, who got
> himself into a bitter argument years ago with the late Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop
> about how to spell Siggi (with one "g" or two "g"s). By the way, as I recall
> the issue died a natural death when Prof. Diop decided to name his paper "Taxaw"
> instead. Senghore, as a self-appointed guardian of the syntax and grammer of
> the Wollof language (he must have been confusing it with French) was one that
> made a big deal of these things.
>
> At any rate, as I was saying, the reason I pointed out the the problem I had
> with the spelling of Mr. Saho's name is that I have seen the many times when
> people have been sloppy with spelling our Gambian names, and in the process make
> it very difficult, if not impossible to follow any threads that relate different
> events, people, or places. But then again, we have somehow managed to come to
> terms with variations in the spelling of our names from country to country,
> depending on our colonial history. Witness "Toure" a la Francophonie, vs.
> "Touray" (in The Gambia), and "Turay" (in Sierra Leone). Oh well ...
>
> Anyway, congratulations to "Koto" Yankuba (I mean, YAN KUBA!) on the release of
> his CD.
>
> Katim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: USA Halal Chamber of Commerce <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:05 AM
> Subject: from emusic.com
>
> > Yan Kuba Saho
> >
> > Yan Kuba Saho was born in the mid-1940s in
> > Dankunku in the district of Nyamina,
> > Gambia, West Africa. At the age of ten he was
> > sent to learn kora and to read the
> > Koran with Faal Suso, in Salinkenni. After ten
> > years of studies, Mr. Saho left Faal
> > Suso's compound and traveled throughout Gambia
> > and Senegal performing for
> > friends and gaining patrons in the traditional
> > way of the Mandinka griot (praise
> > singer). Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Yan Kuba
>
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