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Oct 08, 2012

Thank You

Posted by lat | Tags: Lat's Thoughts , Essays, Amran Gaye, energy, Mixture, Technology | 0 Comments

Once I said on my facebook status that the worst description I’ve received for myself from a friend was “repulsive”; I lied. I once asked a good friend of mine to describe me with as few words as possible and she said I was a “complex mixture of rubbish”. She refused to break it down and somehow I kept those words in my head to serve as the negative extreme of how people saw me.

Over the last year, it has been a tough fight for everything gained. Everyday has been a battle with “the system” and smiles have masked emotions of confusion, frustration and sometimes something close to madness. I have survived have I not? When I have felt close to losing my sanity, I have found relief in the people I have surrounded myself with. My life has always been blessed with good people that have given me too much respect regardless of my age and inexperience. It is that respect and love that has kept me going at the most difficult times.

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Jul 20, 2012

Red Black Nonsense - Taal len lampa yi wai

Posted by lat | Tags: Lat's Thoughts , Essays, electricity, energy, Human Interest, physicist, Punctuation, Technology, Thomas Edison, Typography | 0 Comments

You see friends, over 200 years ago, a journey began with the creation of the Systéme International d'Unités (SI)  by French physicist Andrè-Maire Ampére whose last name is one of the most prominent for any person interested in Science and most importantly Physics. This journey which started then was one which saw the creation, dumping and recreation of ideas and concepts, theories and formulae that would eventually lead to the production and eventual commercial use of what we call electricity. It must however be realised that the research and steps of development that led to the harnessing of energy for electricity happened with the collective collaboration of researchers, governments and entrepreneurs; each playing their own part in the game of discovery and development.

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Happy Anniversary Balafong

By Aji Kodou Secka in Food, Beans, energy, food, Ya Jama

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Happy Anniversary Balafong!!

 

 

  

 

 

What is a Gambian anniversary without food??? I wonder!! I woke up this morning and something was just different with the air.

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The Road to Becoming an Economic Superpower

By Sheriff Kora in Essays, Non-fiction, Opinion, Gambia, United Kingdom, Environmental Issue, Person Career, Africa, Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction, Chief Justice, Economic Community of West African States, energy, Gordon Brown, Heads of state, Human Interest, Labor, Politics, President, Prime Minister, Technology, The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, Yahya Jammeh

 

As the emerging winner of the November presidential elections in The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh took oath of office on the 19th of January 2012. The 30 minutes speech that ensued his swearing by the Chief Justice of The Gambia was nothing short of one of the most famous political quotes of ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown - he has lost the art of communication, but not, alas, the gift of speech. The president’s speech embellished in pomp and flower began by imploring all Gambians to unite under the umbrella of citizenship, to fight poverty, waywardness, underdevelopment, disunity, diseases, stagnancy.

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Dec 08, 2011

Balafong on The Standard Newspaper E1 - Women in "Spoken Word"

Posted by lat | Tags: Lat's Thoughts , Essays, artist, energy, Entertainment, Fatma Sallah | 0 Comments

 

Science might be the heart of every generation but Art is the soul. Handed down from one generation to another, art represents the image and perception of a people at every point in time. At the center of the art soul lies performing arts in all its splendour as it puts the artist’s thought in proper perspective and translates bare words into emotions that would otherwise be left to the interpretation of the recipient. It was this desire to describe the artist’s words that led to the birth of “spoken word”; the art of the “guewel” as she sang the songs of history; the captivating beauty of the opera; the rise of the big screen; and the creation of Balafong’s very own Word of Mouth.

 

Now, our world is experiencing what is a generation still searching for an identity. As restless as this generation is, its dynamism cannot be denied.

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Nov 08, 2011

The Guewel

Posted by amrangaye | Tags: Live From the Gambia, Fiction, the Sun, Been, energy, food, Saarata | 0 Comments
Saarata fell in love with Alieu Cham after her twenty-first birthday, and knew she would not fall in love with anyone again after that. He came into her life suddenly and without warning, through the introduction of a mutual friend, and settled into Sarata's life as if he had always been in it, so she sometimes wondered how she had ever fared without him.
 
 
 
 
Her mother disapproves, of course. 
 
- He has that guewel darkness around him, she says to Saarata, in the backyard, - don't you see how black he is.  
- Yaaa!, she protests. 
- Hai it's true. You haven't noticed it? It follows them around. That is why they have no luck.

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The Semester

By Lamin Darboe in Fiction, Mtv, America, Person Career, Indian store, Business, counsel, Department of Education, Ditto mark, energy, God, headmaster, Human Interest, Labor, New Yorker, Punctuation, Rapper, Social Issues, Sulay, Sulayman, teacher, Technology

 


He is a tall lanky guy in his mid twenties. His bushy eye lashes defined his big eye balls in a way that his friends - female friends of his age - always commented about them. He was full of energy and ambition and he always used it on anything he thought would improve his family’s condition. Although his full name is Sulayman, his mother was the only one who called him that. Everyone else called him Sulay. Like most of his friends he always dreamed of going to America where he believed life would be better for him. From what he heard and saw about America, he was convinced that he would be able to provide a better life for his family if he lived there. Sulay and his friends knew so much about America that you would think they were once there. They spent most of their time sitting on a long wooden bench in the shade of a mango tree at the gate of his home.

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A-Pen-And-Paper-For-What-I-see-And-What-I-Feel

By Pa Modou Sey in Poetry, Adam, energy, Entertainment, The Jokes

 

I woke up this Morning with an un-describable feeling....
Then I dialed God's number for some answers...
He didn't give me any....
Wondering about his mysteries and his mysteries wondering about me...
"He wants to test my patience...” I thought.
With this feeling of uncertainty, I walked my way to the sea...
With nothing but a paper and pencil...hoping that He would give me answers
Like He did with Abraham-AS, when he was thrown in Fire,
Like Jesus-AS, when he asked for bread from heaven...

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