Gambian sovereignty is a mimicry of the preceding British Colonial
administration- absolutely nothing special about February 18, 1965
except the birth of a new hybrid of oppression encoded in words like
"independence" delivered by a another knighted African member of the
British Empire.
What is the meaning of political independence but the capability of
self-rule…The spatio-temporal definition of national independence is
never confined in a single instance of a fine speech, a new flag or
singing a new national anthem.  These are only but symbolic
manifestations that may signify deeper structures of the concept of
individual liberty. Securing independence from the British is like
cashing a blank check of liberty which shall ever be a trust for all
future generations of Gambians, and Jawara’s speech at that very
instance of 18 February 1965 is nothing but a testimony to this
critical fact.  Therefore Jawara’s speech is a conditioned instance
which has no national significance if his subsequent actions fail to
fulfill the promissory note of both human and socio-economic rights
for all.  Separating Jawara’s Independence Speech from his subsequent
failures in office is tantamount to compartmentalized thinking-the
manifest agenda of insincere propaganda and hero-worship.

When individuals who constitute a nation are systematically offered
no material choices in expressing their liberties at multifarious
levels of existence then their national ‘independence" is nothing but
a jinx, a hoax and nothing but a mockery of freedom.  Jawara's speech
and legacy belong to the shithole of human history.


Ebou

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