Drammeh Kanji,
Where I come from, it is adviced that you ask an elder how they are 
before messing around with them. So I ask, "Doe hoe u?  Hoop dat 
iedereen goed is?"  Thanks to free English-Dutch translation service on 
the internet one of many success stories of Euro-Americao-centrism.

The last time I looked up the word intellectual in Rogets Thesaurus I 
got every thing from  academic, avant-garde, conehead, egghead, 
illuminati, ivory dome, longhair, nerd, philosopher, pundit, scholar, 
skull, thinker, whiz, wizard, but the adjectives listed below.

Even if we go by your description of the educated intellectual -  the 
one who earns 10 times the dollar per day living, plus all he can 
squeeze from the village to the gas pump, it would be so 
"unintellectual" (against the grain) to rock his boat. That is, thump 
his nose to the armed-to-the-teeth,  poorly educated, not so smart, 
unthinking, mindless, bonehead, moronic (antonyms of intellectual) 
soldiers in the name of what?

Anyways, it is my not-so intellectual opinion that we do not :
1. wrongly acuse Europe and  west for our failings. As far as I know the 
Gambia since 1965 has been and is still ruled by Gambians. If there is 
any wrong we should not blame Europe/America or their systems.
2. hold the "intellectuals" whoever they may be the scapegoats for our 
problem. When Jefferson forwarded the"Liberty and pursuit of 
happiness.." idea,he did not say it is the duty of one and one  class 
only. The ideals are the right of every humanbeing, regardless of race, 
origin, ethnicity and creed.

 These said, perhaps we should try trust the ordinary Gambian and not 
the "educated intellectual" or the "not-so intellectual soldier" that 
she and only she (gender correctness) will eventually safe the Gambia. 
The problem is, saving the Gambia like any other country is not a 
one-man thing but collective and everyone must be ready to participate. 
As it is not all Gambian (the majority that is) are ready and they 
cannot be left behind, so the waiting must continue.

 "Heb een goede dag."

Malanding


oko drammeh wrote:

>LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
>
>The Gambia cannot solve her problems without independant thinkers of it's OWN and that their failure to critice the government and the western inspired notions and solutions has failed the people. 
>They are never protesting, they never speak out, never to demonstrate against anything, will never strike, they never communication to the people and share their thouhts. They are like Aliens in the ghetto. They never, never, Never !
>
>The False Life
>These intellectuals have narrowed themselves lower than the the military. They are worst than corruption. They are in the club and endorsed corruption. They bow for the soilders, the soldiers don't have to bow for them for respect Gambians thinkres need to start to write up and speak out and calling out the wrong missions and criticing flawed government initiatives. Most western based solution on The Gambia and most parts of Africa inevitably a stereotypecal understanding of the Africans, this is why all European intitiatives are not working and lead to creative false accounting, the mother of all-corruption.
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>The Job security 
>They even add to the notion and invented it and endorsed it that Africa is the heaven of corruption and poor governace as an excuse to SHIFT aid to them as NGOs and shouldd focus on relieving poverty and aids awareness. The most interesting aspect of these NGOs would not survive a day without these donor moneis They are not free to think and act independantly. The source of funding bringing us to the question , whoes interest do they serve-their donors or the masses.Who know Gambias problems more than the educated few. They know that the Gambian masses are poor iand illitrate and a large amount of the poopulation lives under $1(one dollar) 30 dalasis a day. Many people in the tourism industry which is our number one earner and prime hope to reduce poverty, people get paid lees than $1 dollar a day for 8 hours @ D30 a day for a monthly salary which is 900 dalasis a month.
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>The Dead Intellectual
>The Educated intellectuals earn from D10.000 dalasis upwards and this job security and income garantee is what you might say they went to study for. They also squeeze theur village for free  fruits, free goats and sheep from the villagers, free milk and cow during occations, younger second wife, and sometimes they casmn get away with free petrol or gasoline for their. To have a piece of land and to farm it is free, they use Eupopean influence to get everything they have to spend money on for free and with visicious greediness. They take all and well never give a dime to the village.They can't speak but they can laught at your typos. They are limited to books and informations. They cannot speak in public without a paper. There is no vision and no imagination. They are like spoons and knives. This is why when an intellectual dies or a policeman you can replace them. But you can't replace a prophet whoes ideas are progressive and based on peoles lives.
>
>The Possesions and spending
>The high dropping rate of girls from school is that these income garanteed money earners mostly older men are giving their income to underaged girls pregnating them or marrying them before they could have an education that will liberate them and emancipate them from our religious male male dominated society. Older men with cash flow income in foreign companies, NGOs and senior government officials are in the habit of giving their wages to poor small aged girls in return for sexual favours.Young girls in The Gambia dropped out of school too early because money earners in poor countries like The Gambia younger girls are targeted by grown-up men as a source of pleasur sice they have no social life experience and they cannot tell the truth.They copied their lifestyle and they lie.
>
>Degrees Tokens & Euro-Americo-centricism
> Millions of dollars has been spent and waisted on flawed projects unnecessarily prolonging the mesery of Gambians in some cases. The tendency of African intellectuals to endorse European views is firmly rooted in colonial exploitation era. Though Euro-centrism  being an intellect has been defined in a way that makes it synonym with being pro western. Based on such a view , an intellectual is the one who support British/European opion, who thrives to be like a European, look like one, . Such thinking subject the developement of Africa to it's submission to Europe. since every action undertake in africa has to be weighed in terms of western interest nevertheless this is the philosophy that has been though in school. Acustom to endorsing European views, African intellectuals have become inept at thinking for themselves.This has resulted in a in a form of dead intellectualism whereas African intellectuals though highly educated ,sit and wait for westerners to put forth opions
> so that they can endose them in turn.
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>Fight the power
>Oko Drammeh
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