Long live the preacher who stood up to the premitive and anti- social behavior of Marabouts. by saying that : AMULETS REPRESENT PAGAN SYMBOLS. The Gambian Opium By Oko We Gambians are not pagans. We should hold on to our beliefs and come clean off the closet. Juju is witchcraft. Africans are under fire for our under-developement because of our laid- back attitude to life and endless spiritual predictions of the future. Vooodoo, witchcraft and cannibalism are too common in The Gambia. This it is not permitted by Islam and Christianity. We have to make it unlawful. Every one you talk to in The Gambia will talk about a MARABOUT ,a KORTEH or a JAMFA to put inflicted on someone mostly friends and family. It becomes a way-out of the PRESSURE of poverty by fantasinig the destruction of your dislikes or enenies or dreaming about their past time paradise. But there is no excuse to these wicked marabouts not being able bring Bill Gates to The Gambia to invest in employment or send our teams to the world cup and the Olympics or bring in Quincy Jones to market "Roots "and and improve our artistic and musical scene .Tthe people of the Gambia want some kind of change and developement.What can they do to help in the present state of the country? Do the marabouts pay tax? Because they ask for a lot of dollars and they may earn more money each month than Teachers or Farmers. I think that this is practice must be put to The Parliament and made illegal and Banned with severe concequences for offenders. This is the Opium ,the Gambia LSD Drug. The future is Education, scientic developement and economic prosperity. There is Superstitution !!! Oko Drammeh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~