Meant to say Extended Family Burama On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I called it our social security. A safety net everyone hoped for. An > insurance policies of every family. > > Meaning parents invest on offspring hoping to better themselves and along > the way care them at old age and in sickness /dead. Good isn't? > > A bunch of people cultivate peanut to pay my school. Am not sure I can pay > back but I don't think they expect a payback. All they ask for is to do my > part. Thank you - all! > > Last week I had an interesting conversation with a Gambian scholar - our > topic was the economic effects of extended family systems. He was with the > view it hold many aback. From purely economic point of reasoning I concur > with him. > > I however argued the system from a broader social good. And I used myself > as a product. Certainly I might not today enjoy all the dollars I make but > will I ever have that opportunity had they not toil in the fields? There > may not be black/white answer but I would want to recognize their > contribution. > > We also discussed the solutions. That brought us into even bigger > political fails vs social development. > > What's your take! Do you think we should endeavor to preserve the system > or deliberately work towards discarding? In your view how can we improve it > to align with current socio-economic realities of our people? > > Regards > > Burama > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤