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.