Due to the gross negligence of the governments of most African countries, the African youth is exposed to all forms of hazards and humiliations in foreign lands in order to make their lives and the lives of their families better. Those youths who are able to make some savings into order o return home in the soonest possible time, usually find such savings depleted in a very short period after reaching home due to poor investment opportunities in their countries and nightmarish economic regulatory frameworks.

  While the youths of other countries traversing the length and breadth of the world as Tourists, wallowing in sceneries of beauty and dining in the most fabulous of abodes, a great number of the African youths are being reduced into all forms of migrants who wallow in all sorts of hardships and fatal dangers in the quest to ensure that they and their families also have a fair share of the semblance of a dignified existence on the face of this earth.

  At the dawn of Ghana's independence, Kwame Nkrumah declared that the independence of Ghana was meaningless if it was not linked to the total liberation of all the African countries. With the independence of all the African countries as was envisaged by Nkrumah, this independence is still meaningless if it is not linked to the economic empowerment of all African people.

  Certainly the political independence of the African countries is unsustainable if it is not linked to their economic independence in the soonest possible time. It is not sustainable if many of the African youths, due the bad economic policies and programmes of their governments, continue to realize that they do not have any need to live in Independent Africa, as a result of the lack of opportunities to be the type of people that they want to be. Under such circumstances, the African youth is left with two main options, either to fight or to freight. The fight leads to the Liberia-Sierra Leone-type of situation and the freights results into what we have been witnessing on our TV screens with regards to African migrants and their descendants in the lands of the former colonizing countries of the African continent.

  Watching the TV screens in the 21st century and seeing African youths been herded into Nowhere in the Sahara Desert by people who can best be described as slave drivers, whose only intension is for such African children to be left die under the vagaries of the desert,  tells a lot about the type of independence and the types of leaders we have in Africa, especially Africa South of the Sahara.

  The fact that some African youths would still rise with all their bodily armor in fence of such inept African governments, when their incompetence and corruption is being exposed, also tells a lot about how such successive governments have succeeded in keeping the people ignorant and mis-educating them at their best. Such governments are afraid of the collective power of the people precisely because they do not represent the true and collective interest of the people. They only pay lip-service to the empowerment of the people. In the Gambia, however, Power to the People is no longer in the vocabulary of the regime, because even the leaders have realized that the people have realized that these statements are a farce, despite all continuous enterpises of mis-education and mystification by the regime.

  A government which witnesses 50 of its youths, who are running away from economic and political hardship that it had created at home, die in foreign lands - in the Mediterranean Sea in the quest to reach Spain from Morocco - as was reported in FOROYAA issue No.99/05 (28 Dec, 2005 - 3 Jan, 2005), is not fit to be called a government in a country which claims to have attained independence for over 40 years, and which entity has been in office for more than 10 years. Such an entity belongs to the long abandoned dustbins of terrible and atrocious governance in history.

  However, it is only a mature government which will realize this and not an entity which has made an ever lasting commitment to ensure that its people do not prosper but also goes on the rampage destroying people's homes like wild elephants of bygone periods in history. Even such elephants are better than such a entities, because they, the elephants were easily challenge-able as they had only their trunks and tusks to destroy and fight  with, unlike the so called-people's government which has bulldozers to graze down hard-earned homes and AK 47s to kill the people if they decide to approach them even for an explanation.

  I have been to Republic of South Africa (RSA) recently, and while people were demonstrating in the streets and provinces that the government is not providing them with adequate and decent housing, the APRC government is demolishing people's homes in The Gambia, with no intension of providing them with alternative and proper accommodation, but just because it is the government - True, What a Government the APRC Regime is!!.

  While Robert Mugabe is being vilified by the UN for such acts, Operation Murambatsvina - ("Clear the Filth") as the ZANU-PF government called the ghastly demolitions, these similar acts, which are becoming more frequent in The Gambia, seem not to be noticed by the UN. What is interesting is that the APRC does to feel humiliated in court when such acts, and a myriad of other unconsitutional and inhumane acts, are challenged in the courts which it is working day and night to control. However, with Justice Izuako and other judges of conscience around it will fail. Moreover, the Gambian people will ultimately make it fail grossly in this enterprise when it is thrown out of office in ten moons time.

  Abdoulie Jawo




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