Subject: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 15:00:27 12/26/05 ()
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Bambay Lans Kamara, K.L.:
With due appreciation for your patience, as I promised you separately in the past few days, I will now proceed to answer your substantially identical questions.
Any attempt to answer the question of how to rid Sierra Leoneans of the self-destructive, self-denigrating malaise that I have referred to as Colonial Mentality must start by addressing a key question, namely:
Why does the average Sierra Leonean reflexively fawn upon anyone and all things foreign, while uniformly denigrating anyone and all things African?
In order to answer that question, we need to go back to a time in SL’s history when the traditions of our ancestors were first usurped by the invasion of Africa by European slave traders and colonialists. Prior to that unprovoked aggression by foreigners, Africa thrived as the home of many citadels of higher learning and commerce, such as the world-famous metropolis, Timbuktu. Africa also boasted advanced nation states like the ancient empires of Mali, Songhai, and Ghana. Those African citizens lived in well-defined communities that were naturally segregated by tribal groups. Significantly, they largely co-existed peacefully along the natural boundaries formed by the different tribal groupings.
All that changed about 500 years ago when opportunistic Europeans, crazed by their immoral thirst for overnight riches, cynically targeted Africa, and Africans, for the largest pillage and plunder in the history of mankind — the Atlantic slave trade and its no less immoral successor, European colonialism. The latter continues even today in all but name in the uniquely African affliction that we know as Colonial Mentality.
In the process, the invading Westerners also sustained their secondary goal of establishing the Western way of life as the preeminent culture in Africa, and among all Africans — the better to perpetuate their hegemony over Africa.
At the outset, the leaders of the Western countries knew that the proud Africans with the self-esteem that came from exercising longstanding control over their own affairs would not be easy push-overs in their naked grab for Africa’s wealth. So, purely to reduce the risk to their own lives, not to mention their interest in looting Africa and remain alive to enjoy their ill-begotten spoils, the early European invaders devised an insidious — and devastating successful — strategy. Instead of continuing to fight the brave Africans with guns and other lethal weapons, and thereby risk injury and death to themselves, they reasoned to themselves: Why not cut the risk, and the cost, of their pillage and plunder of our continent by getting the Africans to voluntarily surrender their wealth, both material and human, to the Europeans?
Of course, the problem for the European invaders was finding a way to fool the Africans into dropping their guard against their evil designs upon the Africans’ vast wealth. Anyone who has been faced with the task of designing a marketing campaign — whether of a product, such as bath soap, or, equivalently here in the USA, a political candidate, would recognize the challenge that faced the early European plunderers and pillagers in Africa. As history attests, the Europeans settled on a two-pronged attack against Africans:
On the one hand, they devised what the late, great Nigerian musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, described, hundreds of years later, in his 1980s song entitled, “SHUFFERING AND SHMILING,” as the “Suffer [nar] dis world; Enjoy [nar] heaven!” principle. In a word: Religion, European-style!
As Fela put it, in an expanded indictment of the corruption by European and other intermediaries of not one, but two, of the original great Middle-Eastern religions, Christianity and Islam:
“Suffer, suffer, [nar] dis world
Enjoy [nar] heaven!
My people dem dae go follow Bishop
Dem go follow Pope
Dem go follow Imam
Dem go nar London
Dem go nar Rome
Dem go nar Mecca
Dem go take all di [dollars]”
And so, it was, that European colonialists deliberately misused religion to first disarm Africans, and then proceed to massively enrich themselves at the harrowing expense of Africans. Specifically, the Africans were fooled into thinking that their salvation lay only in heaven, and not at all here on earth, where they should be content to suffer stoically in poverty and disease, if necessary, in order to reap their waiting reward –in heaven! The cruelest irony of all in this catastrophic hoodwinking of an entire continent by cynical, opportunistic foreigners is that, before the latter’s arrival to sow poverty, disease, and other ills in Africa, our people were doing just fine, thank you! As the musically gifted Fela put it in another of his masterpieces, “COFFIN FOR HEAD OF STATE:”
“It s a well-known fact that for many thousands of years
We Africans had our own traditions
These [dollar]-making organizations
Come put we Africans in total confusion
Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord
By the grace of Almighty Lord
Allahu Akbar, Muhammadu Salaam Alaikum, Allah”
In case you are wondering why those early African victims of European colonialist propaganda did not ask their oppressors the simple question: Why can’t we enjoy here on earth AND also in heaven?, the answer to your question would lead you directly to the second prong used to disarm our ancestors (and even many among us today), so that the Westerners can massively enrich itself by stealing Africa’s resources. That ploy is one which is very familiar to those Africans, including Fela, who have seen through it. It is notorious as Colonial Mentality — the successful brainwashing of far too many gullible Africans into believing in the inherent superiority of any and all things foreign, over any and all things African. It is through Colonial Mentality that the European and other Western pillagers of Africa succeeded — and continue to succeed — in their 500-year old robbery of Africa of both its people and its resources.
In order to efficiently pull wool over the collective faces of hundreds of millions of Africa, while they stole our continent and its people blind, the marauding Europeans knew that they had to achieve the least costly form of slavery — mental slavery (the enslavement of a person’s mind). In other words, the Western invaders had to make Africans voluntarily believe that their salvation lay solely through the thoughts, words, and actions of Europeans and other Westerners. However, the proud African tradition stood in the way of any such large-scale brainwashing of Africans. So, again, the immoral Western invaders devised a simple — and devastatingly successful — strategy to complement their earlier described corrupted, quasi-religious ploy, namely: Erase all vestiges of Africa’s proud heritage by literally destroying any and every facet of the proud African culture.
As history again attests, the execution of the second Western plot against hundreds of millions of innocent Africans produced first, the Atlantic slave trade and then, in its wake, the no less immoral arbitrary partition and concurrent colonization of Africa. Together, both acts have now produced the mind set, among far too many Africans, that our salvation lies only through Westerners and Western ideas and actions.
That, then, is how Africans, in general, and Sierra Leoneans, in particular, came to be afflicted with the particular problem of low self-esteem that we now know as Colonial Mentality, a term that I borrowed in 2001 from Fela, as used in his wickedly revolutionary song from the 1980s, “COLONIAL MENTALITY.” Keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with an African admiring Western values. What is very wrong is when Africans cross the line beyond admiration of Western values to a total and reflexive denigration of all things African in favor of any and all things Western for no other reason than the racial origin of the respectitive items. This distinction is claried in greater detail in my almost 5-year old Leonenet posting that can be accessed via the link below.
I hope that, in my thoughts expressed above, I have addressed the first part of K.L.’s s question — “If Sierra Leoneans, according to you, lack self-esteem, what is/are the root/s cause …” In Part 2 of this posting, which I hope to find time to send in the next few days, I will address Bambay Lans Kamara’s question, which is similar to the residual party of K.L.’s following question: “how, where, when and how do we go about solving this problem?”
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Guma valley boy
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Date Posted: 14:04:36 12/28/05 ()
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Mom,
Understanding that colonial mentality was acquired by social engineering through methods of political,economic,and cultural conditioning over the years,I believe is the first true step towards our MENTAL LIBERATION
Undoubtedly,reading books by Walter Rodney,Edward Said,Claude Ake,and Franz Fannon; or listening to music by Fela,Marley,Tosh,Hills and Salia is essential towards our unlearning of what is wrong with us, and the relearning of what is right for us.
However,in the end, it comes down to how inividuals generally percieve themselves and the choices they make in conducting their affairs in society.
HOW YOU SPREAD YOU BED NAR SO YOU GO LAY DOWN DAY
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Critical Thinker
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Date Posted: 10:17:44 12/28/05 ()
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Indians, in my opinion, appear to be less affected by the negative impact of colonialism than Africans are. Among African countries there also seem to be some variation in the extent to which individual countries are affected by this mentality. I wonder what other factors could account for these apparent differences.
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 03:00:20 12/29/05 ()
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Both your observations, I believe, are accurate. As Guma correctly stated yesterday, “However,in the end, it comes down to how inividuals generally percieve themselves and the choices they make in conducting their affairs in society.”
Therefore, the level of Colonial Mentality varies from country to country based on the differences among individuals in those countries. Which, of course, begs the question: Why is the average S/Leonean affected worse than others?
Abstracting from individual reasons, I believe that the divide-and-rule policy of the British colonialists, exacerbated by their purely selfish bias in favor of our Krio ancestors, largely explains the elevated Colonial Mentality in SL. That cynical British ploy succeeded in making other tribes in SL believe that their own salvation (British favor) lay in becoming like the favored Krios.
The problem, of course, was that a disproportionate part of Krio culture was derived from that of their erthswhile slave masters — Westerners. Thus, by deliberate design, the British entrenched in the average S/Leonean an in-built tendency to emulate Western culture. Significantly, this was not replicated in any of the other societies invaded and colonized by Britain.
Therefore, those other ex-colonies, such as India, and even Nigeria, a fellow African country, escaped the weighty burden that the British cynically imposed upon our country — an almost slavish adulation of Western culture concurrent with a uniform disdain for African traditions. In short: Colonial Mentality.
I hope the above explanation is helpful in understanding why S/Leoneans are affected by Colonial Mentality worse than any other citizens of the former so-called British empire.
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Critical Thinker
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Date Posted: 10:54:45 12/29/05 ()
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Your ability to articulate your thoughts is very impressive. Without doubt the ‘divide-and-rule’ explanation is a very plausible one. We look forward to reading part 2.
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 19:20:46 12/27/05 ()
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Moh’m J, thanks for the response! A very interesting read on that piece big guy! I do have some questions to ask but to be fair to you, I will wait until the final part. Again, a very thoughtful piece!
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Dr. CHARLES CURTIS-THOMAS
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Date Posted: 20:13:26 12/26/05 ()
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Mr. Jalloh
THAT WAS VERY INSIGHTFUL.
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:18:20 12/26/05 ()
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THis is a short reply
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:46:02 12/26/05 ()
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A vast subject indeed.
Soon enough we’ll get past Fanon and his disciples. I hope that the lecture series will get beyond the 2006….
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 18:51:34 12/26/05 ()
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An unavoidable reference(necessary background reading)so that we may proceed smoothly without taking ignorance for granted.
Subject: Re: HOW TO ERADICATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN SL [PART 1]
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:06:46 12/26/05 ()
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Just this other little footnote……
until we meet again…..
Subject: THE SEVENTIES!
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 09:46:19 12/26/05 ()
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Who is old enough to remember the 70’s songs like Ngalula , Mado, Massamba, Azda, Lunch time? Bobs Salone been sweet en man di lap dis holiday ya en di memorialize de 70’s with de best oldies ever. Ofcourse wit the black boy!
Subject: Re: THE SEVENTIES!
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:49:42 12/26/05 ()
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What would we be without Franco?
Subject: Re: THE SEVENTIES!
From: Moh’m
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Date Posted: 12:21:48 12/26/05 ()
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K.L wrote on December 26, 2005:
“Who is old enough to remember the 70’s songs like Ngalula , Mado, Massamba, Azda, Lunch time? Bobs Salone been sweet en man di lap dis holiday ya en di memorialize de 70’s with de best oldies ever.”
K.L.:
Every one of the songs you mentioned, save “Lunch time,” were among the large number of my favorite songs, while I was a teen-aged student at Fourah Bay College during the late 1970s. Indeed, as Kabs and other FBC alumni from that time should remember, I regularly played them from my podium at FBC’s Solomon Caulker Hall’s dining room, beaming Africa’s rich music to the rest of the lunching/dining students in Bai Bureh Hall, and my own native Davidson Nicol Hall.
As you can imagine, I still listen to every one of those African masterpieces practically every day. So, in a way, I am still enjoying the “good old days of Freetown” which you mentioned, right here in far away Maryland, USA!
Subject: Re: THE SEVENTIES!
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 19:24:56 12/26/05 ()
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Moh’m J, these songs only brings back memories of the good old days in Salone. It going to take statesmen, not politicians to bring back those days or anything similar.
Subject: TODAY’S QUOTE
From: WISE ONE
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Date Posted: 08:53:16 12/26/05 ()
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12/26/2005
Today’s Quote
If you think education is expensive – try ignorance.
-Derek Bok
Subject: Re: TODAY’S QUOTE
From: Oneness
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Date Posted: 05:08:02 12/27/05 ()
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I enjoy your daily quotes. Please keep them coming.
Subject: Hostages in Iraq
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 07:26:20 12/26/05 ()
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To be signed personally
Subject: ANOTHER SIERRA LEONEAN?
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 06:44:19 12/26/05 ()
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ANOTHER SIERRA LEONEAN?
Subject: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: CHIEFDOM’S PASTOR
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Date Posted: 17:13:39 12/25/05 ()
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— In the begining of the world, God created ADAM AND EVE ONLY.
— Adam and Eve had three SONS, CAIN, ABEL, AND SETH.
— CAIN KILLED ABEL
— CAIN AND SETH HAD A NUMBER OF CHILDREN.
–WHERE DID THE WIVES COME FROM THAT HAD THE CHILDREN FOR SETH AND CAIN.
—If your answer looks like ” Abel and Seth were visited by the holy ghost and they then conceive”, not only will you be wrong, but as a punitiuve measure for shallow thinking, points will be deducted.
— Response like “THIS WAS THE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE “MO…. FU….” though it may not be correct, but will give you extra marks for “innovative thinking”.
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: Critical Thinker
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Date Posted: 09:55:33 12/28/05 ()
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I am not an authority on this but I doubt whether the Bible says that Adam and Eve were the ONLY people God created. Don’t forget that Cain fled from Eden to Nod after killing his brother. It was after he fled to Nod that the Bible says he built a city. Since there is no evidence to show that he fled with someone else, it is highly probable (though not certain) that he met his wife out of Eden.
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: Kalokoh
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Date Posted: 16:55:22 12/26/05 ()
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Adam and Eve had three sons and a one daughter(Azura).Seth married his sister Azura and had a son Enosh.All human beings descended from their.
There is not much I can add to that.
Season’s blessings
Kal
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: CHIEFDOM’S PASTOR
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Date Posted: 20:05:20 12/26/05 ()
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SO, WHERE DID CAIN GET HIS WIFE FROM ?
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: APH
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Date Posted: 05:48:40 12/27/05 ()
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Genesis does not have the answer. From the book of Jubilees, Adam and Eve had nine children. Cain married his sister Awam.
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: CHIEFDOM’S PASTOR
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Date Posted: 12:15:38 12/27/05 ()
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APH :
I appreciate your response. This “book of jubilees”, I have not have the pleasure of reading. Who wrote that book ? As is true of the writers of the bible, WAS THE WRITER OF “THE BOOK OF JUBILEES” INSPIRED BY GOD ?
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 20:02:36 12/25/05 ()
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Easy, but ama sleepy.
Will answer in a week’s time if someone doesn’t beat me to it.
I hope someone beats me to it � or that you do. It�s Rev Kanu�s profession, so I appeal to him to beam some light on this one.
Maybe give him a time extension so that he may collect his reward��
Is there any better service than expounding the Torah?
Subject: Re: VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HOT MENTAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 17:02:40 12/27/05 ()
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This is not an answer but it is half of the question.
APH has neither confirmed nor denied Jubilee’s answer
Subject: WATIN DEE CHIEF SAY TIDAY, CHRISTMAS DAY
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 16:15:37 12/25/05 ()
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Nothing can take the place of persistence;
TALENTS will not, nothing is as common as unseccessful men wit talents.
GENIUS will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
EDUCATION ALONE will not, the world is full of educated people.
PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION ALONE ARE OMNIPOTENT.
Did I hear you say “CHIEF, do you have an example of what you just said”.
EXAMPLE :
ABRAHIM LINCOLN WAS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE AND A ROLE MODEL FOR THE CHIEF:
— HE failed in business in 1831
— He was defeated for legislature in 1832
— He failed a second time in business in 1833
— He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836
— He was defeated for speaker in 1838
— He was defeated for elector in 1840
— He was defeated for congress in 1843
— He was defeated for senate in 1855
— He was defeated for vice president in 1856
— He was defeated, again, for senate in 1958
BUT, WITH PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION,
ABRAHIM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN 1860.
Did the chief hear you say “CHIEF, Many great men (including the chief) were counted out many times, but they failed to listen to the referee?”
Subject: MERRY CHRISTMAS, FOLKS
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 15:41:14 12/25/05 ()
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Dear Forumites
On behalf of myself and the entire chiefdom, I take great joy in wishing everyone a very merry christmas.
MORE POWER TO YOU ALWAYS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA
Subject: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: Mohamed A. Jalloh
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Date Posted: 11:19:17 12/25/05 ()
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A Christmas Wish for Sierra Leone
By Mohamed A. Jalloh, Maryland, USA. December 25, 2005
It is self-evident that unless and until Sierra Leoneans learn to believe in themselves, instead of foreigners, as Sierra Leone’s saviors, our country will continue to be a paradise for foreigners — but not for Sierra Leoneans.
Therefore, on this Christmas Day, my wish for Sierra Leone is a simple prayer, namely :
MAY SELF-ESTEEM take root in each and every Sierra Leonean so that they would no longer feel the need to pull down their compatriots in order to drag Sierra Leone down to a level of under-achievers, but uplift themselves so that our entire country’s level of achievement would be raised for the benefit of us all!
Sincerely,
Moh’m
Subject: Re: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: CHIEFDOM ELDERS
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Date Posted: 17:54:08 12/25/05 ()
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AMEN !
Subject: Re: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 12:00:17 12/25/05 ()
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Moh’m J, success in solving a problem of this magnitude requires knowledge of the genesis of the problem. If Sierra Leoneans, according to you, lack self-esteem, what is/are the root/s cause/s and how, where, when and how do we go about solving this problem?
Subject: Re: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: Moh’m
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Date Posted: 12:47:12 12/25/05 ()
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Moh’m J, success in solving a problem of this magnitude requires knowledge of the genesis of the problem. If Sierra Leoneans, according to you, lack self-esteem, what is/are the root/s cause/s and how, where, when and how do we go about solving this problem?”
K.L.:
First, kindly allow me, in the great tradition of inclusiveness that is so ingrained in our pluralistic culture, to wish you and everybodyelse here a Merry Christmas!
You ask a most important question, which clearly attests to your own deep thinking about what you accurately recognize as a huge problem among us. It is similar to the question that I had promised another great thinker here, Bambay Lans Kamara, a response.
In order to do justice to your serious question, I respectfully ask that both you gentlemen kindly permit me to respond in detail after the merriment of today.
Subject: Re: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 08:18:10 12/26/05 ()
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Moh’m J, fair enough!
It gives me enough time too to get my emotions together after my Giants got thrashed by the Redskins on Saturday. Merry Christmas to you too!
Subject: Re: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: Moh’m
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Date Posted: 08:58:13 12/26/05 ()
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K.L wrote on December 26, 2005:
“It gives me enough time too to get my emotions together after my Giants got thrashed by the Redskins on Saturday”
K.L.:
Thanks for your gracious Christmas wish! As for your Giants’ loss (no pun intended), I humbly submit that it proves that my Krio relatives were indeed right when they declared, for all who have “two ears for head” to hear (as the indomitable Nigerian musical genius and my erthswhile fellow crusader against bad governance in West Africa, the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti put it in his 1980s musical masterpiece, “Army Arrangement”), that:
“Tidae for you, tumarra for me!”
As you will remember only too well, it was only a few weeks ago that your Giants humilated my Redskins on national television by holding them to ZERO points compared to the Giants’ numberless points! Proving, for those who have “two eyes for head,” that there is indeed a God, and He is a fair God!
I will be posting my reply to you and your fellow deep thinker, Lans Bambay Kamara, shortly, under the subject heading “How to Eradicate Colonial Mentality in Sierra Leone.”
Subject: Re: A CHRISTMAS WISH
From: K.L
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Date Posted: 19:19:19 12/26/05 ()
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Moh’m so yu na Redskins fan nor to so?
Okay, ar go remember yu. Enjoy as much as yu kin enjoy now.
Subject: TODAY’S QUOTE
From: WISE ONE
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Date Posted: 10:20:58 12/25/05 ()
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12/25/2005
Today’s Quote
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it�s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
-Edward Teller
Subject: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FORUMITES
From: Bob Jusu
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Date Posted: 16:47:27 12/24/05 ()
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On behalf of the Sierra Leonean community in New Zealand, I wish all contributors to our dynamic forum a merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. Let us continue with the peace and harmony we have gained from this forum and the family we have created since we met here.
May the year 2006 be good for us, and may we deliberate pertinent issues in our country without malice in a bid to regain our lost glory as a nation. In our deliberations, let us pray for our leaders so that they can stir the boat of our nation to a bright and prosperous shore safely.Let us be mindful that there is no place like home, and be you APC, PLP, RUF, SLPP, PMDC, our desired goal should be a country that we can be proud of, at least for our children and posterity.
If you drive, don’t drink…and if you drink, don’t drive.Stay blessed.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FORUMITES
From: Gibs
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Date Posted: 17:03:36 12/25/05 ()
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Same to you, Bob, and all sierro-zealanders.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FORUMITES
From: CHIEF IN EXILE
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Date Posted: 15:46:29 12/25/05 ()
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NGOH JUSU :
Thanks for the sentiments expressed. Hope you are well and doing fine.
The entire chiefdom is going through a period of “separation anxiety” because your invaluable contribution to the forum had cosiderably decreased. For a minute we were concerned about you. But now we know that you are alright.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS.
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FORUMITES
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:56:56 12/25/05 ()
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What a wonderful expression of goodwill for the nation.
It could not have been expressed in more fitting words.
Sierra Leoneans believing in themselves includes not over-evaluating their degrees, ideas, religions etc whether foreign or Sierra Leonean .
After all what is Sierra Leone, but a little segment of West Africa ��.?
But is that all Sierra Leone is?
Sierra Leone is a part of the world and PART OF THE ESSENTAIL COMMUNITY THAT MAKES UP HUMANITY, AND WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT � ESPECIALLY THOSE Sierra Leoneans that are domiciled overseas and those valiant sons and daughters of the soil who are in Sierra Leone even as we speak.
Click below for a message from the president
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FORUMITES
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 12:51:41 12/25/05 ()
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What a wonderful expression of goodwill for the nation from Bob Jusu!
I could not have been expressed in more fitting words.
Sierra Leoneans believing in themselves includes not over evaluating their degrees, ideas, religions etc whether foreign or Sierra Leonean .
After all what is Sierra Leone, but a little segment of West Africa ��.?
But is that all Sierra Leone is?
Sierra Leone is a part of the world and PART OF THE ESSENTAIL COMMUNITY THAT MAKES UP HUMANITY, AND WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT � ESPECIALLY THOSE Sierra Leoneans that are domiciled overseas and those valiant sons of the soil who are in Sierra Leone even as we speak.
Click below for a message from the president
Subject: Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FORUMITES
From: Chez winakabs Europe
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Date Posted: 18:14:24 12/24/05 ()
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We all wish you the same. May His bleswsings be upon you all.
Subject: TODAY’S QUOTE
From: WISE ONE
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Date Posted: 12:15:05 12/24/05 ()
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12/24/2005
Today’s Quote
We can do no great things –only small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa
Subject: Avoided: The Negative Legacy of UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone
From: Progress
To: All
Date Posted: 12:12:18 12/24/05 ()
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Many of us have shied away from pointing out the negative aspects of UNAMSIL’s 5-year presence in Sierra Leone.
1.There is a clear link between the substantial increase in prostitution and the deployment of UNAMSIL
2. There is now close to 5, 000 illegimate children fathered by people who were suppose to protect the most vulnerable in conflicts. Who is going to look after these fatherless children?
3. Created a culture of dependency
4. Helped nurture the most arrogant and corrupt government in the history of Sierra Leone
And there are many more.
The pluses outweigh the minuses but these have been overplayed to the neglect of the unsavoury aspects of the deployment of 17,000 troops in a tiny nation such as ours.
The impact of UNAMSIL’s presence in Sierra Leone must now be looked at dispassionately for the sake of posterity.
Subject: Re: Avoided: The Negative Legacy of UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone
From: Doctor
To: All
Date Posted: 07:28:36 12/28/05 ()
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Do not forget they have spreaded aids to aleast 200,000 teenagers
Subject: Re: Avoided: The Negative Legacy of UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone
From: Cornelius Hamelberg
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Date Posted: 14:22:09 12/24/05 ()
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” 4. Helped nurture the most arrogant and corrupt government in the history of Sierra Leone.”
Is this a wicked and unsubstantiated rumour of a fact?
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