Author:Essa Bokarr SEY.
I have been walking along the path of life,seeing,hearing,feeling and imagining. There is this voice inside me,it either reminds me or talks to me from within. There is another voice from outside,this voice comes from other minds. Memories O! memories! What a palatable dish for thought! Dear Uztazz! I cannot remove you from my memories. You have been a wise teacher Yaa Uztazz! Your voice is once again ringing the bells of wisdom inside my being.
Your conversations used to catapault my mind into the abstract. You told me a lot and turned nothing into something, for me. I remember this from those lessons I heard under the milky way galaxy in Kuntaya village...These were the days of torrential rains and green grass. These were the days of howling hyenas and hooting owls. These were the moments deep thought. These were the days of firewood and flames. These were the days of acrid smoke. "Jam'heerih Samba!" These words urged slumber into my head. I could not sleep before Yaa Uztazz. His philosophy was not barren,it was impregnated by thought. As I was listening to this voice of wisdom,I looked up in the sky and saw shooting stars. I saw cirus clouds combing the full moon. God! what a scene!
It was dead silence but it was not death and silence! "Yo-Allah Yob'Ma Yaa Uztazz!" God reward the man for me please!
Here comes his voice:"....Essa a humanbeing is like an egg.You cannot determine what is inside before hatching it..." Yes Bokarr Amadou Hamad,you were right! I revisited your thought in a train between Paris and Berne Switzerland. There I read a short story calling the humanbeing a machine of physics and chemnistry combined together. The rest has to be buried in wisdom I cannot say more than that. "Ajaraama Bokarr Amadou Hamad!"
There comes Bokarr again! He said this to an African child under the fig tree of Niumi Kabakoto. " Essa water is the closest partner of fish,but it is the same water that boils fish when they are caught!" Predictions? No. Fiction? No. Wisdom? Yes!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Bokarr Amadou Hamad! you were made by God and taught by God.
Thank you for sharing. Here comes Bokarr again...."Essa thought sees but none can see thought.."
Again and again,water kept on oozing from the spring of African philosophy. Bokarr said this..."Never slap a shepherd before knowing why he is whistling..." Ahaaa! I will keep that in mind Yaa Uztazz! I will surely keep that in mind. There is another one here..."Essa a runner cannot continue scratching his or her feet while speeding. The two cannot go together.." Oh Yes! I am so pleased with this philosophy. This is neither a Jumbo Jet nor a DC 10 this is a space craft carrying wisdom. It is just so fast! "Fly Samba Fly!"
Hmmm..."Rice without stew is better than endless hunger!" Bokarr Amadou Hamad may your soul rest in perfect peace!