In order to nullify this increasingly popular "Gambia Du Dem" notion, and to develop as a people, we must develop mindsets, rise above the ego-inflating pettiness, be more obliging, and rekindle that obsession we had with being Gambian - yeah, I'm old enough to confirm that that's how blessed we were before we became oppressed.
We must learn to ignore the ignorable - you know, things of little significance and value, like who cannot use a fork and a knife, like who wears heels to the beach, whose Gucci is real and whose is Made in China, like trivialising some efforts and authentic dreams whilst celebrating illusions, like acting wasteful as if "taka" or "futu-sito" is different from a wedding.
We need to use our energy on things that matter, the big picture: prerequisites to development - like encouraging intelligent and foresighted national conversations, not the usual seemingly 'us versus them', or debates intended to goad one another into anger, like validating every decent education or employable skill, source regardless, like inspiring entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, not just serving self-serving entrepreneurs, like praying for NAWEC for instance - yuh see mi?
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