By Da One
Open Letter to All Gambians at Home and Abroad.
How Adama, Ousainou and the rest are opening the floodgates to hell; slavery and recolonization.
In a press communique released by the office of the the president and published by The Point Newspaper on the 22nd October, it was announced that the Republic of The Gambia has been admitted as an observer to the International Organization of the Francophonie (IOF), at the 17th session of the Francophone summit held in Yerevan, Armenia.
This meeting followed hot on the heels of a close door session between Adama and the French Ambassador to The Gambia. The French representative and the president’s discussions centered on agricultural development in The Gambia and how the French private agricultural sector could invest in that sector to spur innovation and prosperity.
All this might sound routine and normal to an uninterested mind until you add to the mix the former Vice President’s promise to France, to elevate French to the level of a second official language in The Gambia. Then one sees a clear pattern of conquest and dominion emerging. Let’s look at these three incidents one after the other to draw an unambiguous conclusion on the gullibility and culpability of the regime of Adama Barrow together with the people who are running the affairs of an economically fragile nation like ours.
The OIF is an arm of the French government charged with the task of spreading France’s socioeconomic and political influence around the globe. This is done through aid and checkbook diplomacy in poor developing and underdeveloped countries. And of course all the subtle and non-subtle pressures at the disposal of a veto power at the United Nations. Those who have read the release from the State House might be wondering what countries like Ireland, Canada, Malta and Qatar are doing on the member list of the OIF, if as said, said consist of poor developing countries? The answer is very simple. These countries are decoys for France and at worst, they have nothing to loose to France because of their economic tenacity, that no amount of white onslaught will shake.
Besides, the diplomatic dynamics on how Europeans relate to each other, to Asians and to Afrikkans, are on different pedestals and vary according to interest. One thing is though clear in all of it; historically, and up to today, alliances between Afrikkans and the Europeans end at the detriment of the former. This is because we Afrikkans consistently make one mistake, i.e., we hold the Europeans to the same standards of sincerity and honesty as ourselves, forgetting everything history has taught us about how they betrayed us time and again, without ever failing.
What am I getting at? Afrikkan countries have now become a battleground of all kinds for economic, cultural and geopolitical scavengers, reminiscent of the Cold War era. China, Amerikka, Europe, India, the gulf states and Russia are all fending for their piece of the carcass. Centuries ago, it was the chattel trade in blakk bodies and blakk flesh. Decades ago, it was territory and political subjugation. The twenty first century, however, promises a compounding of the two, giving rise to new forms of imperialistic parasitism never seen before. Our resources in all forms are too tantalizing to ignore.
So they come under the guise of partnerships of all kinds to rob us of everything; the easiest been for France, cultural genocide. The OIF is nothing but an organization founded and maintained by France for the sole purpose of promoting French culture, French norms, French traditions, French food, French literature, French cinema, French everything. They bloom and we perish!
One thing the press release does not make clear is the distinction between full fledged membership of this organization and an observer status. But this is obvious. One will have such privileges as voting rights, putting up candidates for elected posts and in certain instances, establishing offices in particular geographic territories. The Gambia’s observer status will only bolster France’s presence in Afrikka, lending credence to our cultural and historic displacement, just as did the first white person to set foot on our continent. Of course, under the pretext of partnership accompanied by aid. Aid that flows back into the pockets of traitors selling us to every buyer.
Inviting French agricultural “investors” will only wreak havoc on us. If they show up, this will only be done when France has already committed The Gambia government into signing protocols and agreements intended to protect the interests of those companies and individuals, with a binding agreement. The arable land will be appropriated in a fashion as to cajole the unsuspecting poor indigenous farmers into handing over tenure rights for specific periods of time, with all kinds of sugar-coated lies in the form of promises. I have observed this phenomenon of literally forcefully grabbing land from people who have nothing but sticks and hoes in many Afrikkan countries.
Am I an angel of doom and gloom? Gaddamit! I am not. We are already doomed as it is. As it is means having Ousainou and Adama at the helm of our affairs is enough of a disaster already. These two will not even be able to salvage the cows and donkeys of the country, talk less of its citizens. I only have my pen to expose their treachery and self-serving manners and characteristics. And there is no human born under the sun who can ever stop me from doing that.
I have written an open letter to Fatoumatta Tambajang published in The Gambia Times, warning and reminding her about the consequences of her impulsive and unthoughtful utterances. The most curious thing is her successor does not appear to be doing any different. In fact, Ousainou is making a very committed follow-through on the promises made by Fatoumatta to the French. Which is to mortgage our identity as a people, national and Afrikkans to strangers who then decide for us how to exist on the surface of the planet. This leads me to ask where our sovereignty in nationhood lies.
May I also take this opportunity to directly address Dr. Cherno Barry of the Alliance Francaise de Banjul. Cherno, you are representing the interest of France to the detriment of The Gambia and Gambians. The Alliance Francaise is an instrument of cultural and linguistic genocide. Promoting French culture in a territory emerging from the woes of slavery and colonialism is nothing sort of the French handing you a weapon of mass destruction for you to annihilate your own people.
French culture and language in the Sen-Kambiya region (the name is deliberately coined to distance us from names given to us by our thieving and looting oppressors; France and England), are getting more attention, funding and power positioning than all our cultures and languages combined. If you deny this, show me one single institution of learning where Pularr, Jola, Jollfo, etc., are exclusively taught to our children. I mean, who is learning science, mathematics, literature, engineering and so on and so forth in Mandeng, Serer and Sarahulleh languages? Languages that have for millennia proven themselves to be capable of containing and transporting all and any kind of human knowledge.
You see, both the French and you the bourgeoise have no interest in promoting the development, learning and entrenchment of blakk cultures and blakk languages. You the imperial marionettes think the best you can ever attain is gyrating towards white people and their insatiable greed to consume and destroy. You do this by keeping the people ignorant of themselves, their glorious history and their splendid cultures and languages.
I urge our government to close down the French school and the Alliance Francaise de Banjul or turn them into an institute of Sen-Kambiya languages and cultures. Cherno you can be smart and help in this endeavor. History will not forgive you and all those who connive with our nemesis to wipe every bit of our identity from the surface of the earth.
Fortunately, a president and his/her Vice President does not rule the country alone. We have a whole executive branch, a judiciary and a parliament. I appeal to these three branches of the government and the individuals tasked with various responsibilities in the corridors of power these three fundamental questions:
1) Where was Gambia before?
2) Where is Gambia now?
3) Where is Gambia heading to?
The answers should be obvious and simple.
Please do your utmost best to navigate our nation to a path that will defeat ignorance and alleviate poverty. Individually, you can tilt the scale. Collectively, the glory will be ours.
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