The most appalling ethnocentric judgement is when Omar calls Abdoulie tribalist, simply because of Abdoulie's inability to speak Omar's first language, but Omar can take pride in his unwillingness to speak Abdoulie's, and that's okay. I find this not just alarmingly stupid, but so disappointing that it sometimes comes from fairly intelligent folks.
If you ask me, all these foolish tribalist allusions on social media boil down to two: ONE, most of them are elaborate fictions, and TWO, they're mostly being devised and peddled by those who wish our social realities were different, and as if hellbent on making a South Sudan out of our beautiful Gambia... but it wouldn't work; our diversity is too cool to fragmented like that.
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