Authored: Essa Bokarr SEY.
My Dearest pets of the land!
Lend me your ears and listen attentively....Demba Koddeh has so much to sprinkle on those immaculate heads again. This talisman was given to me by an ancestral ghost in white "kaftaans". A friendly ghost traversing the seas,plains,sand dunes and mountainous regions. This is the image that connects our dearst land to the Pyramids of Gizza and the dilapidated temples of Athens. Hasn't Greece always been greasing the huge machine of our polemics? We received "Platoism",we received democracy,we received the good goat cheese from that rich culture of Athens. "Whooo-Whaaa! Tupuch!" isn't that giant image stepping on a muddy path? The same foot prints of this mysterious giant image has been traced to the savannah plains. where the dearest pets rose to inhale the acrid smoke of cow dung!
From those sickles and thickets I learned a lot more about the "tablets of philosophy". Chase those demons from that orchard of lemons! Chase them before they squeeze all the lemons! These lemons are part of the condiments which "spice it up"!
Hear me! Hear me! Hear me!!! That inner voice is yelling,telling and casting. Not casting evil spells it is casting "helpful" spells.
This is the same inner voice that walks the lonely streets of a village recalling the "tablets of philosophy". We do not need plato to fill the plate for us. This is why Mandinka says:"Nee sammo yeh bambu kombo tey maala" meaning- "one who rides on the back of an elephant will not touch the morning dew...." "Ndeysaan waaye!" African philosophy is just so sweet!
How about the lingering moments of an old slate? This historical slate that will never be erased. During my silent moments reason tickles me to review reasonable doubts! Whats the essence in reasons when reasoning is ill? So many bills coming from the demanding machines of culture! So many bad results coming from objectivity. Mutabaruka of Jamaica says:"Life and debt!" I will say:"Planners in shame,where plans are in pain..." Didn't we disgrace the "tablets of philosophy" from the temples of Athens? Shame blaming fame!
Bring that root back and share it with the feeble. Who is evil? Who is feeble? Please ask reasonable doubts! The claws of raw laws! Will we ever cross the bridges of reasonable doubts? "Param! Yaakaar Bul Tass-waaye!" "No more!"
I say:"No more whistling while riding on the back of an elephant. The morning dew will touch the feet of those who chose to leave the elephant! Do not refute the essence of this elephant 'deh'! Do not!
Again Demba Gallo Hammad says:"Gallo Jindu Konno aa-naa-nih" This is from the "tablets" of the philosophy of an old fulani kingdom. It says:"The affluent is busy but not confused" Affluence isn't material before the eyes of these rich "tablets of philosophy". Maasina Pulloh "wotta watt!" I swear by the graves and skeletons of those dead ancestors of the old warrior kingdom mine is not fake. Mine is realism resting on realistic feelings! I swear by the swords of Kolli Tengela the "Jambaar" who posed spears and arrows in support of Pullorih Gallo Haawa. I swear by the power and essence of time that mine is a real the day. It is on the way. This will be the big bang near the river side. A bang that does not destroy! This bang completes good then ejects evil. Do not be swayed by the present clouds that are promising you rain. Look at the sky! It is the limit!