It’s encouraging to see our young people being painfully desirous of becoming political figures, but I wish the resilience thereto, was as remarkable as I love the ambition, for it sucks that each time they’re reminded to “earn” their spot as would every political participant, they suddenly feel “excluded” or “overlooked.”
I
don’t think that’s a reasonable assumption, because just as some young people
think it's unprogressive to elect veterans to captain our ship, settling for a novice
who intends to learn on the job is a stake some of us wouldn’t lay our bets on,
especially sailing in unsafe waters.
But
here’s what’s never too early to do: start getting involved, volunteer for a party
whose values match yours, help further their cause, build a reputation that evinces
the influential young leader you want us to see, and by “us’ I mean communities
beyond your comfort zone, so that your name will require no introduction when it’s
time to seek endorsement.
As
far as I’m concerned, anything less is a shortcut and shortcuts cut short – it’d
take only one conscious old lady to grill your insight into the realities of,
say: Sarreh Dompho, or Touba Wapa, or Foday Kunda, or the Karantabas in Kiang and
Sami, and the credibility of your specious platform and depressing slogans are done
for, if relatively, your book-knowledge is a contrast with the serious issues experienced
only beyond Brikama.
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