Sister Jabou
There were other graduates from the ghana group like Omar njie ( grant street ) and it was Lamin Janha who brought Stockley Carmichael to the Gambia at the famous meeting which took place at Crab Island secondary school . Oko , those were the days when changes were coming naturally but the government resisted in covert ways , so newspapers like Tonya ( truth in mandinga) and the Moja movements went underground. Do you remember ElHabib Sock's paper and Allen's at Albion place ? Jallow Jallow of the motor union piggy backed on these student movements and the strikes took place to change so many things in the transportation industry later.
M L Sedat Jobe and Bakary Darboe , Swaebu Conateh and Abdulie Bojang were the new revolunaries /or reactionaries depending on who you spoke with . They were compensated with jobs as commissioners and later foreign service diplomatic positions . Hagan street was defacto grand place for them. Leman street grand place was for the other ones then like Koro , Mulai Gibriel and Jeffrey Renner etcs. at the famous Gambian boxer's place1 Fowlis
Interesting , Oko that was around the time when we started our first independent music band at picton street with the late Pa njie ( may his soul rest in peace) We got our instruments with some koto connections and voila we were practicing like breeze in no time.
Do you remember the John Wayne movies at mahoney cinema buckle street . and sitting at the gaitie bays section in the front ( laugh) We watch those movies so many times that my good friend Nana Johnson remembered all the words in that movie Ah !Also the kent street vous and the dix copains with Halifa Drameh , Donald Sock (now Ibrima) George Christensen , Mataar njie etc and yours truely later on
we had some of our female sheroes like late aunty Diana Christensen who was courageous
I can go on and on but l it is almost ndogou time
later
Habib
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>This is interesting history Oko, most of which i did not witness because I
>was away.
>I got to know some of these Gambians who studied in Ghana during Nkrumah's
>time, and was introduced to the Nkrumaist and Pan African ideology by people
>like Lamin Janha, Koro Sallah and co who were here in the U.S at the same time I
>was, back in the early 70's.
>
>I never knew about all of the PPP government history in relation to issues
>like this because I would come into the country in the summers, visit and get
>out, unaware of all of these goings on. I was aware of the things that were
>visual on the surface, Like lack of progress, the nepotism and the delaying
>tactics at government offices in order to get bribes and against which I waged my
>own personal war.
>
>I remember having to visit the Immigration offices at Dobson street maybe
>over five or six times just to have a passport renewed, and being told I had to
>get an MP to sign to show that I was a Gambian. After sitting outside his
>office door for 8 hours, I finally got in to see Lamin Kitty Jabang , my old
>teacher at Gunjur primary school, and he had to laugh and tell me that the fact that
>I was renewing the passport itself was enough evidence, and that no signature
>was needed. Then I had to sit for another few hours every day infront of one
>Mr Jagne at the pasport office and we just stared at each other and in
>between, he would alternate picking up a red phone and a tan coloured phone and say a
>few inaudible words into them. I relayed the whole experience to my late
>mother and she told me that these people probably wanted a bribe which deepened my
>conviction to resist it even more. Mr Jagne finally got tired of telling me
>to come back tomorrow and the staring sessions I guess, because after the third
>day, he asked me to go into another office where my renewed pasport was
>handed to me without a word.
>I was definitley aware though, of when a brother and childhood friend,
>Nyanga Sallah senselessly suffocated in a jail cell where people were packed like
>sardines during the attempted coup of 1981.
>I will give my opinion on the issue of political parties educating the public
>after the Ramadan.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>In a message dated 11/15/03 7:23:03 AM Central Standard Time,
>
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> >
> >
> > THE PDIOS.
> > Resist to Exist.
> >
> > The PDOIS was my party and still is in my upbringing and is in my Resistant
> > Half-Die blood. But I
> > don't vote PDIOS.
> >
> > TEACHING POLITICS:
> > Yes ,this is what they have been doing best ,Teaching politics to the
> > Gambian people. But they are
> > not a force to win big votes due to the premature political nature of the
> > gambia dominated by
> > religion and tribalism.
> >
> > I was an informal member of PDIOS. They will always be an honest party of
> > the people because of
> > their Pan African Roots. They need some more youths in the line of duty in
> > politics. Halifa Sallah
> > is the only visible member of PDIOS and he can't be a one man Army. The risk
> > is too high. He will
> > be crushed by aggeression defencelessly as the politics intensify in the
> > coming years in the
> > Gambia.
> >
> > UNOFFICIAL HISTORY
> > Most of the Gambian- Ghana students "The Kwame Nkumarah group of students"
> > Came back to the Gambia
> > from Ghana and changed the political landscape. But they were quickly
> > cruxified and badmarked as
> > communists and trouble makers. They started the Tonya paper and the radical
> > offensive group Black
> > sciopions and The Black brotherhood. The gave support to the union strikes
> > and introduced the
> > Anachist cook -book and Molotov -cocktail to the Gambia and Senegal.
> >
> > The polular Senegalese rebel student leader Late Omar Blondy Diop ( Alpha
> > Blondy renamed himself
> > after him) was schooled in the Pan African struggle by Gambian scholars. He
> > lived at 66 Leman
> > Street with Tapha Touray On returned to Senegal he was MURDERED by the
> > Senegalese forces. Jawara
> > /PPP banned The Black brother hood and President Seneghore banned the
> > Student's union at Dakar
> > University and closed the university.
> >
> > > Most of the ex-members of The Black brother hood became initiators of the
> > Kwame Nkumarah
> > > Memorial foundation which later became Moja.
> >
> > > These are my close friends I see on daily basis from school to riots . We
> > spreaded magazines and
> > > books and exchanged banned books and communist literature.As Moja was
> > banned by the PPP and
> > > exiled one of the leader Alassan Sarr to Senegal the pary members went
> > underground and
> > > transformed into a formal political party of the people.
> >
> > BURNING BOOKS IN THE GAMBIA
> > The PPP government were going from house to house arresting people and
> > siezing books and burning
> > BOOKS at the banjul police station at Buckle Street.
> >
> > > .The party lost a list of unique names of campaingers like Habib Sallah,
> > Sol Sedebeh, ,Essa
> > > Jobe,etc. We opened a store in Serekunda right opposite the small street
> > of Halifa sallah (next
> > > to Gibou Jagne UP , Serekunda's member of parliament)
> >
> > IDEALOGICAL FORCE
> > The teaching of PDIOS is the last face of political dialogue in the Gambia
> > political system. The
> > last teachers of honest African future.
> >
> > The struggle continues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Oko Drammeh
> >
> > >
>
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