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2014-03-14 Africa Subsaharan

President: No English Please, We're Gambians

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-14 05:13|| 2014-03-14 05:13|| Front Page Top

#2 And who did the Brits buy those slaves from, señor?

Not native Mohammedans, oh noes?!

Posted by no mo uro 2014-03-14 07:40|| 2014-03-14 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Might as well start to learn Russian. It's only a matter of time before Putin gets around to it...

Posted by Spot 2014-03-14 09:56|| 2014-03-14 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 About 30,000 people speak Jula. Tops. In Senegal and Gambia combined. Most Gambians know enough of other tribal languages to transact business in the market. I was going to ask how Jammeh proposes to keep a functioning government without a common language for paperwork, but he doesn't need no steenkin' paperwork; he has his bully boys.

By the way, Mauretania is just a little ways to the north; and while it supposedly outlawed slavery, finally, in 1989, this law is more honored in the breach than the observance. The Arabs continue to be a big market for slaves from this area. Senegal gets a lot of black Africans fleeing slavery in the North African countries.

Posted by mom 2014-03-14 10:14|| 2014-03-14 10:14|| Front Page Top

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