What Low Thinking Has Been Costing Us: Not just Gambia’s failure to uproot one of history’s corrupt and most inept governments, but also the World Cup! Yes, Africa’s low thinking has been costing us better performance and higher ranking.

See, when you bring a shipping container load of meat and bones for just a couple of dogs, they will still bark at each other and fight over sharing. Why? Because they lack higher thinking to understand that calmness or organized sitting of just the two of them won’t only ensure satiety, but safety, peace and zero chaos.

If you prepare a meal for three humans, chances are that they won’t throw punches over it. Why? Because humans have a higher level of thinking and understand that there is more than enough for three. This is what a couple of canines don’t catch cognitively even in fecundity!

Sadly, European and non-negroid set-ups always find a way to apply higher levels of thinking and tactical pursuits during each World Cup or international relations to boot out or undercut black African nations. They’ve observed us for centuries. We write this with a heavy heart.

Horses have bigger and tougher muscles. But a child can ride a horse or put loads on its cart. The same child can put a yoke on a pair of oxen and goad it from village to village. Being less tactical or short of functioning at a higher thinking metric has been besotting much of black Africa in modern times. In fact, it’s one of the reasons we still have tribalism.

If UDP can really think smart, they would have realized that Ousainou Darboe is spent. For decades, the UDP decried Jammeh’s “draconian laws” and an urgent need for reforms and a new constitution. The 2016 Jammeh removal gave the UDP every chance to deliver these to The Gambia.

But what exactly did they do? Made Darboe’s office at State House a jamboree while they commanded a strategic majority in the legislature enough to draft any law or change the entire constitution. What happened to “Draconian laws” cry? You see higher thinking versus low thinking?

Now, if someone claims to be a car guru for decades that could instantly discern a vehicle’s mechanical problems once inside, it shouldn’t take this “guru” a month to diagnose a vehicle with steering issues. For close to three decades, the UDP metaphorically put, claimed to be that guru that can instantly pick out Gambia’s steering issues and fix them.

But this same UDP, with every opportunity under the sun couldn’t even avail us a simple constitution even with an absolute majority in the House. They didn’t see the need for it once their mouth was on the milk and honey tube.  Consequently, we are still running Jammeh’s 1997 constitution, if not for which Barrow would have been history by now. This is really painful!

All that time, Barrow was Moses. But he wasn’t as soon as Darboe was removed—the same Darboe who would sue anyone calling for Barrow’s departure once the three years came up. And they don’t want us to talk about these gashes into our motherland’s endothelium?

Even with just these alone, the UDP or Darboe have no right to talk to any Gambian about good governance, let alone asking for our votes again. But we still forgave them. In fact, this paper spent Dollars on the UDP. If any UDP intellectual or critical thinker feels like it, please dare us to a debate about these points! We know you won’t!

We have, for a while returned thanks to the UDP for the adventures they inscribed on Gambia’s political tapestry. But truth has to be told and only a selfish soul would deny it. All these murder cases, security lapses, electricity cuts, extreme economic hardship, Dalasis’ nose-diving depreciation, dizzying height of corruption, etc., would have been solved if Adama Barrow was gone!

Solution: The UDP, if not for selfishness, intransigence, and thoughtlessness would door-to-door with other opposition groups and pick a non-partisan, neutral coalition flag-bearer just like the people of Madinah did amid tribal wars by selecting Muhammad (P.b.u.h). We wrote briefly about that before and here is it again:

The people of Madinah had lucrative trade routes and strong economy which they could never fully enjoy thanks to internal bickering and self-destructive inter-tribal hate.

When they heard of the rise of a young, honest man in Makkah by the name Muhammad Bin Abdallaah, they met him by the rocks of Aqabah in 621 CE (12 years into his prophethood) for his intervention in their quarrels and differences.

They also selected him as head of state when other key aspirants like Abdullaah Bin Ubayyi Bin Salool and Abu Amir Ar’raahib or Abu Amir Al’Faasiq had been fighting for this position for years.

A neutral, charismatic, and honest leader like the Prophet was able to unify not just Madinah, but the entire Arabia under one banner. This is how they faced the greatest empires of the time like Persia and Rome.

In a matter of years, they conquered the Persians at the battle of al-Qadisiyyah (636 CE). They conquered the Romans at the battle of Yarmuk earlier the same year. Persia was like Russia of today and Rome was like the United States of today.

These poor Bedouins despised by great empires were able to conquer most parts of the known world in just a span of two decades. In the year 1076, only six hundred and twenty-five years after Muhammad (pbuh), Muslims entered black Africa in what you see today as Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, etc.

They conquered the great Ghana empire (the whole of modern-day West Africa and beyond) with Almoravid forces, sacked its capital city of Kumbi Saleh much before Europeans ever dreamt of coming to Africa. Europe was too uncivilized this time in the Dark Ages.

Today, most of you call yourselves Muslims from Banjul to Brikama, Bakau, Serrekunda, Jarra Soma to Basse because of the sacrifice these people made by forgetting their differences. Their impact is felt throughout the modern historical process, from Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to Jakarta, Indonesia.

Wollaahi, talking to a low-IQ cerebrum can be a disheartening task! Gambia is the smallest piece of real estate on mainland Africa. Why should it be difficult to unify just few political groups of that small country?

The Attrition: Barrow is using incumbency in a war of attrition with the UDP. If Barrow prevails this December, gone might be the days of a UDP leviathan status. Due to intransigence and poor critical thinking, the party is seriously divided and risks a benign status.

And Darboe couldn’t put it together—the same Darboe asking us to return Gambia to his hands. For what exactly, this time? We beg that Darboe desists from being a thorn again in the midst of a coalition chart-out! Heed this not at thy own peril! Let’s see who cries again come December.

Marie Sock could be a coalition flag-bearer. Yes, you read that right! This is just to diffuse tension between major opposition contenders. We saw signs of selflessness in Marie last election. The UDP foisting Darboe on us is nothing but cronyism.

They don’t care about Darboe’s lack of foresight and pragmatism. Again, what exactly do you think Darboe can offer Gambians which he couldn’t do while vice president? We have the longest history of attacking Barrow. But trust us, he would have agreed to almost everything Darboe asked for when he was foreign minister and later VP.

But is Darboe really interested in Gambia’s thoroughfare or his personal political ambition? Look, when Barrow was demolishing poor people’s market stalls, did you see Darboe calling a press conference to sympathize with the poor?

It’s really sickening to see our focus on just one main thing (coalition flag-bearing) if any, while chances abide for another grand theft of a presidential election. Why is critical thinking a problem for many of us? Is Gambia a cursed state? Let us know, please!