By Bampha S.N Jaiteh
Out of necessity considering the hegemony of human suffering and other related vices of evil around the Globe: Pen Gambian Chapter arouse as an affiliated body of PEN International which seeks to advocate nurture peace in Planet Earth. The Gambian Centre is therefore shouldered on the theme.
Mankind and Peace! Role of the PEN International in relation to humanity? PEN International in spite being the liberator which taught Prophet Muhammed (SAW) from ignorance to light: as well also been the motor neuron in between the palm and the master Gland.
The role of the PEN International could further be attested to the fact of being the irresistible scroll which commands the sacred Blackboard! Since its inception in 2017 however, it became dormant but now her formidable emergence took a robust and radical stance to empower our NEW FOUND DEMOCRACY through literary Arts in schools.
Engagement of Kanyeleng Groups who are instrumental catalyst of peace and civil society at large. Democracy is not East, West, North or South. But rather evolution of human experience in struggle.
Black as a race from ancestral motherland Africa, long before had any form of contact with neither the Arabs: nor the Western imperialists achieved civilization in Arts, agriculture, Trade etc!
Research has revealed the beauty of her civilization even in music: to the prevalence showcasing the water drum which is on the verge of extinction (Gekejo).
Musical drum compost of water in a pan with calabash and two sticks perform by females (saramungdewo Bukandemee. Mondoba, Beyoleeh kandemee).
History and culture are integral component of human civilization: and realization of such a reality indeed: Africa and the Black race cannot and must never left behind.
Rush to the next door neighbor request salt or pepper for my cook, appeal meal from an immediate neighborhood as thou is helpless to afford daily bread! Discipline in due respect to leaders. The elderly religious scholars. Ancient traditional values regarding communal fabrics of symbiotic relationship are the ethics of today’s modern Democracy.
Give and take: caring and sharing: Genuine love in extension to fellow human beings as one intends for oneself regardless of color or creed. Mahatma Ghandi did say: where there is love: certainly there most life. With the advent of life peace being the corner stone of Divine creation prevails as Nature is Supreme!?
Sadly, those rich traditional bonds of ancestral values have been eroded by hate intolerance individualism greed and shamelessness and other related vices of immoralities.
Perhaps only God the Almighty who knows as to when: how: and where shall we end up. Ignorant of the reality that we came from a power and certainly most return to a power for accountability on judgment Day.
Thank God Prophet Muhammed (SAW) pleaded for Duah from Allah that: however immoral and deserted my Generation of Human family shall be: do not perish them from the phase of the Earth as Thou did to those before.
God the Almighty responded in acceptance with stern warning that: they shall be confronted with incurable diseases and other Super Natural calamities. Their ancestors had never known off like. Breast cancer: cervical cancer: venereal disease. HIV Virus, Ebola Pandemic, Volcano’s, Earth Quakes to name but few.
Black heritage in astrological buried riches of discovery an ancient Islamic legend. Duah Jaboh, natures Devine sanctity of hidden treasure of asset waits for human salvation in the 21st Century.
Unveiled by immortal B: the lonely poet of a rising sun.
As simmering International tensions persistently threaten global peace and the human family has been confronted with the anxiety of hostility. The evil surrounding existence of mankind necessitates to be questioned.
In as much as to avert such, a global episode of mayhem. Against the back drop of such dilemma mankind have been submerge in: besides: switching dream into a reality: PEN Gambia Centre in shouldered on Theme: Mankind and Peace: role of the PEN in relation to humanity.
DAWN OF A NEW ERA
Over the horizon!
Democracy
The dawn of a
New Era has emerged
Thematically shouldered on Peace
From the oppressive
Forces of terror
Propelled by Media Censorship
Demagogic abuse of Human Right
Natures gifted sanctuary
For the survival of Mankind?
Democracy!
The Dawn of a new Era
Is glittering over the vast Atlantic
Splashing the shores of Banjul
With TRRC waves of Truth
Tolerance underpinned
Eagerly being awaited
By the Masses
Whose Democratic values
Mandated through Ballot
Have been threatened
At Sea
By a Shark.
Democracy!
In transitional Justice
Anchored with the
Ethics of Duah Jaboh
Mother
Africa’s Natural Heritage of
Astrological buried riches of discovery
An Ancient Islamic Legend
Awaiting Human Salvation
For vanity to rule.
Democracy!
The Dawn of a
New Nation at Birth
Visionary Birth attendant ECOWAS
Fathered by the UN
Mothered by the AU
Technocrats
In lullaby of stewardship
Pursuance of checks and Balance?
Stick no Bill
Leave no stone unturned
As the bottle necks derails
Its sustenance ashore.
By Bampha S.N Jaiteh
The Lonely Poet
Immortal B!
