The mising link in all our efforts as an african people generally and as gambians in particulaly to secure permanent victories against major human and natural problems is our weakness to recollect historic memory on a masss scale in an instituional methodical way,draw the right conclusions and implimentable plans for corrections. unless we correct this missing link we will continue to repeat major defeats from external and internal enemies untill our timecomes to desappear as a living gambian people in particular or as africans in general hope the quatation from a WORLD RENOWN AFRICAN CENTERED HISTORIAN will help us have a deeper understanding of the importance of historic memory and lessons. "history isa clock people use to tell their historical culture and political time of the day. It's a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The history tells them where they have been, where they are and what they are. But most importantly history tells a people where they still must go and what they still must be." --Dr. John Henrik Clarke _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>