This Jahanka refuse to be drawn into a game of chicken! Will let the Fulas enjoy their new year celebration:) Malanding On 12/30/2013 1:35 PM, Baba Galleh Jallow wrote: > Well Yero, the fact that the command to bring the rope - Momodou Aduu > Boogol - is in Fulani suggests that the person who gave the command > was a Fula man. Otherwise, don't you think the command would have been > given in Jahanka? Thanks for sharing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:35:23 -0600 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [G_L] Weekend's Humor: Momodou Aduu Boogol. > To: [log in to unmask] > > The Weekend’s Humor: The Fulas & the Jahankas > > Folks – > > Let us do the weekend’s humor as usual. Part of why ours in culture is > cherished is because we have jovial relationships across tribes. It > helps to mend bonds in communities. Diversity and tolerance is an > important component of our lives. We cannot celebrate humanity in its > entirety without being a little flexible and accommodating. Since I am > not a politician and I wasn’t created one, I love my humor. For a > minute, I am asking the politicos to give me a little bit of space > while I wallow in my humor. > > I contemplated sharing this story because I know my Jahanka cousins > will have something to hang onto and who knows for another year. > > Momodou Aduu-Boogol > > The story goes that three (3) Jahaa (Jahanka) men had a tussle with > many of their Fulbe cousins. The three overpowered their cousins and > tied all the Fulbe with a single rope. > > One of my personal friends always teases me with, “Momodou > Aduu-bogol.” Hmm…This story didn’t sound right to me. How can > t-h-r-e-e Jahankas overpower about thirty-three Fulbe? If you are just > wondering like I am, you must conclude that it must have been the ones > we had around then. The ones we have now can’t do it. > > Best wishes for the holiday, > > Yero. > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤