LJD,

Happy new year, thank you for the excellent reviews.

Best,
MBoge

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Thanks Malamin and in both Sir Dawda, and Hassan, we are dealing with the
> syndrome of "see no evil, hear no evil".The good news is that many here
> lived through the PPP era and so the events are more contemporary affairs
> than ancient history. I entirely accept your assessment of Kairaba.
> Hassan's Journey for Justice has a somewhat different factual emphasis
> but both are analytically deeply partial.  Where the facts are not in
> dispute, both books are excellent. I still recommend Journey for Justicebut don't beat me up if the endless denial by the two PPP heavyweights got
> to you
>
>
> LJDarbo
>
>
>
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> *From:* Malamin Barrow <[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 3 January 2013, 14:07
>
> *Subject:* Re: [G_L] Fw: Fw: [G_L] A REVIEW OF JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE by
> HASSAN B JALLOW
>
> Thanks Mr Darboe for your exhaustive review of Hassan B Jallow's book. I
> am now reluctantly reading Kairaba's book, and I must say that your review
> enables me to avoid reading another justification for PPP's bungling of our
> nations affairs. Three quarter way into Kairaba's book, I will say that I
> have never read a more cunningly evasive book. Abdou sums it all up when he
> writes
>
> "that neither Jawara nor Alhaji Hassan has gone any nearer to
> taking responsibility for presiding over a process and a regime that
> actively suppressed national ambitions...."
>
> The book Kairaba, is written as if Jawara, the principal architect of the
> our first republic, is a mere observer of irresistible natural forces that
> the first republic must endure as a right of passage. For example, he
> writes casually about the collapse of parastatal institutions, without
> mentioning that the biggest disaster of all, the GCDB, is headed from its
> beginning by none other than his own untouchable brother in law.
>
> And if you consider Kairaba the man, as opposed to the president, you are
> still left wondering which kairaba was Gambia's first president. A man who
> admittedly changed his name from Kairaba, to Saihou Almamy, to David Kwasi
> and then to Dawda Kairba, and changed his religion from Islam to
> Christianity and them back to Islam, never mind the multiple marriages; you
> are left with a feeling of a very unstable, though very intelligent
> character, whose raison d'etre in politics is to protect and maintain his
> privileged position as head of state, thought he writes dispassionately to
> the contrary.
>
> Malamin
>
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