Thursday 22 March 2018

Small and short-term thinking...

Small thinking creates small results, just like short-term thinking produces short-term results, and some big-arse sticky situation in the long-term. I know, SO US!

Look at Serrekunda for instance. The town is so 'serre' (congested) - like the name implies. Electricity and water a mess, because evidently, Serrekunda wasn't planned to grow this fast. This is why NAWEC is being caused to bite what it wasn’t built to chew. No wonder Generator Number 6 sounds like it’s choking.

No jokes, man! Look at our streets. We want to expand them so badly, but there's no darn space. When you go to some neighbourhoods, you wonder what weed the land allocator was on, because of the many dead-end roads and triangular homes.

It’s perhaps places like Janjangbureh, Mansakonko, and other former colonial dwellings that you'd see farsighted town plans. I don’t know - I’m thinking two: we are perhaps so selfish; we don’t care about posterity, or just too lazy to think, because thinking is a complex process.

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