observer.gm - (Editorial by Dida Halake for Gambia’s Daily Observer, October 31st 2002) At the Roots Homecoming Festival’s Opening Ceremony in June this year (2002), I was delightfully surprised to hear announced the name of an old friend from the streets of Notting Hill: "The International Speaker this year is Leo Muhammad from London", boomed the MC. I knew Brother Muhammad as a "militant" Nation of Islam leader in London, and we both attended the British Government’s Inquiry into the racist murder of...» view full story