My dear widely read News Paper editorial team I have dedicated these poems to the Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. I want him to seek for an English language teacher to explain to him the first poem, not a teacher of English but an English teacher I mean, entitled

Raw your boat.

RAW, RAW, RAW, YOUR BOAT,
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM!
MERILY, MERILY, MERILY
LIFE IS BUT A DREAM.

WHIP , WHIP, WHIP YOUR BEST,
BUT GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
MERILY, MERILY, MERILY
LIFE IS BUT A DREAM.

POEM

BEAST OF GAMBIA, BEAST OF KANILLAI
BEAST OF EVERY OFFICE AND STREETS
HEARKEN TO JAMMEHS JOYFUL TIDINGS
OF THE GPLDEN FUTURE TIME.

SOON OR LATE THE DAY WILL COME
TYRAN GOEVRNMENT SHALL BE OVER THROWN,
AND THE FRUITFUL FEELS OF GAMBIA SHALL BE THROD BY BEAST ALONE,
HARDSHIP SHALL VANISH FROM OUR HOMES,

AND TH HARNESS FROM THE JOURNALISTS BACK
BITS AND SPUR SHALL RUST FOREVER FOR POLITICEANS
AS CRUEL GUNNERS NO MORE SHALL TRIGGER GUNS
RICHES MORE THAN MOND CAN IMAGINE,

RICE AND COOSE , OATS AND HAY,
JAMMEH`S BEANS AND SHALL MANGLE WURZELS,
AND BE OURS UPON THAT DAY.

BRIGHT WILL SHINE THE FIELDS OF GAMBIA,
AS PURER SHALL ITS GOVERNMENT AND WATERS BE,
SWETER YET SHALL BLOW ITS BREEZES
ON THE DAY THAT SHALL SEE GAMBIANS FREE.

FOR THAT DAY WE ALL MUST LABOUR
THOUGH WE THE OLD ONES MAY DIE BEFORE IT BREAKS
MANDINKAS, WOLOFS, PULARS AND JOLAS
ALL MUST TOIL FOR FREEDOM SHAKE

BEAST OF GAMBIA BEAST OF KANILLAI
BEAST OF EVERY OFFICE AND STREETS
LETS HEARKEN WELL AND SPREAD JAMMEHS DEMISE
FOR HIS GOLDEN FUTURE TIME.

Editors note: Thanks Chally Bravo for the poem. We disagree with your statement touching on coup against the Jammeh Government. Coups are not solution to Africa’s problems. The Freedom Newspaper opposes coups in all its forms and its perpetrators. Lets give chance to democracy. Democracy is the answer and not coups. Have a great day.