Oko

Yes , you may be right , I might be one!! ( laugh)

My sister Kathleen is here in silverspring and lives with my other sister Hania -( Casinka's friend) whose husband died a few years - late Bai Abi PFaal- )) She still does it at times  and believe me many times I dismiss it as Bs but she even told our former first lady about the july coup months before it happened - I could not believe it !!! so when you visit I will make sure we either go to see her or invite her to come at my place . - she hardly goes out and is still afraid of dogs- remember  ( laugh!!!) before she visits anyone back home she askes 'Am gain hajj fi? if the answer is positive she just turns around.I guess it has something to do with the psychic readings !

Talking of the late General Charles Degaulle and using The Gambia as a hiding place , my jamaican friend told me Aristide is trying to do the same - hide in Banjul or Abdijan- as we write !! history repeats it self in many ways. Thanks for the real scoop on Sanneh mentereng and Charles degaulle. I remember I asked Georgi porgie Evans once to show me the room where degaulle slept . It was in the bushy side towards 79 leman where Dr Ndow ( Elnora and sisters plus Peter ) lived.

There was three Bambara gardens behind them where we - you excluded- stole thier vegetables while they were on thier Daddypo missions. remember those pot latrines - they used the contents as manure ( laugh) for their gardens!!! which produced very good vegies!!HMMM!!

 yeah-  Sering Mutt !1 - I forgot about him- wow!! thanks for bringing him up . I am sure he has gone to meet our creator by now.

Man Joof was a  great professor and scholar . No one failed in his classes which angered father Cleary (the principal- now Bishop) and man joof said we all got A's as far as he was concerned- no need for exams. . His style of teaching was unique and original but do not get on his bad books like Goerge Wright did once . He withwahed him with words not found in the oxford English dictionary. ( laugh)

again - cheers and brotherly love

habib

>From: Oko Drammeh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list              <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Obituary / Lamin Drammeh
>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:32:01 +0100
>
>Thank you Habib for sending these warm words cf condolence for Sir
>Lamin. He was a great guy.
>
>Habib, Are you a magician ? I just wrote a private mail to Yusupha
>about
>this trip,that was my last press on the computer button
>
>Yes I think that you are a magician,You Sister was my spitural guru.
>She
>does this psychic reading with the Coffee cup.at the House of
>Kasinka. I
>mean your eldest sister.She was a friend to Arette the teacher. She
>can
>read the lines of the black coffee lines and also the palm of your
>hands. She was my friend. Can you remind me her name please.She want
>time told me that I will have a bicycle and I did. You got the roots
>Habib, do for me!!!  I need dollars.
>
>The French President Charles de Gaulle was hiding in The Gambia
>during
>the War. I remembered the stories of Hitler planning to come to
>Banjul
>to get Charles DeGaulle from 78 Leman Street..The Gambians said that
>Sanneh Mentereng and Meta stopped Adolf Hitle. Even though Hitler
>never
>made it (never thought of it) to the Gambia, the Gambian have their
>own
>version of World war 11 and the sinking of the German boats by
>Sannehmentereng. on the banks of The Gambia and across the Atlantic
>oceon.
>
>Do you remember Nyoi (Sering MuT!!!!....). He went to the war and
>broke
>his leg by stepping on a landmine. The boys said that he put his
>foot
>infront of a canon ordered by the Germans. He lived at Mamo Goddards
>compound. This is way before Uncle Man returned from Trinity College
>in
>Dublin. He used to tell me, "They only pick potatoes). Man Joof is
>my
>hero for Miles !!!
>
>I talked to George Evans years ago, he has been sailing.Not to Anna
>Though.I do not know where they are now but I will find out. I do
>take
>contact with most friends of the past."  still local when it comes
>to
>family" .
>
>Think Global and act local   !!!!
>Oko Drammeh
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>Habib Ghanim wrote:
>
>>oko
>>
>>As usual your memories are just fantastic. Man Joof was our teacher
>>at
>>Saints > His sisters Casiska and Arette were close to my family and
>>good friends of both my sisters of their age group. Pape the ex
>>justice minister was a kid then. Mama Joof ( man's mom) was a real
>>pillar in the haf die community . may her soul rest in peace. I
>>remember Skylarks  . They were two or three forms below us . Ana
>>Evans
>>( George's older sister and I were in the same class) I wonder
>>where
>>they are . Their dad's house IG Harry Evans was the one where
>>General
>>  Charles Degaulle allegdly slept in (leman  street) just after WW2
>>.
>>some  Names are coming up !1 Kobna Njie - Antie Lou's son ??
>>
>>Accept my sympathy for SIR may his soul RIP
>>
>>Are you still planning to come this way in the summer?
>>
>>Cheers habib
>>
>> >From: Oko Drammeh >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues
>>mailing
>>list               >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject:
>>Re:
>>Obituary / Lamin Drammeh >Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:39:24 +0100 >
>> >Mr.
>>Sidibeh, > >You hit the nail on the head. You know  the late Sir
>>far
>>too well. I >am >his first cousin and best friend (partners in
>>crime).
>>His father was >a >young brother to my father. How come you had a
>>vous
>>at 20,Hagan >street >and you never bump into me? > >This is Man
>>Joof
>>terrretory (father of Joseph Joof -PaBe Joof ex >justice
>> >minitter).I
>>raised Richard,Donald and Pa be Peter Goddard ,John, >Gabou >and
>>Mike
>>Goddard (Garnet) I was the right hand of Uncle Man He >brought >me
>>up
>>(that's why I am sweet).When I left for Holland he gave a book >by
>> >Basil Davidson "The History of Africa".I gave it to Sir. > >Sir
>>Lamin
>>was often there partly with the Skylarks boys (this was a >club >I
>>started) George Evans, Bola Carrol, Jemay Koita,, Kobna Njie,
>> >David
>> >Jawara,etc.Mostly Saints Augustines Boys. Sir was in the football
>> >team >as well as the sprint team. > >The drama about Sir was when
>>he
>>sold fish balls (Bulet,sauce and >bread) >at the Sahara Night Club
>>where I was Deejaying. I lived with him in >Stockholm in a short
>>visit
>>and on few occations I had to leave him >sleeping in the Bus all
>>the
>>way to the last stop at Fasta Strand !!! > >All the guys in Sweden
>>will surly miss him. You can't fill his >space. He >is the magma !
>> >
>> >Please excuse this flashback, not the right time but >Memories,
>>they
>>live  more than people do, they always on youe mind." > >May his
>>soul
>>find peace in Heaven !!!! > >More Times Bro, Thank you on your good
>>note,Sir will feel your >spirited >message. > >Oko Drammeh >A Luta
>>Contuinua !!!! > > >> >> >> >
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