William Gbing-Gbing O'Bai Konekay Bangura: Mamouton!
I know that for an unabashed Temne warrior-nationalist like you, still feeling so terribly aggrieved, forty-nine years after the execution of your uncle, Brigadier John Amadu Bangura it should prove to be very difficult, but at the very least you could try and kindly do yourself a favour, first of all by trying to regain some control over your nafs which at the moment of your writing what you just wrote was obviously in full control of your upper chambers, maybe in full control of your beautiful inner spirit, your heart – your living soul - as it's obvious that your nafs are now running away with you and from your better judgment, headstrong, like some wild horses, running unto perdition...
May the Almighty redeem you and all of us from Lashon Hara ( https://www.google.de/search?q=Lashon+Hara&trackid=sp-006) evil speech - and the most evil type of speech currently coming from you when you utter such a calumnious and calamitous blunder, saying what you say about one of the best of human beings ever born in Sierra Leone, a man of total integrity, Dr. Davidson Nicol ( https://www.google.de/search?q=Dr.+Davidson+Nicol&trackid=sp-006))
At the very least, I demand that you take back what you just said about him. Or else !
I don't want to get into too much of personal details but suffice it to say that I knew Dr. Nicol. He is and was the sort of person who if you met him outside of Sierra Leone, irrespective of whatever tribe or so-called class you belonged to, the first thing he would say to you would be, "My dear William, how can I help you?"
I don't think that you even know what you are talking about, after all, you were not yet even ten years old when Sierra Leone attained Independence. Early in 1970, before my emergency visit to Sierra Leone in March- April of 1970, I visited his son Charles who was then a student at Achimota.
Take note: Dr. Davidson Nicol was not a politician and did not belong to any so-called "Cabal" - which does not mean to say that there were not so kinds of conspiracies, and some occasional envious, evil, tribal talk about him, and the occasional unnecessary, intrigues whereby to seek or secure some favour which he would dispense with willingly, almost as a duty, anyway. He was not the sort of person that you or anyone else could "bribe"...
I don't want to get into any unnecessary or further unsavoury altercation/s with you about the matter, but in reconsidering your most grievous and ignorant calumny against Dr. Nicol, I should like to ask you, where do you think Dr. Nicol was in March 1970 – or indeed between a few months after David Lansana declared Martial Law and the day that your uncle and the other Sierra Leone martyrs of freedom were executed?
What I do know, I do not speak from hearsay and I do know many facts that you will never read in any book, history book or political science doctoral thesis, including Thomas S. Cox's Civil-Military Relations in Sierra Leone: A Case Study of African Soldiers in Politics
I also knew Tom Cox ( he gave me Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" when it was new) . I saw the African Cup final in Kumasi with my wife and with him in 1970….
In Ghana ( 1970-1971) I met Gandhi Capio and was also a good friends with exile Major Sandy Jumu, former Minister of something in the NRC (National Reformation Council). He was a frequent visitor to us at the Chalets, South Legon, and a creditable Scrabble player. After I crashed my motorcycle (Honda 250cc) he sometimes used to lend me his car.
Other matters: I take issue with some of the format, some of the contents and especially some of the omissions in that haphazard compilation of "Sierra Leone Creoles". Just as it would be unthinkable that "Nigerian Igbos" would omit to mention Zik , so too I find it remarkable that in this compilation about Sierra Leone Creoles there is no mention of e.g.
Mr. I.T.A Wallace-Johnson (https://www.google.de/search?q=I.T.A+Wallace-Johnson&trackid=sp-006
Cf : The Krios of Sierra Leone
Thanks. Your Davidson Nicol was part of the cabal who executed my Themne people. At the U.N. in 1970 he advocated for the rights of the Palestinians. But not for the rights of Ibrahim and M.O. Taqi, and Dr. Mohammed Sorie Forna who were imprisoned for three years by your Siaka Stevens and his APC, because the aforementioned had resigned from his party in September of that year.William Gbing-gbing Konekay😎--On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 4:34 PM Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:--
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