My thoughts about us Gambians

Just opened my face book app and the status bar prompted me about what’s on my mind. I think I have a lot on my mind, but the most pressing and intriguing is the Gambian psyche. I try to understand us as a people and the more I delve into it, the more tangled and convoluted my thoughts appear. We are a small nation with multitudes of complexities and nuances that are nothing but noise pollutants. As a country, we need to engage the services of world class sociologist to help decorticate our collective profile and highlight the inhibitors that deter our progress for the common good. May be, Gambia needs a new national anthem because we don't understand or appreciate the diction that makes up our national statement. God bless us and give us the heart and fortitude to deliberate for the common good; for the Gambia is our home land and we all should renew our promise to her in good faith. Duty, honor and country starts with being each other’s keeper. Our destinies are intertwined considering the tight social fabric that binds our society. Therefore we need to join our diverse peoples to prove man's brotherhood. Gambia is all we have and Gambia is all we know. One people under god, one aim, one destiny. A prosperous and equitable Gambia as our collective objective.  

Ego, perceived entitlement and lack of regard for others will fast track our doom and relegation to obscurity. The intellectual class of our society are not only sterile but lack the impetus to live up to expectation. They are not an endangered sub specie but a group who have for the longest outsourced their deliverables to society and therefore lack the moral authority to complain. Indeed we have pockets of over achievers in furtherance of the collective good but the overwhelming majority are enjoying their hiatus in obscurity.