GAM WRIT ERS

1. There's nothing more pleasant

Than living in luxury.

You get so absorbed in your own dream world

That you forget there are some brothers

And sisters who are having very hard times

And need help.

2. You don't care what happens to your poor neighbours.

You feel that you're the only person

Existing in this whole wide world.

3. So when the direction of the wind changes

You turn around looking for a pillar to

Lean on but there's none.

You left no pillar to lean on.

Now you'll see the other side of the world,

How wicked mother

Earth can be to man.

You'll surely fall like a baobab tree

Without its roots.

You'll perish like countless others

Who took the same road.

4. So try and prevent this for you'll only

Live once in this world.

There's no Repetition of life for man on Earth.

With Love To 20th Century Man.

By Lee B. Jallow.

15th August, 1974,

(Ndaanan, Vol. 5, Issue 1&2, March/September, 1976, p. 19)

Momodou Leroi B. Jallow was at Gambia High School where he was expelled after three years ‘because I was playful as the principan declared to my parents’. He got admittance at Armitage high school and was doing well but had to leave ‘because my father died and I would not let my mother pay (fees) because the family will suffer’.