¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤Nice reviews Haruna.
Yes, certainly among the many points you scored, our good political educator in the person of Halifa needs to understand that time has changed, so is today's politics. I will take your nephew Nyang....he looks way too fresh and despite the fact that he came hard at my brother Sariang which I will have to address with him, I am still willing to give him a chance. (LOL). Nyang might be able to come and attend meetings. He came to Washington DC 2 years ago and presented a nice paper during the GPU symposium.
Just let me know what you think of this one Haruna?
I will have to take politics 101....
Thanks for the reviews...keep them coming. Very educative!!
Best,
Yero.
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 10:08:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: [G_L] PDOIS explains its Absence in Raleigh???????????????
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ile you're sticking your neck out as you put it Yero, Let me share some air with you.
The lay of the land:
The opposition parties and supporters based in Gambia have their friends, family members, distant cousins, etcetera who have traveled abroad. Those are the people we call the diaspora. In effect, the diaspora and the resident Gambian belong to the same family called Gambians. Yahya is a problem for both resident Gambians and diaspora Gambians. This is no surprise because if Yahya wants to run roughshod over resident Gambians his task will be encumbered by diaspora unless he runs roughshod over them too. This is the anatomy of dictatorship and tyranny.
Much of the support for the resident Gambian, and the international pressure, alienation, counsel, and disdain that Yahya is under, COMES FROM DIASPORA, the other half of RESIDENT. It is in Yahya's interest that the two are divided both in psychology and morphology.
When the opposition parties thought they were united back home, they still felt they had to come to DIASPORA to cement that union. Why? because even that mirage of opposition union back home, the DIASPORA necessarily was intimately involved. I called my cousin, my brother, my sister, and counseled them to meet your cousin, brother, and sister halfway in order to facilitate that mirage of a union. They are the ones behind Halifa, Ousainou, Hamat, OJ, Mai, Hassan Musa, Sidia, Sam, and indeed behind those who Yahya employs in government and in APRC. DIASPORA and RESIDENT will be compartmentalized at our collective loss. I think you're beginning to see the light. No need for me to continue on the logic. I only made this effort because unlike Kejau, you do not have a past to cleanse. for nil.
Now then. The other side of this coin is this:
If either the RESIDENT opposition (the other half of the DIaspora) OR the non-resident opposition (the other half of the diaspora) are "united" separately, then by extrapolation, the other is "united". There will be no further reason to travel to Reykayvic for consensus-building. I think you get my drift. Because the two are twin heads of the same snake, any "unity" or consensus-building must be collaborative. If you section yourselves off for Yahya to pick, you will have strengthened his hand and set yourselves back. One step "forward", 5 steps BACK.
I encourage you to consider what Halifa calls "tactical", "Consensus-building", or "A united Front". The man am afraid has a warped view of politicking. The world changes by the second. It does not wait for Gambia RESIDENT or DIASPORA to compartmentalize their consensuses. I want you to think about this carefully. It is loaded and I did not share the entire thesis for respect for your time.
I appreciate your desire for consistency. For consistency's sakes.
Thank you.
Haruna.
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