If there is an easy thing to do, it seems, is to fault dictatorship. And dictators. Simply because they are dictators. It is as if by virtue of them being dictators, all evil is theirs. \ Take Gambia. Yahya Jammeh. A few days ago, Jammeh shocked the African continent. In what appeared to be a predictable election, with him as a winner, Jammeh lost. He did not only lose. He conceded defeat. Long before the Electoral Commission in the country officially declared the winner. It was unprecedented. Both the loss and the concession. For, Jammeh in his dictatorial rants had once said that he would rule the Gambia for a billion years -- if Allah would will. However, when the loss was in the air, he resigned to fate. The optimists celebrated, the loss and the concession. They said Africa was slowly maturing, in its democracy. The pessimists, however, were not sure of what to make of Jammeh's loss and the concession. It seemed surreal. Not long after, the Breaking News appeared...
...writings and recollections; thoughts too.