Colonization is the establishment of political and economic control over a foreign teritory. Most African countries were in one way or the other colonised by a country from the West, who were mainly   interested in enriching themselves and impose their culture and life styles on us.

Africans need to be mentally de-colonize and take a firm stance by going back to our culture, which we inhereted from our forefathers. It is a matter of fact that we should minimise eating the imported food that our colonial masters are exporting to us. We have to be mentally strong and refuse some of the food exported to Africa , which may be unhealthy to us. Before the advent of colonisation, Africans were living much healthier and longer lifes without suffering from most of the diseases that we are now faced with today.

As Gambians in particular we have a moral obligation, to reflect our minds on the dangers some of these food stuffs might have on our health. We have to maintain our culture, diets, and traditions to make the West know that we are no longer in the era of colonialism and can live independently.

It is true that we don’t know the content of some of the imported food items, which we consume daily without having a second thought to the dangers they pose to our health. We are not saying that Western food   should not be consumed at all but, there   is need to reduce their consumption for the bettermnet of our health.

In the book of Franz Fanon, an African revolutionary in his“black skin white mask”   Fanon exposed the Westernise nature of a colonized African elite westernise to belief and worship the materialistic nature of Western civilization at the expense of African culture, African morality and African world view. It is therfore, important that Africans should not only liberate themselves territorially or politically, but also pyscologically and culturally.

Globalization of Africa should be in the minds of all Africans and all patriotic Africans need to be mentally de-colonized for the economic liberilization of the continent.