President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia continues to amaze me day to day with the way he is running his own country. He threatens to kill all the gays and the lesbians in The Gambia, jail every local journalist that he considers the enemy of his government, close down media houses that are critical of his administration and deport foreign journalists who are critical of The Gambia government. He withdrew the membership of his country from the British Commonwealth of Nations. So far The Gambia has lost tens of millions of the American dollar in foreign aid from the European nations and from the international NGOs. Yahya Jammeh does not believe in the human rights, freedom of the press, independent judiciary, court rulings, democratic principles, credible election and the rule of law.
Now, he plans to drop English Language as his nation's lingua franca. He said that the new national language with be one of the indigenous languages of The Gambia in a multi-ethnic nation. Does The Gambia has any language that is already well developed and internationally recognized that can adequately replace the English Language as its official language? Are the other ethnic groups of The Gambia going to be forced to learn the proposed new language that will soon be adopted as the official language of that country? Can The Gambia survive without those foreign aid coming it regularly and without the international patronage of her tourist industry? Can The Gambia as a nation survive from this self-imposed international isolation from the comity of the nations of the world in this 21st century human universe? Only time alone will surely tell #YahyaJammehAndTheDestinyOfTheGambia
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