I have no doubt in my mind, after reading about African women in history in this list, that the spirits of legendary gambian women must be preparing to re-enter the minds of some daughters,sisters and mothers to lead a protracted struggle to liberate gambian society. The hegamony of power by men in this land for the past centuries have mostly resulted in the downwords spiral into berbarism.they distroyed instead of developing the past communial egalitarian basis of society. The men constructed a very oppressive caste system in almost all the gambian language groups with a parasitic ,unproductive and brutal slave raiding military ruling minority shamelessly callinig themselves gelewars, nanchos etc. Instead of treating our women with the greatest respect as our ancestors had done, they degenerated into a sexist mindset of anti-human virginal brutality,poligamy,economic exploitations social and cultural exclusion, mis-named culture or tradition. These men-created societies stagnated in this form of male chauvinism for centuries resulting in deformed empires characterised by caste riden,male chauvinist and permanent internal warfare for enslavement of war prisoners. we are experiencing a slow but sure rise in the qualitative engagement of the gambiam women in crisis analysis and resolution.i am almost of the openion that some of the most important surgical analysis and suggestions of a way forward in this forum came from women. Yes,after reading about african women in history i am beginning to understand that when ever african men are at their highest level of impotency in taking herioc responsiblity ,our oppressed women always takes the front line. thanks to all sharing knowledge we must regain historic memory to understand the present and move into the future with dignified direction. _________________________________________________________________ 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] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>