Letter To Satan : I am Not Sorry

Letter to Satan that I never spoke

Poems I thought about that I never wrote

Sentences on a paper that I never said

Listen to these stories that I must read

Dirt on my shirt that must be cleaned

Lyrics of a poem you've never seen

I am not stories that you heard, Diva

I was born smart since the time of La Divaz

I'm not sorry to accept the love I never had

Satan knows I am not Haddy Ceesay

I refused the Illuminatti, ask what she says

''Fly in the milk

Drink the milk and get rid of the fly''

I've been judged before I met George

They wanted to baptize me to Saint George

I've seen a lot

Been through hell and back

Front and back

But I've got a lot more to write than to say

I met Satan and all his fallen angels

But they all know I am not an angel

From the freezer to the fridge

ML is cooler

ML is higher, ML is Fula,

Gambian by mistake

Not a baby who feeds on cornflakes

I hustle with the muscle

My story is like Bill Russel

I lost my virginity in Virginia

To Queen Regina

Cali-Zantelate, gimme space, lemme ventilate

I'm not sorry 

To be my own stories

I've been through a lot

From doom to decadence

Right to wrong

Character assassination to hatred

Lies and accusations

Heartbreaks and deformation

Give me all these reformations

But fuck it, I hate this nation

And I'm not sorry

How can I fail because of people I don't know?

I write differently

In indifference

Living the present past of my future tense

My life is so tense with tensions

And I need no attention

I'm the author of my vision

Am on a mission to the vision

From North Bank to Western Division

Is the president

Sitting behind the Statehouse

Secretary with bigger breasts

Handing me files to sign

Giving me her sauce to dine

I am not sorry

I broke many hearts

Because they broke mine too

But I am not just sorry

I am not sorry that I do not sell my soul

I know you must not understand this blindfold

But everyone knows ML is just fucking bold

I am not sorry

To be born a Muslim

14 years later, I wrote my first book

I am an Islamic therapist

More extremist than an existentialist

I am a dinosaur

I find this cure

Before you judge me, analyze, read my blueprint

Did you see the winner as the first-runner

Writers of Satan, you see that in your country

What ancestors did they bring to the summit?

To give me what I needed, what they need to take from me

They needed my soul

But I am not sorry to be a Muslim

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Love After Heartbreak Poem by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe

I got grief in my eyes

Salt in my knees, sugar in my blood, hurt but still laugh

Fall in love but still love you, but love isn't kind

Musa, go but never mind

I shouted for a voice, not mine

Jumped ahead of time

I cried tears of patrol, seen nights full of you

Burnt into ashes, I hate the news broadcast

Tell that to the weather forecast

Some things are better off forgotten

But I better not forget you

I wished I never knew a version of love like yours

Do you wanna know how many times I tore myself apart?

Does it make you feel alive?

To break my heart

I had to die to finally let you go

The sun misses me out b'cos of your moon

To me, every morning is not noon, even this afternoon

A story gets rewritten so blasphemous

But I made Jesus walk, I am not afraid to go to hell

And you were so perfectly imperfect, but I love your imperfections

Bae,

I felt an exasperation of pain inside my abdomen

Your love was such a bad omen

But I loved you with all the torments

Reminiscing the moments of love

We kissed, the places we visited, the food I cooked for you

You met me heartbroken

You loved me and left me broken

Is this what love is all about?

After all the feelings you've awoken

I've got parts of me I'm trying to lose

My love for you, even GRTS cannot news

 I got my imperfections but love is not perfect

My love has scars I can't hide

This pain I cannot write

Hold on Bae!

Am tryna put you on the shelf to myself

But the voices in my head

Made me so sick in bed

But before I end, I cannot bend, I must, but pen

Depression and anxiety

Kept externally, surfaced on the outside

I need to learn to love myself before I can fall in love

I can't hold your heart when I'm fixing mine

 I wish you were mine

You know you got the key to my heart

Why break the padlock? 

If I ain't claiming your kingship tell me who deserves the title

I'm Oumie, am not Isatou, why date Fatou?

Your throat dry from the pain she puts you in

But you still love me and you know I sink you in

I'm inhuman for us humans

If I were not a witch, I would have been eaten by GAMBIAN lizards

I love you so much and is the picture I paint

Love me with all my imperfections

Much as you would like me to do the same for you

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Book Launch: AfriKa Not AfriCa by Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe

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The Nightmare (Poem) by Modou Lamin AGE-ALMUSAF Sowe

The lady in red,

Her beauty unsaid,

She appeared to me in bed,

Rubbed my head to my chest,

And told me not to be vexed.

It was a nightmare.

At 3 a.m., it was;

"Listen to me, ML", she said.

"You're not them, and they are not you."

"Your spit is better than their souls."

"If you kill all your enemies,

You won't have friends."

"Divorce is not sweet when love is not dead."

"They say money is evil, but money can buy life," she concluded.

Responding to her voice

I blocked the sweet noise

Allowed her played me like a toy

In fact, I grew up; I'm not a boy,

Is ML, the Glote.

They made me a wizard and afraid of me

But I must eat them.

I fed on blood, and death is my cousin

Alcohol does not make me drunk

I write speeches like Donald Trump

Like ripples in a wave

My body, you enslave

Telling myself to behave

As you kiss me, I crave

For your touch

Wanting you so much

The sheets I tightly clutch

You drive me to such

Crazy heights

My body fights

All the sensual delights

I have you on my sites

Open my eyes

Feel you in between my thighs

My heartbeat does arise

Each moment full of surprises

You are inside of me

Emotions begin a wild ride

Our souls collide

I slowly guide

You deeper within

Pushed you out and pull you in

Intensity up and down again

I look into your eyes as I begin

Breathing deeply has just begun

Two souls becoming one

All the things our bodies have done

Hotter than the rising sun

Climaxing as I tightly squeeze

Grabbing you as I please

Biting my lips just to tease

I feel weak in my knees

I wrap my legs around your waist

Wanting so bad just to taste

You reacted with such a haste

I feel your climax as your heart raced

Never wanting this to end

The vibrations that you send

The way you made my body bend

From this love, I cannot defend

Tell me, Lady ML Sowe, are you Beyonce or Sasha?

You know me better

Like a broken sensation

Laid in the grave of gossip

The news they spread, lies full of houseflies,

Cheap flies, do they know my plight?

Am inhuman for us human

I got my foot on the line, am not racing

Who are they chasing?

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3 Situations Men HAVE To Lie To Women

It’s no surprise that both genders rely on lying to some extent in a relationship or even marriage. They do it differently and sometimes for different reasons.

All humans, especially women, say they want their partners to be honest. Is this the truth? Can you keep a relationship up and running if you are telling the truth all the time?

Imagine that you just have brought your girlfriend to your home, to spend the night together for the first time. You have made a great effort to arrange and clean your home and especially the bedroom. You are proud of this, and ask your partner what she believes about your home. 

She responds, “It is a little old-fashioned… and who owns that lipstick in your room?”. Ups! Ok.

If she were to say just two little lies, everything could be great, but now…

While women love honest people, they don't like a guy who always tell them the truth. They take you to be a fool or trash - and women do love and like those men who beat them. Piss them off and treat them with all sort of disrespect. Those are guys they love and end up marrying.

According to research, over 80% of African women end up marrying the man who don't truly love them. That's because they must leave the man who truly loves them for the one who just love them.

While I am not encouraging telling lies to any woman/ women; the truth is, telling a few lies can be one of the best ways to keep your relationship healthy. Why? to avoid problems and breakups. 

So if you want to keep her happy and keep getting laid, you’re going to have to learn how to lie positively – and lie convincingly. The trick is figuring out what she wants to hear always. It could just be as weird as a joke that goes like ..... you're the most beautiful woman in the whole world ( Astagfurllah) because even the hens know this statement is a lie. Yet, she smiles and appreciate your kind words. 

1. Never mention your sexual past… especially if it was a good one. If your girlfriend/wife asks you what it was like or how good your ex was, you can tell a lie if you have to. Say it wasn’t all that good. Don’t ever mention her. Even if what you’re saying is uncomplimentary, it will still have a negative effect. You bringing her up hints that she’s still on your mind.

2. When it comes about how she looks, if you picked her to be your partner, you have to make her feel that she is a WOMAN. Every woman has something beautiful, something sexy and attractive, and if you make her know that you find her attractive she will be more confident, wilder and more passionate. But when she asks you about something you don’t really like at her look, never but never tell her your true opinion. Just say that it is OK and pass over the moment. If you are telling her that you don’t like something at her, she will feel frustrated and become more inhibited.

3. Everybody knows that women have more sensibility than men. So pay attention to her sensibility and don’t make bad jokes about other people (especially her family) or let her know when you are up to take the cat and throw it out through the window. She will find you insensitive and you will lose points. Use your common sense and try not to hurt your woman's feelings even if you have to say a little lie from time to time.

Overall, lying is a bad thing to do. But when it comes to women, you have no choice.

The little white lies don’t hurt anyone and are only meant as reassurance now and then.

It’s therefore okay to tell a person what they want to hear.

(Disclaimer: this article is not encouraging you to tell lies to women)

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Why We Date

As human beings, we have what can be considered some of the strangest mating rituals in the animal kingdom. Most species hook up with members of the opposite sex to procreate and nothing else. There is no emotional bond that ties them together for the rest of their lives other than the need to continue the species. 

Now that’s not to say that all animals are like this, there are some species out there that do mate for life, but the overall percentage of those types are small. Sure, you can say that many animals have mating rituals that rival ours. There are male birds that flaunt their colorful plumage trying to attract a female, but is that dating or just a type of seduction? 

And in the end, isn’t that what going on dates is all about, seducing that someone we’ve had our eye on. Dating is a form of seduction, only for us humans it can sometimes take a much longer time for the desired results to be had. In the animal world there is a specific time of the year when seduction and mating can take place, and except for humans, dolphins and some primates, animals' mate to continue their species and not for the pure pleasure of it. For most animals, it is the drive to survive as a species. We humans have taken the whole dating/seduction ritual to unforeseen heights. 

Most humans fall in love to satisfy their sexual desires. Did you know an accident don't stop traffic? It happens because people won't see it. 

Just think of all the things we do to try and impress that special someone. And why do we want to impress them? Because we think we like them, and if we don’t do our best to seduce them using all sorts of dating tricks and techniques, then, someone else will - and that’s just not acceptable. 

So why do we date? 

 To impress someone, we are interested in? I would say yes on that one. I can’t think of any other reason to spend that kind of time and money other than to do just that. To continue the human species? This is a far more subjective question. 

Do we need more humans on the world? That’s debatable. I think for the majority of humans it’s for a little more selfish reasons and that’s to have someone come after us who carries the family name onward into the future. Just for the fun of it? Now here’s whole another way to look at it. Meeting new people is fun. Particularly if you are attracted to them. Dating is fun and it introduces us to whole new ways of thinking and approaching people. The why do we date question is a hard one to answer, but whatever your reasons maybe it’s a part of what makes us human. 

55 Inspirational Love Quotes To Make Gambian Women Fall in Love

1. The reason why Gambian music will not go is because Gambian artistes don't sing a song for you. You're the ritual to Gam-music because Jizzle sang for Jalika, but ST should sing for Binta. 🤣

2. You make me feel like a born - again Christian; your love will make me die on the cross ➕. 🤣

3. My Sugar Lips, nothing pleases me than hearing compassionately meaningful words from a lady of grit and forestall like you.

4. My sweetenedly condensed milky sugar, "man yamai reey". Don't leave the leaf in my leaflet alone in the night. I speak in tongues for the love in me is big enough to hide you in my world. 🤗

5. The difference between a good girl and a bad girl is that good girls are very selective with who they’re bad with. "Doo sen morom teh danga ova saff horom. Ya reey Gamcel teh Yaay Borom." 🤣😂

6. I've never met anyone as incredible as you. You're the cross in every crossroads in this country, and you always make me smile like Jesus Christ. 🤣

7. I’ve longed to send this write-up to you for a while now, letting you know what I feel inside. You gave me all I need to make my life glow. I know I’d cover a book if I start to write everything you did.

8. 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 MISS YOU" in capital letters. I think this might worth your attention, don't you? What's love for me without you?

9. Yоu are worth more than gоld

Yоur bеаutу iѕ оbviоuѕ fоr everyone tо bеhоld

In mаritаl union уоur hаndѕ I wаnt to hоld

I’ll lоvе уоu in mу уоuth and whеn we аrе both old

Distance might bе a hindrаnсе, but love brings uѕ сlоѕеr and bound оur hеаrtѕ till forever.

10. I'm mentally and excruciatingly dying to tell you "danga over rafet". Your love is grossly exerting happiness in my heart. 

11. Delicious my sugar sauce, I just want you to know that my love for you is as frazzle as it's arduous. The joy of our gobbets of honesty and laughter - is as beautiful as astrophotography. 

12. Lady Luck, I had my heart pounded and attacked by your love - call that love-soup. I had my mind sexy like your bra , call that mind defense!

13. When I was in high school, my English-literature teacher once told me that I'll find a beautiful woman who'll love me beautifully. I didn't know you're the one until I open my English dictionary and saw the word - YOU.

14. The way I love you cannot be a lie because even if I sit up straight, I cannot lie. 

15. When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found. My spirit is layoff and laughing because I found you.

16. You're the bones in me and the boundary that bonds us together is stronger because your lips taste so strong.

17. Bae, to effortlessly ignite a very strong bond of connection, take some time out to appreciate what I appreciate about you, and understand why you've all my respect because you'll.

18. What will beauties like you be learning any further if not to be more beautiful? No doubt, all the first ladies The Gambia had, have their names begin with a consonant because you're the only vowel I know. 🤣

19. My heart is pumping deoxygenated blood to my head for being so hungry to eat your food and missing you. 

20. Nevermore will dreams expire.

Keep it burning, guard the fire.

Hold my hand and don't let go.

Feel my heart and you will know, what you should know, is that I love you.

21. Tell me what's love without you? And tell me why my blood smells anytime I hear your name?

22. You're my incandescent lamp and the only torch to my soul! Come and light my world, you beautiful lighter.

23. I want to say good morning to you in a very sweet way.

Swingeing into the barnacles of the sun as it opened its God-fearing eyes, the bees whizzed the honey and sucked the drizzle, the programme perimeters of my chin stood erected in gloucestershire for just thinking about someone like you this morning and smiling with laughter. I can't get my mind off you.

24. Climaxing as I tightly squeeze

Grabbing you as I please

Biting your lips just to tease

I feel weak in my knees

Good morning, sweetheart.

25. Hey beautiful. ...

I was just thinking about how wonderful you are. ...God, your laugh is incredible. You're everything to me. I'm counting down the minutes until I get to see you.

26. The Landlord of My Heart, beautiful you. How are you doing today my Queeny Goddess of Beauty and Gorgeousness?

27. The bidding of two different people with very similar characters and trails, united or living together in the name of love, as one, for eternity. For good or bad - for better, or for worse. That's the place our love is heading to.

28. I lance for your thighs on mine and your lips favourably pairing mine. Come and pair my device "yowtamit"! 

29. Love me just the way I am, and I'll cherish you just the way you want. Take me as your dream man and I'll make your dreams come true.

30. How a changed man I've been since I met you? Now my life has changed for good. I laugh more,

I give more, I eat more and I feel so loved just because of you.

31. You are my happiness, my heart’s desire, my everlasting flame, the one that makes my heart beat fast. My love, my sweet in the middle, I cannot think for a second without you in my mind. I cherish you, princess of beauty.

32. Heaven does not always mean a place to be in. Sometimes it’s a person to be with. For me, heaven is being with you all the time! But you're useless and I must tell you because I miss you so much. 

33. Love is a risk; either you sink in it or it sinks you. For me, I have deeply drowned in the love that I have for you. Thank you for giving me this unconditional love.

34. My love for you is hard work. If loving you was a job, I’d be the most deserving, dedicated, and qualified candidate. I’d even be willing to work for free! 🤣😂

35. I hope you will receive this message with lots of happiness and smiles? As the hot afternoon breeze touches you, always have it in mind desirably that someone faraway is insanely thinking about you - yes, "yowla", only you.

37. When rivers begin to dry, when love begin to die & the stars would begin to fade. When hatred hates, when the lips lie and the blind can see, just remember, I will never forsake you. I'll always love you and you - I mean.

38. What ancestors did you summon to the summit? My heart was broken at the AU Summit. 

To give me what I needed, what you need to take from me is all my heart - here it's take it. 

39. I like the caesura you deliberately make in contextuality of my dramatic irony.

Equally, I like the brevity in your sensation. Your love is burning my heart, daily I burn. 

40. If fasting was you, I'll never be hungry because your lips are the best "Ndougou" ever cooked on planet earth. Which of our planets are you from "sah"? That's why you look so mercy and dark chocolate brown like Mercy Johnson. 🤗 

41. "Naam Sama Yeuf", I'm just missing you so much and thinking about you in utopia. I miss your smiles and sweetness on the screen of my phone. 

42. My milk, my woman and my sweet tamarind juice, I'm always reminiscing the day I'll set my eyes on you and must certainly have goosebumps.

 You're the reason Moses crossed the Red Sea. Come and cross my river with your wig. 😂

43. I'll start collecting royalties for my induction on intellectual property rights by richly making your heart smile with laughter of derogatory, anytime you read my texts. Are you not yourself an angel from the above?

44. Good morning my expensive Apple Milk... I’m an excellent sounding board for venting. This text is good for one back rub, redeemable whenever and wherever you may by chance, need a holistic massage. 

45. One thing I know is that our love can last forever, why? Because it is stronger than the most muscular wrestler. Even Balla Gaye, lol. 🤣

46. I love a woman like you who is her religion is religious , in her kindness is kind, in her obedience is obedient, and her ability to help me in my career and her indifference with money and society is impressive. Come and rape my wealth. Lol 😂 

47. Queeny Goddess of Beauty, 

I'd like you to know that you're one of those who always smile whenever you read my messages. Why? Because you'd know I've the power of words. It would crush me if I ever lost you.

48. Underneath your baobab tree, I want to be your only tree - and your only one, two, three.. Lol. 

49. If sweet words can kill, my wife will be the first person to die. If you don't believe what I'm saying, go and ask the person reading this if she's not laughing.

50. I'm missing you horrifically and badly. I'd miss your sweet scent that's so you. Won't your heart direct you to me? Don't you know I'm feeling you?

51. I'm so lucky that I'll not buy TV in my house because you're more interesting than GRTS and QTV. I'll never stop watching your programmes because you alone can make my heart smile. Lol

52. You deserve to laugh every day my Distinguished Queen. Here is your crown 👑 to wear 🤗

53. Your silent and breathless laughs have given shape to all the lovely memories I wanted to have in a woman.

The love I have for you will last until the NAWEC becomes NOOR. You're the reason NAWEC constantly off our lights because you're too luminous. 🤣 Don't ever off your light! 

54. You deserve to be treated like a queen and love like a mother. 

55. Sweetness, my only goddess of milk and sugar, you're making me drink Café Touba without sugar because your lips taste better. I like your caffeine. 

Inspirational quotes written by Gambian author and scholar, Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe (ML Sowe), Executive Director, World Writers Association (WoWA). 

Young Professional Gambians You Should Know and Hire

Are you looking for young Gambian professionals to hire?

With so much passion and recently attained knowledge, young Gambian professionals often get booted to the side when it comes to filling positions in their desired field. They end up with a job at a retail store directly after college, or hold onto a profession that’s remotely related to their studies as they continue their tiresome job search.

In The Gambia thousands of students graduate annually with a Bachelor’s degree, and that means lots of fresh talent for those companies looking to hire. So why is a seasoned worker preferred over a recent college or university graduate? Young Professionals can be useful to your company as a fresh pair of eyes and insightfulness into how your office or business works.

Often, a mind unpolluted by the sections and divisions existent can bring unity to a workspace. Even more so, they can be molded and instructed to the employer’s liking. This fosters a culture that does not produce conflicts as a result of previous work experience or knowledge attained from previous employers on how an office should work.

These are the young Gambian talents we can recommend:

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

Saidou AA Bah alias Saidou Anna Ibn Ahmad or The Humble Pen is a qualify teacher, aspiring writer and motivational speaker. He obtained his HTC Certificate ( Higher Teachers' Certificate) at The Gambia College in 2014. Mr Bah is the Youth Representative and Social Media Manager of the Writers Association of The Gambia (WAG). Saidou is also the current deputy coordinator of the Writers Space Africa- Gambia Chapter. Phone +220 3405778, Email aaone1@gmail.com

ACCOUNTANT AND ADMINISTRATOR

Haddy Janko graduated from Masroor Senior Secondary School in 2018, and she is currently majoring accounting at The University of The Gambia (UTG). She is an aspiring writer and an accountant. Phone +2203790297, Email jankohaddy@gmail.com

EVENT COORDINATOR

Harry Bah ( Harry Potter) is the author of The Bleaching Girl and she is a final year student at Nusrat Senior Secondary School. Harry loves reading and she is very passionate about writing. She is a member of the Writers Association of The Gambia ( WAG) and the Young Writers Association of The Gambia (YWAG) respectively. Phone +220 7124111, Email bahharry13@gmail.com

LEGAL CONSULTANT AND DIRECTOR OF THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Jainaba Danso is an aspiring lawyer and a writer. She obtained a Higher National Diploma in Law at The Gambia Technical and Training Institute, and she is currently an undergraduate law student at The University of The Gambia (UTG). Email Jdansojula@gmail.com, Phone +220 3381115

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

Mariama Jammeh is a poet, aspiring writer and English teacher. She is a finalist of the Covid-19 Online Poetry Contest organized by Poetry Cafe in collaboration with the Writers Association of The Gambia (WAG). She has produced several videos of spoken word poetry and she attended Mahaad Senior Secondary School. She is currently pursuing an advance diploma certificate and majoring English and S.E.S. at The Gambia College. Email jammehmariama686@gmail.com, Phone +220 2981160

PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Kadijatou Jallow (Poet KJ) was schooled in Ivory Coast where she learned French before continuing her educational in The Gambia. She is a poet, an actress, first aider, a radio presenter and the vice president of Home of Talent Gambia (HOT). KJ is currently attending Nusrat Senior Secondary School. Phone +220 3474625, Email jkadijtou1@gmail.com

POETRY AND YOUTH CONSULTANT

Omar NK Ceesay (1996) is an emerging Gambian poet , spoken word artist and aspiring writer. He has performed on notable stages in The Gambia. Omar is well known by his poet name, NK The Hero Poet. He attended Mingdaw Upper and Senior Secondary School and he is currently the Press and Information Secretary of the Young Writers Association of The Gambia (YWAG). NK is a member of the Writers Association of The Gambia (WAG), also an actor, a poet, novelist and playwright.  Email heroceesay6@gmail.com, Phone +220 5091861

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Sohorr ak Íŋyaŋ: 5 Reasons Why The Gambia is Underdeveloped

A seed grows without noise but a tree falls with a big noise. Destruction has noise but creation is silent. That is the power of knowledgeable people living in a country. The fastest way to become very knowledgeable in The Gambia, is to say nothing before you're sure you said something. Before you try to put out a wildfire on a mountain, go and ask the hunter how it started. How people naturally are, that's exactly the type of leader God chooses for them. But that can only be known and understood by those with wisdom - especially divine wisdom. It's only in the Gambia people celebrate you when you die and jealously fight you when you're alive - even if you did nothing to them. In The Gambia, I see public speakers who don't acknowledge people's words when they use them and don't give credits or quote them in their speeches. As if that's not enough: it is only in The Gambia you'll see people become writers for the sake of writing for 'presidential gains' or write for fame, - or see self-proclaimed journalists who know nothing about journalism.

If you want to see musicians who don't actually know music, rappers who don't make sense at all, comedians who can't make anyone laugh, and see people who always start what they cannot finish; come to The Gambia. In addition, in case you are looking for cabinet ministers who can't correctly address any public, leaders and directors without visions, The Gambia is the place for your research. Mind you, if you want to see women working in high offices they don't deserve at all, for example, if you're interested in seeing what happens the very moment one becomes a permanent secretary or a cabinet minister; the answer is: he immediately marries a second wife, or add more wives-- and forget his past. Why will people who can help you when you're alive wait until you die before they can buy you a bag of rice?

Do you know why The Gambia is underdeveloped? Because of these reasons:

1. Jealousy and Hatred,

2. Tribalism,

3. Hypocrisy and Pride;

4. Discrimination and;

5. Whom You Know.

Lessons to learn about The Gambia and Gambians: when Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara died, the entire country celebrated him, but ignored him when he was alive. In The Gambia, people always want to know your problem but will never help you solve them. They always want to know what you're up to so that they can destroy it. People you don't share the same school with never celebrate you because they always claim they don't know you. They don't succeed in what they are doing, and so, intend the same for those succeeding. Jobs are based on 'Whom You Know' and not what you know. Politics in The Gambia is based on tribalism ( tribal-politics). Gambians take too much pride but they never made it to the World Cup. The Wollof word 'Sohorr ak Íŋyaŋ'; which loosely translates in Mandinka as 'Haasidia ning Jaawya', are but the very reasons our country is underdeveloped.

It breaks my heart heartrendingly, it sources the rivulets of my eyes painstakingly, and it concerns me patriotically, whenever I see highly talented people wasting in The Gambia. Like I said in my poetry book ( Temple of Wisdom), if you go to a country where people eat in their eyes, don't eat with your nose. If the eye cannot see what the heart encounters, the mind knows best. Let me still take back my quotations: the secret of the mouth is best known by the chewing stick.

What else do I see with my silent eyes anytime I join public transport or go out, I see that what you study in school, and what you end up becoming, are not even the same In The Gambia. I see the River Gambia lacking fish and the turtles living on land. I see hard working men and women who are very poor but very respectful and religious. I even noticed that I see the sick curing those very well, I see potential youths who're jobless, I see teachers teaching our children satanism, and our education system dominated by foreign books and foreign teachers. Should I add that I also see married men and public officials sleeping around with young girls in hotels? Maybe, I should also mention married women sleeping around with men.

Ask me what else do I see? I see people mistake indecent dressing for awareness, such that a dress meant for the bedroom, will be worn and taken to the market. I see police officers who don't know the law, I see that the culture of peace, love and unity I left in my country four years ago, is not the same at all. I see the culture of silence-- and silence then became the culture. I see women raped and their rights violated. I see what's wrong being considered very right. And I see the blind leading the deaf, I see knowledgeable people who're silent with their wisdom, I see a nation without a fence and citizens driving around in the car of lost.

Finally, I realize that those we term knowledgeable don't know anything.

Gambians will only celebrate you when you die. I know people in relationships who love someone else but still in the same relationship. I know people who love each other but aren't meant to together.

So, my point is, everything in life happens according to the timing of God. Don't look at some of your friends and think that they're ahead of you. Maybe, some of them are only enjoying everything here and won't have absolutely nothing at all in the life Hereafter.

 Hope you learn something from this bitter-truth?

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