QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family,” – Kofi Annan
MY POWER MY FAITH
Soil fallen in my hands
Tears dried on my cheeks
Rainbow swimming the sky
Pulling down blood drops
Dignitaries my work require
For that I can succeed
My power my faith I concede.
Be faithful
Be powerful
Blood don’t shed
Souls don’t vanish
If not my eyes bleed.
Injections you push into muscles
Taking tools as operation materials
Pulling out hearts and veins
Blades tiring fleshes
Innocent souls you ended
Using your magical tools
All for currency
Because you are powerful
But never faithful.
By Aja Musu Bah,
Latrikunda.
THE NEW ERA
When the head of a tiger is cut off
Its body becomes the chamber of vultures
When the white dragons first came
Pulled our heads away
Flied us far away
Tractors our bodies where
Starvation we knew as food
Blood as our beverage
We worked from down to dust
Chains round our bodies freedom we knew not of.
For it shows our lives we regain
Our freedom is no longer bargain
Our true images now convey
For the seeing of all we portray
To the hearing if every one we say
People may ask why we are not free
But the fact that we are free
Meaning we deserve to have our freedom.
February 18th 1965 a horizontal ray flag
A dimension of 2:3 was raised
Which has a political, social and cultural meaning
THE GAMBIA OUR HOME LAND was sang
Independent determines our attitude
Our color, norms and values
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