When the mouths, ears, noses, and eyes of a people become insensitive, their every endeavour belongs to someone somehow complete. When the rhythm of a music is so bad to dance, dancers become singers then singers tend to win the course. There has never been a successful common course without a common rhythm dictating the singing of the general goal. History from the prime stage of humanity has always thought us that we need a concrete representative slogan to make a durable success for the benefits of the whole.
In a community where spiritual common-sense, fate, trust, religion, equality, culture and the pursuit of a common interest fades away, success for that community may be a whole start over. When a community missed their objectives, their whole revival might include beginning from understanding the genealogy of their mistakes. It is now comprehensible to say every problem has its roots and that to every problem there are either preventable measures or likely concrete solutions.
But in any multi-dimensional crises whose facets stretches to touch every aspect of life, confronting the problem becomes tremendously difficult and assuming an answer or a solution to that “particular” problem proves even much more difficult. What is assumable in “The climate of fear in The Gambia” is that of a small species with a very complex social problems that swamp her to its neck in nakedness. It is fairer to say at this time of our human development, those people who are lacking behind to catch up with the rhythmical progress, might be ignorant, weakling, or to the gravest status of “stupidity”.
Our health and livelihood, the quality of our environment, our holy social relationships, our economy, our technology, and our politics are all struggling for survival. Probably we have to bear the brunt that we have a general concern that solicits the participation of all stakeholders in addressing it. However, when a people lose their focus their problems become strange to them. The strangeness of “the climate of fear ” in The Gambia begins from the Gambians failing to act together. Gambians having failed towards a common objective, action, intentionality and spirit to face their enemy of retrogression.
The mighty problem of The Gambia ranges fundamentally from intellectual, moral, and spiritual corruption. This decadence will significantly interrupt the successful history of The Gambia unless a new rule of the playing game is spotted and implemented. When a species live in an environment for a substantial period of time, they have no excuse for not improving that surrounding. They should be able to predict their own future in which they create together. Where this is impossible, survival follows the wimps of the cunning game players where rules narrow into the channel of the evil.
In a small community divided by common interest, barely can they make up a remarkable history together. For the first time in our history, we start to ask if we are common people. The stockpiling of problems without a feeble effort of combating them will only prepare us for failure. The cost of this whole madness and staggering behaviour of Gambians is more than a capitalist’s market price. The price which might cost us our whole brave struggle. The incentive we lack is the knowledge of the importance of this whole liberation. The liberation from poverty, diseases, ignorance, spiritual blindness and the madness of selfishness which together enslave us.
More than half of population are helplessly poor, heavily ignorant, and madly corrupted in spiritual myopia. This narrow-mindedness is becoming an intergenerational disease that Gambians more or less cultivate together.
There were times in history when a community was carried by the outstanding braveness of a few who stood to do what it takes to create an equitable people. These selfless people are those who sacrifice their personal interests for the general goal. The fruits of which they are not sure to directly eat. They know it does not take all to challenge a whole problem together but a few to address all towards a whole common problem. It might take a little effort of observation to know how many Gambians are lacking professional health care services and safe drinking water while its politicians engage in the continuous struggle of betting national interest into their own covers.
Over the years, the remarkable efforts of strengthening the Gambian intellectual force was noticeable, now what is noticeable if the emptiness of that intellectual wagon. The strike of intellectual altruism is death in The Gambia and now Gambians cannot speak. There are increasing substantial proves that revolution is calling and everyone have to assume a responsibility. However, our corruption power plant is feeding everybody with irresponsibility.
As our divisions in spirituality continue to breed in the foods we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, our risk of developing a better community increase. When we continue to ignore our duty towards a common interest, we will certainly fight each other towards our selfish interests. The infertility of the Gambian soil does not begin with refusing to breed patriotic Gambians but with the denial of food to facilitate any good breeding system. The denial of any ecosystem a favourable atmosphere means the obstruction of opportunities.
The smog that covers Gambians blind, dumb and feeble is not strange anymore and as a consequence, our well-being is seriously under threat. Inequality, ignorance, poverty, diseases, are obviously the most predominant problems every Gambian would not deny. The less obvious lies behind more than what common knowledge tells us. The knowledge that Gambians cannot speak.
The deterioration of our national interest has been accompanied by a corresponding force of selfishness that has made it tremendously difficult for Gambians to speak up. The new paradigms of personal against the state, community or national interest had ascertained our failure. There are numerous evidence of social disintegration, influencing the rise of corruption, inducing the rise of violent crimes and accident, increased alcoholism and drug abuse, and the growing figures of children with learning disabilities and behavioural disorders. All these are severe problems no more strange in The Gambia!
Together with all these various social pathologies, we have also been witnessing economic anomalies, that seems to confuse all our economists and politicians. Rampant inflation, massive unemployment and a gross maldistribution of income and wealth had become the god we all worship. The resulting dismay now is that Gambians seek help from outside our borders to our ever emerging problems whether economic or political! This is because Gambians cannot speak up!
Faced with these problems of depletion of our energy, bad economy, massive unemployment, severe poverty, life-threatening diseases, rampant corruption, among others, our politicians no longer know where to go first to minimized damage. This is all because Gambians cannot speak!
When everyone choose to stay silent, even a single truthful voice can lead a revolution. Gambians cannot speak and this is their only problem!
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