Reports, generalisations, empirical, synonymous, derelict, shanty, periphery, frivolity.
I think you are trying to say that the report you cited is not the basis on which to nullify PDOIS' efforts in agriculture and horticulture. There I said it for you. Men that was easy.
How about alternatives to PDOIS' approach? Do you suggest organic gardens since land has all of a sudden become such a precious commodity?
I hope you are not angry Hamza. Your tone has changed. We do enjoy you here but we have to put matters in perspective. Last I remember PDOIS and UDP/ppp wish to right the wrongs of APRC and do much better. Let us work together and if you promise not to mislead folk about PDOIS, and concentrate on informing them about UDP/ppp, I will consider you a partner-citizen. Don't be angered by PDOIS' unwillingness to participate in a non-coalition.The union will only be valuable when made in good faith and contract. We will do it right or not at all. Urgency on the part of the UDP/ppp does not constitute an emergency on the part of PDOIS. Let us correct the mistakes of earlier attempts at coalition and graciously move on to real coalition-building. PDOIS invites the UDP/ppp, NCP, and NRP to real coalition-building free of greed and selfishness.
>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <
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>Subject: Re: Gambia's Urbanisation/Hamza woliu llah.
>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 05:26:19 EDT
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>Haruna,
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>The Report you are attempting to cast aspersion on and, indeed, trying to
>discredit has in fact been once cited by Halifa to make the case that in fact
>socialism, as in Cuba's public services' recent successes and its rise in the
>UN's HDI, works and is working. Needless to say that i'm critical of these
>Reports and of its intellectual progenitor, Armatya Sen's sweeping and
>rather simplistic assertions or generalisations in the monitoring of human
>activities across the globe. Yet, these Reports placed within the context of
>analytical particularities have their uses. Indeed, as a recent FT leader
>comment observed on IMF economic forecasts, it is not so much that these
>forecasts and Reports should be treated as articles of faith. Rather, their
>importance lies in the fact they can help provide analytical bearing for
>policy formulators and executors - otherthings being equal. Certainly, this
>has always been the point of my citing the empirical case of the Gambia's
>imminent full-blown urbanity. Deride the impact of the Gambia's imminent
>full-blown urbanity of socio-economic policy thrust at your own peril. It is
>precisely because of this snotty holier-than-thou approach - amongst the many
>- that is why urbanity in Africa remains synonymous to derelict, shanty and
>abject existences on the periphery.
>
>As per frivolity of the whole exchange, had you respected and tolerated my
>right to dissent on views divergent from yours and else, you would not deign
>and fume each time you read me being critical of your party. I hope we can
>now move on, and, indeed waste more ink the bigger picture than sallying back
>and forth on issues that are not going to be decided by you and i.
>
>All the best,
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
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