Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd : Sierra Leone Creoles

Brothers Cornelius and Bangura:

When it comes to Sierra Leone's  late Dr. Davidson "Abioseh" Nicol (DN), what I mainly want to remember him for is that he was a very helpful mentor and a great African! For example, among what I also want to recall about this great Son of Africa is the fact that, as a highly-placed U.N. official, he very ably headed United Nations' Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), where younger UN employees like Ghana's Kofi Annan; Kenneth Dadzie and several others received their U.N. administrative baptism (training). The much-needed training made these then young diplomats very qualified for the higher U.N. positions they were later appointed to, including the Secretary-General position that Mr. Annan, our fellow West African, occupied.  Also receiving much-needed UNITAR training about diplomacy and security measures were several U.N.-based African diplomats, including Liberia's Ambassador Angie Brooks-Randolph; Ghana's Alex Quaison-Sackey; Nigeria's Chief Simeon O. Adebo, Guinea's Ambassador Diallo Telli, Tanzania's mbassador Salim Ahmed Salim and others.

Happily, it was Dr. Nicol and Professor Ali A.  Mazrui, who co-sponsored several London-based Africans, including myself, for membership in the Royal African Society (RAS) of the United Kingdom, of which they were already top officials. With that affiliation, many of us were able to regularize our visa and other immigration issues in order to live in peace in the colonial citadel  (or capital) called London! For us, it was a big deal, and we were very grateful to Drs. Nicol and Mazrui, both of whom were Oxbridge graduates.

Also, as a scholar, Dr. Nicol, one-time head of Fourah Bay College, penned a short but very important book about Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, in which he showed the role of the institution in educating several West African political, diplomatic and academic leaders, including the late Presidents Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) as well as the late Professor Jones-Quartey of University of Ghana, among several others. Can we just remember Dr. Nicol (who also qualified for the title of "Emeritus Professor") with the great deeds he performed and, as Shakespeare once wrote, just to allow any "evil he did to live after his bones"? By the way, Brother Cornelius, was he not your Godfather as well, as I heard something like that? May he rest in perfect peace until we meet again!

A.B. Assensoh.

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd : Sierra Leone Creoles

 

Orbai Cornelius,

With reference to your Dr. Davidson Nicol (DN), I stand by my nafs which is a fact. Like Malcolm X, I can confirm the truth, not my truth. According to the late Captain Sam Mboma of Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith's National Reformation Council, (DN) was highly involved in the toppling of their junta. Most of my Creole "famble" were deeply involved in the activities of Stevens and his APC and were greatly rewarded for their schemes.

William Bangura

On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 11:20 PM Cornelius Hamelberg <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:

William Gbing-Gbing O'Bai Konekay Bangura,

Dr. Davidson Nicol did a lot of good during his lifetime. May the Almighty be pleased with him. Here is Stockholm early in 1972 at dinner at the Grand Hotel something terrible happened with me, but he was still in control of the situation - he merely asked me, " Cornelius, how is your mother? " Earlier on I had refused to shake hands with Jerome Holland, the US Ambassador to Sweden when Dr. Nicol presented me to him. I kept my hand in my pocket. My attitude was, " get the hell out of Vietnam!" After that, a lot of bad things happened. 

Between September and December 1969, whilst Ibrahim Taqi was Minister of Information, he visited me and Mary Ann Rogers-Wright at Mathura in Magburaka at least ten times.

Speaking more directly, you could have very well said that as a member of the APC, our very learned non-Creole friend Dr. Abdulai Osman Conteh who as the state prosecutor and attorney-general asked for the death penalty at the Treason trial of Dr. Mohamed Forna, Ibrahim Taqi and the 14 other political martyrs, was one of the main instruments of the injustice.

Who were the presiding judges? Who were the lawyers representing the accused?

Since the Temnes are the numerically strongest ethnic portion of Sierra Leone, why don't they take advantage of their numerical superiority? Please tell us why.

And the SLPP, the Sierra Leone opposition and civil society, the Temne Chiefs? The Mende Chiefs? The friendly neighbouring countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia? The Organization of African Unity? The United Nations? The United Kingdom? The Commonwealth? The Church of England? The World Council of Churches? The Vatican?

At least I wrote to Pa Shaki and advised him to not even dream of ever burying nuclear waste in Sierra Leone. He must have received a lot of other behind the scenes advice which got him to drop that very bad idea.

Someone like Wole Soyinka did go on a world tour in his campaign against Abacha, but in Sierra Leone, land of the free, before and after that treason trial, what did the Honourable Temne people do on their own behalf and on behalf of Sierra Leone? Please tell us.

Some more Sierra Leone Creoles of note, trying to uphold a system of JUSTICE:

Sir Salako Benka-Coker

Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston ( A first class degree in Law)

Sir Samuel Bankole Jones

Samuel Olu Beccles Davies

Desmond Edgar Luke

Ade Renner Thomas

On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 03:58, William Bangura <william.bangura17@gmail.com> wrote:

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:

https://www.revolvy.com/folder/Sierra-Leone-Creole-people/167898?fbclid=IwAR0BFAJxylMoMev-4abm-m7HdD7lirQQBIOLtMIbJY4JemiF3gvcJVDzFx0  

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