I am dedicating this July 22nd. Special Piece to Marcus Garvey the first unofficial president of the Federated United States of Africa (FUSA), who was 100yrs ahead of his time. White folks way back when he was on his supersonic project for Africa-Mission of Repatriation knew what substance he was made up of and decided to frustrate him by legislating against his progress and dreams.

 It is also dedicated to the Honorable Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who dedicated all his life and time for the emancipation, liberation and unification of Africa. May their departed souls rest in perfect peace, Amen!!  

On a final dedication of this august piece it is penciled and penned for His Excellency Dr. Yaya Jammeh who made this day possible. The embodiment of Garvey in his life and struggle for Black people and Africa, in Nkrumah for his rhetoric and writings to free Africa and Africans mentally, are all present in President in Jammeh. Jammeh is bacon of hope, pride, fulfillment and a revelation to Africa and all Africans. I am grateful to God, Almighty that in my life time as an ardent Pan-African I have lived to witness the emergence of President Jammeh a role model and mentor for African leadership.

Africa, Africa Rise the prophet is here and let all those men of goodwill, vision, dreams of a united and emancipated Africa rise up and receive the prophet before he goes. I am speaking to all the four corners of Africa from Goree to Cape of Good Hope, from Casablanca to Entebbe that the prophet is here let us get the best out of him before he leaves the stage and we struggle with trying to get a slice of his gown. Rise Africa, Uhuru Africa, Sindelela Afrique, Wake up Africa, Move up Africa, Hosanna Africa, the Prophet is here, grab Jammeh and get all he had to give before he goes and we dwell in limbo in vacuum waiting for the next prophet who might not come in our live times.

Africa must start nurturing talents, we must start keeping our good and great leaders, we must start allowing visionaries lead, we must start loving and supporting our leaders if this task for development and a United Africa is anything to go by and now is the time. I salute your dynamism, I register your achievements for our country and I pray for your happiness, good health and personal wellbeing as we celebrated yet another July 22nd.

 Being the 13th. of its kind, for you mathematicians it is 13 and not 14 and all those speakers on the day you were wrong as the first was the actual takeover then it fourteen years since the coming to power of President Jammeh but 13 celebrations in all. Do you agree, check your counting beads?

Like everything in life, yes like the human baby, like the building of the Titanic, like a stranger in town, like America in Iraqi, like Man on the Moon, we must all learn and the only way we do it is on the job and with time. So the Gambian Economy has indeed gone through difficult times and now it is doing very well and things have improved a lot and the country is extremely well.

The forecast are promising and the future is all but a worthy investment and all people of goodwill, skill and brain have a genuine stake to make. The prophets of doom who were on the periphery wishing, praying and ushering bad omens and trouble to hit our new leaders and the economy are nowhere but in hell with their evil intentions and yawning. Where are those who said the economy will freeze and we will not be able to pay salaries within six months of the new regime’s coming into power on July 22, fourteen years ago?

 Where are those who said the reserves at the Central Bank of the Gambia will be exhausted in nine month time with the coming into power of the then AFPRC? I wish and hope they will swallow their pride and join the ranks of national development and peace as there is no stopping this APRC Train. This train is going places and the economy like league tables do not lie.  0