Courtesy: Thegambiaecho newspaper. Haruna. Allez!!!!!

The task ahead is great but not as great as our resolve to overcome it.  The path ahead is rough but I believe we are tough enough.  We must have a passionate drive to work hard and fear Allah as it is said ‘let’s strive, work and pray’ in our national anthem.  Some of the reasons why we are underdeveloped politically, economically and technologically is because we haven’t seen it important enough:



To read and write and promote our native languages in our formal education system and in our daily lives. 
To invent and use creativity, innovation and technique in all that we do for making the good better- to posses the belief that there is always room for improvement. 
To cooperate and do away with selfishness and greed in public service in order to serve our collective interest. 
To be flexible in culture, practice and ideology. 
To love and respect our own more. 
To believe in ourselves that we can and that we were the firsts. 
To disown the ‘I want it and I want it now’ syndrome. 
To know and study and understand and research our own past, present and prepare and plan for possible future challenges. 
To use more of our brain than our body; to switch our brains on and work them fast. 
To learn and to lead and not to learn and to follow only. 
To be wise, visionary and missionary especially for our leaders. 
To take criticism and mistakes as a learning tool in order to self-criticise and to self-correct. 
To seek and develop our own systems of governance and organisation. 
To feed, clothe and shelter our needs by ourselves by as far as Nature allows. 
To make and sell rather than to buy and use. 
To clean, to beautify and to perfect. 
To realise that Mother Nature has given us all that we need to make our lives comfortable; to notice and observe nature for advanced study and research. 
The need to dedicate time and patience to the study and observation of ourselves and of things. 
To persuade and convince with logic and reason without brute force as far as it is absolutely unnecessary. 
To have an arithmetical and a critical mind in order to come up with alternatives to established ways or systems. 
To avoid clouding judgement with undisciplined emotions. 
To decline satisfaction with the simple and basic. 
To systemize, to methodize, to organise and to coordinate. 
To strengthen and widen the reach of adult education initiatives in literacy and numeracy skills and business and wealth creation training. 
To put quality and value for money in public and private service. 
To bound ourselves by time. 
To do the first thing first and the last thing last accordingly, in place and on time. 
Not to burden ourselves with unnecessary and harmful traditional obligations. 
To stop practising all forms of witchcraft, to stop seeking help and support from ‘marabouts’ and to stop living in Godlessness, immorality, indignity and shamelessness.  Because sacrificing to and the worshipping of evil jinns in order to get power and influence, wealth and position is the highest and worst of all worldly temptations.
Avoid errant family members when, after diligent effort, we cannot remediate them. They are the first to lead you astray.(Submitted by Haruna).


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