Tuesday, December 13, 2022

I Do Not Worship The God You Worship (Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe)



What does the God you serve do for you?
Is he not the God of poverty
The carrier of sicknesses
The doer of evil who easily kills than he can cause life
Is he not the God, they say, owns the moon?
That God, they say, is all-seeing; the all-seeing eye
Is he not himself the God of destruction?
I speak with the word and voice of God
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Hit you with my cock and dick
In Jola, I shout the word  'Leh-gaga leh cock'
Hating on me, I do not just give a fuck
I am not married because I cannot marry the blood of Satan
My blood is so pure to unite Muslims.
I do not worship the God you worship.


You painted my image in black and white
With fraud and sexual harassment allegations
Just because I refused to join your religion
You can't defame my fame
I do not burn in the flame
But yet, took the blame
To cover up for your shame, I did earn the hate and hatred.
I know everything about the Secret Society
Perhaps, that's why most of you hate me
Gambian literature,
I do not worship the God you worship.


I dearly know the prophet called Haddy Ceesay
He stammers and has one-eye
The doyen praise singer and guardian of the book of Satan
I knew him as the god of the national museum
I met all his family in the spirit world
I killed his twin and intertwined his dream
I do not write because I want to
Angels who betrayed God
Satanail and Azazel
I recognized you all in the realm of the occult
I've been redeemed to operate in the world of the supernatural
I do not worship the God you worship.


I do not sell my soul to be Achebe or Shakespeare
To be famous and make noise at trade fairs
But you all know I am the custodian of Gambian literature
Managers show me manners when they see me behind the cameras
If you cannot worship my God, respect the G.O.A.T in me
I see more than the eyes of the Anti-Christ
I derail Christ and praise Jesus Christ
When I die, bury me in Mecca or Madina
I know why you killed Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Sankara
We don't die we multiply and then we come and divide you.
I do not worship the God you worship.


I cannot be an Ahmadiyya 
Because Ghulam Ahmad is not better than me
Go and ask Satan if he doesn't know the Mahdi
Find out why I am Almusaf 
My name is the name of the Quran
I am a qur'anic verse
If death, I fuck
If knowledge, I made it.
I do not go to school to have wisdom
I read the Book of Enoch
My life is a mystery
I know the location of hell
Even if I die and go to hell,
I will end up going to heaven.
I do not worship the God you worship.


I am the book of the New Testament
I don't need trophies to wear gold
My God is sufficient for me
Am a beast, am an alien, am ahead of my class
I am not a human
I burned the Church of Christ
Because if there is God, why won't Jesus be one
I do not write this poem
The devil did
You destroy the Quran and the Bible without burning them
I do not worship the God you worship.


I already exchanged my blood
Rehearsed for my death
Swam in the human waters of bravery
I am holy and horny
Sex doesn't make me drunk
God did.
If you won't allow LGBT
Change your gender
Men and women are not toys
Boys for men and girls for women
I met Satan twice in my life
If there is heaven on earth,
I take Islam as my sacrifice
I made incantations
Bath in the blood of lies
I am nothing but only a poor slave of Allah.
I do not worship the God you worship.

 
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Friday, November 18, 2022

Decolonizing The Heart (A Poem) by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe


Hey Miss Tonto,
You running to my mama, I want you to please tell her, I say that I say something.

Miss Tonto, I started to believe in such things like heaven's trumpet;
After it is over, is this is it done?
If there is heaven, make it speak to your son-- exaggerated a little bit--
Trying to make a point to make you understand why you should quit smoking.


Miss Tonto, you see my moma tell her am lost
Living in a world without a mother when life is tough,
Falling in love is not love.
But before my funeral is arranged,
Before the sky is damaged,
The rivers are folded like a carpet,
Your kings will be our slaves;
We will assemble every man from his grave:
From the incense of intelligence,
To the hospital of thoughts;
We taught your teachers what you never read in books.
If insanity is the drug of misery,
What is the cure for death?


Miss Tonto, my sins always light the cigarettes and people talk when I cough,
I started back up again; twenty years later, I got famous throughout the world:
Can buy food for myself when is life soft.


Miss Tonto, you see my mama, whisper her this:
The real reason why I go to church on Sundays to confess my sins,
Passing my Bible studies and Satan helping me with my homeworks--
I saw spirits spitting and eating the flesh of so on and so on--
And until this day, Gambians do not know I write for them.
From Ghana to Alabama,
Read my speeches like Barrack Obama.
God sent down prophets and books,
But you swallowed the pages,
Painted the law of divinity,
Declared yourselves prophets;
Steal, rub, and drink--
Constitutionalized lies--
Monetized the law--
and normalized evil.


Miss Tonto, you see my father, please ask him why he married my mother, was he happy inside?
Because it takes dignity to carry my mother's name with him.
Am sure I did it in spite of my decision at birth to be a Nigerian:
I'm a genius inside battling with Satan and all angels running arts and culture.
We're like two young people with different views whether a penis is actually a toy.
I die from heart conditions caused by the divorce I did to The Gambia.
What's the need of decolonizing the mind if the heart is still enslaved?
When prophets and kings sold their souls,
Lies on the lips of a president,
Writers write for Satan,
The pastor preaches good but drinks from the bottle of sin,
Money is god;
Winning is vital;
School teaches immorality;
Education doesn't benefit Ph.D. holders;
Technology controls your minds;
But we control your hearts.
Decolonizing the mind, for who, to whom?
Who lied to you?


Tuesday, July 12, 2022

If I Wasn't Me ( A Poem)

If I wasn't me 
I wouldn't be born a Gambian writer on 7 January 1990 
In Bakau Newtown, The Gambia, West Africa
In a religious family of multiple scribes and Islamic scholars
My blood is from Prophet Isa ( Jesus) 
And the Prophet Muhammad (S.A. W).

If I wasn't me, I wouldn't have cried nights full of me on a faithful Friday
Waking up on Saturday morning
Hearing my mother talking to my dad Thinking about the name I was going to be given.
But most people don't want to be part of the process, they just want to be part of the outcome. 
But the process is where you figure out who's worth being part of the outcome. 
Seven days before my birth, I saw all the humans and inhumans who were going to be my enemies. 
I seen days of insanity 
Seeing enemies I recognize inside my mother's womb
Sweeping the hardest parts of my struggles; 
From hatred to accusations, 
All the food I ate served as my tears 
Even gold couldn't convert my fears.

 
If I wasn't me, I wouldn't drink blood inside my mother's womb 
From avengers to revengers amongst mankind and the jinns
Congregating to pay every debt of self-defeat they had lost to my grandfather
Everyone knows bout my greatness from kismet to dissipation 
But their hatred gives me constant constipation
I know Christians without beads and Muslims who don't read the Qur'an,
I read the devil's bible
And I'm off the rifle 
Bcos when I was two years old,
I met the antichrist at the age of 14
I recognized him and know he is a world leader 
A ruler who is glorified in the West;
A handsome public speaker and a former president.

If I wasn't me, I wouldn't have rejected my nationality of being Gambian to
Speaking to reporters in India,
But nothing is perfect that's why I made the difference.
Bring back Jesus, I'm the prove
Like a food in a stove, 
I planted myself a great destiny from my hard work
Like a newly wedded bride caught cheating with a gateman, 
I rejected my namesake's name for my name instead 
I'm not my namesake because I renamed myself 
Classified my ISBN and put me in a shelve
I'm Modou not Momodou 
I was born to carry the whole of mankind up there in the sky
At the age of 7, living a life that is so hard...
I recognized all the snakes and reptiles present at my naming ceremony 
I got aunties from the marine kingdom and uncles from the evil world 
But my grandmother never fed on evil.

If blood, I drink it,
If money, I make it
I don't care it is clean or not, I just take it. 
I'm not a wizard, I'm a jinn. 
I feel like I'm half human and half inhuman for us humans 
The daytime is my night and the night is my daytime 
I'm usually dark in the light and light in the dark
I'm darker than the Kaaba at Mecca
And harder than the pyramid in Egypt.

 
If I wasn't me,  I wouldn't see two witches eating my flesh at night 
Addicted to writing and hate love without marriage 
Hesitation made me feel like a lie in the middle of a gossip 
I knew the Quran at heart and became the heart of the truth
The bible is inscribed on my chest;
 If we'll fight, let's fight,
I've been waiting for death for so long 
With great aplomb.
I'm born to identify the Dajjal 
To become a disciple to Jesus and a viceroy to God.
If God has three letters, why not man?
From canterbury, nativity, and credulity,
I'm captivated by my innermost being.
Let me sell you mirages from the sun
Let's say Jesus will soon come.
I knew I was going to be called Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe 
Bcos Almosaf is the guardian of the qur'an and a religious reformer. 
My name attracted so many liars with some and informers 
From the olding generations to the newcomers,
I'm enslaved in England and remarried the queen.


If I wasn't me, I wouldn't see the antichrist since I was young bcos 
Not all cars are taxis' 
I ain't gotta to tell you Chinua Achebe didn't just rose to fame like that
If you want to be great, you have to worship the spirits
If you ain't part of the secret, they say, "don't trespass the Secret Society"
Every letter entering into the statehouse must bear the writing "His Excellency"
I don't need cameras to appear on TV
Everything I touch turn to gold
Ask a golddigger 
My wife is so cool like a cold dinner
The truth doesn't have to smell sugar and salt to be accepted 
I'm better than your favourite author 
Don't make me urine on you
I'm addicted to doing evil
I'm a photo lamp in a photograph 
Even if I were to sell my soul, nobody can buy it.
Put my picture in your magazine 
I did so many good things but every Gambian hates me like Yahya Jammeh.
Let's play with ambers of fireballs 
From Wordsworth to Shakespeare, I'm read everywhere, what y'all talking bout?
Go drink ibuprofen 
Add me to the dictionary 
Or add the words I invented;
I can vividly remember meeting Satan.




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Thursday, May 12, 2022

How To Borrow From God

 

Imagine living in a world where money is God, winning is vital, and people must keep the title, and perhaps, with a global president called Michael. If money, they say, is the god of women, what is the god of men? The most expensive bank in the world is not Barclays or the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Limited, but it is the bank of poverty of imagination locked in actual self-doubt and prejudice. The reason why we could not still overcome the global financial crisis -- is not because there is not much money in the world-- or there are not enough papers to print enough money to feed every country-- but is it the belief of power and position as merchants of superiority.

 

The belief is that war, nuclear weapons, and ammunition are means of governance in a world where everyone can borrow money from God. Too powerful -- too economic-- too brave, and just too wealthy to be too much belittled. In tandem with this unacceptable fact, our suffering is preceded by a corrosive lack of global unity in terms of financial differences to remedy the crisis. In the words of  American rapper, Tupac Shakur, ''Instead of war on poverty, we gotta war on drugs and the police can't bother me.''

 

One of the problems confronting the world is the gradual but steady religious erosion that can be noted from one continent to another. People becoming rather too nonreligious to belong to the religion of money. Climate change is not the changing of the climate, but it is the changing of people to learn not to unlearn what they must not resist. People cause climate change and the change is constant. Religion has become less religious as economic hardship hits the globe persistently. Poverty has been understood as a man-made illness that has a cure -- money. Poverty is not poor--but poor people are poor. The language of humanity is human. Do you know the sounds and letters of humanity to be able to borrow money from God?

 

How to borrow money from God? Let's assume that the year is 2065 and the world no longer uses i-phones but people are using mind-phones. Technology has advanced so much that people use TV cell phones and no longer have time for flat TV sets and watching TVs. Robots are actively roaming the world with aliens accompanying them. Money is gathering all evil people up there in the skies by giving them positions to govern alibi. Let's say that the best way to borrow money from God is not to borrow money from Satan. But in 2065, nobody will be poor unless you want to.

                                                                                                                    

As a librarian, let me quickly tell you that the advancement of technology is also the decline of African culture and civilization. In the year aforementioned, Africans will need an app on their phone that reminds them how to perform ablution in Islam or how to fast regularly in Christianity. In Africa, a child which is not wild is not from his father's lineage, but how about not knowing his heritage? That too has a price.

 

African traditions and values are gradually becoming a thing of the past as there are several influences from other cultures to adopt what is referred to as a more ‘open-minded’ culture of freedom without restrictions. Just one word -- money. One of the ingredients that perhaps act as a catalyst is the prevailing cultural stereotype where some cultures are viewed through the lenses of negativity and inferiority. This leads to the abandonment of those cultures by the newer generation who are supposed to ensure its longevity. Since the start of the 21st century, humanity has faced at least three global crises. The first crisis pertains to the 9/11 terror attacks in the US that facilitated the US-led war on terrorism, which in turn, facilitated the expansion of state surveillance systems, widespread extrajudicial killings, and the prevalent use of torture and other abusive state actions.

 

The second crisis, meanwhile, refers to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis that was considered at the time the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

 

At present, we fight for survival against the threat posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This third crisis forced governments to impose forms of lockdown and quarantine, shutting down schools, universities, restaurants, cultural centers, and other organizations to slow down the viral infection rate. But of course, according to the English language, the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Palestine, Israel, the Ethiopian crisis, the Rwanda Genocide, and even the current Ukraine crisis are not crises.  Truth be told-- even slavery is not considered a humanitarian crisis. What happens when the rich fight with the rich? The prices of commodities rise, not so? The poor get poorer-- and the rich becomes worried.

 

Confronted by these challenges, I am still asking how to borrow money from God? As alluded to by my colleague, the famous Nigerian author, Anthony Onugba, cultural erosion is dependent on cultural stereotypes.  Therefore, one way to borrow money from God is to borrow a chapter from the scriptures because even the devil reads the Bible. Should the world expect assistant Jesus just in case?

 

I would like to conclude with the Swahili saying that goes, “ukiona mwenzio ananyolewa zako tia maji”. Difficult to understand but it means, “if you see your neighbor's house on fire standby with water to put yours out in case it spreads.''

 

As a child and an adult, most of my life has been spent in Africa, and for nearly a decade, much of my literary production has focused on my interaction with the environment. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research and intellectual honesty, I would like to provide you with a critical analysis of peoples' ability to be able to borrow money from God. Yes, it does exist. Nelson Mandela said, and I quote ‘’ if a nation wants development, the youths must be educated.’’ The wealth of every nation is the youth. A country is only poor without a youthful population.

 

Permit me to borrow a quote from Albert Einstein who said "those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act. To you, my readers, it is now your sacred duty to do the rest, either to succeed or fail, to benefit society or benefit oneself. Alan Saporta said, and I quote “the best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." Let me say any national problem which is not solved, is still a problem for its people. Freedom is so very nice and can even turn mice into a goat, but let us remember a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr, which reads "let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup." The only key to freedom is money. If money was the vehicle during the slave trade, humanity will legalize slavery.

 

Let me put it in the French adjectival and adverbial funnel of interpretation to defile the youth of your happiness for yet imagining the goal of my meditation. ‘Qui- who, Quand-when, and Comment--how and when do you borrow money from God? I would like to end with some words from Bessie Head, a South African writer who lived most of her life in Botswana. When she was asked the question WHY DO YOU WRITE? Her response was this: ''I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.''

 

Something tells me that a generation of new ideas and talent is about to change the world.

 



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Friday, February 18, 2022

Writing and Covid-19: Books are Essential in Times of Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most unprecedented story for authors across the world. If Covid was human, vaccines were plots, and lockdowns were characters, the pandemic is the most intriguing story to be ever written in books because it has not only a direct impact on the daily and private lives, health and the ways people interact – but also on the working situation of authors and writers in the literary sector. 

In Africa, particularly West Africa, many authors encountered economic fall-out, loss of fees and lack of needed exposure. While Nigeria still remains Africa's most vibrant literary hub, authors were seriously affected during the COVID-19 pandemic by working from home and faced inaccessibility to research facilities. 




Prof. Chinedum Igwe, Executive Director, International Association of African Authors and Scholars (IAAAS), Atlanta, USA 


 “From an author point of view, it is probably one of the biggest pandemics in human history,” says Prof. Chinedum Igwe, Executive Director, International Association of African Authors and Scholars (IAAAS), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 

The African book industry will have to deal with a great shift, after more and more bookshops had been closed and some of them never even opened again, the publishing houses postponed or canceled titles. Several cultural institutions – libraries, theaters, small sized event organizers – also have to deal with losses, will close or lower the budget in general for cultural events. 

 

In countries like The Gambia with a very low literacy rate and poor readership, authors suffered great financial losses due to cancellation of events and having low sales of their books. 

There was no book launch for nearly one year and events, readings (especially in schools, libraries, cultural institutions and bookshops), award ceremonies, book fairs, workshops, lectures and residency-scholarships were canceled. The situation quickly threatened the existence of many writers and authors.  

While many authors work from home during the pandemic, many have no other choice but to publish articles in local newspapers. In The Gambia, the local newspapers, notably The Standard Newspaper, Foroyaa Newspaper, The Voice Newspaper and The Point have published dozens of articles from authors during lockdowns. Many of them believe that COVID-19 has made literary strikes to compel them into writing new books during lockdowns. 




Lamin B. Fatty, Gambian Author 


“I have not written a new book since the lockdown. A writer’s job is of course to write what makes the stories of human life, and to do so, you have to keep writing,” explains Lamin B. Fatty, a young Gambian author. 

For Ms. AZEB YOSEPH AMBACHEW, the Founder and Executive Director of ONE AFRICA PEN WARRIORS FOR DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (OAPWOD), an organization established in December 2019, Covid-19 has mostly affected women writers in Ethiopia. The organization is dealing with African history, culture, indigenous languages, democracy, unity and Identity. It strongly opposes migration. This organization has a plan to discuss the root causes of migration and how to especially save Africa’s youthful population to stop thinking about migration. 

  




Azeb Yoseph Ambachew, Executive Director, One Africa Pen Warriors Organization for Development (OAPWOD), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 


“When we are talking about the impacts of COVID -19, we should remember that it has created major economic crises on our industrial and agricultural activities. If I am not mistaken, COVID-19 hit Ethiopia on the 13th of March 2020 while the executive and regular members of my organization started working on promoting its vision and mission in a very organized way,’’ says Azeb Yoseph Ambachew.  The diversity of books and culture is in real danger because of the COVID-19 effects on the economy. 


The COVID-19 pandemic affected the African writing workforce in many ways. Many worried that stay-at-home grants would proportionately enhance the productivity and well-being of African writers, including women and early-career authors, who were expected to shoulder more on writers residencies and or grants. However, West African writers are still yet to adequately address the development and technology behind the different vaccines that have been released and that are being created. They are yet to also address the acquisition and distribution of vaccines globally, including “vaccine nationalism” and questions of equity.  Award-winning Gambian author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe, is trying to show how the vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination activism, as well as misinformation and disinformation against vaccines  immunity, community masking and social distancing measures, as well as emerging variants are issues in West Africa.  

 



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Thursday, February 17, 2022

The Gambia At 59: Independence Anniversary Poem by Modou Lamin AGE-ALMUSAF Sowe



Tribally and politically divided like the colors of my flag:
red, white, blue, white, green;
Celebrate my 59th year anniversary of independence with 59 problems.
I drive the best cars in the world but have no good roads.
I have a navigable river but cannot feed myself.
I am from a country that does not want any development at all.
Patriotically, I stop growing what I eat and do not eat what I grow;
Everywhere in the streets of Banjul, the gutters flow.
With all the dirt, the country even lacks bread and ordinary butter.
I abruptly stopped growing rice and did not pay my debts.
I have millions of electrons, but no water or electricity.
My ministry of communication is also my ministry of infrastructure.
Don't blame my poor infrastructural development.
Isn't failure too important to celebrate?
I am 59 years old this year; please celebrate me.
 
I have the best lawyers in the world and a weird justice system.
I was the former chief prosecutor of the ICC
But cannot prosecute anyone.
Stealing public funds is a palatable dish in my meal.
I eat corruption, scandals, lies, and allegations.
Because my current debt is around 1.44 billion US dollars, and I don't care.
It is me, the Smiling Coast of Africa. Smile for me.
I am from a country that does not want development.
I don't value talent and don't recognize knowledgeable people.
including Oustas Bun Jeng and Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara.
My Gambia College students pay D12,000 per year,
But they don't even have chairs for lectures.
All my intellectuals have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting relocations.
 
I have many professors and doctors, but I am illiterate.
I want a future; please remember me.
I have hospitals without medicines.
But still, give ambulances to villages without hospitals.
All my youth have gone abroad, and the rest are told to stay
Because I promised them jobs that I don't even create.
Those who speak the truth and have visions are my enemies.
I don't even like this poem.
I only celebrate people when the world celebrates them;
Including Gina Bass.
Even at the Statehouse, I leaked public information.
Within my government, I am divided.
At my National Assembly, I do not make the laws.
My body is going through menstruation.
What have I not decided?
But don't forget, I, The Gambia, have decided!
What's On-Gambia? The students need scholarships, and the teachers don't even have salaries.
Should the doctors go on another strike?
However, I should not appreciate the stories written by my authors.
I don't have literature because my ministry doesn't have a minister.
If government officials are entertainers,
Why will my music grow?
I have the world's most blunt people,
and a future without a government.
For democracy’s sake, I vote in every election, including on Valentine's Day.
 
In my country, the press broadcasts the news.
And the news broadcast the press.
My journalism is about whom you know.
I like what I tell you. Tell me what you like.
My tribe owns the Gambia, and we are kingmakers.
We elect presidents, and you are not one,
Please celebrate me.



It is my birthday, let's cut the national cake.
I am ruled by men I can rule, but nobody rules me.
My youth has no past, present, or future.
I do not produce anything but import everything.
My rice is imported from China, my toothpaste is from Indonesia, and my palm oil is from Guinea.
My soldiers are Senegalese, my education is a foreigner, please eat my cake.
I sold all my lands to estates and have no estate.
But, of course, I am Gambian, please remember me.


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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

I'm COVID-19 ( Poem) by Modou Lamin AGE-ALMUSAF Sowe


       Photo: The first regional online round table on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights and the rule of law


Dear world,
Is me, COVID-19
Call me the Coronavirus pandemic if you wish
I'm the destroyer of lives
The enemy of your wishes
The sickest virus on and offline
I'm an alien
Take precautions
Better watch your mouth because what you say about me can endanger you.

You heard I'm from Wuhan, China
Because I'm related to Satan
I don't die I multiply and then come and divide you
So, what if you get a vaccine?
I don't give a fuck about it
I'll take every dose and every fuck about it
You better wear a face mask properly
Wash your hands regularly, and observe social distancing
Get it; I've come to stay

Don't you see that this whole world is my graveyard?
I walk around in airports
Canceled public gatherings
I'm a scientist
I invented face masks


I forcefully closed your schools, closed your churches, and mosques
I prevented writers from writing new books
I gave more patients to doctors
And declared global lockdowns
You better be careful when you spell my name!
I kill faster than light
I willingly do this with great delight
I spread dangerously in thick capital letters
I don't promise tomorrow
Because I don't even pay what I borrowed
Check my footsteps looks like there was a couple of me
I just killed a mother and her child shouted "mommy!"
I don't spare anyone as long as you're not vaccinated
I eat your life like a cheesecake
Until the world fights me, you're not all safe.




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