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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Editor,
Please, allow me a space in your widely read newspaper to express my displeasure with the injustices meted agains us during an esxcursion trip to Juffureh Island.
Slavery can be viewed or referred to as the forceful capture, dehumanization and maltreatment of people. It is worth noting that the Portuguese were the first set of Europeans that came to Africa for slave trade.
Slavery or slave trade existed in africa even before the coming of the “White man”; then African chiefs maltreated fellow Africans and kept them under lock and key, so that when Europeans come with their “strange goods” they could exchange with those unfortunate able bodied Africans.
Lots of our brothers and sisters were forcefully captured and exported to europe and America.
Just recently, while we were on an educational excursion to the family house of Kunta Kunteh, a notable former slave that put up stiff resistance against the slave masters but eventually taken to American. While we were at the site we were forced to to leave place in a hurry just because some “toubabs” (Europeans) had come for a visit. The fact is that we were on educational visit while the Tourists were there for mere site-seeing. We were blatantly refused to complete our question and answer session all because of the arrival of the “toubabs”, who, ironically, were there to see marks of the injustices their ancestors meted against ours.
Because neo-colonialism, the west still owns and controls most multi-national corporations as in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria and other natural resource-rich African countries. This is a sorrowful situation. We are urging the departments of state with interest in these areas (departments of state for basic and secondary education and tourism and culture) to prevent the occurence of similar situation.
Bintou Camara and Bintou Faye (10 Arts)
Unity Comp. Senior Secondary School.
Old Jeshwang.
Please, allow me a space in your widely read newspaper to express my displeasure with the injustices meted agains us during an esxcursion trip to Juffureh Island.
Slavery can be viewed or referred to as the forceful capture, dehumanization and maltreatment of people. It is worth noting that the Portuguese were the first set of Europeans that came to Africa for slave trade.
Slavery or slave trade existed in africa even before the coming of the “White man”; then African chiefs maltreated fellow Africans and kept them under lock and key, so that when Europeans come with their “strange goods” they could exchange with those unfortunate able bodied Africans.
Lots of our brothers and sisters were forcefully captured and exported to europe and America.
Just recently, while we were on an educational excursion to the family house of Kunta Kunteh, a notable former slave that put up stiff resistance against the slave masters but eventually taken to American. While we were at the site we were forced to to leave place in a hurry just because some “toubabs” (Europeans) had come for a visit. The fact is that we were on educational visit while the Tourists were there for mere site-seeing. We were blatantly refused to complete our question and answer session all because of the arrival of the “toubabs”, who, ironically, were there to see marks of the injustices their ancestors meted against ours.
Because neo-colonialism, the west still owns and controls most multi-national corporations as in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria and other natural resource-rich African countries. This is a sorrowful situation. We are urging the departments of state with interest in these areas (departments of state for basic and secondary education and tourism and culture) to prevent the occurence of similar situation.
Bintou Camara and Bintou Faye (10 Arts)
Unity Comp. Senior Secondary School.
Old Jeshwang.
Author: DO
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