Listening to Donald Trump’s media announcement of United States withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal, it’s so baffoonishly ridiculous, startling in its childish bullishness of name-calling and connecting totally unrelated issues picked from ancient tabloid news, preposterous in extolling demagoguery, obnoxious self-bloatedness.
It’s mind-boggling how he ended up a President of the United States. Really? What the heck happened here? Africa’s worst numbskull dictators have nothing on this guy.
The visible tip of the iceberg is always common and unimpressive. What lies underneath however, is a massive block of unknown treachery that can sink a ship. The real problem is that anyone would be dismissive of what’s unseen.
That the world’s “greatest democracy” even has a sitting President with unrevealed tax returns; a billionaire of a President with a history of sending thousands of his employees into financial ruin through bankruptcies that only made him richer; a wheeler-dealer of a President with suspicious business connections; a narcissistic sociopath of a President who revels in personal insults, defamation campaigns and blatant lies– is surreal, discomfortingly laughable and sad. American tribalism (so-called “nationalism”) played a crucial role in the Trump vote, a perfect mirror of the worst of primitive democratic processes.
And that tribe will never see anything wrong in “their man.” I laugh because I never thought a day would come when American politics would have so much in common with failed democracies where “our man” is more important than the qualities and moral legitimacy of a leader. The only saving grace now is America’s well-established institutions and activism that hopefully won’t allow the country to sink, but must continue forcing the light to shine on.
I think Alagi likes Mr Trump really //// lol
I don’t understand why anyone is surprised by Trump’s rhetoric and his obnoxious racist buffoonery. Condemnation does not shake him because his political support base will carry him to a second term victory. Don’t say I didn’t tell you.
But here is the most interesting thing: when all nations are looking inward, Africa and Africans are continuously drawn into awe as to what the OTHERS are busy doing for themselves, and forget that we have similar problems we should be focusing on for our collective future.
Iran has the capability to stand up to the bullies for so many years. Would Africans be able to survive the economic and political pummeling Iran has to endure from the US,Europe and Isreal’s constant military threats? Bax, Andrew, Jack, et al. What do you think?
Here is my take: African nations have to give concentrated power to a Central African Government which will be able to plan and implement the building of a Nitrogen Bomb (hundred times more powerful than an atomic bomb) to give us equal negotiation powers, if not more, with the savages that enslave and colonize us.
You would have thought it was better for Africa and black people under Obama Barack until you can’t show any tangible evidence for what he has accomplished for his people. Why should anyone expect anything different from a white supremacist? As Dida would say, mind boggling!!!!
Looks like The USA will pull out of The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – JCPOA signed in 2015. The ideal was to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon in exchange for removing sanctions by the 5 permanent members of UN Security Council and Germany. Was it a good deal, depends on who you talk to, but we can agree there was a deal, and both sides got something they wanted, perhaps not all they wanted. The Iranians got a chance to fix their economy and reduce internal tension, while the world got improved monitoring by International Atomic Energy Agency – IAEA.
What is next. The USA will try to get Iran to renegotiate, but this is political suicide for their political leadership, so they won’t do it even if they can. They will do what is expected, look Trump in the face and say “kiss my a….”, not the best move, but the only move they are left with. The EU is in a pickle. They can go it alone, but risk sanctions by USA. The only play they have is economic – dentete ( see no evil, do no evil ) do business with Iran as usual and stay out of the fight. Here comes China. They can’t wait to fill the void, left by USA. They will trade, steal and generally undermine both sides for self advantage. Russia will do what they do best, make the world a terrible place for all players, looking for ways to increase conflict in middle East and Africa. Israel never liked the deal because they are convinced Iran is cheating and that Iran is nuclear capable. Their paranoia stays supreme, position steadfast. Give us a reason to bomb Iran. They have their finger on the trigger ready to go. So what is left. Us-Africa. They decided what is best for Us. Consensus is, who cares, Let Them DIE! We made ourselves expendable.
God save us from Trump.
Quote: “Russia will do what they do best, make the world a terrible place for all players, looking for ways to increase conflict in middle East and Africa.”
Dr Isatou Sarr, I think you have been watching Fox News and CNN for far too long. Russia (Soviet Union) was the friend that stood by Africa during the independence struggle and today, I can’t point out one conflict in Africa where Russia is involved. May be you can help educate us how they are looking for ways to increase conflict in Africa and what their motives will be.
OMG! Dr! Russia??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lamin, Dr Nkrumah ( as some would say) was neither a Jewish Prophet, nor an African one, but the clarity with which he saw the future of Africa was akin to that of a divinely inspired prophet. Today, we are living witnesses to the fulfilment of his prediction in Addis Ababa, when he predicted the current realities of Africa, if our founding fathers left that OAU Conference without creating the United States of Africa.
Yes I agree, Africa needs the N-Bomb because if there is any people on the face of this earth who deserve a weapon of deterrence, it is the African People. Our history and experience at the hands of others for centuries lends credence to this claim.
But Africa, in my view, needs more than the N-Bomb right now. What Africa needs right now is a disengagement from this rigged global economic, political and financial systems and focus all our energies, knowledge, skills and resources on building a new Africa and creating a new African. That’s what China and Russia (Soviet Union) did. They worked behind the “Iron Curtain” and when they emerged, they had already laid the strong foundations to engage the global system. It is virtually impossible to make any headway under this system and that’s the main reason (not corruption, though it plays its part) why Africa is struggling, despite its natural and human resource riches.
Donald Trump’s case is a bit more complex than many may realise. He is, no doubt, a very dangerous man, as he is a novice (militarily) leading a very powerful military state, who seems to see military might as the solution to every global problem. But Trump, like many of his predecessors, is just a puppet on a string controlled by the real powers in the US: the Neocons, the Zionists and the Bankers. These are the true power brokers in the US and they are united in one thing: WORLD DOMINATION and a NEW WORLD ORDER.
They decide who becomes the President of the United States; they decide who seats in Congress and/or every other important state institution in that country; they decide what domestic and foreign policy objectives are pursued by the US Government.
Thus, the US State in its current form, is the problem and danger to world peace. Other countries, like Russia, China and Iran, are merely reacting to the actions of the US and her allies around the world, but they are protrayed and perceived as villains because the Zionist and Neocon media is powerful and has a global outreach.
Naaahhh Bax! Trumpee sees militarism as a solution to HIS PUSSY PROBLEM. War may make Americans forget Stormy. Remember when Clinton bombed Sudan at the height of his pussy problem?
@ Bax: the current crop of politicians in Africa, see no way out of the current world political and economic order for Africa. From DR Congo to Gambia, from Lesotho to Burkina Faso to Sudan, all we are witnessing is indicative of weak leadership and a lack of vision and commitment to the AFRICAN CAUSE. It’s virtually the same mindset Dr. Isatou Sarr is constantly exhibiting when addressing anything African. For them, the solutions to our problems lies from outside of the continent. In other words, we can’t look inwards even for basic elements of our identity such as language, knowledge , food, medicine etc.
They who are suppose to be teaching, enlightening and liberating the minds of the people especially the young, are engaged in evil propaganda for the West, causing damage and delay.
My mindset is personal responsibility and that we Africans should take ownership of our own problems and therefore be the decider of our future. No displacement of blame to them, just take charge of our destiny and march forward with one purpose. Success. This rhetoric is a defeatist agenda that will enslave Africa for ever. The proof is in the pudding. Why not do this and see:
1. Stop stealing
2. Stop taking hand out
3. Choose good leaders
4. Educate your citizens
5. Stop blaming everyone for your problems
6. Fix your own mess by starting with acceptance of your faults.
7. Stop blaming Barrow, why don’t you run against him and let’s see how well you do.
8. Jawara is no good, Yahya is a buffoon, Barrow is accidental. And You are.
The problem with Africans is we have most of the world resources, very smart people and a legacy of failure. Can’t you tell you need to change something.
Alagi Yoro,
I see no difference is arraigning Trump and eulogizing Adama Barrow or ExPresident Sir Dawda Jawara. Trump wants to fulfill the American dream of GREATNESS, the world’s most powerful, the richest, the bully and believe me he will win the next Presidential elections. This is the calibre of leader the White supremacist American wants. And they form the mayority with Jewish blood in their veins.
Trump wants his America, first, above all. ExPresident Jawara sold our sovereignty to the British, Barrow is selling our sovereignty to the Senegalese and the Europeans. So, who is better? Trump or those two people?
In one of his books Osagyfo Dr Kwame Nkrumah referred to Sir Dawda as the British boy. A tone that reflected the neocolonialist and reactionary attitudes of Sir Dawda. Where did we go with the PPP government and where are we going with the illiterate British Argos watchman in presidential clothing? That’s what you have to analyse today. Not what Trump is doing in America. The world will ever live that EGOCENTRIC style of administration. The big ones will always try to fish on the little ones. But when you learn your priorities and put them before anyone else’s, you may make a better deal in achieving your objectives. But that can be done with a learned, squared-headed, patriotic, fearless, selfless, incorruptible and capable citizen. Not the calibre of sleeping Humpty Dumpty occupying the premises of our State House today. Dr Kwame Krumah was a Pan-Africanist patriot. He said, the secret of life is to have NO fear! He had no fear for the African cause.
Staying too long in the USA is gradually phasing out your patriotism, Alagi. Not only you, but almost all those African folks who have always eulogized the American “dream”, eaten the American “McDonald’s, The BigMac, the fat sausages and hamburgers. You are all bloated with the imperialist, neocolonialist economic and social theories of the WB and IMF, The Wall Street, the Pacific coastal ideologies in Hollywood movies…. You are gradually (maybe unknowingly) becoming anti-African tradition/customs and values. Please, find a model for our progress from the true African perspectives.
Yaya is not different from all the self serving egomaniac of presidents all over Africa. He is in fact one of the worst. He is no exception to Dawda and Adama. I wonder why his name is not mentioned in the club of harlequins they all are.
Yaya just hide behind pan-Africanism and his clowny Kaftan to commit his astrocities. Dawda was just clueless. Adama is just………naive and accidental.
Come on, you have refrained from telling the truth. Your hatred is once again manifested in the LIES. Why not mention a single difference in improvement achieved by President Jammeh? Why are you people so bad and cruel that with all the development achievements attained during the Jammeh period, you still shut your mouths about those?
You are free to mention the “bad” about him, but why not the good? That shows the level of hypocrisy and untruthfulness!
Here in lies the problem with you Babu. Your unpreparedness to accept the truth about Yaya Jammeh.
The “developments” are the reason for the heavy, burdensome indebtedness. Contracting loans with cut throat interest rates, (a good portion of which is diverted into personal use) to build a few structures is not worthy of praise.
Yaya left The Gambia in a similar but far more precarious situation than Jawara.
Lamin,Bax and Babu, I implore all patriotic Gambians to be proud of your true Nationalism.Your contributions in all the articles I read make me so emotional that I wish all the brain drain inflicted on our poor Gambia to be redeemed and recovered to make a positive difference. Bravo to you all …..and please keep posting to deter the inevitable out of hand situation we all live to witness.
If I hear one more nonsensical statement about Pan-Africanist BS. I am going on a straight 7 day fast. Not even water. What exactly is the legacy of your position.
Can we grow our own food and feed ourselves
Can we survive without begging for crumbs from white people
Can we build a robust and stable economy
Can we build our our cars, no tricycle
For God sake we can’t even catch the poor fish in our ocean, and you are so proud of talking about being Pan-Africa. Why don’t you stop talking and build a fabulous continent. Then I can stop fasting and start eating the food we grow.
Thanks Lamin and Babu for getting my BP up.
U R Cute when you get angry Doc – and 100% CORRECT this time.
Before I finish penning what’s in my chest, the Doc is having a boiling BP. What you need is a pan Africanist pill of soberness that will cure you of the anti-blackness that has infected your psyche. Then you will find your balance and become an integral part of the liberation movement that is surely going to emerge victorious in not too long to come.
Doc, the white man has done a tremendous job of habituating you to see the world the way he deems fit. The American doctrine of personal responsibility that spurs in personal and collective success is nothing but an illusionary mantra is meant to keep us (black people) from asking the painful questions that will never go away. That American wealth is built on the strides of the individual is a lie at best. Thanks to the resilience of people like Ta-Nahisi, today, we know the worth of black bodies in the United States from the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Hustling (not a trade) to it’s “end”, made up more than two thirds of the American economy. Till today!
Why are you conniving to muddy or even bury that history.
Here is the thing I have learned though: talk to white people about race and slavery, they become red and defensive. Do the same thing with blacks and they become dismissive and nonchalant. I have come to understand that is a historic amnesia in the unconscious mind of black people as a defense mechanism agains knowing this painful truth(s). So Doc I can understand your resistance. It’s just a pity that your brain is owned whiteness and it’s not been employed or can’t be employed by us for our liberation course. That’s the first point.
Second, you can only be the decider of your own future if the parasites will leave you to be. The wars and coup d’etats that are constantly erupting in Africa is the work of imperialist human flesh eaters. They funnel their weapons into our lands for us to be busy killing each other whilst they make away with EVERYTHING. So am apportioning blame where blame is due. Neither you no your masters can silence me on exposing their treachery and genocide. A genocide that never takes a break. No Doc, I won’t go to sleep.
1) Your masters are the biggest thieves and they cohort with Africans like you to continue brainwashing our people otherwise.
2) Let them pay up! We are not asking for handouts, just taking what rightfully belongs to us.
3) We always believe we have choosen wise leaders until they become power hungry and go to bed with the white agenda. You are doing no different.
4) Our citizens can only be best educated in their own beautiful languages. The white man has employed and weaponized people like you and Fatoumatta Tambajang to be the stumbling blocks in that endeavor. But we will win.
5) We will stop blaming everyone for our problems if YOU will tell everyone to get their nose out of our problems.
6) Oh yes dear learned Doc, we have accepted our faults and are working on them. Just tell the others they also have their BIG FAULTS.
7) I never begged Adama to be where he is. He has a choice to stand down or put up with freedom fighters like me for the next one and a half year. I, like all Gambians have the right to castigate him for anything we deem necessary and to send him packing if he is an utter failure. Which by the way he is. Or do you want to deprive me of that right?
8) Am a sovereign citizen of The Gambia, who unlike Dawda, Yaya and Adama will never be interested in political office for privileges and self aggrandizement. If I ever become the president of The Gambia, my priorities for the first year will be the following:
a. free movement of people, goods and services between Gambia and Senegal.
b. the entrenchment of our languages in officialdom beginning the first day in office.
c. cutting the cost of government to half in the first three months to be able to afford free and compulsory education for all.
d. heavily invest in the productive bases of the economy to make Gambia a producing and exporting country of international standards.
If I may tell you my dear learned Doctor, what we need to change is unfortunately the white mindset of people like you.
Yours in the service of The Gambia and Africa, I remain.
Lamin, let us adopt KISWAHILI as the language of The Gambia – since the great Cheikh Anta Diop’s suggestion of Wollof appears contentious. Swahil has now reached Congo and I am sure it will reach Nigeria in a generation. I will be happy to set up the Kiswahili Institute in The Gambia.
Jambo Sana Hakuna Matata.
Lamin just told us, he will cut the cost of government in half in the first 3 months. That got my attention, I strongly support fiscal responsibility and reducing the size and cost of government. Here is my question to you.
What is the current expenditures for Gambia in 2017.
Please tell us exactly how you intend to reduce that number by 50% in 3 mo
I know that you are in the service of our country and Adama is reading this
Please go on.
Be my guest Doc but first trim down your questions to specific digestible fragments for the sake of time and space.
Whether Adama is reading our exchanges here or not is of no significance to neither the cause or effect of my engagement here. Well he might stand to benefit from some illuminating dialogues. But that’s about it.
Over to you.
Surely you want to help our nation. I simply ask you to tell us how much is the expenditure you said you will cut in half and how will you do it. Surely you know the numbers otherwise you will not make such BOLD claim. How can that be fragmented and complicated. This are your own words. I am sure the entire nation will benefit from your wealth of knowledge. We are all waiting Sir.
Bax,
I belong to a different school of thought. I am as Walter Rodney and Ali Mazrui said, a Pan-Africanist to the core. I rather beg the crumbs from your bedside, Bax, than go to the IMF, WB for crumbs. I don’t think we are indebted to anyone; the big powers/institutions. No, we aren’t indebted to anyone!
We are recollecting what was illegally taken from us. Africa should go straight to the UN and tell those “donor” countries that we don’t owe anyone, any institution anything. We can just refuse from paying what they think we owe them until they return what they owe us from slave labour in over 200 hundred years of bondage to be calculated at a minimum rate of a cent of a dollar an hour for over millions of our able-bodied nice, fresh, young women and men taken across the Atlantic.
It’s the reality in history. From thence we can savage our relationship with the West to live on our crumbs until we develop our own machinery, our own code of democratic conduct. The human and material resources are there, abundant on the African soil. It’s not a utopian dream, but a reality that we can collectively achieve as a great nation. A nation, the African nation that can hold the key to progress in the world.
I’m just sick and tired of neocolonialist, unpatriotic and self defacing elements. That’s my dislike for your present puppet administration in the Gambia, our lovely home being gradually sunken into foreign domination.
Babu, I like the idea of rejecting any indebtedness to the West due to all the factors you mentioned and I think a united African (not individual states) representation (to this effect) to our external creditors would be a very good starting point. However, the reality is that a very considerable amount of monies received into our National budgets come from external loans, which are being paid back.
So, we accept being indebted, continue to honour our debt obligations through debt and interest repayments, which continue to rise to unaffordable and unsustainable levels.
In The Gambia, the value of our Debt Service (total sum of principal & interest payments actually made in the year) on external debts alone, according to the WB, though fluctuating between years, has risen from a mere $126, 000 in 1970 to a colossal $44, 123, 000 in 2014. That is a huge sum of money for the mismanaged Gambian Economy and Yaya Jammeh has a much greater responsibility for this situation than anyone else, though you chose to continually ignore this fact. He was no different from the “neocolonial boy” (Jawara) in the fundamentals of his social, political and economic policies; just different in style.
Barrow is an accident of necessity and the sooner his administration (cabinet) and the nation realise this and understand the transitional nature of their reign, the better for us all.
Babu, they killed Walter Rodney with a massive bomb – and bombed Mazrui with dollar notes. Not a single country in Africa can withstand Uncle Sam & Gang: that is the sad REALITY Bro.
Luntango, Jollofnews, 11th May 2018
I have spent more than half of my life between Kombo and Holland though I am midway between URR (the land of my daddy, my birthplace) and the CRR (the land of my mummy, my second birthplace), but I remain(ed) a LUNTANGO in Kombo though I spend most of my holidays there. If I want to be an Alkalo, a Seyfo, a NAM or a Councillor, should I try my chance in the Kombos? Presently, I don’t think so. I would be snubbed, I presume, and asked to go back to the land of my daddy, not even my mummy (where I might have a slight consideration than in the Kombos). Am I not a Gambian, after all? Or am I still a LUNTANGO on my own land as you, LUNTANGO, have just stated in your posting?
When will you become a DURINGO on the surface of The Almighty Allah’s soil? Is it when Uncle Sam and his Gang order your emancipation or will you work for it yourself? If you don’t do it yourself, you will NEVER!
The world is revolving around her advanced technology and the human race cannot allow any more subjugation. I love the Ugandan rejection of homosexuality and lesbianismo n Ugandan soil. They thoroughly and explicitly gave their African interpretation and thought. (Please listen to their audios)
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Krumah reiterated; I repeat and quote; “The secret of life is to have NO fear”.
Whatever the fate of Rodney and Mazrui, their teachings and convictions still stand for emulation and execution.
You have a very important role to play for the African emancipation, LUNTANGO, not to remain LUNTANGO on the soil that belongs to you, to us, your parents, our parents their parents and their great-grand-grand-parents.
I stand corrected Babu; U R Right: They may have taken the body of Walter Rodney but his spirit still lives on – as evidence by the fact that we are still calling his name long after his murder.
Have a blessed day.
Bax,
I’ll write back, hopefully from home. In the mean time have a pleasant day!
It has now been laid bare that Lamin has absolutely nothing of substance to offer The Gambia. In response to every discussions he creates a cloud of deception laced with aspersion about the opposing view, calling them “white lover” and passing himself as a core “Gambia/African lover”. It is now obvious that all he does is criticize and attempt to diminish the contribution of others with labels but does not have a single solution to offer other than nonsensical false Pan-African narrative.
This are the issues:
1. We are spending too much to run government. Agreed. Lamin says, he will cut cost of government by half in 3 months. He does not even know the cost of government, does not know how much and on what the money is spent, he did not tell us exactly how much and what programs he will cut and when. If he does we are still waiting for his response. Hold not your breath! He is not serious.
2.He will make one of our local languages official business language the first day, but he never told us his choice and the process of getting this accomplished. How we will change all our business software, our signage, our interpreters and all of our Embassy process on first day of his assumption of “power”. Not serious.
3. When the creditors come calling. He has not told us how he intends to service our debts or perhaps default because based on his “delusion Africanism” they “owe” us for slavery and theft of our minerals, or perhaps they owe us for even our own collusion, inept and incompetent choice of leaders all over the continent. And by the way Lamin wants the creditors to write their request letter and all subsequent correspondence in our local language. Not serious.
4. He promise FREE education for all. Great idea, but where is the money coming from for this project. He cannot even buy food to feed the poor kids he plans to educate without begging for crumbs from his “white enemies”. Not serious.
Makes me sick to go on, but I think the point is clear, some people love to criticize and find fault, but given the opportunity to serve, they come EMPTY. The man who claim to be in the service of Gambia. Now you know why we are in trouble. Finally what service did Lamin provide in the last 22 years under dictator Yahya Jammeh. Can’t wait to hear that one.
God save us from backward mind and village champions.
If you serve us tell us how we can better our country, real serious talk about Education, Economics, Security, Agriculture, Food security and safety, Enviromental protection, Healthcare, Freedom of expression, Infrastructure, Transportation and Fishing to name a few.
We are still waiting.
Doc you got it all wrong again. It seems to me you have not been reading me with keen attention. I said: neither your white masters no their poisonous reps like you can cow me into silence or retreating into a shelve. Your lords recoil and hide their tails between their legs at my presence. You, can go on to be their minion and that will make you only one thing in the eyes of your dreaded “pan-Africanists”: a miniaturized coon.
So let’s get down to the business of cutting the cost of government to half in three months if I should be the president of The Gambia.
The budget that was presented by Abdou Colley shortly before Yaya was forced to flee stood at a little above 14 billion Dalasi. This amount has to be revised down because projected grants and revenue were not going to be realized for the shock the economy through. The amount then stood at twelve Billion Dalasi. The 2018 budget is projected to be 19 billion Dalasi.
And a 100 Million Dalasi was earmarked for the office of the president. But the salary of the president and that of the Vice President did not appear in the budget. You be the judge as to why that has to happen.
So here is what I would have done: I would have capped the salaries of the top tier earners in government (ministers, managers of parastatals and other public-private enterprises) to half of what it presently is, for my entire term in office. I will take my allowances for food and clothing, and donate my salary (remember; half) to children orphaned by HIV and AIDS.
I will then focus on reducing the size of the central government to bring in efficiency and accountability. The bulk of government posts in all the ministries are created to squeeze in friends and family. I will order a thorough audit of the administratative functions of all the ministries. Those who do not meet a certain bar will be compensated and let go. That will correspondingly reduce the fleet of GG cars to only the essential. The rest will be maintenanced and sold off.
I will order a comprehensive audit of The Gambia’s foreign services to ensure they are cost effective and yielding more than they consume in resources. Those that did not meet the cut, will be axed. Immediately.
The first week in office will see the disbanding of the NIA (now shamelessly referred to as SIS). The men and women who did not have blood and tears on their hands, will be integrated into reeducation programs and deployed according to interest and competence. The rest will have to face restorative justice according to our cultural norms. The Gambia National Army will be turned into and Army Corps of engineering, manufacturing etc, generation enough income to sustain itself and even invest its surplus cash into fishing and Agricultural projects as feasible. We will be saving billions just in the first year.
By asking which language we will be adopting as our official language shows your lack of knowledge about anything African. That’s why I said your brain is owned by whites and the white Agenda. You see, our language ecology was never a homogenous one. So imposing one language as a unifying instrument was deliberate on the part of the looters. They know it will never deliver the goods, so they found advocates like you to keep us in bondage. Have you ever asked yourself why our languages are marked with all kinds of demeaning adjectives like “local”, “native”, “tribal” and all the bullshits they got up their sleeves. Go figure it out Doc. Am trying my best to control my anger at your blatant nativity or should I say hypocrisy. Hence I cannot disown you as a black person, I will do my utmost to keep it going.
Here is what I will do with regards to the entrenchment of our languages to foster a strong Gambian identy. I will invite Gambian experts to set up the CELCURI (Centre for Language and Cultural Research and Innovation). It will have three broad functions -Standardization, Education and Dissemination. This will the beginning of the democratization of ALL languages and cultures in our country. This institute shall teach all languages and positive cultural practices in The Gambia in all six regions of the country. Folks like you will hate that because it will diminish your bourgeoisie privileges by making you equal in knowledge and potential to we the villagers you so despise. Any questions?
By the way all our precious languages will be called national languages, still we will maintain English as a subsidiary language second to all and every language in our country, for the purpose of our international relations. We will kill French. Why? Read my open letter to Fatoumatta Tambajang for that.
Here is the link :
http://www.thegambiatimes.com/open-letter-to-the-vice-president-of-the-republic-of-the-gambia-fatoumata-tambajang/
Education:
Cut all the government wastages I have mentioned above and you will have the necessary cash stock to pay teachers, maintain the infrastructure and add quality.
Doc I can’t understand for the life of me why you want me to tell everyone here the service(s) I have rendered to The Gambia and Africa. I will not play your game of “massaging your own ego”.
Am flabbergasted that you did not even recognize that even our exchanges on this platform could be one form of service or the other. Aren’t you learning? If not, why are you wasting you time debating here? That will be foolish of you.
I have no business in attacking anyone’s views here or casting aspersions on people’s legitimate ideas. The fact remain this though: go against black people for no just reason and I’ll spare no arrows at my disposal to expose the anti-blackness in you. Whoever that is.
If you want to hear and learn the alternatives am proposing to the status quo that obtained since “independence” to now, we will talk about that but not while you are constantly (unconsciously) balling for your supreme white lords.
Yours in the service of The Gambia and Africa, I remain.
Lamin
Maximum respect for your intellect and eloquence.
Lamin,
The last time I heard a response like that, was from an X politian named Mr George Galloway from the UK, when he appeared in front of the USA regarding the Iraq enquiry.
Excellent.
Grim reaper we just delivering the little service to our people that we can under the circumstances, even though our very respectable sister and mother, Doctor Sarr does not see it like that. She could have been very useful to our liberation cause but she has unfortunately chosen the other side. I predict she will deny that because she does not understand how the mechanisms of anti-blackness function in the psyche of our own people. Still, I will choose her over George Galloway.
@ Dida: Why do you think Kii Swahili will work for us in Gambia and Senegal? Just curious.
@ Babu Solo: Africa is full of very intelligent people. We just have to master how to doggedly harness our individual and collective matrixes of intelligence(s).
I appreciate your answers in spite of your rudeness and arrogance. Thank you.
I appreciate you taking your time to read those few lines of mine. It’s just not possible to lay out the complete alternative plan to that of the imperialist on the comments section of Jollofnews. I would have given you tables and charts to drive home my points. That opportunity might avail itself one day.
I will not return back your insulting words. I have learned from our cultures never to hit a woman or insult her. I should even help carry their loads if I see them carting one, no matter how busy I might be. That’s a far cry from the white feminism that so many of our women folk have swallowed hook, line and sinker but do not understand the genesis of, leading to broken marriages and fatherless children at home and abroad. The men are blindly aspiring to whiteness and white modes of consumption. Many have abandoned their people (black people and African ideals and philosophies) to become lackeys of the West.
The revolution that began in the 1920s up to the early 80s has given way to military meddlings in politics sabotaging the mental liberation wave. A topic for another day.
Yours in the service of The Gambia and Africa, I remain.