tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81204896529037376762024-02-28T15:43:49.465-08:00The Voice of The Pen (VOP)Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe is an award-winning Gambian author, poet, blogger, novelist, and playwright. His books have been translated into 5 different languages. Modou loves traveling and has been to 15 different countries around the world. Author of Don't Judge The Book By The Cover (2006), The Throne of The Ghost (2016), The Memories of Reflection (2014), TWAWEZA (2019), and AfriKa Not AfriCa (2020).
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-80509729269746533452023-11-27T14:23:00.000-08:002023-12-02T01:39:11.702-08:00Honeymoon (Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe)<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5w-DL-fJve99lj68iUnjCC_D5tTA3yt-bO2vudKbq0klYe7y1_K9Jeoum26IS_B7IvXAqPZiWDYSrTUsgYX_-i43Kd0jR-YHqAvbZMonJq8q8ssMvEiz6gcq1O1uqTbQt5Tpryf2yV8Xdfd2xrZW8yjCOPAuApf9YfRRD3MJB726upFc2gEsceebu1Iae/s1349/Snapinsta.app_402556774_18240872668235507_739244474070300044_n_1080.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5w-DL-fJve99lj68iUnjCC_D5tTA3yt-bO2vudKbq0klYe7y1_K9Jeoum26IS_B7IvXAqPZiWDYSrTUsgYX_-i43Kd0jR-YHqAvbZMonJq8q8ssMvEiz6gcq1O1uqTbQt5Tpryf2yV8Xdfd2xrZW8yjCOPAuApf9YfRRD3MJB726upFc2gEsceebu1Iae/s320/Snapinsta.app_402556774_18240872668235507_739244474070300044_n_1080.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p style="color: #252525;"><em><span style="font-size: small;">Disclaimer: Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe doesn't own this picture, and permission is therefore sought from the copyright owner.</span></em></p><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;">We met immediately the rain stopped beating</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Pompously across the Bertil Harding Highway</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And the stagnant waters gathered on the road</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">To confidently discuss national problems...</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I became your problem</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When I splashed a colorful and lovely</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Waters on you accidentally;</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My heart stopped beating in my chest.</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I apologized to you in Spanish</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Ashamed and nervous;</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You looked at me twice</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And I looked away in hesitation.</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I feel like putting a knife in my throat</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And slice myself into pieces for you.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I regretted my actions and inactions</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And I displayed my shame on MBC Action.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Dressed in African-Gambian</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Purple bazin riz,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Glittering in your natural beauty</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Without make-up,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Waiting for a car to pick you up,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">That evening, the Ramadan departed for Jerusalem</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">To pay homage to the Jews.</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div>
<div style="color: #252525;">
<div>Just like a thief escaping from stealing,</div>
<div>Your shoelaces fit my shoes.</div>
<div>Hot body, everything looks perfect like a painting.</div>
<div>You mute my emotions.</div>
</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My instincts told me to apologize in Chinese</div><div style="color: #252525;">But destiny told me to speak of humanity</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When weakness became my language.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I sigh away from eye contact</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And I gave you my contact.</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Looking at your toes</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When I said sorry regretfully,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Biting my nails and shaking in my trembles</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My nervousness donating me blood</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">For my heart failures.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Friendship grew between us</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">With time, we set the pace.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">On the phone and in space,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">It took me so long to write this poem.</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div>
<div style="color: #252525;">
<div>Walking down the beach</div>
<div>With our heads bow down;</div>
<div>I can't look at what you can't look at in me.</div>
<div>Our hands are observing social distancing.</div>
<div>Even a car could fit between us.</div>
<div>I sweated a gallon of smiles.</div>
<div>Wanting to tell you</div>
<div>How I feel</div>
</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When the keys to the door of your singleness opened</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">The padlocks broken,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">The shops of Serrekunda market wide opened </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Proposing to you in broad daylight</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Sighing from the afternoon,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Little do you know</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">
<div>The date lied on the calendar.</div><div><br /></div>
<div>The day I put a ring in your finger</div>
<div>The sky tasted ginger</div>
<div>Kneeling before you</div>
<div>Humbling myself on my knees</div>
</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Angels announcing our marriage up in the skies</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I couldn't sleep that night</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I cut myself but couldn't bleed</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">The sexual healing...</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">That feeling</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When the pastor said,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">"You may now kiss the bride"</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I kissed all the bridesmaids</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When we locked lips.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Waking up in Dubai</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Making your breakfast</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Touring the Palm hotel</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And naming our kids Paul, George,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">and George-Paul.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I woke up in New York City </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Looked at myself in bed</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And realized it was a dream.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc., kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-36090579899749094932023-11-19T04:59:00.000-08:002023-11-19T05:13:49.884-08:00Blood of a Virgin: A Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWLP_9PwEc4QUEgbVWRJArijuUzpMoHgkcpF-MpI0t6oZkMDYo9IIa0Yc5ShAT8rlbg8QXJndfSqJgcwTWOob1QzaDJ4pCfBosQ1UzBWPddL8apNX4ngOCfUtZ6yU-a_HYrKCHrJfa11HYs5ml_upqi_N-BaZHUIVZkp0RVLSsAa6toNvgA64TR73tw/s790/Xixk9kpTURBXy9jNGUwMThhM2FiYWZlNTNlZGQzNTUzNWEyM2JiNGRhYi5qcGeSlQMAKM0DrM0CEJMFzQMWzQGu3gABoTAF.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="790" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWLP_9PwEc4QUEgbVWRJArijuUzpMoHgkcpF-MpI0t6oZkMDYo9IIa0Yc5ShAT8rlbg8QXJndfSqJgcwTWOob1QzaDJ4pCfBosQ1UzBWPddL8apNX4ngOCfUtZ6yU-a_HYrKCHrJfa11HYs5ml_upqi_N-BaZHUIVZkp0RVLSsAa6toNvgA64TR73tw/s320/Xixk9kpTURBXy9jNGUwMThhM2FiYWZlNTNlZGQzNTUzNWEyM2JiNGRhYi5qcGeSlQMAKM0DrM0CEJMFzQMWzQGu3gABoTAF.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.5px; word-spacing: -2.5px;">Photo credit: Suri man of Ethiopia drinking cow blood</i></div><div><br /></div><p><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Cheers for the cup of blood we tossed</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Together with Satan</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">The night before, we killed a prophet</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">And separated a man from his wife;</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">It was the evening before we told nations</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">To write the 'age of 18' in their constitutions</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">The morning a president sacrificed his own son</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Bitten by an unknown dog to die in our kingdom</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">For his rule without wisdom,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Weighing his sins on the wings</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Of a demon</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">From the Manding Empire to the Vatican:</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">He looked into the eyes of death</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">And took off his mask</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Exchanging lips with the daughter of the Antichrist;</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Sucking her nipples</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Like a physiotherapist</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Assigned to an all-important job,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Marinating the blood of a virgin</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">With salt and margarine</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">To acquire more money,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">More power and fame...</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Learning dangerous lines from the devil</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Receiving remedial classes from Lucifer</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">To destroy the Bible and the Quran;</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">The eyes of men in lust and love</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">For presidents who respect us,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Countries that obey our leaders,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">We declare them winners.</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I play with violence</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">You play with me; you're nosier than silence</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Children, I can't wait to kill them</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I'm more haram than Boko Haram</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I smuggled cocaine in kilograms...</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I've been in the dope business</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Since Africa didn't sell,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">The poets were children,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">And Aristotle wasn't taught by Horace.</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">What is this nonsense you speak?</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I recognize every member of the Illuminati.</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I am destined for greatness and chill with the hatred</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I support God like Adam and Eve combined.</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">I have been watching you from afar</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">Looking for virgins like some crude oil,</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">But I strongly believe in Allah</span></p><p><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14.6667px;">And I don't need your wealth and fame!</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">All rights reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc., kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Copying any of my articles without my permission is an infringement of my copyright.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-46185095653101314722023-07-05T13:47:00.001-07:002023-07-05T13:51:16.869-07:00Blood of My Forefathers (a poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe)<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztPxsFPMwQ62ZI0OrcWHOAgWEiqtK5UGg5Haulb28EDxRHqAXYC2xi7TPALqRUW1EzPVeROJN_5Uvh1MUxu5vgaPwwQ08M6yQQkvDoSR7xjPmjIsDBOpHXQOd0EhY4MK2rw7kwDGyBUGGsx1aLs9CPpmZLthA1SAlpO5vPkRnkQorQvgmdF8stGfhgQ/s398/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-4hX8A7heTsP4Io0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="398" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztPxsFPMwQ62ZI0OrcWHOAgWEiqtK5UGg5Haulb28EDxRHqAXYC2xi7TPALqRUW1EzPVeROJN_5Uvh1MUxu5vgaPwwQ08M6yQQkvDoSR7xjPmjIsDBOpHXQOd0EhY4MK2rw7kwDGyBUGGsx1aLs9CPpmZLthA1SAlpO5vPkRnkQorQvgmdF8stGfhgQ/w400-h260/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-4hX8A7heTsP4Io0.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="color: #252525;">
<div class="separator">Should Gambians not forgive Jammeh?</div>
<div class="separator">If forgiveness isn't humane,</div>
<div class="separator">Why is Donald Trump not jailed?</div><div class="separator">If overstaying in power makes you a dictator,</div><div class="separator">Why is Queen Elizabeth not a dictator?</div>
<div class="separator">I know y'all white ants are going to criticize</div>
<div class="separator">His art because he ruled in vernacular;</div>
<div class="separator">It's kind of hard to find his antidote,</div>
<div class="separator">But Jammeh was like King Mansa Musa...</div>
<div class="separator">Everything he touched turned to gold:</div>
<div class="separator">Get out if you can't handle the heat in this kitchen</div>
<div class="separator">You're now begging on your knees </div><div class="separator">Like you need the Geneva Convention</div>
<div class="separator">Have you not mimic the gimmicks of his development</div>
<div class="separator">Masked in tribalism and grieving his relics of history...</div>
<div class="separator"> </div>
<div class="separator">Seven years after he left,</div>
<div class="separator">The Gambia regretted what it had decided</div>
<div class="separator">Swimming in the pool of its own blood</div>
<div class="separator">From tribal politics to tribalism</div>
<div class="separator">The country sinks into retardation</div>
<div class="separator">We needed the blood of our forefathers</div>
<div class="separator">You're about to forget your identity in this misery</div>
<div class="separator"> </div>
<div class="separator">Shame on the side of the table</div>
<div class="separator">You are closer to your dreams</div>
<div class="separator">Chase it, but you forgot the innocence of men</div>
<div class="separator">Shredded in the works of a patriot</div>
<div class="separator">Should he come from your tribe before you can accept him?</div>
<div class="separator">The Gambia is now ruled like a baby diaper in the hands of women</div>
<div class="separator">Sounding like a thought hammer</div>
<div class="separator">The New Gambia sang us in a pool of blood</div>
<div class="separator">And decorate the pavement</div>
<div class="separator"> </div>
<div class="separator">Missing millions in corruption</div>
<div class="separator">Bragging around town in colors</div>
<div class="separator">Dirty politics is the game</div>
<div class="separator">But why do you always watch your back</div><div class="separator">When you hear the name Yahya Jammeh?</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="color: #252525;">
<div class="separator">My special wishes go to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures, book launches, conferences, readings, scriptwriting, keynotes, or motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. All rights reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc., kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without my written permission is an infringement of my copyright.</div>
<div class="separator"> </div><div class="separator"><br /></div></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-60074184384895567622023-05-24T09:50:00.005-07:002023-05-25T06:42:50.931-07:00Amadou Jallow is Dead, but OJ is Not Gone: A Tribute Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIh7OqWO2Vj26gQbSKHs3L8VMlD8nNDSBGEjfSkcQKFObFZZEQNEiw9aTsRL08dWtpyw-0kgYJzPjoJ3_qWOoNgSZQDloL-KRlblU1R6s4plzmzKiwWc0XZFAlJLf8pdBLb39mwMjm314HgxeivjEQVY7MdOBstdSCpvnGY0SVhBXvk0D1SbdxcCLfQ/s366/download%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="366" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIh7OqWO2Vj26gQbSKHs3L8VMlD8nNDSBGEjfSkcQKFObFZZEQNEiw9aTsRL08dWtpyw-0kgYJzPjoJ3_qWOoNgSZQDloL-KRlblU1R6s4plzmzKiwWc0XZFAlJLf8pdBLb39mwMjm314HgxeivjEQVY7MdOBstdSCpvnGY0SVhBXvk0D1SbdxcCLfQ/w400-h300/download%20(1).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Should I save the face of the moon?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">From Kartong to Koina</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">In the midst of politics,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">The Gambia River's banks are afloat.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Death similar to that of the King of Fuladu</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Grip us within four days.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Should funerals be the only means of uniting people?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Or should we just be thankful for having OJ Jallow Junction?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Gambians, they say, only celebrate you when you die.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">To shed tears for a fallen</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Intellectual</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">We must cry over papers.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Should I not write your silvery deeds on a golden plate?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">To say that the illusion of death</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Holds me bound.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">And life is a carcass of dreams.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">And a theater of illusion.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">A man needs to die.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Why the tears of fear?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">The screams in the streams</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Tell me, Death, how do I piece it together?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Fragments of this national sorrow</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Death upon death: yesterday, today, and tomorrow</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Alieu K. Jammeh, Aja Fanta Basse, and Uncle OJ Jallow</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Your names were once written in the sky.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">The birds sang of your might and glory.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">From Banjul to Sinchu Sorri, every child once ate your sweets.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Chocolate biscuits in your eyes, till death came and arrested you.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">The verb "is" turned into "was."</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Every sentence forced me to write it in the past.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Your records are broken; your names are turned over to 'rest in peace'.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">You're gone, but your land will never fallow.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">We are not all promised tomorrow.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">From the mule hills of Futa Jalon to Futa Torro</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Like Mikel Borough, but when I die, bury me in Sao Paulo.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">A stream of sympathy follows.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Screams come in loud hollows.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">The ground slips beneath our condolences.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">My wings dare to break.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">As my back bends in wake</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">But to pray for you, Uncle OJ, we must</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">On this dammed earth’s crust</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Feeling my toes itch</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Falling into a ditch</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Saviour above reach</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">But to forgive</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Heaven’s delight</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Self, not to heal.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Beloved Uncle OJ Jallow</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Heart, pure as snow</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Your tainted soul</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Dwells in a heart of gold</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">May Allah forgive you, I pray.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">I swear to God,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">I only wish you felt what I did.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">If only you had,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">You will kneel where I kneeled.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Remembering you is melting me,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Daily, I melt.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">I only meant to do what I meant.</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">But if prophets can die, tell me,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">Why not you, Uncle OJ Jallow?</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">‘Kulli-Nafsin-Zallikatul-Mawt’<wbr></wbr>,</div>
<div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;">‘Kaalu-Inna-Lillahi-Waa-Inna-<wbr></wbr>Illaihi-Raojo-on’</div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>My special wishes go to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures, book launches, conferences, readings, scriptwriting, keynotes, or motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. <div>All rights reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc., kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com.</div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without my written permission is an infringement of my copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-29971342325833422422023-04-09T08:47:00.004-07:002023-04-09T08:51:29.292-07:00You Again? (Lyrical Poem) by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyt1N4-icjBGxQ4VFKxPQF0cc84X29g7hRZ8tU1hQlqe2F7Nvj098JU-5CNpwgwSLIeJwU6CiTSSaVP1Fe0i3fbwFHC692IpTBbCDIchKo_3ZMuMfWMONPGCigOLBf9qqkQ6TNvJlEexU_yQ8q-3iOeoncU_00fpCDQ_Up9z5woBGJM0CIQrR8gA8Wg/s199/birthday-design-template-6646a30b12507a8fe5167d6aabcfb3de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="199" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyt1N4-icjBGxQ4VFKxPQF0cc84X29g7hRZ8tU1hQlqe2F7Nvj098JU-5CNpwgwSLIeJwU6CiTSSaVP1Fe0i3fbwFHC692IpTBbCDIchKo_3ZMuMfWMONPGCigOLBf9qqkQ6TNvJlEexU_yQ8q-3iOeoncU_00fpCDQ_Up9z5woBGJM0CIQrR8gA8Wg/w400-h400/birthday-design-template-6646a30b12507a8fe5167d6aabcfb3de.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;">You again?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">It's you again,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">The lion knows nothing but to kill and eat.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You're too short; I can't see the person I battle with.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">If you like, become a battery in a touch.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I'll bring you down like a shit in a toilet.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">When I am done with you, your name will turn into Desmond.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am Jesus, and you can only be my disciple.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You want to battle your father; don't you fear God?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am not at your level from Banjul to Turntable.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Your eyes look like a local gangster.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You'll not blow even if they sign you for five stars.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Dip Doundu Giss is a demi-god.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">What are you, if not a dumpster?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You again?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">If pride is your name, be humble like a condom.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">From Sodom to Gomorrah,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Competing with you is a competition abuse</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Because all your family projects fell under my shoes</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You look stranded like a borrower of Africell credits.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Press 1 if I am not the digit.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Don't you still reach your limit?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Objection, objection, objection overruled --</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">How can I compete with a human that resembles a balloon?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Let me turn your destiny into my headrest.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Your career is my bedsheet, and the bed I rest</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am at home without an address.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Writing is my empress.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">DHL Direct Express</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">You're too playful.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">and too useless</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Your brain is like a POS. Everyone pressed</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Writing is not for everybody.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Your communication needs deliverance to help you rest in peace.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Celebrate my name at the coronation.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I conquered your conversation.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Am a life-giver.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">An imperfect sinner</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">The best I've ever been</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Nobody is ahead of me.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Don't act like you've never heard of me.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Your favorite scientist is scared of death; I let him hang on in the news.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I've got nothing to lose.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Time is money, and I am spending it every day.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I can't die for nothing.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I've got to live the life of a legend.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Die on cloud nine</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Higher than a president in the skies</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">All these zeros I want to see should be in my bank account.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My ATM card and my bank account</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My bank account is low.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">But I drive in the same lane as rich men on the road.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">In a way I am living, extra-death broke.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My book got the smile of a queen.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Am in airplane mode.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And I am about to touch down.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Say amen to the lord of Gambian literature.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Because he is the one writing these lines.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Nine days to kiss a prophet on his forehead</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Aliens called me a hedgehog.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Teenage boys</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Nothing shakes the strength of a black man.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Blood of my forefathers</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">A natural resource, uranium</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am my own criterion.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Do you want to know my origin?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am from a place where your ministers and presidents want to be.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">All these young writers want to be me.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Born of a woman, a black queen from the South East</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">A black king also came from the West.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">If you wanna know the rest, you can check my family crest.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I represent the black color, people of color, and black indigenous peoples.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Unfortunately, your pastor smokes cannabis.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">To help your leaders put up the wrong candidates.</div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;"><b>Thanks a bunch for reading. Please follow me on Instagram and TikTok.</b></div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;"><b>Instagram</b>:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/modoulaminsowe1/?hl=en" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/modoulaminsowe1/?hl=en</a></div><div style="color: #252525;"><br /></div><div style="color: #252525;"><b>TikTok:</b> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@agealmusaf" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@agealmusaf</a></div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-59640410587769722822023-03-28T15:18:00.001-07:002024-02-05T15:40:19.395-08:00I Wish You Knew - Sad Love Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div style="color: #252525;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfiQeqEfT8NvOjMooNK4Eq32s2VgCYsFOEVS2rj3zsK7OaG2KRf7XzMGLeeKzGEWHDUveToRn1AUecpo7qMOdUW0qqvzYk-GYRGd8ccAF7BDfHT2Xv9gvpD6Yg-9LXnAJHXQSjiarIHPkomYdbpxXG1sF7g7Gqrq9g93iTrnjIX_X8jDkldVCT7L1Yw/s275/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfiQeqEfT8NvOjMooNK4Eq32s2VgCYsFOEVS2rj3zsK7OaG2KRf7XzMGLeeKzGEWHDUveToRn1AUecpo7qMOdUW0qqvzYk-GYRGd8ccAF7BDfHT2Xv9gvpD6Yg-9LXnAJHXQSjiarIHPkomYdbpxXG1sF7g7Gqrq9g93iTrnjIX_X8jDkldVCT7L1Yw/w400-h266/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="ujudUb"><br /></div><div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew how your marriage has affected me.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew I can't love another woman as much as you,</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I want you to know I'm healing from the pain of heartbreak day by day.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew I need you more than anything on earth.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I met many women, but none is like you.<br aria-hidden="true" />I hurt many girls because of you.<br aria-hidden="true" />I have forgiven you, but I can't forget our love.</div><div class="ujudUb"><br aria-hidden="true" />I wish you knew I need you one more time.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I could have married anyone.<br aria-hidden="true" />But what's marriage without true love?</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew how hurt the ladies feel whenever I mention your name.</div><div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew it was your own family that separated us.</div><div class="ujudUb">You held me in the palm of your hands;</div><div class="ujudUb">Our love was more than Romeo and Juliet.</div><div class="ujudUb"><br aria-hidden="true" />My love for you is here to stay.<br aria-hidden="true" />I can't get you out of my head.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew those who separated us<br aria-hidden="true" />I am the only one you ever truly love.<br aria-hidden="true" />I wish you knew how black magic affected our love</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew I am your husband, and you are my wife.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you only knew God can judge us.</div><div class="ujudUb"><br aria-hidden="true" />I wish you knew we have sworn by the Holy Qur'an to be together forever.<br aria-hidden="true" />I wish you knew I am only your admirer and lover.<br aria-hidden="true" />I am not your enemy and cannot be one.</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew you were the only true love I once had.<br aria-hidden="true" />I wish you knew how I am dying inside without you</div>
<div class="ujudUb">I wish you knew what the future holds for us<br aria-hidden="true" /><br /></div>
<div class="ujudUb WRZytc">I wish you knew the cure for the lonely nights I spent alone<br aria-hidden="true" />I wish you know you are the only remedy for my heartache.</div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc">How I wish, how I wish you knew!</div>
</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZ9scnepFXmyPunaIdlrh8UlaHkJxSEkN5PYf9m-HK8Ti_Ou54LtTMxfAwBfPCfMFnTWSy908tmJ_51MkE_MfZ_LAFaJdoBac6O0rlih8aUikJTyGOmWiJWaB4o_3iZ8f48ubjCbS7l6k4gtFOfpz6q-ItY5s5PkEV6ca9JMcUNPdJuO05NdhoLt-Eg/s342/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="342" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZ9scnepFXmyPunaIdlrh8UlaHkJxSEkN5PYf9m-HK8Ti_Ou54LtTMxfAwBfPCfMFnTWSy908tmJ_51MkE_MfZ_LAFaJdoBac6O0rlih8aUikJTyGOmWiJWaB4o_3iZ8f48ubjCbS7l6k4gtFOfpz6q-ItY5s5PkEV6ca9JMcUNPdJuO05NdhoLt-Eg/w400-h173/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div>
<p>My Ramadan wishes to you! All rights reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc., kindly address your message to modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of my copyright.</p><div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-18382338356289829132022-12-13T15:27:00.009-08:002023-01-02T17:16:42.591-08:00I Do Not Worship The God You Worship (Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe)<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPi1pE7U9D-I_V8UiFfmpTfucILQc-Hzb_fCNCRSvLtaQhZlr_sCJLdo7ZstVsGbaHP8EbMM1YuiYGBI9fhPXD4z2FsKrCMlqI4ixmmgVGqybQAs4nbLjgvaAP3Ep10IuzITTsTopQ-5sJ9kMREcHQoWZQy1JzqEmcZrcwduWGF46E4wcplMJkycy9TA/s1080/Instagram%20Post%20-%20Made%20with%20PosterMyWall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPi1pE7U9D-I_V8UiFfmpTfucILQc-Hzb_fCNCRSvLtaQhZlr_sCJLdo7ZstVsGbaHP8EbMM1YuiYGBI9fhPXD4z2FsKrCMlqI4ixmmgVGqybQAs4nbLjgvaAP3Ep10IuzITTsTopQ-5sJ9kMREcHQoWZQy1JzqEmcZrcwduWGF46E4wcplMJkycy9TA/w400-h400/Instagram%20Post%20-%20Made%20with%20PosterMyWall.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div>What does the God you serve do for you?</div><div>Is he not the God of poverty</div><div>The carrier of sicknesses</div><div>The doer of evil who easily kills than he can cause life</div><div>Is he not the God, they say, owns the moon?</div><div>That God, they say, is all-seeing; the all-seeing eye</div><div>Is he not himself the God of destruction?</div><div>I speak with the word and voice of God</div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px;">Vox Populi, Vox Dei</span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px;">Hit you with my cock and dick</span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px;">In Jola, I shout the word 'Leh-gaga leh cock'</span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Hating on me, I do not just give a fuck</span></span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I am not married because I cannot marry the blood of Satan</span></span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">My blood is so pure to unite Muslims.</span></span></div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>You painted my image in black and white</div><div>With fraud and sexual harassment allegations</div><div>Just because I refused to join your religion</div><div>You can't defame my fame</div><div>I do not burn in the flame</div><div>But yet, took the blame</div><div>To cover up for your shame, I did earn the hate and hatred.</div><div>I know everything about the Secret Society</div><div>Perhaps, that's why most of you hate me</div><div>Gambian literature,</div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I dearly know the prophet called Haddy Ceesay</div><div>He stammers and has one-eye</div><div>The doyen praise singer and guardian of the book of Satan</div><div>I knew him as the god of the national museum</div><div>I met all his family in the spirit world</div><div>I killed his twin and intertwined his dream</div><div>I do not write because I want to</div><div>Angels who betrayed God</div><div>Satanail and Azazel</div><div>I recognized you all in the realm of the occult</div><div>I've been redeemed to operate in the world of the supernatural</div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I do not sell my soul to be Achebe or Shakespeare</div><div>To be famous and make noise at trade fairs</div><div>But you all know I am the custodian of Gambian literature</div><div>Managers show me manners when they see me behind the cameras</div><div>If you cannot worship my God, respect the G.O.A.T in me</div><div>I see more than the eyes of the Anti-Christ</div><div>I derail Christ and praise Jesus Christ</div><div>When I die, bury me in Mecca or Madina</div><div>I know why you killed Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Sankara</div><div>We don't die we multiply and then we come and divide you.</div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I cannot be an Ahmadiyya </div><div>Because Ghulam Ahmad is not better than me</div><div>Go and ask Satan if he doesn't know the Mahdi</div><div>Find out why I am <u>Almusaf </u></div><div>My name is the name of the Quran</div><div>I am a qur'anic verse</div><div>If death, I fuck</div><div>If knowledge, I made it.</div><div>I do not go to school to have wisdom</div><div>I read the Book of Enoch</div><div>My life is a mystery</div><div>I know the location of hell</div><div>Even if I die and go to hell,</div><div>I will end up going to heaven.</div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I am the book of the New Testament</div><div>I don't need trophies to wear gold</div><div>My God is sufficient for me</div><div>Am a beast, am an alien, am ahead of my class</div><div>I am not a human</div><div>I burned the Church of Christ</div><div>Because if there is God, why won't Jesus be one</div><div>I do not write this poem</div><div>The devil did</div><div>You destroy the Quran and the Bible without burning them</div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I already exchanged my blood</div><div>Rehearsed for my death</div><div>Swam in the human waters of bravery</div><div>I am holy and horny</div><div>Sex doesn't make me drunk</div><div>God did.</div><div>If you won't allow LGBT</div><div>Change your gender</div><div>Men and women are not toys</div><div>Boys for men and girls for women</div><div>I met Satan twice in my life</div><div>If there is heaven on earth,</div><div>I take Islam as my sacrifice</div><div>I made incantations</div><div>Bath in the blood of lies</div><div>I am nothing but only a poor slave of Allah.</div><div>I do not worship the God you worship.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. </div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-43736957157419811522022-11-18T14:13:00.003-08:002022-11-19T05:27:08.976-08:00Decolonizing The Heart (A Poem) by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WkUvBTlkXlt5QDNU1Y7f1_u6IZDyBtsyzf3toGEyMZ86wO5gwG7cU_gMfRYeurI--u91DgmYu6gMuirtuOwz8Hd-ewO1NPdRV_y2FWT3tosYhkaLDxImAJs5UXCt9gP00YBlN7YD1IfOWKmO_txGhpdnkBXKZ5JaXeAWm5SbD5S3JJRUCX1XJSe7TQ/s853/original%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WkUvBTlkXlt5QDNU1Y7f1_u6IZDyBtsyzf3toGEyMZ86wO5gwG7cU_gMfRYeurI--u91DgmYu6gMuirtuOwz8Hd-ewO1NPdRV_y2FWT3tosYhkaLDxImAJs5UXCt9gP00YBlN7YD1IfOWKmO_txGhpdnkBXKZ5JaXeAWm5SbD5S3JJRUCX1XJSe7TQ/w300-h400/original%20(1).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<p dir="ltr">Hey Miss Tonto, <br />
You running to my mama I want you to please tell her I say that I say something<br />
Miss Tonto, I started to believe in such things like heaven's trumpet<br />
After it is over, is this is it done?<br />
If there is heaven, make it speak to your son<br />
Exaggerated a little bit <br />
Trying to make a point to make you understand why you should quit smoking.</p><p dir="ltr"><br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">Miss Tonto, you see my moma tell her am lost,<br />
Living in a world without a mother when life is tough<br />
Falling in love is not love.<br />
Before my funeral is arranged<br />
Before the sky is damaged<br />
The rivers are folded like a carpet<br />
Your kings will be our slaves<br />
We will assemble every man from his grave<br />
From the incense of intelligence<br />
To the hospital of thoughts;<br />
We taught your teachers what you never read in books.<br />
If insanity is the drug of misery <br />
What is the cure for death?</p><p dir="ltr"><br /></p><p dir="ltr">
Miss Tonto, my sins always light the cigarettes and people talk when I cough<br />
I started back up again; twenty years later, I got famous throughout the world<br />
Can buy food for myself when is life soft.</p><p dir="ltr"><br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">Miss Tonto, you see my mama whisper her this:<br />
The real reason why I go to church on Sundays to confess my sins, <br />
Passing my Bible studies and Satan helping me with my homeworks, <br />
I saw spirits spitting and eating the flesh of so on and so on, <br />
And until this day, Gambians do not know I write for them.<br />
From Ghana to Alabama<br />
Read my speeches like Barrack Obama<br />
God sent down prophets and books<br />
But you swallowed the pages<br />
Painted the law of divinity<br />
Declared yourselves prophets<br />
Steal, rub and drink<br />
Constitutionalized lies<br />
Monetized the law<br />
and normalized evil.</p><p dir="ltr"><br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">Miss Tonto, you see my father please ask him why he married my mother, was he happy inside?<br />
Because it takes dignity to carry my mother's name with him.<br />
Am sure I did it in spite of my decision at birth to be a Nigerian:<br />
I'm a genius inside battling with Satan and all angels running arts and culture<br />
We're like two young people with different views whether a penis is actually a toy.<br />
I die from heart conditions caused by the divorce I did to The Gambia<br />
What's the need of decolonizing the mind if the heart is still enslaved?<br />
When prophets and kings sold their souls<br />
Lies on the lips of a president<br />
Writers write for Satan<br />
The pastor preaches good but drinks from the bottle of sin<br />
Money is god<br />
Winning is vital <br />
School teaches immorality<br />
Education doesn't benefit Ph.D. holders<br />
Technology controls your minds<br />
But we control your hearts.<br />
Decolonizing the mind, for who, to whom?<br />
Who lied to you?</p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-18488595853476352792022-09-03T15:05:00.031-07:002022-09-03T16:48:38.473-07:00Delicious My Sugar Sauce ( Love Poem )<div><div data-block="true" data-editor="544di" data-offset-key="288eq-0-0" style="background-color: white;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="288eq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGqiS2hsJ5h5b5EoY9vgmqt610E4cU0aijpHcj7DqHGR4T4xiM7ahwDSbtG28m6EqlrPm3RbuL55teRyO6BdM0wxmwKO4cZ5bwLkt-nRgl5UaTDNhvjYI7S6q2NkitM4j83Rft_USLjwP-XcbooAiLX7hAAkDmQfJxMH8pIFDqMyO5iF9vzsOEf3uovg/s1080/IMG-20220829-WA0044.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="578" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGqiS2hsJ5h5b5EoY9vgmqt610E4cU0aijpHcj7DqHGR4T4xiM7ahwDSbtG28m6EqlrPm3RbuL55teRyO6BdM0wxmwKO4cZ5bwLkt-nRgl5UaTDNhvjYI7S6q2NkitM4j83Rft_USLjwP-XcbooAiLX7hAAkDmQfJxMH8pIFDqMyO5iF9vzsOEf3uovg/w214-h400/IMG-20220829-WA0044.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><blockquote>Disclaimer: Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe was paid by a client to write this love poem for her. The name of this person is withheld for personal reasons. Therefore, the picture is only used with the permission of the person herein for the purpose of this poem.</blockquote></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Excuse me, did you say something? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Was you talking to me? </span></span></div><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;">It all started when I started seeing your face on my examination papers</div><div style="text-align: left;">You became my DP</div><div style="text-align: left;">My wallpaper</div><div style="text-align: left;">My screensaver and the saver of my screen</div><div style="text-align: left;">I saw you and wanted to shout, but I yelled and screamed</div><div style="text-align: left;">Afraid of your body cream</div><div style="text-align: left;">Intending to fetch water from your stream</div><div style="text-align: left;">It was all a dream.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Was it? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZuIK365JBa7Vuuxv-Ug7Iv0rzxu38eXFKlTEnjNgM9OeIp7Gg2spHPSr3dwPrWD9u--FFqOCfcQYfwhkpAQyHfvM5PfEEn_MxV-5eL4rCBeETlfVKAzyyfNLL7gKGRIxifvaZNTgBn74BOh9KBnGaYT5gHajB1Gqzhemim1LqmqREm03FV_14ApfpQ/s1200/1200px-Heart_coraz%C3%B3n.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZuIK365JBa7Vuuxv-Ug7Iv0rzxu38eXFKlTEnjNgM9OeIp7Gg2spHPSr3dwPrWD9u--FFqOCfcQYfwhkpAQyHfvM5PfEEn_MxV-5eL4rCBeETlfVKAzyyfNLL7gKGRIxifvaZNTgBn74BOh9KBnGaYT5gHajB1Gqzhemim1LqmqREm03FV_14ApfpQ/s320/1200px-Heart_coraz%C3%B3n.svg.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Your image started blocking my sight
My nose loss its sense of smell
Your looks blocked my incoming words
My ears felt shy of you
I trembled and trampled
Gazing at you gives me a heart attack
Like Attack without Jizzle, I attacked your shadows
Printing my lips at Shadow Print
Walking from Old Yundum to Bambo
I mistakingly drank a bottle of shampoo.
<br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPE5P2wv1InUZGGX1G9AalZfJpDLRVo4_y4ZFju7T3qAhk6n1uIRHMtuQnPL02yB7fYoySXXyNB2zhf6J-W-cZPxEaMV8MFFO_sO4reVZUmrG15TSOwVonHTHozZqPlXTBoZqJj1qNnCiPezHOlY3AhWb2D3yWxUNyao0cXGi27x3b2fUeACZve7zzw/s241/download%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="241" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPE5P2wv1InUZGGX1G9AalZfJpDLRVo4_y4ZFju7T3qAhk6n1uIRHMtuQnPL02yB7fYoySXXyNB2zhf6J-W-cZPxEaMV8MFFO_sO4reVZUmrG15TSOwVonHTHozZqPlXTBoZqJj1qNnCiPezHOlY3AhWb2D3yWxUNyao0cXGi27x3b2fUeACZve7zzw/s1600/download%20(2).png" width="241" /></a></div><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><div style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Excuse me, did you say something? </span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Was you talking to me? </span></span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #0e101a; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loving you is giving me pimples</span></div><div style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #0e101a; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your smiles give me dimples</span></div>Your hips make wise men foolish and foolish men very foolish</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I started using tissues in public</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Laughing at vans and gele geles
I hate watching TV, and television started chasing me
You got me on the left
And you got me on the right
I love you, is that alright?
<br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2FTlSu7IfI2lCKQ46Y4WDOdTeXAGFHc7Euj5GS61fQeMGvoZvWOZgjzqJrCIpjrpd8dI-VuNg3giwF0M__XKuTWyFaPfFtVkcmY54XX39GX3NXIo6GEhZDNrBqwND60yAGjiiWQV0XgaQGP6Z28-uqdFGfXciyzE61gPcBdR9-8g1R_BJlJbduzcRPQ/s246/download%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="246" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2FTlSu7IfI2lCKQ46Y4WDOdTeXAGFHc7Euj5GS61fQeMGvoZvWOZgjzqJrCIpjrpd8dI-VuNg3giwF0M__XKuTWyFaPfFtVkcmY54XX39GX3NXIo6GEhZDNrBqwND60yAGjiiWQV0XgaQGP6Z28-uqdFGfXciyzE61gPcBdR9-8g1R_BJlJbduzcRPQ/s1600/download%20(1).png" width="246" /></a></div><br />
Excuse me, was you talking to me? </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you say something?</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I write as the writer in me
With tears in my heart
Fears in my eyes
Blood in my hands
And discomfort in my brain
To shout out to you
The word "I LOVE YOU" in tick capital letters
I think this might be worth your attention, don't you?
Empathy became my God
And your love is my religion
School taught me nothing if not sitting on chairs
Everybody wants to be the lion in your jungle
I became the lion who eats both the lion and the jungle
Bottle of perfumes started meaning nothing to me
I burned like a wasted petrol
I got lost like a needle in the middle of the sea
Through the windows of my mind, it is you I see
I couldn't stand seeing you with other guys
I started hiding my feelings for you
But this feeling I'm feeling is killing me
It is kneeling me and dissing me willingly.
<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUj7iEQH33ikLrjWbcVNOftV8OFIRX3TmTG2eSr8uN_Yr-NdQ5pzBxpYiihT-OwtBpbp5ADNmLSvDXijBh9ONBikqY1A6ZnmxiZo3IaswUbaNbq2LSfwXrTAlubij5x6SiWy9idJLpWIX6IhL-4YbTkBbZMpGMHZ3AYCqTqDMt5BMuXrOz0DNn5NiyNA/s257/images%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="257" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUj7iEQH33ikLrjWbcVNOftV8OFIRX3TmTG2eSr8uN_Yr-NdQ5pzBxpYiihT-OwtBpbp5ADNmLSvDXijBh9ONBikqY1A6ZnmxiZo3IaswUbaNbq2LSfwXrTAlubij5x6SiWy9idJLpWIX6IhL-4YbTkBbZMpGMHZ3AYCqTqDMt5BMuXrOz0DNn5NiyNA/s1600/images%20(1).jpeg" width="257" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; white-space: normal;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Excuse me, was you talking to me? </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you say something?</span></span></div>My love for you is whiter than a bride's dress on her wedding
I made you fall asleep in my heart
To wake up in my dreams
You are the pillow that brings me closer to God
When I was heartbroken
You fixed in me what was broken
What ancestors did you summon to the summit?
My heart was broken at the AU Summit
To give me what I needed</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">What you need to take from me</span></span><span style="color: #0e101a; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8X16LxtcwvB-kWlb9awT0fhJpqwclI3i21IkXYVklz7raZ4p3qg3Ct3tg4GNxzQhjaRNrCxjhq-aWTsxOKmi_65BHVswi-DcMWJ6jw_WtTk6dP5N0K5qqh9feK983j4Q3In1eboH7zAqk-bsFefjpriBUG3QEgUcPsBqCzSRZKduv-Kf9xQso-Zn6w/s233/download%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="233" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8X16LxtcwvB-kWlb9awT0fhJpqwclI3i21IkXYVklz7raZ4p3qg3Ct3tg4GNxzQhjaRNrCxjhq-aWTsxOKmi_65BHVswi-DcMWJ6jw_WtTk6dP5N0K5qqh9feK983j4Q3In1eboH7zAqk-bsFefjpriBUG3QEgUcPsBqCzSRZKduv-Kf9xQso-Zn6w/s1600/download%20(1).jpeg" width="233" /></a></div><br />
I like the caesura you deliberately make in contextuality of my dramatic irony
I like the brevity in your sensation</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Ubuntu, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Your love is burning my heart, daily I burn
Are you not yourself an angel from the above?
I speak in tongues for the love in me is big enough to hide you in my world.
The first day I saw you,
I feel like going live on QTV telling everybody it is me
Assistant Jesus
The way you walk nearly made me
Start throwing stones at the gate of the Statehouse
Women like you deserved to be told
At least 72 times in a day that you are beautiful
Lips like the gospel of Mathew and hair like Surah- An-Nisa
Hips like ranha bisap
I like how you kick my mind like a football
Playing ball with bullets
Oily like chui boullet.
My distinguished queen,
Here is your crown to wear.
You deserve to be treated like a queen and loved like a mother;
I love my eyes when you look into them
When you smile everybody got to look aside
My heart is pumping deoxygenated blood into my head
For being so hungry to eat your lips.
I read the devil's love bible
Verses to rhymes all speak about you
The way I love you cannot be a lie
Because even if I sit up straight, I cannot lie.
</span></span></div></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com <div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-85068354765887299402022-07-12T17:29:00.018-07:002022-10-09T14:44:42.890-07:00If I Wasn't Me ( A Poem)<div><div>If I wasn't me </div><div>I wouldn't be born a Gambian writer on 7 January 1990 </div><div>In Bakau Newtown, The Gambia, West Africa</div><div>In a religious family of multiple scribes and Islamic scholars</div><div>My blood is from Prophet Isa ( Jesus) </div><div>And the Prophet Muhammad (S.A. W).</div><div><br /></div><div>If I wasn't me, I wouldn't have cried nights full of me on a faithful Friday</div><div>Waking up on Saturday morning</div><div>Hearing my mother talking to my dad Thinking about the name I was going to be given.</div><div>But most people don't want to be part of the process, they just want to be part of the outcome. </div><div>But the process is where you figure out who's worth being part of the outcome. </div><div>Seven days before my birth, I saw all the humans and inhumans who were going to be my enemies. </div><div>I seen days of insanity </div><div>Seeing enemies I recognize inside my mother's womb</div><div>Sweeping the hardest parts of my struggles; </div><div>From hatred to accusations, </div><div>All the food I ate served as my tears </div><div>Even gold couldn't convert my fears.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If I wasn't me, I wouldn't drink blood inside my mother's womb </div><div>From avengers to revengers amongst mankind and the jinns</div><div>Congregating to pay every debt of self-defeat they had lost to my grandfather</div><div>Everyone knows bout my greatness from kismet to dissipation </div><div>But their hatred gives me constant constipation</div><div>I know Christians without beads and Muslims who don't read the Qur'an,</div><div>I read the devil's bible</div><div>And I'm off the rifle </div><div>Bcos when I was two years old,</div><div>I met the antichrist at the age of 14</div><div>I recognized him and know he is a world leader </div><div>A ruler who is glorified in the West;</div><div>A handsome public speaker and a former president.</div><div><br /></div><div>If I wasn't me, I wouldn't have rejected my nationality of being Gambian to</div><div>Speaking to reporters in India,</div><div>But nothing is perfect that's why I made the difference.</div><div>Bring back Jesus, I'm the prove</div><div>Like a food in a stove, </div><div>I planted myself a great destiny from my hard work</div><div>Like a newly wedded bride caught cheating with a gateman, </div><div>I rejected my namesake's name for my name instead </div><div>I'm not my namesake because I renamed myself </div><div>Classified my ISBN and put me in a shelve</div><div>I'm Modou not Momodou </div><div>I was born to carry the whole of mankind up there in the sky</div><div>At the age of 7, living a life that is so hard...</div><div>I recognized all the snakes and reptiles present at my naming ceremony </div><div>I got aunties from the marine kingdom and uncles from the evil world </div><div>But my grandmother never fed on evil.</div><div><br /></div><div>If blood, I drink it,</div><div>If money, I make it</div><div>I don't care it is clean or not, I just take it. </div><div>I'm not a wizard, I'm a jinn. </div><div>I feel like I'm half human and half inhuman for us humans </div><div>The daytime is my night and the night is my daytime </div><div>I'm usually dark in the light and light in the dark</div><div>I'm darker than the Kaaba at Mecca</div><div>And harder than the pyramid in Egypt.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>If I wasn't me, I wouldn't see two witches eating my flesh at night </div><div>Addicted to writing and hate love without marriage </div><div>Hesitation made me feel like a lie in the middle of a gossip </div><div>I knew the Quran at heart and became the heart of the truth</div><div>The bible is inscribed on my chest;</div><div> If we'll fight, let's fight,</div><div>I've been waiting for death for so long </div><div>With great aplomb.</div><div>I'm born to identify the Dajjal </div><div>To become a disciple to Jesus and a viceroy to God.</div><div>If God has three letters, why not man?</div><div>From canterbury, nativity, and credulity,</div><div>I'm captivated by my innermost being.</div><div>Let me sell you mirages from the sun</div><div>Let's say Jesus will soon come.</div><div>I knew I was going to be called Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe </div><div>Bcos Almosaf is the guardian of the qur'an and a religious reformer. </div><div>My name attracted so many liars with some and informers </div><div>From the olding generations to the newcomers,</div><div>I'm enslaved in England and remarried the queen.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If I wasn't me, I wouldn't see the antichrist since I was young bcos </div><div>Not all cars are taxis' </div><div>I ain't gotta to tell you Chinua Achebe didn't just rose to fame like that</div><div>If you want to be great, you have to worship the spirits</div><div>If you ain't part of the secret, they say, "don't trespass the Secret Society"</div></div><div>Every letter entering into the statehouse must bear the writing "His Excellency"</div><div>I don't need cameras to appear on TV</div><div>Everything I touch turn to gold</div><div>Ask a golddigger </div><div>My wife is so cool like a cold dinner</div><div>The truth doesn't have to smell sugar and salt to be accepted </div><div>I'm better than your favourite author </div><div>Don't make me urine on you</div><div>I'm addicted to doing evil</div><div>I'm a photo lamp in a photograph </div><div>Even if I were to sell my soul, nobody can buy it.</div><div>Put my picture in your magazine </div><div>I did so many good things but every Gambian hates me like Yahya Jammeh.</div><div>Let's play with ambers of fireballs </div><div>From Wordsworth to Shakespeare, I'm read everywhere, what y'all talking bout?</div><div>Go drink ibuprofen </div><div>Add me to the dictionary </div><div>Or add the words I invented;</div><div>I can vividly remember meeting Satan.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com
© All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-20249360825751328452022-05-12T13:18:00.005-07:002022-05-12T13:18:53.594-07:00How To Borrow From God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCpsUDf9v729fhT2kU42t5n3HBIPPoQKaWgWTpTL-WFnReijIx8MyW73Su1DKzBzP-sSrEw9BcydtHttQ_WZGX2t4e2kbhYi0nExHLwWnkb-WTozdHpeZyE5S3o7_2346h5nRTu1yBf3MC7_faPTxUmMfXLAiQwauOO2W3BMNUevHEKuIQf8HTnAg9w/s720/1652130317352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCpsUDf9v729fhT2kU42t5n3HBIPPoQKaWgWTpTL-WFnReijIx8MyW73Su1DKzBzP-sSrEw9BcydtHttQ_WZGX2t4e2kbhYi0nExHLwWnkb-WTozdHpeZyE5S3o7_2346h5nRTu1yBf3MC7_faPTxUmMfXLAiQwauOO2W3BMNUevHEKuIQf8HTnAg9w/w400-h400/1652130317352.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Written by
award winning Gambian author, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="267">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]-->
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American
rapper, Tupac Shakur, ''Instead of war on poverty, we gotta war on drugs and the
police can't bother me.''</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 293.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.''</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.''</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Something tells me that a generation of new ideas and talent
is about to change the world.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></p>
<br /><div><br /></div><p>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ script-writing/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: </p><p><a href="modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </a></p><p><b>© MODOU LAMIN AGE-ALMUSAF 2022 All Rights Reserved! </b></p><p>Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc., kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-26330395032530852302022-03-03T12:23:00.000-08:002022-03-03T12:23:17.301-08:00Should We Fall In Love? (Poem) <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.3pt; margin: 10.3pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.3pt; margin: 10.3pt 0in 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbBOAhiVfIGNr2V3ZTSqRldOF5smt526XJnXNfCZj3_ulduLO-u52D5xDOtc7SpdWUiNO0UUBvB2gV0Sb2LJhBJaJcQZIkuDGhfEvBmi2Sn6YYrUOVyFOind3ijIn3iMJZhadNdIqUH8m0vztpZmP4XKqnjWetzaOT_g0nQcAPjc1RfsHnfnIq0-kb7Q=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="606" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbBOAhiVfIGNr2V3ZTSqRldOF5smt526XJnXNfCZj3_ulduLO-u52D5xDOtc7SpdWUiNO0UUBvB2gV0Sb2LJhBJaJcQZIkuDGhfEvBmi2Sn6YYrUOVyFOind3ijIn3iMJZhadNdIqUH8m0vztpZmP4XKqnjWetzaOT_g0nQcAPjc1RfsHnfnIq0-kb7Q=w225-h400" width="225" /></a></div> <i> Name withheld</i><br /><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 10.3pt; margin: 10.3pt 0in 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Should
we fall in love?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Or
should we just laugh like lol?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
very first day I came into existence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Your love was planted in me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">And I grew up searching for you</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">I
met many ladies without having babies</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Names
like Stacey, Whiskey and Tracy; all did break my heart and made me crazy<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">It
was you I didn’t meet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
appearance of your name on my phone</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;">To the sound of your voice</div><div style="text-align: left;">Down to your smile and laughter</div><div style="text-align: left;">Gives me great joy beyond any imagination.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The
first time you texted me, I knew it was you.</div></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">But yet, we are still in limbo, afraid of what we feel.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">I
feel what you felt, like an undiscovered Celt, I melt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
want to</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> put words into your mouth<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Because we should fall in love this month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Why
do I feel so strange after reading that text?</span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Your laugh is contagious and warms every corner of my soul.</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Why do I feel so connected after looking at your pictures?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I try and shake it but you already have a hold on my heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is magical and soothing transporting me to a place I have never been.</span></div>
</span><span style="background: white; color: #202124; line-height: 115%;"><div style="text-align: left;">I don't dare love you, I'm a dare devil.</div></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #202124; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fresh off the bed, sharper than Gillette</span></div>
<span style="background: white;"><div style="text-align: left;">The shower still wet, so pass it like 'Chui Boulet'</div>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><div style="text-align: left;">We sip side of text messages, we call it cuddle and pet</div><div style="text-align: left;">You are my chosen bride to beset</div><div style="text-align: left;">My only honey to cuddle and pet</div></span><div style="text-align: left;">I'm hotter than the end of August</div>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><div style="text-align: left;">I'm awesome, repeat it to your grandma, and uncles</div>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><div style="text-align: left;">Or friends, ML is a husband.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">
<!--[endif]--><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
sight of you</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;">Holding your hands</div><div style="text-align: left;">Walking beside you — oh Lord</div><div style="text-align: left;">I can’t even put into words how it makes me feel</div><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">I
heard people talk about love at first sight</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;">Some saying it romantically for a guy or lady</div><div style="text-align: left;">Others for their spouses</div><div style="text-align: left;">And very few for their acquaintances</div><div style="text-align: left;">But I was so sure I found love in your sight</div><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">My
senses of sight, smell, touch & hearing<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Are
all yours.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
wide smile on your face when I giggle</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;">Oh Lord — praise be to God, amen, hallelujah.</div><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">I
will trade everything and anything for</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;">Being held by you became my priority</div><div style="text-align: left;">As the energy that radiates from you to me</div><div style="text-align: left;">To learn how to love like you should love me</div><div style="text-align: left;">And express the love I hold within me like you do.</div><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">How
can I ever see love in someone else</span></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: left;">Lost in a gaze pure to our soul</div><div style="text-align: left;">And your warmth wrapping me in your safety</div><div style="text-align: left;">I can make you the daughter your mom never hear from</div><div style="text-align: left;">Because your love can make me throw stones at the Statehouse</div><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph jy jz fr ka b gp kb jf kc gs kd jj ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr fj bx" id="68e4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Should
we fall in love?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: <a href="modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com " target="_blank">modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </a><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: <a href="mailto:modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com">modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-86467068282484802492022-02-18T14:16:00.001-08:002022-02-18T14:19:22.476-08:00Writing and Covid-19: Books are Essential in Times of Crisis <div><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{107}" paraid="4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{107}" paraid="4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{113}" paraid="5" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_ltETQ96U0oEPjhGyvkak3Dkh3dT3YnfHPUux4ckThRdGVNoZ3RLAVj_8MH2iEC4mrJVuZB0rQSXQPB6Fb6nuDFIlFNvP64X24kQGPQ67V7sU5PrLL62K7Q2GR9-SujsX1w4RcnDOqrUG1PK6fHp0uotIIiyC5NfYev3FdRah-xG7Jm1ikr6sQpL-qw=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_ltETQ96U0oEPjhGyvkak3Dkh3dT3YnfHPUux4ckThRdGVNoZ3RLAVj_8MH2iEC4mrJVuZB0rQSXQPB6Fb6nuDFIlFNvP64X24kQGPQ67V7sU5PrLL62K7Q2GR9-SujsX1w4RcnDOqrUG1PK6fHp0uotIIiyC5NfYev3FdRah-xG7Jm1ikr6sQpL-qw=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{118}" paraid="6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Prof. Chinedum Igwe, Executive Director, International Association of African Authors and Scholars (IAAAS), Atlanta, USA</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></b></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{118}" paraid="6" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{124}" paraid="7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> “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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{130}" paraid="8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{136}" paraid="9" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{140}" paraid="10" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{146}" paraid="11" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{152}" paraid="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{152}" paraid="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{158}" paraid="13" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHPNp1a_LmuRYsY7MRElzg9ylm7_ur-_1NdDZT1jcHat-sd3C_pNRTmqTfPCM3A0Vf_SvDtjVs-DDRX1nMTiTU-SlGH-SX7BWWj4OSKMXGlS30yTkwf5PqwuSu30ay2YdDFxfB7Eofm5Xo6qnbYKPSYuJ97k3SXDjjcJS9ZjSBC7o8VNfWDYqrFLLsxg=s335" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="150" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHPNp1a_LmuRYsY7MRElzg9ylm7_ur-_1NdDZT1jcHat-sd3C_pNRTmqTfPCM3A0Vf_SvDtjVs-DDRX1nMTiTU-SlGH-SX7BWWj4OSKMXGlS30yTkwf5PqwuSu30ay2YdDFxfB7Eofm5Xo6qnbYKPSYuJ97k3SXDjjcJS9ZjSBC7o8VNfWDYqrFLLsxg=w179-h400" width="179" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{163}" paraid="14" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Lamin B. Fatty, Gambian Author</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></b></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{163}" paraid="14" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{169}" paraid="15" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{175}" paraid="16" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{175}" paraid="16" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{181}" paraid="17" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZZocqOg-CW4ZkpdKmTAXj0Th5NVPr0bhoQcXBfzRdxYufjku7oZ014bpJ7eegM7voMJl5ftQyVMNbc8EKLw0OsxEicoyKpcn9LMYTf2H9E5K_SqqxSKTaQeZ3dm_5NOgYqi7JIlXZD-lj3837F6vYVIB6GatPeFzSPznc4Rz5Bt6TC2HKrgktgE7BDg=s260" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="260" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZZocqOg-CW4ZkpdKmTAXj0Th5NVPr0bhoQcXBfzRdxYufjku7oZ014bpJ7eegM7voMJl5ftQyVMNbc8EKLw0OsxEicoyKpcn9LMYTf2H9E5K_SqqxSKTaQeZ3dm_5NOgYqi7JIlXZD-lj3837F6vYVIB6GatPeFzSPznc4Rz5Bt6TC2HKrgktgE7BDg=w400-h297" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{181}" paraid="17" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{186}" paraid="18" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Azeb Yoseph Ambachew, Executive Director, One Africa Pen Warriors Organization for Development (OAPWOD), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559738":81,"335559739":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{186}" paraid="18" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559738":81,"335559739":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{192}" paraid="19" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“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.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{192}" paraid="19" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{198}" paraid="20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">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. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW217107063 BCX0" paraeid="{d1d5a221-a848-49f4-9144-10c8bdfe4fdb}{204}" paraid="21" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW217107063 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW217107063 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559738":81,"335559739":259,"335559740":240}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #161616; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com<div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. </div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-45205561268833350822022-02-17T16:29:00.002-08:002024-02-17T12:37:46.432-08:00The Gambia At 59: Independence Anniversary Poem by Modou Lamin AGE-ALMUSAF Sowe<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj14DAe5wfQ2dhHoypxY7hmIF9_51PKexVYPlNxG9zapQtXQHB8jF8nVvPtyMhCpsyXNxZJ1UOcUuAmP4n7h2LLm7DqxlGLFIx_61mF5EGka-7zUmEoxcdSbpmc-XE7QPExPagg0GS7ihhspVy5Lj0bLjRp5yevCOrdIBeE_1sJp6IzvAuw5Na2gDFYlQ=s480" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj14DAe5wfQ2dhHoypxY7hmIF9_51PKexVYPlNxG9zapQtXQHB8jF8nVvPtyMhCpsyXNxZJ1UOcUuAmP4n7h2LLm7DqxlGLFIx_61mF5EGka-7zUmEoxcdSbpmc-XE7QPExPagg0GS7ihhspVy5Lj0bLjRp5yevCOrdIBeE_1sJp6IzvAuw5Na2gDFYlQ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><div style="color: #252525;">Tribally and politically divided like the colors of my flag:</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">red, white, blue, white, green;</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Celebrate my 59th year anniversary of independence with 59 problems.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I drive the best cars in the world but have no good roads.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I have a navigable river but cannot feed myself.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am from a country that does not want any development at all.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Patriotically, I stop growing what I eat and do not eat what I grow;</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Everywhere in the streets of Banjul, the gutters flow.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">With all the dirt, the country even lacks bread and ordinary butter.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I abruptly stopped growing rice and did not pay my debts.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I have millions of electrons, but no water or electricity.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My ministry of communication is also my ministry of infrastructure.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Don't blame my poor infrastructural development.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Isn't failure too important to celebrate?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am 59 years old this year; please celebrate me.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I have the best lawyers in the world and a weird justice system.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I was the former chief prosecutor of the ICC</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">But cannot prosecute anyone.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Stealing public funds is a palatable dish in my meal.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I eat corruption, scandals, lies, and allegations.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Because my current debt is around 1.44 billion US dollars, and I don't care.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">It is me, the Smiling Coast of Africa. Smile for me.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I am from a country that does not want development.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I don't value talent and don't recognize knowledgeable people.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">including Oustas Bun Jeng and Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My Gambia College students pay D12,000 per year,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">But they don't even have chairs for lectures.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">All my intellectuals have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting relocations.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I have many professors and doctors, but I am illiterate.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I want a future; please remember me.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I have hospitals without medicines.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">But still, give ambulances to villages without hospitals.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">All my youth have gone abroad, and the rest are told to stay</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Because I promised them jobs that I don't even create.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Those who speak the truth and have visions are my enemies.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I don't even like this poem.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I only celebrate people when the world celebrates them;</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Including Gina Bass.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Even at the Statehouse, I leaked public information.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Within my government, I am divided.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">At my National Assembly, I do not make the laws.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My body is going through menstruation.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">What have I not decided?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">But don't forget, I, The Gambia, have decided!</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">What's On-Gambia? The students need scholarships, and the teachers don't even have salaries.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Should the doctors go on another strike?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">However, I should not appreciate the stories written by my authors.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I don't have literature because my ministry doesn't have a minister.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">If government officials are entertainers,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Why will my music grow?</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I have the world's most blunt people,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">and a future without a government.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">For democracy’s sake, I vote in every election, including on Valentine's Day.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;"> </div>
<div style="color: #252525;">In my country, the press broadcasts the news.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">And the news broadcast the press.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My journalism is about whom you know.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">I like what I tell you. Tell me what you like.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">My tribe owns the Gambia, and we are kingmakers.</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">We elect presidents, and you are not one,</div>
<div style="color: #252525;">Please celebrate me.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghLc3ybVlaEuprJbcdSYSelLBbkBGh7YOH9rLPdZ8zVtB1DvYhP5-ZDu-y-NGLruz9jw9I8W513ErovUosbihJZgoMAJGv8_13iGa-RS4NihTASVze18eL8TCVqNofVrQmtL5BznRK5CMZ_Fs6V227u0yJwYUOv70jhoAEizNH6AIfTsnOYSufLmgDAA=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghLc3ybVlaEuprJbcdSYSelLBbkBGh7YOH9rLPdZ8zVtB1DvYhP5-ZDu-y-NGLruz9jw9I8W513ErovUosbihJZgoMAJGv8_13iGa-RS4NihTASVze18eL8TCVqNofVrQmtL5BznRK5CMZ_Fs6V227u0yJwYUOv70jhoAEizNH6AIfTsnOYSufLmgDAA=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>It is my birthday, let's cut the national cake.</div><div>I am ruled by men I can rule, but nobody rules me.</div><div>My youth has no past, present, or future.</div><div>I do not produce anything but import everything.</div><div>My rice is imported from China, my toothpaste is from Indonesia, and my palm oil is from Guinea.</div><div>My soldiers are Senegalese, my education is a foreigner, please eat my cake.</div><div>I sold all my lands to estates and have no estate.</div><div>But, of course, I am Gambian, please remember me.</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipyKtLn-WxxO7xocmmYnWw9MDePAiNiTXQRGEGIFSYY-e8pfJiuVD3RMOAU3KgN9tdOS7MJJoBLyBeOwG8bcn2hG_PF0fKNhHg45jzF_jgzl4ND9r__3LAL36h6RbY_bDdwiPuOhyIcGaitCcIUto2wWc_AuCZQTmAhrOBRvzf5Oy1dYUcVpg-ucw3Tg=s715" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="715" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipyKtLn-WxxO7xocmmYnWw9MDePAiNiTXQRGEGIFSYY-e8pfJiuVD3RMOAU3KgN9tdOS7MJJoBLyBeOwG8bcn2hG_PF0fKNhHg45jzF_jgzl4ND9r__3LAL36h6RbY_bDdwiPuOhyIcGaitCcIUto2wWc_AuCZQTmAhrOBRvzf5Oy1dYUcVpg-ucw3Tg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com <div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com.</div><div><br /></div><div> Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-11238181508650386922022-02-09T06:28:00.005-08:002022-06-03T14:52:52.488-07:00I'm COVID-19 ( Poem) by Modou Lamin AGE-ALMUSAF Sowe<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYuaOiNRKHvnwk0eDBzV4ZD5KxcazC8jnsp9h5eHqVa2eC8qMQANLT7KdxZhzp6iwKEZYAD-pO-Uaf0WVFjxBWbHl68Blfw1AuHIVJ68liAjJiPo753-7D33ZusNn5UqCiT38IuZkq2LrbdNGb8b7UVfuykMxuDhbc5HJfBSr2Q7fNbDCNGS2XJtVdWA=s870" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="870" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYuaOiNRKHvnwk0eDBzV4ZD5KxcazC8jnsp9h5eHqVa2eC8qMQANLT7KdxZhzp6iwKEZYAD-pO-Uaf0WVFjxBWbHl68Blfw1AuHIVJ68liAjJiPo753-7D33ZusNn5UqCiT38IuZkq2LrbdNGb8b7UVfuykMxuDhbc5HJfBSr2Q7fNbDCNGS2XJtVdWA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;"> Photo: The first regional online round table on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights and the rule of law</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Dear world,</div><div>Is me, COVID-19</div><div>Call me the Coronavirus pandemic if you wish</div><div>I'm the destroyer of lives</div><div>The enemy of your wishes</div><div>The sickest virus on and offline</div><div>I'm an alien</div><div>Take precautions</div><div>Better watch your mouth because what you say about me can endanger you.</div><div><br /></div><div>You heard I'm from Wuhan, China</div><div>Because I'm related to Satan</div><div>I don't die I multiply and then come and divide you</div><div>So, what if you get a vaccine?</div><div>I don't give a fuck about it</div><div>I'll take every dose and every fuck about it</div><div>You better wear a face mask properly</div><div>Wash your hands regularly, and observe social distancing</div><div>Get it; I've come to stay</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't you see that this whole world is my graveyard?</div><div>I walk around in airports</div><div>Canceled public gatherings</div><div>I'm a scientist</div><div>I invented face masks</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I forcefully closed your schools, closed your churches, and mosques</div><div>I prevented writers from writing new books</div><div>I gave more patients to doctors</div><div>And declared global lockdowns</div><div>You better be careful when you spell my name!</div><div>I kill faster than light</div><div>I willingly do this with great delight</div><div>I spread dangerously in thick capital letters</div><div>I don't promise tomorrow</div><div>Because I don't even pay what I borrowed</div><div>Check my footsteps looks like there was a couple of me</div><div>I just killed a mother and her child shouted "mommy!"</div><div>I don't spare anyone as long as you're not vaccinated</div><div>I eat your life like a cheesecake</div><div>Until the world fights me, you're not all safe.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsKhb9lLzPrsZmMGLHC29WSPG8ykAM7iObaItT5T0b9sQsA8-6H44kRr5gzLoABJm5c73SpHusmdPjVpvTh9PAfjzUE8w_6S9GnJWQS_kQsJ7SkTlX4Tr4nUSiXmprIzmvCAHZNHC5xCv6ELmSmb0yLY39BnDILmwSq7tf18wkdmLpK_3g_EBL03mgKQ=s810" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="810" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsKhb9lLzPrsZmMGLHC29WSPG8ykAM7iObaItT5T0b9sQsA8-6H44kRr5gzLoABJm5c73SpHusmdPjVpvTh9PAfjzUE8w_6S9GnJWQS_kQsJ7SkTlX4Tr4nUSiXmprIzmvCAHZNHC5xCv6ELmSmb0yLY39BnDILmwSq7tf18wkdmLpK_3g_EBL03mgKQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Picture copyright: <span face="Montserrat, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;">EMERGING HUMAN TRAFFICKING TRENDS IN THE FACE OF COVID-19</span></span></i></div><div><i style="text-align: center;"><span face="Montserrat, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; font-size: x-small; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; font-family: times; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; font-family: times; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>Follow me on Instagram and TIKTOK:</b></span></span></div><div><i style="text-align: center;"><span face="Montserrat, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; font-size: x-small; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; font-family: times; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>TIKTOK: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@agealmusaf" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@agealmusaf</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span style="text-align: center;">INSTAGRAM: </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span face="Montserrat, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #435061; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/modoulaminsowe1/" target="_blank">HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/MODOULAMINSOWE1/</a></span></span></b></span></div><div><i style="text-align: center;"><br /></i></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email:<div> modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-7526895854631063922021-11-23T03:25:00.001-08:002021-11-23T03:34:58.575-08:00Tribute Poem to late Pa Nderry Mbai by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div><p>In a rare show of collective grief, celebrated and emerging journalists within and outside The Gambia show a synergy of voices, mourning the demise of Pa Nderry Mbai, a foremost Gambian investigative journalist who died on Monday in the USA. As an author who has a very close relationship with Pa Nderry Mbai, I wrote a tribute poem for him last night upon receipt of the sad news of his demise. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u>Short Biography of Pa Nderry Mbai</u></b></p><aside class="scaip scaip-1"><aside class="widget_vanguard_ad clearfix" id="vanguard_ad-50"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Pa Nderry MBai was a journalist based in Raleigh, United States of America. Mr. M'Bai was the Proprietor and Managing Editor of the Freedom Newspaper (www,freedomnewspaper.com). The Freedom Newspaper is Gambia's leading news site. It covers up-to-date, reliable, and balanced breaking news stories about the Gambia, and the African Continent. Mr. MBai was also the proprietor of Freedom Radio Gambia, Gambia's leading online radio. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Pa was the former Voice Of America Radio (VOA) Correspondent in Banjul, The Gambia. He has over twenty years of journalistic experience. He bagged a degree in Mass Communication. He was also the author of </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0792R25QD/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The Gambia: The Untold Dictator Yahya Jammeh's Story</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">. </span></p></aside><aside class="widget_vanguard_ad clearfix" id="vanguard_ad-50"><br /></aside></aside></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcDfg-fzVnleLxzwCZmmhlkj64zV-m1EgvP6mKlFwazgG6A7NnYUY7Jq8mnbVqWWyFr7hFkliJflEQ1tOoh7wTaalxO6UNyGaq1IQaaL_BKjAJx0N11NL18oJ5DNUCR4BjoB2iCzJqiK1/s246/pa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="246" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcDfg-fzVnleLxzwCZmmhlkj64zV-m1EgvP6mKlFwazgG6A7NnYUY7Jq8mnbVqWWyFr7hFkliJflEQ1tOoh7wTaalxO6UNyGaq1IQaaL_BKjAJx0N11NL18oJ5DNUCR4BjoB2iCzJqiK1/w400-h265/pa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u>A Tribute Poem To Pa Nderry Mbai written by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't believe Pa you're gone</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">As I write your name, every verb turned to was</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Over this the snow of death chill</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Once was fun, now done the thrill</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">My bones are crying with tears of cracks & creek</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Tired of the sun and its hide & seek.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Pa Nderry Mbai,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">'Hol la di yalla fey'</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">May your abode be 'Firdaus' in Jannah</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">For being miraculously</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">A national asset.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">You were the YES to all NOs</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The shelter to runaway Gambians</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The newspaper to the voiceless</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The truth and reparation commission</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The commissioner of reconciliation</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The image of investigative journalism</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">And the true defender of nationalism.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">When I heard you died,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It sounds so divine;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It runs within my nervous system;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It blocks my auditory system on hearing it to prevent other incoming words;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It energizes me purposefully;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It's the religion I want to belong to;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">My heart fastens to my soul.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I feel ecstatic,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I got so much static,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Or maybe, it's all this plastic fear of no more Freedom Newspaper</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">That's making me feel elastic.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I'll tell you a story</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Of my Pa Nderry in all his glory,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Maybe some parts will be glory,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">But for that, I am not sorry.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Pa was a freedom fighter</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">He was the news, the broadcast,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The paper,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">And the eye of Gambians in the Diaspora.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">When I look at you</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see a fortress of dignity</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see the impeccability of God</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see the idyllically made saint</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see a congenial soul of journalism</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see the effect of beautification</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see the light you've put in humanity</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I see the reason The Gambia is not Gambia</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I feel a little bit not Gambian</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">You should not be buried in Zambia</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">When I look at your photographs,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't take my eyes off your religious face</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't resist your godly smiles</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't seize to admire your bright teeth</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't get enough of your aroma</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't control my stammer.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">When I look at you, Oh Pa Nderry!</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't blink, for you're professionally eyeful</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't speak, for no words can describe you</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't feel my nerves, for your deeds are infectious</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I can't hear anything else, for it's your voice I want to hear on Freedom Radio</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It is your news I want to read on Freedom Newspaper,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">And it is your presence I want to feel online.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Sobriety keeps me drunk</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The illusion of life</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Holds me abound</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Life is a carcass of dreams</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">A theatre of illusion</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Beneath the streets of my scream</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Death as a reality lives in a world of dreams</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Take a break from eternity</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Forget about dexterity</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Run wild within these fields</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Let caution set itself loose</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">A stream of agony follows</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Screams come in loud hollows</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">The ground slips beneath my feet</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">My wings dare to break</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">As my back bends in wake</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">But to roam I must</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">On this dammed Earth's crust</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Felling my toes itch</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Falling to a ditch</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Savior above reach</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">But to forgive</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Heaven's delight</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Self, not to heal;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Beloved Pa Nderry:</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Heart, pure as snow</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Your tainted soul</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Dwells in a heart of gold</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">May Allah forgive you, I pray</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I swear to God</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I only wish you feel what I felt</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">If only you had,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">You will knee where I knelt.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Loving you is melting me,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Daily I melt;</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">I only mean to do what I meant.</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">But if prophets can die, tell me,</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">Why not you, Pa?</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">'Kulli-Nafsin-Zallikatul-Mawt'</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">'Kaalu-Inna-Lillahi-Waa-Inna-Illaihi-Raojo-on'</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email:<div><br /></div><div> modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. </div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-90340135265577843802021-11-06T12:35:00.003-07:002022-06-03T14:54:46.873-07:00Book Review for Don't Judge The Book By The Cover by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">As part of events marking the official book launch ceremony and the unveiling of the award of excellence won by the author Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe, scheduled on 7 January 2022 at Ebunban Theatre, Kanifing, The Gambia -- the author is giving away 50 FREE TICKETS to the first 50 PEOPLE to write a BOOK REVIEW for Don't Judge The Book By The Cover. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">About The Book</span></u></strong></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Don't Judge The Book By The Cover, as the name implies, tells the story of 9-year-old Fatou Sowe -- who turned out to be a good speller overnight, as early as the age of nine. Most people know that the word BOY is spelled as B-O-Y -- but not Fatou. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Fatou, who has always been good to neighbors and guests alike, wakes up one day to discover she has turned into a good speller with the help of a magic pen. This beautifully illustrated storybook has been created to support learners who after acquiring the basics of reading and writing, have struggled to organically grasp the rules that govern spelling in the English language. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">To everyone’s surprise, she can now spell the most difficult words in the world -- and a few minutes, too! But will her extraordinary talent last? </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The short story centers on the theme (of childhood and education in African societies, African traditions, poverty, and the shared values of love, forgiveness, and unity.)</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> To WIN a FREE TICKET to the event, you must complete all these four (4) steps:</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">1. Follow the author on:</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Facebook: </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8120489652903737676/9034013526557784380#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">https://www.facebook.com/mlsowe2021</span></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">TikTok: </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8120489652903737676/9034013526557784380#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">https://www.tiktok.com/@agealmusaf?</span></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Instagram: </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8120489652903737676/9034013526557784380#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">https://www.instagram.com/modoulaminsowe1/?hl=en</span></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">2. Download and Read Chapter One of the Book on this link: </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8120489652903737676/9034013526557784380#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WiA8_rvb3c2rOWXRP24ykuocWbarGQ9OQvnuXhrvjp8/edit?usp=sharing</span></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">3. Write a short REVIEW for the book by answering these questions:</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">a. What can be learned from the book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">b. How does the book depict Gambian and African cultures?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">c. What is unique about the book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">4. Post your REVIEW NOTE (just 100 words maximum) in the comment box on this blog.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Once you have completed the FOUR STEPS, send a WhatsApp message to +220 7791631 to be booked for your free tickets.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">My special wishes to you! </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p></div><div>To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. </div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-89052710107600396592021-10-15T06:16:00.004-07:002021-10-15T08:23:38.986-07:00Damaged Love written by Haddy Jobe<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jpdCupp8GXQD4PIYwy58z2gTtFxPtWQwas5bCUnozlQGPMdEDh8OE0IvVQq-KImFrPRg255q3k-P3T1_N41s2qaJXQ4t-ql2k1e0axmAk5D0ynIYcTieuM4o_nO4U7OX8TYGh55tUEhq/s960/IMG-20211015-WA0156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jpdCupp8GXQD4PIYwy58z2gTtFxPtWQwas5bCUnozlQGPMdEDh8OE0IvVQq-KImFrPRg255q3k-P3T1_N41s2qaJXQ4t-ql2k1e0axmAk5D0ynIYcTieuM4o_nO4U7OX8TYGh55tUEhq/w225-h400/IMG-20211015-WA0156.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Some years have passed by, </div><div>Some moments of joy and sadness have flown away, </div><div>Some people I loved became strangers, </div><div>Some friends became enemies, </div><div>Betrayal was never a stranger to me, </div><div>Life wasn’t easy, as I kept thinking about all the mistakes I've made. </div><div><br /></div><div>When I trust, trust is broken. </div><div>When I love, they stop loving. </div><div>To find the answers to my questions was all I ever wanted. </div><div>But, then, I never did forget the damage of love. </div><div>I was slowly loosing myself; </div><div>My own strength became my weaknesses;</div><div>The world never stopped breaking my heart. </div><div>I now looked at my past and laugh at how silly I once was. </div><div>To live, to love, and to be loved, was all I ever wanted.</div><div><br /></div><div> I miss you more than I thought I would. </div><div>But, then, again, the fear of rejection holds me back.</div><div>I cried more than I taught I would.</div><div>But this journey of love and war never stopped colliding.</div><div>Life teaches,</div><div>Time heals,</div><div>But these wounds will never heal.</div><div>I am entangled in a battle:</div><div>A battle of fear and rejection.</div><div>My pain can’t be hidden anymore;</div><div>Once lovers, now strangers.</div><div>My love for you has locked me in a dungeon </div><div>In which I will never escape.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>SHORT BIOGRAPHY:<div><br /><div><div>Haddy Jobe was born on 15 December 2002 in Barra, North Bank Region (NBR), The Gambia. </div><div><br /></div><div>Haddy is a young passionate writer who wants to make difference in her community and uplift the voices of Gambian women.</div><div><br /></div><div>She writes poetry and her first poem is titled “Damaged Love”. </div><div><br /></div><div>She wants to be a renowned author in her country and beyond.</div><div><br /></div><div>Her writings always touches the heart, they are enjoyable to read, and easily relatable.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com</div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-82592833207712177692021-10-08T14:38:00.007-07:002021-11-11T07:30:40.414-08:00The Return of the Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1993: Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize Win<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7nNUFLmcAtEvdOKOaahw9lToHZaItKe4sVyYSzwVu259o-_K8-lLu9Jazbbaup15mVhuzJyp2Rbdx495Rco47iDNnRJvwLKiqNVUDExft2vIucWk2yhSUfBL2BAw1RydyUt4U99W5vckO/s261/gurmah.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="261" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7nNUFLmcAtEvdOKOaahw9lToHZaItKe4sVyYSzwVu259o-_K8-lLu9Jazbbaup15mVhuzJyp2Rbdx495Rco47iDNnRJvwLKiqNVUDExft2vIucWk2yhSUfBL2BAw1RydyUt4U99W5vckO/w400-h296/gurmah.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote><br /></blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The Return of the Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1993: Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize Win</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If books were revelations, writers would have been prophets, and libraries would have been temples. But since revelation involved both books and people, the earth must be a reading place. ''Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.'' — Aristotle. In addition, writers play a fundamental role in education and research, and to be successful in our globalized information-saturated world -- readers must not only acquire content knowledge in their selected disciplines, but also develop their ability to find, evaluate, and use information efficiently and ethically. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Re-reading oneself to understand why one is read, spoken about, and seen as human - is an act of self-evaluation in education. In a race, one comes out first or second, or even last. But in writing, one does not need to come out first or second. But, of course, a writer has to be appreciated for his/her good work. What writing and cooking share in common is that they must both whet the appetite of their consumers. Abdulrazak Gurnah has come to show us that African literature is still African at its best. If I can understand Shakespeare, you can understand me, or Wole Soyinka. 1993-2021 talent beats knowledge, again. Humans aren't humanity's friends. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">African literature is undergoing series of transformations since the demise of Chinua Achebe in 2013. Most African writers residing abroad now write contemporary stories reflecting their influence and not their origin. Hardly one finds an African writer living in the United States or the United Kingdom whose writing has not been completely influenced by the environment he or she lives in. In the words of Chinua Achebe, the icon of African literature, ''If you don't like someone's story, write your own. Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.''</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Nobel Prize in Literature returned home at a better time when the United Nations General Assembly Resolution (Ref.: A/74/396, 18 December 2019) proclaimed the International Decade of Indigenous Languages starting from 2022 to 2032 with a preparatory period from 2020 to 2021. Since 1993, Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first black African writer in 35 years to win the prize since Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka in 1988, the first black writer since US’ Toni Morrison in 1993, and the first African writer since Doris Lessing’s 2007 win.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In decolonizing the mind, African writers should always portray the importance of written and oral African works as key components of art in their work. Poetry is what speaks when the heart is too heavy to bring forth words. Stories tell us what we should be told about ourselves, but dramas are what both funnily hurt and entertain us when we are too inhuman to laugh for us humans. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In recognition of our meritorious service to God and our continent, Africa, for a long time has witnessed various forms of moral crises in our social system, including the persecution of writers and the disappearance of journalists. If you stare too long at the past, you're going to see a gigantic and fascinating gap of silence and alterations in our continent's literacy history.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the Realms of Darkness to the Gothic Fiction Age, not all American writers agreed with the Transcendentalist notions that the divine is implicit and that people are essentially good. Some felt that these views did not adequately take into account the darker side of human nature, the presence of suffering in the world, and the ongoing conflict between good and evil. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For centuries, American Indians have relied fundamentally on spoken language for diplomacy, decision-making, and preservation of their history and culture. In American Indian cultures, spoken language mystically links the natural and spiritual world and has the power to shape events. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpnMruEUDkYrCCYtF5bTTS3VuzAJcFQu5cX486MPD9zWrLOahKn3Q6iOkOwIUQ-7gXYTQzGcy4LvaoHdahu4NfgnE6GosK4JMjz75ibIfy6G4nABW6z2Ei8UXwLLxCLGXHmP2kmVhY1MH/s298/abdul.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="298" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpnMruEUDkYrCCYtF5bTTS3VuzAJcFQu5cX486MPD9zWrLOahKn3Q6iOkOwIUQ-7gXYTQzGcy4LvaoHdahu4NfgnE6GosK4JMjz75ibIfy6G4nABW6z2Ei8UXwLLxCLGXHmP2kmVhY1MH/w400-h227/abdul.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> On the contrary, Africans have heavily relied on oral traditions for far too long to pass judgments and handed down their history from one generation to another. Of course, writers </span><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">help in the preservation of the African cultural identity</strong><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and, subsequently, the heritage which is almost always under constant threat of annihilation by the colonialist. A writer then takes the African story forward and exports it to the rest of the world so that it can appreciate that beauty. While countries like The Gambia and Senegal are yet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Tanzania and Nigeria have proven that the language of humanity is human. And to speak to the world, you must first speak in your native language. </span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">''𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.” —𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐰. Our mind is incredible. What we tell ourselves is what we begin to believe, and our beliefs turn into actions. These actions turn into results, so if you’re unhappy with your results, you start by changing your mindset.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While many believe that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie should have won this year's Nobel prize, writing is not a race to finish up with wins or losses. Writing is a specific discipline of thoughts and ideas. It is the only institution of human dignity where one writes what pleases him to please others. A writer must be read!</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0e101a; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Written by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe</b></span></p><div><span color="inherit" data-preserver-spaces="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></b></span></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email:<div><br /></div><div> modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. </div><div><br /></div><div>Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-84623920927153022012021-10-07T09:11:00.003-07:002021-10-07T09:11:24.873-07:00Book Launch and Unveiling of Award of Excellence for African Literature<div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Join us for the anticipated release of Don't Judge The Book By The Cover, a debut book of Gambian literature well-received throughout the world -- written by award-winning Gambian writer Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe. Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe recently won an award of excellence for his contributions in African literature, awarded to him by the International Association of African Authors and Scholars (IAAAS) at the IAAAS Book and Leadership Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.</div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The award will be unveiled by government officials, the book industry stakeholders, scholars, writers, teachers, and members of the diaspora. The main activities of the event are:<br />Book Review,<br />Award Ceremony,<br />Birthday,<br />Reading,<br />Signing,<br />Music & Poetry.</div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">VIP 500<br />ADV D300<br />GATE D200<br />Contact +220 7791631 for more info!<br /><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/dontjudgethebookbythecover?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZWd6_XpihgQZfxBK-N2I7sYDsIWM6ICjML-RQOlH3qDiSweJq8bTMbYhL8T_8gfP3WkwFZGLz3blCWl-YJ3aiGhI3ac05mEMGQvNblrlI8xcg&__tn__=q" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#dontjudgethebookbythecover</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwoJCavwq1Jt0KiM8xmEyJjzes9veM-fGMPY43B-S0UCvOdF412Qvmg-v5YaNK0jsYn1qVcb1IrJPDu8yJjh3kl5wqW_Sit3YkzBKbSoELqwZG1PP5mOGc3RI2qGDkO1OJLkXbo8uvN6E/s900/Copy+of+book+launch+flyer+template+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="695" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwoJCavwq1Jt0KiM8xmEyJjzes9veM-fGMPY43B-S0UCvOdF412Qvmg-v5YaNK0jsYn1qVcb1IrJPDu8yJjh3kl5wqW_Sit3YkzBKbSoELqwZG1PP5mOGc3RI2qGDkO1OJLkXbo8uvN6E/w309-h400/Copy+of+book+launch+flyer+template+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email:<div><br /></div><div> modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </div><div><br /></div><div> © All Rights Reserved! </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-83928765888940041132021-09-15T07:26:00.011-07:002022-09-22T16:49:41.506-07:00Letter To Satan : I am Not Sorry<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Qsf8nLHQ-k6OmHJkvZF8hui0ukJp_C-xQiepM9Jsd1Fysg_wqz7METiPWUFM8yBhWIqGlX0BHKQ9SmYbD_iMAy38FgrXcMMPQ_a7sv46k-wmfNaWVIsuigmluK0zV0KvX8CbbS4QpsED/s900/Copy+of+Thirsty+Thursdays+Club+Flyer+Template+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="695" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Qsf8nLHQ-k6OmHJkvZF8hui0ukJp_C-xQiepM9Jsd1Fysg_wqz7METiPWUFM8yBhWIqGlX0BHKQ9SmYbD_iMAy38FgrXcMMPQ_a7sv46k-wmfNaWVIsuigmluK0zV0KvX8CbbS4QpsED/w494-h640/Copy+of+Thirsty+Thursdays+Club+Flyer+Template+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div>Letter to Satan that I never spoke</div><div>Poems I thought about that I never wrote</div><div>Sentences on a paper that I never said</div><div>Listen to these stories that I must read</div><div>Dirt on my shirt that must be cleaned</div><div>Lyrics of a poem you've never seen</div><div>I am not stories that you heard, Diva</div><div>I was born smart since the time of La Divaz</div><div>I'm not sorry to accept the love I never had</div><div>Satan knows I am not Haddy Ceesay</div><div>I refused the Illuminatti, ask what she says</div><div>''Fly in the milk</div><div>Drink the milk and get rid of the fly''</div><div>I've been judged before I met George</div><div>They wanted to baptize me to Saint George</div><div><br /></div><div>I've seen a lot</div><div>Been through hell and back</div><div>Front and back</div><div>But I've got a lot more to write than to say</div><div>I met Satan and all his fallen angels</div><div>But they all know I am not an angel</div><div><br /></div><div>From the freezer to the fridge</div><div>ML is cooler</div><div>ML is higher, ML is Fula,</div><div>Gambian by mistake</div><div>Not a baby who feeds on cornflakes</div><div>I hustle with the muscle</div><div>My story is like Bill Russel</div><div>I lost my virginity in Virginia</div><div>To Queen Regina</div><div>Cali-Zantelate, gimme space, lemme ventilate</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not sorry </div><div>To be my own stories</div><div>I've been through a lot</div><div>From doom to decadence</div><div>Right to wrong</div><div>Character assassination to hatred</div><div>Lies and accusations</div><div>Heartbreaks and deformation</div><div>Give me all these reformations</div><div>But fuck it, I hate this nation</div><div>And I'm not sorry</div><div><br /></div><div>How can I fail because of people I don't know?</div><div>I write differently</div><div>In indifference</div><div>Living the present past of my future tense</div><div>My life is so tense with tensions</div><div>And I need no attention</div><div>I'm the author of my vision</div><div>Am on a mission to the vision</div><div>From North Bank to Western Division</div><div>Is the president</div><div>Sitting behind the Statehouse</div><div>Secretary with bigger breasts</div><div>Handing me files to sign</div><div>Giving me her sauce to dine</div><div><br /></div><div>I am not sorry</div><div>I broke many hearts</div><div>Because they broke mine too</div><div>But I am not just sorry</div><div>I am not sorry that I do not sell my soul</div><div>I know you must not understand this blindfold</div><div>But everyone knows ML is just fucking bold</div><div><br /></div><div>I am not sorry</div><div>To be born a Muslim</div><div>14 years later, I wrote my first book</div><div>I am an Islamic therapist</div><div>More extremist than an existentialist</div><div>I am a dinosaur</div><div>I find this cure</div><div>Before you judge me, analyze, read my blueprint</div><div>Did you see the winner as the first-runner</div><div>Writers of Satan, you see that in your country</div><div>What ancestors did they bring to the summit?</div><div>To give me what I needed, what they need to take from me</div><div>They needed my soul</div><div>But I am not sorry to be a Muslim</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
My special wishes to you! To schedule or book me for public lectures/ book launches/ conferences/ readings/ scriptwriting/ keynote/motivational speaking events, please email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com
© All Rights Reserved! Thank you for reading and following my blog. Should you wish to use any of my articles for research, lectures, personal use, etc.,.. kindly address your message to: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com. Copying any of my articles without written permission is an infringement of Copyright.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-1443527542411293982021-06-26T08:20:00.003-07:002021-06-26T08:20:19.145-07:00Music Press Release: KOMBONKA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “Nyaal Beh Loring Nnkang (FEAT. HUSSAIN DADA)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "segoe ui westeuropean", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>OFF Forthcoming ALBUM YALONG NGALONG</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9x-IUArTh5vWqOwcTRxWi-0dln-AkTm9KUOo7EQjge7j1S4jrpwMaUbdP4HhRje85FtG9QyyAcEN2ksry6N8YS_809GCPCdm_rUqU26pQ8-ttO6nkzwuLk54bjTZZUIFqlt1oJmJC8a2/s300/hussain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9x-IUArTh5vWqOwcTRxWi-0dln-AkTm9KUOo7EQjge7j1S4jrpwMaUbdP4HhRje85FtG9QyyAcEN2ksry6N8YS_809GCPCdm_rUqU26pQ8-ttO6nkzwuLk54bjTZZUIFqlt1oJmJC8a2/w400-h224/hussain.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div> </div><div><b>22 JUNE 2021 (Banjul, The Gambia)</b> — Today, Gambian-bred hip-hop Afro-Manding King, Kombonka shares his latest single, a hard-hitting and hypnotic track called “Nyaal Beh Loring Nnkang ” Featuring Gambian-born rapper HUSSAIN DADA. Kombonka’s forthcoming debut album YALONG NGALONG, is due to be out later on 8th January 2022 at Q-City. The talented rapper is set to release his exciting debut album, a move that will thrill his army of fans across the world.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXr25HcBPRxaFsSD61-6Ow5HxM7R9yX58qzmWLRYj1fbbjYzZLx4NY3ei_raBePeSgmyDXbK8JmlC1Imdw8h_TUpo8sTVSnMUpLFFt8kKi6VQAAWTV0mKJXgxtt5U3MNbsVRHFM5BsBnI/s225/buwal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXr25HcBPRxaFsSD61-6Ow5HxM7R9yX58qzmWLRYj1fbbjYzZLx4NY3ei_raBePeSgmyDXbK8JmlC1Imdw8h_TUpo8sTVSnMUpLFFt8kKi6VQAAWTV0mKJXgxtt5U3MNbsVRHFM5BsBnI/w400-h400/buwal.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Click on this link to watch the song:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://linktr.ee/Kombonka">https://linktr.ee/Kombonka</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> “Nyaal Beh Loring Nnkang” is built on an aggressive rhythm. It’s one of my best flows. HUSSAIN DADA and I let loose and this song bridges the gap between my career and The Gambia’s music scene.“</div><div> </div><div>Produced by Capeland Beat, mixed, and mastered by Malang Fatty MOB, “Nyaal Beh Loring Nnkang” is the latest offering from a fast-rising artiste with a proven track record of boldly defying genre boundaries. This time around, the King of Afro-Manding rap delivers one of his most formidable tracks to date, showing the full force of his commanding vocals and expert wordplay. As “Nyaal Beh Loring Nnkang” unfolds in baleful textures and brilliantly warped instrumentation.</div><div><br /></div><div>HUSSAIN DADA slides in and shows off the fiercely magnetic vocal presence. The award-winning Afro-Fusion artiste also works towards his album launch on November 13th, 2021 at Q-city.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><b> ABOUT KOMBONKA:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissUp0rKETN3MRMQrlPbBtvdGHIdGlaLofDGDpHRCYqIvqP6jxsJzGXi1PIN6nBEiq1uGYiXnN1Uk2JQDUL6CI8_bp6RMTG7RyNVHlAVCGvLkYQcvHCx1tZdZMBcJyFGHdggU2EofPeDIy/s225/ka.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissUp0rKETN3MRMQrlPbBtvdGHIdGlaLofDGDpHRCYqIvqP6jxsJzGXi1PIN6nBEiq1uGYiXnN1Uk2JQDUL6CI8_bp6RMTG7RyNVHlAVCGvLkYQcvHCx1tZdZMBcJyFGHdggU2EofPeDIy/w400-h400/ka.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Born Ebrima Touray from Medina Salam, "Kombonka" Alias “The King of Manding Rap is a Top Gambian rapper currently signed to GSC Records, and working on his debut album. His style of music blends the rich traditional Afro-manding Music from The Gambia with Trap and Hip Hop in general.</div><div>Rapping in Mandinka and English, Kombonka’s style could be associated with that of top African rappers such as Sarkodie, Eldee, Phyno, and Olamide. His technique and delivery always carry the right amount of energy required to convey the message making this young man an incredible talent enjoyable to watch, follow and listen to.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b> </b></div><div><b>Signed:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Media and Communication Team, GSC Record</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Thanks for visiting my blog. Let me know what you think about my writings. I really do appreciate your feedback. Ring or text +220 7204117/5951978/7791631 or email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-69306742353917659482021-05-20T07:17:00.009-07:002022-07-03T05:42:47.002-07:00Love After Heartbreak Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div><div class="bbVIQb" jsname="Vinbg" style="background-color: white;"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSOqnuXW3XeJn76FHOYT7bTJeNmTr-brRXOT4RS6hGTtjnEgnxBNj3HZDEW9iYlL7_FcylRjbWGqPWBRNUj4MJcLrQVxvcoOtsJqfKEOY9oRlA_agwNRLmzKZx48Hk-pomjw6iTVYDvrdA/s225/eartbreakk.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSOqnuXW3XeJn76FHOYT7bTJeNmTr-brRXOT4RS6hGTtjnEgnxBNj3HZDEW9iYlL7_FcylRjbWGqPWBRNUj4MJcLrQVxvcoOtsJqfKEOY9oRlA_agwNRLmzKZx48Hk-pomjw6iTVYDvrdA/w320-h320/eartbreakk.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I got grief in my eyes</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Salt in my knees, sugar in my blood, hurt but still laugh</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Fall in love but still love you, but love isn't kind</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Musa, go but never mind</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I shouted for a voice, not mine</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Jumped ahead of time</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I cried tears of patrol, seen nights full of you</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Burnt into ashes, I hate the news broadcast</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Tell that to the weather forecast</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Some things are better off forgotten</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">But I better not forget you</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I wished I never knew a version of love like yours</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Do you wanna know how many times I tore myself apart?</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Does it make you feel alive?</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">To break my heart</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I had to die to finally let you go</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">The sun misses me out b'cos of your moon</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">To me, every morning is not noon, even this afternoon</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">A story gets rewritten so blasphemous</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">But I made Jesus walk, I am not afraid to go to hell</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">And you were so perfectly imperfect, but I love your imperfections</div></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXXBMvJzPT5kqc7ksoT-NNalk2b2mTZBDtaA42OSFx-TReIKzZMu4cQNRAb4vKTPQNGOjGhXcRnIGl2IN73BHJcxUFOYUZHtjuduxL1adcJcbDPNWL7EjflYz2XuYr6DjoM90foDIJHfd/s300/break.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXXBMvJzPT5kqc7ksoT-NNalk2b2mTZBDtaA42OSFx-TReIKzZMu4cQNRAb4vKTPQNGOjGhXcRnIGl2IN73BHJcxUFOYUZHtjuduxL1adcJcbDPNWL7EjflYz2XuYr6DjoM90foDIJHfd/w320-h179/break.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Bae,</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I felt an exasperation of pain inside my abdomen</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Your love was such a bad omen</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">But I loved you with all the torments</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Reminiscing the moments of love</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">We kissed, the places we visited, the food I cooked for you</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">You met me heartbroken</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">You loved me and left me broken</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Is this what love is all about?</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">After all the feelings you've awoken</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I've got parts of me I'm trying to lose</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">My love for you, even GRTS cannot news</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"> I got my imperfections but love is not perfect</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">My love has scars I can't hide</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">This pain I cannot write</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Hold on Bae!</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Am tryna put you on the shelf to myself</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">But the voices in my head</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Made me so sick in bed</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">But before I end, I cannot bend, I must, but pen</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Depression and anxiety</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Kept externally, surfaced on the outside</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I need to learn to love myself before I can fall in love</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I can't hold your heart when I'm fixing mine</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"> I wish you were mine</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">You know you got the key to my heart</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Why break the padlock? </div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">If I ain't claiming your kingship tell me who deserves the title</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I'm Oumie, am not Isatou, why date Fatou?</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Your throat dry from the pain she puts you in</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">But you still love me and you know I sink you in</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I'm inhuman for us humans</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">If I were not a witch, I would have been eaten by GAMBIAN lizards</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">I love you so much and is the picture I paint</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Love me with all my imperfections</div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;">Much as you would like me to do the same for you</div></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCchT8d9VKm-LPvinak-IZwJZELZoVwXsy-cPNfsdCD5Mc0P0alnhWXAXjPhqV6EYWnMNTuzfG3AuWLVVMmmtBgwqFM9Eejbxra8XL7yLEZfwuBC4QVv8Xk-JcARs5qHam4jb9zzh-g0T/s311/love.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCchT8d9VKm-LPvinak-IZwJZELZoVwXsy-cPNfsdCD5Mc0P0alnhWXAXjPhqV6EYWnMNTuzfG3AuWLVVMmmtBgwqFM9Eejbxra8XL7yLEZfwuBC4QVv8Xk-JcARs5qHam4jb9zzh-g0T/w400-h208/love.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div>Thanks for visiting my blog. Let me know what you think about my writings. I really do appreciate your feedback. Ring or text +220 7204117/5951978/7791631 or email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-5919008692685177992021-05-18T06:07:00.003-07:002021-05-24T05:36:03.034-07:00THE PROMISED MESSIAH WAS MUHAMMAD (S.A.W) ( Poetry)<div><br /></div><blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyy2cXI-HNvCGXZ75qZyQE2KQDDmes7xSP9vvVZHCVrP9pz7KB9PTjqKb0YlVFLXRQtj5XGHUeGWr8ZUD8oEEojkMhDmVDxaFmRSKvSVw0ID6aaLdQWZMHjnktrFbRWji5TUskIUNqHM2/s274/kaaba.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyy2cXI-HNvCGXZ75qZyQE2KQDDmes7xSP9vvVZHCVrP9pz7KB9PTjqKb0YlVFLXRQtj5XGHUeGWr8ZUD8oEEojkMhDmVDxaFmRSKvSVw0ID6aaLdQWZMHjnktrFbRWji5TUskIUNqHM2/w400-h269/kaaba.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"></span><blockquote><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">The </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Kaaba</b></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> (</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Arabic</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">: </span><span dir="rtl" face="sans-serif" lang="ar" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">ٱلْكَعْبَة</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><small style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><i lang="ar-Latn" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" title="Arabic-language romanization">al-Kaʿbah</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><small style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">'The Cube', </span><small style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px;">Arabic pronunciation: </small><span class="IPA" face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Arabic" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Help:IPA/Arabic">[kaʕ.bah]</a></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">), also spelled </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ka'bah</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Kabah</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, sometimes referred to as </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> (Arabic: </span><span dir="rtl" face="sans-serif" lang="ar" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><small style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px;">romanized: </small><i lang="ar-Latn" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" title="Arabic-language romanization">al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><small style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px;"><abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> </small><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">'Honored Ka'bah'), is a building at the center of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Islam">Islam</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">'s most important </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mosque">mosque</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_al-Haram" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Masjid al-Haram">Masjid al-Haram</a></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mecca">Mecca</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba#cite_note-:0-1" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> It is the most </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiest_sites_in_Islam" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Holiest sites in Islam">sacred site in Islam</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-eoi317_2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba#cite_note-eoi317-2" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> It is considered by </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Muslim">Muslims</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> to be the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bayt Allah</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> (</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">: </span><span dir="rtl" face="sans-serif" lang="ar" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">بَيْت ٱللَّٰه</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, </span><small style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_translation" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">'House of God') and is the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Qibla">qibla</a></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"> (Arabic: </span><span dir="rtl" face="sans-serif" lang="ar" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">قِبْلَة</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, direction of prayer) for Muslims around the world when performing </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Salah">salah</a></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">. Soruce: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba</a></span></blockquote><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"></span><br /><div><div>You died an honorable dead; I thank you like ‘Alhamdoulillah’</div><div>R.I.P, I wouldn’t say ‘Astagfurllah’</div><div>I thank you for the light you’ve brought to us</div><div>And your guidance, ‘SubhanAllah’</div><div>The Promised Messiah, <span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-line;">“Ya Rasulallah”</span></div><div>Al-Amin your beautiful name, ‘Fatabarakallah’</div><div>Ya-Muhammad (S.A.W)</div><div>The beloved son of Amina and Abdallah</div><div>Grandson of Abdul Mutalib and Nephew of Abou Talib</div><div>Blood and fiber of Bannu-Quraiys</div><div>The truth is bitter but nobody is better than you</div><div>Who was the last prophet if not you? </div><div> </div><div>The breath of the truth</div><div>The ink and pages of the Holy Qur’an</div><div>The sky of wisdom</div><div>The cloud of honesty and the rain of modesty</div><div>The ocean of patience and steadfastness</div><div>The Seal of Messengers and Prophets</div><div>The righteous of righteousness</div><div>The judge of the law and the lawyer of judges</div><div>The magistrate of faith and the invincible author of authors</div><div>Imam of the ‘’Masjids’’</div><div>The savior of jinns and mankind</div><div>The Best of Creation</div><div>The Promised Messiah,</div><div>The only God chosen genius and the brain of intellectuals</div><div>Throne of kings and ornament of angels</div><div>The apparatus of scientists</div><div>You got wounded at the battle of Uhúd in the name of Islam</div><div>We know your true intention</div><div>The Holy Qur’an given to you is indeed the final book</div><div> </div><div>Your farewell sermon spoke a lot about your Islamic devotion</div><div>You died but we are still undergoing your corrections</div><div>The Five Pillars of Islam you erected is truly a foundation</div><div>I wish I could thank you for all your deliberations</div><div>Your dead we couldn’t stand in lamentation</div><div>If death was exchangeable, your tears we wouldn’t cry</div><div>We were living raw in darkness and you made us ripe</div><div>The truth you brought ended many lies</div><div>You guided us from wrong to right</div><div>‘’Ihdinas siraatal musta-qiim’’, you’ve placed us on the Right Path</div><div>Islam stands securely on the earth </div><div>And the Qur'an is not a book like Things Fall Apart</div><div>Judgment day will come</div><div>When those who contradict the Holy Qur’an </div><div>And denied you will stand aside</div><div>All disbelievers and fake prophets who refuse to convert to Islam</div><div>Will grovel to hell in flights</div></div></blockquote><div><div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><b>Follow us on FACEBOOK:</b></p><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Voice-of-The-Pen-VOP-101768212106885" style="color: #cc4411;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/The-Voice-of-The-Pen-VOP-101768212106885</a></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Thanks for visiting my blog. Let me know what you think about my writings. I really do appreciate your feedback. Ring or text +220 7204117/5951978/7791631 or email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120489652903737676.post-5896017122122152082021-04-05T10:54:00.004-07:002021-04-05T10:54:31.519-07:00Book Launch: AfriKa Not AfriCa by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLLkjLklRvV7j8lnRRBHqMNv3n07OqQtU_IoSBANdjNYhNKa5WjGh_CI9YqE1gSWpzzkFdwIbsrrFlOAVAG7uSPwBN-QjPIEgoxR1o3umiqH6UP_qb-IWt_ivGhv4kSSwoYnCQOkp2Bf5/s1080/Copy+of+Book+launch+countdown+flyer+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLLkjLklRvV7j8lnRRBHqMNv3n07OqQtU_IoSBANdjNYhNKa5WjGh_CI9YqE1gSWpzzkFdwIbsrrFlOAVAG7uSPwBN-QjPIEgoxR1o3umiqH6UP_qb-IWt_ivGhv4kSSwoYnCQOkp2Bf5/w400-h400/Copy+of+Book+launch+countdown+flyer+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Two Days to my book launch: AfriKa Not AfriCa by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Join me for a Q&A! I will chat about writing, living in general, and my new release AfriKa Not AfriCa! ( Wednesday 7 April from 4-6 pm GMT)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The event will be held live on FACEBOOK/ZOOM/YOUTUBE on this link: </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ukiyotopublishing/">https://www.facebook.com/ukiyotopublishing/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>To my most avid fans/friends/family members/clients/supporters who will go above and beyond for me and my book.</div><div><br /></div><div>Potential readers who will buy (and, hopefully, review) my book.</div><div><br /></div><div>My classmates. Colleagues I’ve worked with. Clients I’ve helped. And social media friends. </div><div><br /></div><div>You're all invited!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHvDWjL6qI-QXvGjhSYNX53KuLySf3K6r-NXBwKMdT6qkz4iw4lsKFigFqgFXLYQfRMlkl9tCwPXEyRzf09G2WpZ4F-c2JYQcsC4zYBK3nvzAeWojp5VO6Njn1c5zYW1P9QlOgiL2D-B2/s900/Copy+of+Book+Lsunch+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="695" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHvDWjL6qI-QXvGjhSYNX53KuLySf3K6r-NXBwKMdT6qkz4iw4lsKFigFqgFXLYQfRMlkl9tCwPXEyRzf09G2WpZ4F-c2JYQcsC4zYBK3nvzAeWojp5VO6Njn1c5zYW1P9QlOgiL2D-B2/w309-h400/Copy+of+Book+Lsunch+-+Made+with+PosterMyWall.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Thanks for visiting my blog. Let me know what you think about my writings. <div><br /></div><div>I really do appreciate your feedback. </div><div>Ring or text +220 7791631 or email: modoulaminsowe1@hotmail.com </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0