Thanks Mr Darboe for your exhaustive review of Hassan B Jallow's book. I am now 
reluctantly reading Kairaba's book, and I must say that your review enables me 
to avoid reading another justification for PPP's bungling of our nations 
affairs. Three quarter way into Kairaba's book, I will say that I have never 
read a more cunningly evasive book. Abdou sums it all up when he writes

"that neither Jawara nor Alhaji Hassan has gone any nearer to
taking responsibility for presiding over a process and a regime that
actively suppressed national ambitions...."

The book Kairaba, is written as if Jawara, the principal architect of the our 
first republic, is a mere observer of irresistible natural forces that the first 
republic must endure as a right of passage. For example, he writes casually 
about the collapse of parastatal institutions, without mentioning that the 
biggest disaster of all, the GCDB, is headed from its beginning by none other 
than his own untouchable brother in law.

And if you consider Kairaba the man, as opposed to the president, you are still 
left wondering which kairaba was Gambia's first president. A man who admittedly 
changed his name from Kairaba, to Saihou Almamy, to David Kwasi and then to 
Dawda Kairba, and changed his religion from Islam to Christianity and them back 
to Islam, never mind the multiple marriages; you are left with a feeling of a 
very unstable, though very intelligent character, whose raison d'etre in 
politics is to protect and maintain his privileged position as head of state, 
thought he writes dispassionately to the contrary.

Malamin

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