Ana laayt bi?
Last night there was no electricity and a funny thing occurred. Instead of everyone crowding around a TV watching movies at night, the village became vibrant with life. It was a radiantly bright, full moon and there were children running around laughing, playing games and singing old traditional Fula and Mandinka songs. It was a refreshing temporary time warp of how things used to be and will be less often; perhaps forgotten eventually. And now the electricity is back on.
posted by Evan @ 5:24 AM
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2 Comments:
Andrew J-
great post. Amazing. over here the power never stays off long enough to bring people out for human interaction as entertainment. if the power stays out people will only get together for the "what are we gonna do" as though its a disaster. technology is too amazing, its an opiate. I fear that you are right that in time the people of the gambia may also forget the traditional forms of entertainment. the same is certainly true here in the states.
one example comes to mind. remember your going away party at okobojo. we were camping! we intentionlly left society. but when you and i started to organically bump out the jams with our hands and instruments, we had to leave the campfires side, because the car stereos covered the background noise needs.
its crazy i see how we become accomstomed to instant gratification with out working for it, but it is crazy to me that it is slipping all over the world, and that it goes by with out any body missing it.
thank you for the post.
Evan there on some fresh Easter pics on my flicker site of your family to see on their recent trip to Oklahoma.....Happy Easter and we miss you and love you
Aunt Kathy
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