Dembo-by-force is right. Sheriff read the poem at our Bakau bantaba on the day he wrote it in Daily Observer. Sheriff said ‘dotted strange cub’ is Hyena Jammeh and the APRC are all liars. That is why the poem is called ‘canny lie’ instead of kanilai. The lion pride is PPP and UDP. Lion king is Jawara.
Modou Njie BAKAU
Poems
By Sheriff Bojang
Daily Observer Entertainment Mar 26, 2005, 09:11
Canny Lie
It was all peace in our little pride
Until the day that strange cub came
Where we were silver plain he was dotted
And where our manes flow, he was bald
Even when we gave him a tiara of dried leaves
His strangeness shone with more egrigity
But we accepted him for his verve
Although we do not know the strange cub
He was a most rococo vassal.
When the King growls he tumbles
He delights in trelishing the king’s mane
And sucking his dusty paws in his watery mouth
The strange cub became a lion
And as for his strangeness, we got used to it
In his days as a lackey
He combed the king’s mane and our secrets
One day at the turn of the season
After the harvest, he killed the Lion King
And the strange cubs become the strange king
Of our much quiescent little pride
He said he was the promise and came
Not to change but enforce the law
Though he squeaks where we roar
We could not break the spell of our new King
He built a dome over our watering hole
and excreted on our oracles
Rendering them impotent
‘Freedom is the first law’ he ruled
And gagged all those who say but
Prosperity is the second law, he ruled
And extracted all the golden teeth
From all those who wear one
Equality is the third law he ruled
And killed all those who prowl like him
Cunning lies, canny lie,
so went on the story
Of our much quiescent little pride
Ends
This arrogant Sheriffo now knows people are not sleeping. How can he insult elders and get away with it? More on the way. This is step number one. Sheriffo get back to the ring.
Very sad for clever man. Jammeh to arrest him many times for Deyda Hydara gov attack and for observer UDP stories. Amadou save him. Now he attack Dembo and Bakau people for Jammeh. Very sad.
Sheriff is not a clever person ,a clever man cannot be used by Jammeh .Jammeh shall go but Gambia remains for our great grand children to come and history is going to judge us
Its like a sickness in the Gambia ,Jammeh have been using them and dumping them since he came power ,but they cannot still learn a lesson .
Mohamed Keita