I am right you are wrong to that of I am right you are death”

Dialogue an attribute so fundamental to the uniformity of the Gambian opposition is given unattended faces. It’s completely alien. It’s not our culture!
The faces of political parties and organisations continue to be chanted in names like: Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction , National Alliance for Democracy and Development, National Democratic Action Movement, National Reconciliation Party, People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, People's Progressive Party, United Democratic Party, Gambia Party for Democracy and Progress, National Convention Party, Gambia Democratic Congress, Gambia Moral Congress, the names continue even at this point swimming in and out and against the tides of a progressive movement of any sort.
Oppositions aren’t the army of God. Neither are they the army of the voters. They are ding-dongs for their own agendas at least this is clear about the Gambian case. The ruling party takes its legitimacy to bounce at everything and everywhere they wish to drill. At least we are convinced that the future is cheerful –an unconscious fool’s paradise every Gambian is dreaming in. We want to harvest the best fruit of democracy, drink the best juice of human rights and dance in the paradise of this world without preparing to face the concrete matters that thwart our progress. We need first to figure out where these fundamental differences lie and what should be done about them. As it continues to happen in all elections, parties and party leaders will come out to propaganda without convincing even themselves. While many who converge at those scenarios aren’t particularly there to examine their manifestos but rather to chill out, amplify our living political uncertainties. The heaviest load that is betrayed by the Gambian press will never let us to the Gambia we all dream for. Journalists should have taken out on political parties and made them know to the voters. It’s the duty of the press to let transparency lead the wimps of politics and not otherwise. This, however, is unsatisfied. Journalist is ill-equipped as the other ignorant population over matters that govern them.
Politics without serious engagements isn’t worth the blessings that come with it. If you can eat your cake and have it, then you can eat the fruits of politics without voting for the right person or go through serious struggles. We all want love to eat freely from the national cake but few would love contributing to making it. However, we’ve all become fanatics in one way or the other reluctant to negotiate with each other, thus, compromising national interest. We’ve become separated almost eternally from each other and from national interest due to some insubstantial matters –you would not like to know.
Resolutions are far ahead to sure. Our energy reserves are exploding out of nothing and neither of the contestants is taking advantages nor the common people are aware of their own potentials. Or to be fair enough, the masses aren’t given the progressive patterns. The Gambia in simple terms hasn’t a sustainable governing process and this isn’t the fault of one individual or a party.
Nature of the most dangerous thing in our unification is fanaticism. We enjoy lonely travels within common political structures –unbelievable to realise. Even more heart-breaking is the fact that party leaders are consistently inconsistent in all their transparent endeavours. What more do we expect from figures who can’t back their own emotions publicly? According to Achebe the situation of this disunity is like “I am right you are wrong to that of I am right you are death.”
Development of humanity with the sound and sustainable ideas it comes with should soon reach the Gambia and safe the faiths of the mass innocent population whose lives are in the hands of unmanageable political dwarfs lying centrally wimps of their breath.
Protests, demonstrations and capitulations will continue to exist without a stop and solution as long as positive rules and symbols are still absent while misconducts from political Lilliputians continue to address matters. Genuine commitment is abruptly solicited from all Gambians.

Cover your own yard from prays first...

We are all naked. Dig it your way!

The Gambian political tragedy has failed almost everyone. Be it the incumbent or not. The political examination has never left any story good to be maintained. Neither the opposition nor the ruling governments were able to create a state of well-being. Well, We are all bunches of the same statement -a mismanaged population. A failure we all are and contributing to. Perhaps some would want to know why I put it so banal! My reasons are outrageous: there isn't a system of complete purity anywhere in this political world, what people try to create to justify democracy are fundamental branches made by the common people: the executive, the judiciary and the legislative. In The Gambia as in many African countries, these branches aren't working as supposed. And there can't be enough insult to any democracy than the failure of these branches that should keep the political game balance. Even Magna Carta never wholly defined any atmosphere free from injustice, what makes the authoritative book to follow generations is its unique view of justice dispensation. Magna Carta from the days of slavery purely acclaimed unity via the common yards of the proletarians: it puts it that until the farmers and buyers are converged over the same round table, no representation will bring their wellbeing. It is pretty well the same metaphor I wish to use to analyze the Gambian political journey. Most of us aren't observers and even the few who claim to be aren't getting to the problem. Rather, the problem is getting much stronger than their analytical spectacles. Their glasses are broken. They can't see far.

We haven't representatives! We got men and women who campaigned to secure political positions for their individualistic wishes. They aren't there for us. They are unconscious lone travelers in the wilderness of the Gambian political framework. What is more exacerbating than a political figure failing his/her voters is the voters' failure to elect a competent person. This is not just a Gambian failure but a common African jeopardy. We might now have time trialing behind every slogan of justice but never do we ask for whom and why it was established at the first place. We failed to investigate into the causes of injustices before they started: we are excellent at waiting for accomplished failures such as that of mass ignorance or illiteracy, poor health, disunity, mass imprisonment, diseases so go the infinitive list of predicament. And the politicians know this well. 

We should have guaranteed our civil liberties without compromising with the authorities: this is the trace of a proud lineage. Gambians haven't passion for politics, we haven't the eloquence and all w
that we have is the irrelevant lyrical reference of hard-won freedoms of our ancestors which we aren't even struggling to defend. We as oppositions of bad governance should challenge ourselves first before falling down with our faces at our backs. We aren't disunited as they wanted us to be but we aren't united at all. This is the self-harming clarity even an unattended enemy would spot straight. The Gambian oppositions aren't a diaspora climate separated from each other like their borders; the Gambian opposition ban wagon aren't even up to their goals. Honestly we lost the go-ahead, the speed and the relevance. I know very little about the Gambian political situation but that little is core. I am willing to see a better Gambia under a party whose equations are intact and who relate to the common people at all times not because they need votes but because it is politics and they deserve it. An apposition that will strengthen the common good of all by first establishing its moral standards. We need to vote on these grounds and they must manifest this. Not only a bad government should tell us why and how, all the good and the bad share the same system of transparency under real democracy.

The Self Portrait

When your tradition inspires justice, you are safe, vice versa. 

The unrest in The Gambia is as a result of the untold truths, corruptions, killings and all the rest that culminated into the unprecedented social injustices for decades. It's this situation that has crept and paralyzed our society. Now, triumph is a matter of great luck that is associated with the principles that govern us. I am not discouraged, instead, I am optimistic that the positive air that blows outside our yards will soon reach us. We will have to breath it but not without difficulties and shall be difficulties that we are able to table, challenge and tackle.

The climate of fear that terrorized every soul "death and alive", must come to a hold through a collaborative model that is representative of the voices of the suffering. Though, even those who take pleasure in tormenting the less powerful amongst us, are suffering themselves. Their sufferings should be a positive energy that will unite us together to create a better society. The option on our table is clearer than ever before in our history. We have to take patience, resist and be intolerant to the devil. What connect every one of us now, without any sort of differences is the climate of fear. This strange atmosphere that is disintegrating our small powerful society must be eliminated with the model we all vehemently believe and share.

Assuming to be right, is the first predicament to any tragedy. Contemplating that you are wrong is much better since you will be careful. The Gambia has never seriously engaged in any democratic model that is sustainable and representative of the voices of the suffering. This could be viewed from almost all levels without getting yourself tired. Our educational, healthcare, security and political tools in use since independence are but just an illusion of whatever we would want to see in this 21 century! What we are left with is the very sights of a decaying society. A relationship between the subject and the master- where the latter merely survive. An unfair symbiosis that corrupts the physical and mental values of a society. We must not relinquish our potentials in times of troubles -they are part of our reality. Painful they are, but there was never any effortlessly accomplished paradise. The rights we have today and the liberty we labour for aren't just any commodity. There are priceless values of a transitional society: many died for it.These sufferings are nearly inevitable.