This is too long Suntou. I only had time to read the first paragraph. What is Kukoi saying now???? And who is he calling a barefoot politician this idiot?????

Haruna.

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Koukoie Samba Sanyang: Who Promotes Ignorance and Confusion in the Gambia?

10 December, 2009 08:42:00

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I will always ask this very important question to Gambians and Africans in general.

When will it all end?

I am not trying or attempting to reply to those critics of mine but only saying that if anyone has time to write to help Gambians bit riddance to the slave mentality that governs our thinking and writings it is now time that all Gambian intellectuals and writers to take their responsibilities seriously to assert and take their position as crucial for a timely wake-up of our oppressed and exploited Gambian masses.

The struggle for the total liberation and independence of the Gambian people to construct a lasting genuine democracy, justice and national development will be rightly judged by history not by petit-mentality bare footed politicians and writers.

Why can’t we understand that the continuation of the slave mentality governing our thinking and writings is indisputably the basis of the Gambia’s woes and lack of political and economic progress and development since the attainment of independence from the British colonial power?

In order to reverse this unfortunate situation and experience a real development, Gambians should begin to re-orientate their thinking and mentality so as to wean themselves completely from the infection and influence of colonialism and neo-colonialism which continues to prevail in the Gambia.

“Truly speaking we Gambians can obtain a resounding victory if we all are ready and willing to move beyond our petit political differences and for sure we can inspire a new form of responsible leadership to faithfully serve the Gambia in the future’’

Frankly speaking Gambian political leaders, intellectuals, armchair revolutionaries and hypocrites (quislings and traitors) should realize at this stage of the history of the Gambia that they have failed and disappointed the Gambian people in their efforts to move the Gambia forward towards freedom, progress and national development; and for this reason, there is the need for a quick turn-about in order to save the Gambia from further suffering and undevelopment.

Accusations and counter accusations will serve no cause except reassure President Jammeh of his grip in power.

As intellectuals and writers are the torch bearers and beacons of enlightenment and advancement for the Gambian society, they should become the pivots of correct information and knowledge that will effect the necessary change in the thinking and mentality of the Gambian people which in turn will bring about the desired advancement of the Gambian masses.

What is happening for Allah’s sake are we Gambians unable to see the reality and accept the fact unlike President Yaya Jammeh the brutal killer of our journalists and our democracy that all highly developed countries has reached their present stage as a result of the works of writers and intellectuals whose progressive thoughts, ideas and ideals did influence and made great impact on the thinking and mentality of the people.

Cultural revolutions and transformation of societies had taken place at one time or the other in different parts of the world as results of the ideas and thoughts that had flowed from the pens of writers and intellectuals.

I will say without ambiguity that educative literature and progressive writings for that matter will inspire our dear people and trigger off the development of the Gambian society.

One  has to note that within the African continent the ideas and thoughts which flowed from the pens of various writers did spark off the Panafrican revolution i.e. the Ghanaian revolution under Osagyfo Dr.Kwame Nkrumah, the Guinea Conakry revolution under the leadership of Ahmed Sekou Toure,the Guine-Bissau revolution under the leadership of Dr. Amilcar Cabral,the South African revolution under the leadership of Dr. Nelson Mandela, the Great Al Fateh Libyan revolution under the leadership of Muammar Al Qadhafi,the Mozambican revolution under the leadership of Samora Moise Machel,the Namibian revolution under the leadership of Dr. Sam Njuma,the Angolan revolution under the leadership of Dr. Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, the Algerian revolution under the leadership of the FLN.

Similarly outside of the African continent the ideas and thoughts which flowed from the pens of writers did spark off the Cuban revolution, the Bolivian revolution, the Sandinista Nicaraguan revolution, the Iranian Islamic revolution, the German unification in the 18th century, thus bringing the various states of Germany together to unite and become a powerful nation.

Similarly the influence of progressive literature on retrogressive societies were attributed to the outbreak of the French revolution in the 16th century which abolished the old monarchical system of rule and other retrogressive practices in France and ushered in a new era of knowledge and enlightenment which moved France forward as a powerful nation in Europe.

Similarly, in the 18th and 20th centuries, the American and Russian revolutions not forgetting the great Chinese revolution under the leadership of Moa Tse Tung took place respectively as results of the influence and impact of the thoughts and ideas of various writers and intellectuals.

But for God’s sake and to tell the truth who on this earth can stand up to deny, villipandize or demonize all those leaders who led the above mentioned revolutions that no blood was shed and errors committed for the triumph of freedom and justice?

Only fools, cowards, armchair revolutionaries and reactionary run away misleading intellectuals and writers who fear to lay down their lives for freedom and justice can say such a thing.

I wonder and I do not know if all Gambians should think like these traitors and quislings who are not ready to lay down their lives for freedom and justice.

But who will die for them?

Should we send unarmed and untrained people to wage the struggle without any experience?

“We have to be aware and be intelligent that we should never send a sheep to arrest or kill a wolf’’ because this is going to be the great battle of the weak and the strong known as  (Baakotong tambati aning sulu bulukenseng lah kello)

One thing is also very clear that it is impossible at one go for all Gambians to arise and overthrow the rotten Jammeh oppressive junta regime.

There will be great sacrifices needed to positively change the status quo and this demands valiant patriot’s breakers of barriers and restrictions to take the lead.

Let us target the wrongs of Jammeh and fight to eliminate them.

This was why under the able leadership of Koukoie Samba Sanyang valiant Gambian patriots laid down their lives to fight for freedom and justice.

It is an insult to the martyrs of the 31st July 1981 revolution who laid down their lives for freedom and justice that they were misled by Koukoie Samba Sanyang.

Wait a minute for God’s sake can anyone tell me especially those so-called great writers and self-styled Gambian liberators and redeemers how this 31st July 1981 revolution failed and many people got killed? If really the 31st July 1981 people’s revolution failed why then did Senegal brutally intervene to save whom and what?

This is doing injustice to the Gambian nation.

How with this colonial mentality can we write the true history of the Gambia for our children leaders of tomorrow to learn and appreciate the achievements of their fathers despite whatever limitations and shortcomings?

Since the 31st of July 1981 we have noticed with great sadness and regret how ill-willed, short-sighted people who hate their own people and deny their own history have continuously attacked the 31st July 1981 revolution and the valiant patriots’ breakers of barriers and restrictions who laid their lives for freedom and justice and have striven to blemish and change its meaning, content and aim to deceive Gambians.

We feel pity for such people when we notice why such people cannot realize the truth and we are astonished at their not comprehending the loftiness of the 31st July 1981 peoples revolution.

This is and it is total ignorance for those writers who for pleasure sake and a show of intellectuality taking the Gambian people for a ride and wrongly believing that they can write and forget to realize and acknowledge that history has thought us that the greatest revolution on earth, like the great Universal Islamic revolution of Allah the creator led by our venerated Prophet Mohammed (SAS) that triumphed because devote Muslims laid down their lives in the service of Allah their creator to changed the whole world defeating evil.

Without this great Universal Islamic revolution mankind was doomed to hell.

What about the great revolution of Prophet Moses (Musa) against the heartless great Pharaoh and how many people suffered and died?

For Allah’s sake please great writers misinterpret me not for no one on this earth can equal himself to our Holy Prophet Mohamed (SAS) neither can we compare the 31st July 1981 revolution or any other secular revolution to the coming and triumph of the divine word of Allah Islam.

This is just to help confusionists and saboteurs abandon their bit to confuse Gambians and retard the triumph of the people’s revolution.

For the love of Allah and our dear Gambian people stop confusing our people for it has never been said at any time by Koukoie Samba Sanyang or any other person that only Koukoie Samba Sanyang shall be leader or only wish himself alone to be President of the Gambia. What Koukoie is saying is that let all of us join together with one word, one aim and, choose an able peoples leader and rescue sinking Gambia.

It will be too late for Gambians to start digging a well to use its water to put off the fire already burning the whole Gambia.

We all have a duty towards our Gambian nation state.

It is highly imperative that Gambian writers and intellectuals should learn and take a cue from what had happened in the western developed world through literature and begin to shape and tailor their writings to trigger off progress and development in the Gambia.

To be able to achieve these lofty ideals Gambian writers and intellectuals should free themselves of their hitherto slave mentality and colonial orientation, and imbue themselves with pure African Gambian thinking and philosophy aimed at informing and educating the Gambian to become truly independent in thinking as a self-confident being who is richly endowed and capable of mastering his own destiny.

In this democratic and civilized world every Gambian is free to write and say whatever one feels and thinks.

In writing to achieve misleading the Gambian people without proof of what one is saying or writing is a crime against the Gambian people. Why try to cheat the Gambian people? The time for storytelling and Robin Hood tales is over.

Anyhow freedom and democracy doesn’t mean that we should abuse our rights and say or write what one likes or feels like writing. In a true democracy no newspaper should refuse to publish somebody’s ideas but at the same time writers should not distort the idea of free speech and free press and sabotage the mission of newspapers in educating the misled and oppressed masses.

The kind of writings that should emanate from the pens of Gambian writers and intellectuals should project progressive African Gambian values, practices and ideals that will inspire and influence Gambians to make realistic efforts to develop our country from our own wisdom and resources that Allah has endowed us with.

Indeed this will be highly and more beneficial to the Gambian than materials that will promote colonial and neocolonial mentality and foreign ideals.

On the other hand no one can deny or agree to the fact that it is the same writers and intellectuals’ ideas that shall make and forge a good and democratic people’s leader for Gambians and a modern Gambia.

I am very sure that we Gambians will be able to develop our dear country from our own divine wisdom and resources and not from anywhere else or imitating others like what monkeys does.

This unpleasant truth should dawn on Gambians now in the 21st century so that we will stop the hypocrite attitude of what others say about us is right and not what we ourselves think and believe to be good and right for us, let us stop imitating and relying on vain hopes, futile and less rewarding ideas and concepts.

Why should we be caught unawares by Jammeh’s evil traps and maneuvers to divide us and wickedly rule us? Should we be fighting amongst ourselves and forget to make great efforts to unite and uproot this Jammeh evil system?

For sure we will never agree with Jammeh cohorts and those Kumanding jellelalou.

I think it is high time we realize what great danger lies ahead of us and seek for adequate solutions and remedies to Gambia’s problems.

Today my fellow Gambian citizens there exists a great need for positive collective action rather than fighting in isolation an enemy who is well armed and have huge reserves at his disposal to rescue sinking Gambia which requires a clear understanding of our problems, the nature and how we are wickedly divided, our needs, our collective efforts to be summed up for the great sacrifice to be made and how in an intelligent manner we have to compromise to get things straightened out right now.

Today under brutal Jammeh’s reign of terror and senseless destruction of the Gambia marked by socio-politico-economic tensions raising serious interrogations as there are many ills to right and many problems to solve collectively if we are to go through a genuine process of socio-politico-economic radical transformation of our society for our survival, security and self-defence.

Every day for the past years of misrule, endless night-mares and misfortunes The Gambian President with a weakened spirit have ceased to reason and have become the slave of his own passion.

In his desire to satisfy his appetite of greed, wickedness, tyranny and oppression his evil schedule included planning state terrorist attacks against innocent unarmed civilians, unlawful arrests and detentions, murder, intimidation and criminal business dealings to rape our country off her meager foreign reserves causing unrepairable damage to the administrative engine and a total economic mess.

Dictator Alhagi Jammeh prefers the work of his evil imagination (gust, speculation and wishful dreams like Idi Amin Dada) to fashion his world and his way of life only to satisfy his greed.

Confused Jammeh’s ultra-neo-colonial junta regime has weakened the fabric of Gambian social life. This sad situation and state of affairs is not the choice of the Gambian people but the making of the autocratic regime. This evil choice emanates from Jammeh’s behaviour and evil desire. This evil desire is aimed at wickedly dominating Gambians, to exploit and oppress them against their own will.

Remember and be aware that no amount of destructive criticism will deter me Koukoie from the struggle for freedom and justice.

May be one day when I am no more will my grave witness and testify to my sacrifice struggling for freedom and justice for Gambians.

What I Koukoie need is constructive criticism from responsible Gambian intellectuals and progressive writers to fashion my way of thinking and shape the Gambian revolution.

                                                      Koukoie Samba Sanyang

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