Kebba When it comes to PAKIN and HUNTING, there is a lot to write from my end, since I am told that my Grand Father was the AGBA for the PAKIN society called "OLD PA." "Old Pa" had likes of Alpha and Amadou, these two gentleman came from Sierra Leone and stayed in the Gambia until their death Alpha and Amadou were very skilfull with beating these PAKIN drum-BATTA. Apart from Old Pa, you had "Young Boys" this society as its name indicates comprises of young gambians who tried to Gambianised the Pakin Society. With regard to HUNTING, their venue was Louvel Square, In fact the First Hunting Society to be founded in the Gambia was ODELEH by the late Pa William Daniels, a Dispenser at RVH. Odeleh has its meeting place at No 12 Louvel Square. After the brief demise of this society, you had other societies like DOGOMORO now known as Ekun Baba Odeh founded by the likes of Salieu John alias Ebuh John, Wole Cates and many others. This society had its meeting place at 14 Louvel Square. Just imagine having 2 hunting societies in the same street, there was always FEAR that their members would fight each other. In 1975, a new society was founded by the TWIN brothers called Essau and Jacob, their society was called OMOJESSA. It had its meeting place at Stanley Street. This was the first time Hunting came to Banjul North. Following the death of Pa Daniels and Uncle MackIe Njie in 1976 and 1977 respectively, a new society was founded in Serrekunda. It was called IGIE OROKO, this was history in the making, since Hunting was a Krio/ Oku Marabo thing and bringing it to the kombos meant other ethnic groups took up the culture. More to follow. Sanusi Owens --- Kebba Foon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Correction: OKU MARABU instead of OKO MARABU > > Kebba Foon > > From: Kebba Foon <[log in to unmask]> > > Date: 2004/01/22 Thu PM 11:17:45 GMT > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: [>-<] RE: SOLDIER TOWN---WHAT ABOUT > BANJUL CENTRAL and ???? > > > > > Sanusi, > > > > You are very right the activities like HUNTING, > PAKING, BUKI BAMBARA AND ITS FATOU JAMONO were all > stationed in Banjul Central. I THINK SAY YOU GO TELL > WE MORE ABOUT THEM OKO MARABU THEM END THE PAKIN AND > HUNTING THEM (Laugh). > > > > Kebba Foon > > > > > > I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered > something he will die for, > > he isn't fit to live. > > Martin Luther King Jr., > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l > > To contact the List Management, please send an > e-mail to: > > [log in to unmask] > > > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of > postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface > > at: > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered > something he will die for, > he isn't fit to live. > Martin Luther King Jr., > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l > To contact the List Management, please send an > e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of > postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface > at: > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~