So on my break, I refreshed my facebook browser and saw “Unique
Solutions Co. Ltd & RLG training centre launched at Basse, to provide
training for mobile phone repairs to young Gambians up country”, and I overstand
they have also erected 10 sample kiosks that will be used to provide jobs for
those to be trained”…. Brilliant Uniqueness!
Okay! A lil later, I went for my usual lunch walk; ‘Delicious
Restaurant’ is the place baby and
happened upon what seemed to be a company in performance, drumming, clapping
and chanting, apparently marketing something; ‘road-show’ to be exact.
But who cares? As a matter of fact, I have nothing against their
cheerfulness, but since I’m entitled to my opinion and seeing that their style
is the same piece of 'thing' with even some of our so-called civil society
campaigns, I can’t but ask; ‘What is their true public significance’
I am confused! I don’t know how can a set of people wearing straight
fit jeans and T-Shirts displaying some slogan help in fighting some social ill,
or create awareness about something.
Let us be reasonable here; how can drumming and dancing rehabilitate
junkies or help some impoverished child begging along Kairaba Avenue to go back
to school; how can it help stop the occurrence of rape, stigmatisation, and the
rest?
How? If all what they do is hire a means of transportation, load it
with loud music, parading our streets and expressing carefree amusement,
chuckling and giggling and cackling with each other? Can’t we do it
differently, since the old traditions do not seem to bring any newness into
being? #JustAsking
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