Falola: Yahya Jammeh: A Messiah of African Dictatorship
Toyin Falola
Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
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Toyin Falola
Ken and Gloria:
There is the concept, in Arabic, which I exploited. It is known as the al-Mashi ad-Dajjal. It is a Quranic concept of the false messiah, the evil one, a liar, a falsifier and the wicked. In primitive Christianity, that messiah received the label of “antichrist”, in a view cumulated in the period preceding the Yawm al-Qiyāmah—a liar who arises before the day of judgement, following the rapture.
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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Cornelius Hamelberg
The Gambia Media is the thermometer that takes the country's temperature´: There's also the social media and the rumour mill
Last week, Barrow announced that he was not going to accept the return of 2,600 Gambian refugees who are being deported from Germany, because they had applied for asylum in Germany, they say, during Jammeh's “ reign of terror” and now that Jammeh is no longer there, and the alleged “ terror” has disappeared they still don't want to go back home. Maybe, on humanitarian grounds they could apply for asylum as economic refugees. Barrow's adamant stance is calculated to increase his popularity in the Gambia, since the deportees are breadwinners for the families they left behind in the Gambia, over 2,600 families...
Ultimately, the Gambian Diaspora apart from accounting for a sizeable chunk of the home economy through home remittances, also impacts home politics directly, even if it's mostly disaffected Gambians that are fortunate to be out of the country – just as the Gambia's current President Adama Barrow, a runaway refuge from Jammeh's Gambia eked out a living by working in safety, as a security guard at TESCO, in the UK.
Sadly, among the more enlightened Gambian Diaspora commentators missing in action today are Sulayman S. Nyang, the Muslim turned Christian, Lamin Sanneh, and if I may so add, from an earlier epoch, my favourite Gambian poet, Lenrie Peters .
Today, the Gambian masses are mostly united by Islam and oppressed by grinding poverty from which they seek relief, praying for a redeemer who by his performance so far is definitively not Adama Barrow, and he himself knows that he is no Gambian redeemer and that if anything, he is more in need of redemption than the Gambia, and , indeed, if anything he would first of all like to redeem himself & his wives, to prolong his reign and to save his own skin.
Realpolitik : Adama Barrow ( Fulani) is most likely being pragmatic, He knows that at no time has an international order been issued by INTERPOL for Jammeh's arrest, as a candidate for the ICC. He also knows that Jammeh ( Jola) still has the money, is a valuable cash cow and till has his loyal supporters, some of whom are still in the military.
How Barrow believes that he is going to win the December elections, is not such a great mystery, mainly because the opposition to him mainly the Mandinka majority tribe and the Wolof are terribly divided; What else to say when there are 18 ( eighteen ) opposition candidates vying for the Number One spot - unlike what happened in Senegal in 2012 when the opposition united behind a single candidate to oust Wade
Louis Farrakhan will probably disagree, but you, I mean you, know the nature of African corruption politics. I'm reliably informed by a close Mandinka source that this is the scene right now: The executive members of Jammeh's party have been bought, have been in bed with Barrow for some time now, as is typical of some spineless African opposition people who like to cosy up to whatever incumbent, in order to get a few crumbs from the new massa's table; in the case of these executives, they have been given big cars worth at least $40,000 a piece and received handsome handouts of 5 million dalasis, which is big money in the Gambia: You may be wondering, from where is all this Barrow-money coming from ? I'm sorry, I almost wrote Harrow-money.The main question that must be bothering Barrow is this: Can the guys he has been bribing deliver the required votes into his ballot box? I asked my trusted source the same question and was told, “ over their dead bodies” - that there's no way that's going to happen, that since the money sprayed on Jammeh's executives hasn't trickled down to the poor man on poverty avenue, they have vowed that they will never vote for Barrow...
My Hon. Mandinka source has much more to say so, this is to be continued
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
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