Bro Ansu,
 
Your choice of Barrister Fatty certainly won't work for our friend, LJD...at least evidenced from some of the past discussions. Jokingly, he would rather choose Joe eating 'narr dibbih' in Mauritania, whose threads here are mostly harsh and boring, going over the same, as noted by some contributors making it hard to move on. It also offers criticism without solutions. I see the Georges and Mboge teasing the online radios. I laughed hard because after a week dealing with victims of Huricane Sandy in Staten Island, I was expecting a brighter and refreshing week here at these forums. George, where you said it is love, you still owe us. It is just a sincere effort to counter the Gov't aggression. Like LJD said, if i didn't have love for some of you big brothers, I would have certainly choked some of you to fainting point.
 
Anyway, humor aside, I wanted to ask: What is wrong with the Dakar trip? I am not part of the organizers and haven't participated in any of the meetings leading to it, or even not part of those who received communication from the organizers, but an invitation has been extended to Gainako under the capacity of the media for coverage of the conference. Demba is not in a position to go so he recommended me to the group, to which I later received confirmation that my name was listed. I still have questions about the conference most of which are not answered yet. I saw a lot has been said about this conference here. I haven't seen any defense from its organizers, knowing most if not all of are here with us. Is this criticism against the organizers based on the procedure involved in the selection, the group organizers, the participants, the method involved, outright jealousy or all of the above? I asked this question so as to gain clarity. Again, people must learn to work together. If you cannot pull with a certain individual, extending that to affect someting that would benefit all, would tantamount to not only selfish nature but burning the very hand that is about to feed you.
 
Prior to being sublisted, those who are the GPU mailing list will agree that, I threaded there asking for the procedure to be independent, transparent and free from any friendship show.
 
I am on records for having organized (alongside Burama Jammeh) the UGAMA conference in Chicago with the help of the mid-west conference organizers in 2006. I see great resemblance in what our intentions were in 2006 and with this group to meet in Dakar. Though ours was not well attended, I haven't help any grude against any of those that down played on it, or others that undermined our efforts then for the sole purpose of protecting their existing organizations.
 
I am still open ...and I need more information.
 
 
Best regards,
Yero