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]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L > Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] > if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------