Every era has its blessings, but the best of people must usher in the era, which sometimes means replacing the era or industries. In brutal language, it means we must kill certain industries for certain industries to be born or flourish. The countries that benefit most from the industries that need to die will likely resist, and the countries that benefit least from ‘bridges and railways’ may be too dumb to understand how they must compete to be part of the future, which includes letting go of the dying industries and investing enough in the new. Does it make sense to spend over a hundred billion dollars on dying blessings while refusing to invest tens of billions in the new? The countries that invest enough time and money on researching for smarter air crafts deserve to be the producers, while the rest become varying levels of consumers, enviers, regretters, etc. Africa will be used as a thumbnail picture, but the ideas are for global competition towards accepting. It means the best of journalists, movie makers, and caring rich folks must smartly work together to re-educate not just the questionable politicians, but also the ordinary person about the feasibilities, benefits, and urgency to switch direction. The reason they claim ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ is thinking or imagination is harder, but varying levels of blind folks can see or understand pictures and videos a little better.
Accordingly, I am not just urging and permitting all media houses to publish this piece, but to write your own editorials and special TV and radio happy hours. Making the case why we do not need to spend too much on bridges and railways is one part of the task; but more vital is vividly showing why flying can be safer than vehicles, ferries, and trains. Of course I am not saying no more building of two to five-meter bridges, but no more building of a bridge that will cost over one million dollars, especially as a loan against our innocent children, as a false or stupid favor. I am essentially seeding what will save Africa alone over one trillion dollars within the next decade, but will you water that seed and fiercely weed (fight) the stupid to cruel folks who may fight my ideas or direction? Take the number of bridges and railways built in each African country within the last decade and how many are planned or in the pipeline in the next decade? Kenya built a very expensive railway and realized a fraction of their expectations, but it did not stop Senegal from building another expensive and envied railway I am trying to kill. Take the most expensive bridge in Africa or one that is in planning like the Barra-Banjul bridge in the Gambia, and see how we can kill that project with a movie or real alternative with less than one million dollars? My point is not just the cost, how Kenyans and Senegalese saw or still see their railways; or how Gambians under-resist and cheer for a bridge that should never exist.
Stupid or intelligent Africans will tell you ‘but other countries are having bridges and railways’; so they follow and dismiss a visionary that is in some ways ahead of your white masters? Do we need a verifiable sample in the Gambia and every country, or one to few examples and educational videos will suffice to change direction towards flying? Is there a millionaire or billionaire ready to work with me with both short-term and long-term solutions? We can have few sea-buses and air-crafts to move the people with free energy or farmed hemp fuel. It will cost less than five to ten percent of the bridge; but the rich Africans will say our polluting vehicles cannot be transported by cargo plane and using the long ways towards an existing bridge is ‘inconvenient’; let’s take loans against our children and tell them they can never repay us? How hard it is to convince Blacks and Arabs we owe our children enough efforts, or sacrifice them until when? This part is just the short-term solution, but we may have something much better within six months if we believe and try towards the future.
Many of us are yet to understand the dangers of global capitalism and how it operates, including time estimation, value inflation, and excuses for the gullible. When they claim flying cars are coming but it will take five to twenty years, the followers will sadly believe them. The truth is we do not need over 50% of the type of flying cars they are building for the elite; instead, we need much smaller ones, personalised air-crafts should be for one person, maximum two. We do not need flying taxis except for short-term, but systems that see it as a need and for the poorest laborer to own an aircraft for work… When the West builds an aircraft for hundred thousand dollars to protect dying Tesla+ or just serve the elite; China can prove it can be half of that; but if we build it in Africa, can it be less than a thousand dollars or one year’s income of even a laborer? Again, how can the average of you imagine how small such air-crafts can be and how relatively easy it is to build after the foundation factories that can be less than ten percent of many bridges?
A visionary must lead such, not your average educated engineers, but you will still need engineers who are ready to work or be fired. You must achieve within a timeline or show us precisely what you did before we possibly replace you? A visionary is seeing what is yet to exist, so when s/he is explaining, you must listen or your mind will jump to what your trusted teacher taught you in university. An aircraft in many ways is easier to build and operate than modern vehicles, but it is like a different world, similar to the waters. All movements, including walking, running, swimming, driving, cruising, etc are all air manipulation; but flying involves a lot more air manipulation. So in a nutshell, flying is primarily air manipulation, which we know a lot about now and have many choices; Taking off and landing are slightly different forms of air manipulation that can significantly improve from present ways, especially as aircrafts get smaller; then turning is the third factor of air manipulation. From creation to operating, these are the basic three. So when you have teams of Engineers you must assign them tasks with primary and secondary roles. Eventually, there are important secondary aspects, but speedometers, cameras, etc are already well-known knowledge. They said optimistic folks like me over-simplify things, but the pessimists will not just over-estimate what it takes, but may accept over-valued prices? The pessimists will dismiss the contribution of the visionaries because blindness has levels and ingratitude exists in forms and levels.
Where-as countries can separately work, I think working together up to contest level will speed up achievements. We already have over one hundred air crafts doing fairly well, except sometimes in the wrong direction of over commercialisation. More worrisome than the companies is the direction of the countries. Western countries are letting these futuristic companies go bankrupt while spending billions on the auto-mobile industries and much more billions on super-capitalists like Elon Musk to go to space? China is slightly better but still problematic. Africa and the Middle East should not only be having their own start-ups and buying some of these start-ups, but we should be having special contests to award up to billion dollars with reasonable strings attached. A Gambian visionary may have the primary task with one or two Gambian teams, but having access to Nigerian or Ghanaian Engineers may produce results faster for both or all countries. If your team has ten visionaries from different countries, who will accuse me of outperforming all or understanding someone else may win in one to three areas? Visionary hour, then go to work; different visionary hour, then go to work. Through the culture of cameras and honest gauging, we can rate not just visionaries, but team up the best of African+ Engineers from different countries for one month per period. Reasonable pay, but achievements oriented reward system, or they may go marry endless wives and drink alcohol? Should we deny cannabis folks working opportunities until when, or realize smart and loving folks may need cannabis at times? How is our gratitude if we welcome hemp fuel or hemp plastic for air-crafts and land vehicles, but think cannabis activists are dangerous and should be denied financial opportunities? Since everyone will be flying as pilot, we do not need to worry if the pilot is on alcohol or cannabis. It will be smaller than present motorbikes and airways will reduce chances of crashing at your home. You walk with your partner on the beach, so let each fly at a different altitude towards work or a known fun destination. The future has to be imagined before being created. It may sound utopian to non-thinkers, but now the world is smaller, so you need a few great partners to make a formidable reality.
If Gambian media houses refuse to push with me, let Ghanaian, Nigerian, South African, Kenyan, Jamaican, Moroccan, etc push with me, including TV media and movies. We prefer to directly work with the authorities, but we make the videos for the public and the best within cabinet+. Once few cabinet members understand, they may switch a president towards a right direction. Once over half the population see real examples or certain level of videos, they will refuse over spending on bridges. Then the cowardly African leaders will be able to tell their western masters we cannot sign that bridge or railway deal, or my people may kill me. We cannot buy that expensive ferry from corrupt Ukraine or Jarga may pray for more wars and natural disasters as Karma? We need the best of Westerners, Asians, etc partner up with us or we separate forever, or for long time.
We are not saying there were/are no advantages to bridges and railways, but are there disadvantages and can we do without them in our age? Maintenance cost, accidents, terrorism, blocking fun yachts or cruise ships, etc make bridges and mass travelling the least preferred way. Flying can have multi-layers levels of safety and the trainings can be in very safe environments, for even eight year olds to learn flying and with near zero accidents. I am very aware of the weak and fragile nature of human beings, but we must trust the Lord of knowledge and that He is with us. Vehicles are killing in under-documented ways and one accident of big air-crafts is comparable to how many accidents of much smaller personalised aircraft? Our target will always be zero accidents, but user errors can be lessened in some ways, and why would an activist trust to buy an all electronic aircraft from Israel, u.s, or their allies? After the pager blow-offs. Until you learn to make your own, you may first learn to think on your own, then partner up with only Israelis who accept Netanyahu is among the lasting d[oer of]evil to go when; with the Americans who understand Trump is super dangerous, Biden was put down by the God of tongue and brain, and Harris is to be tested. Indeed we wish her well, but God’s curse be upon every American, every Arab, every black etc who think Jarga should be in prison over cannabis or denied working and business opportunities.
Yes! I May seem dangerous in trying to kill your trillion dollar combined industries, but is there an American or anyone who thinks each flying a very small aircraft is bad? Again! It won’t be like your big vehicles, so let’s give the thinkers a chance and wish us well. The systems of thinking, systems of governing, and many systems will change. Rules and regulations will still exist, but like birds do not need a tower bird directing flights, it is possible for walking or flying persons to not bump into each other. Am sorry, I was looking at beautiful Shakira, Taylor Swift, or Beyoncé is not acceptable, we can have altitudes you should be flying based on direction or type of air-crafts. There can be air-police and a much stronger culture of cameras to control many things. Although we cannot stop the richest Trumps from having big air-crafts, but we must avoid many big air-crafts for many reasons. We will need drones and air taxis for product deliveries. We will need cargo air-crafts to replace bridges and ferries in emergencies. A cargo aircraft brought many ambulances from Turkey to the Gambia, but you think a much smaller cargo aircraft cannot move your vehicle across a river? Stupid jarga or xyz! There won’t be any more cars, Obama or who else said ‘ they are too big to fail’, gave them billions upon billions, but Jarga says, they are too outdated to exist unless God does not love humankind. Ok! I mean cargo crafts means cargo, not necessarily moving vehicles, but moving products. So the transition should preferably be within five years. No more big containers or big trucks, only flying and preferably no super huge aircraft. There will be new different types of roads/houses, made from different materials. The airways are free roads, but rules must still exist within and between countries. Senegal may allow Gambians to fly through with permission or demand landing at the border for xyz then fly just like you drive in foreign countries. Battery or fuel limitations mean you cannot fly into Europe as illegal immigrants or get shot? No! I mean the top four universal targets include every adult owning a home within 2 to 5 years, so little or no immigration issues. Now you see why politicians may resist unless we strongly push.
We must do it in stages. First, no more bridges is the easiest, that will help the ordinary folks taste the feasibility. If a quarter or half the country flew over a river, they will hate ferries and would not wish for a bridge. Once over a thousand Gambians or million Nigerians own personal air-crafts, then even the dumbest people may understand how feasible it can be. So will Dangote or xyz work with me or who else to make it a reality in Nigeria and indifferently ignore the Gambia, where the idea originates? Will Mo Ibrahim understand how I may end not just corrupt politicians, but corrupt systems? Will Dangote fear I will boost or destroy his copying refinery business or try to envision where Africa can pioneer ahead of the west and still make money? My point is fractional facts or exiguous reality should not be bought in private spaces, or let us debate it in the open. Is the era of flying coming and how can we speed it up and be part of it? Do we expect rich Arabs will trust a black person to invest or rob us beyond questionable oil and still help their folks than Nigeria does?
Again, I am not saying African governments are not making millions or a fraction of the West and China, but do you expect those who are gaining billions push for the death of dying blessings? Once president Barrow signs a commission based bridge, they will be paid in one form or another by largely Gambians and their portion of Gambian money will go to western+ taxes and research for air crafts for more robbing of Africans. We are partially funding their research. They said China is building essential infrastructure in Africa, but what percentage of that is futuristic? Africans are still largely naive to accept that a female private part is by far more valuable than a male’s private part, so when will they ever know the true value of anything? How much is the railway, plus the train, plus running cost, repairs etc for how many decades before it gets obsolete? When was the first train in Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa, etc? Maybe the Gambia and some countries do not need a train, but if we refuse to research to be producers of air crafts, then we can only be what type of consumers and by when? How sad it is when we accept to be consumers of legal hemp from the u.s, but we refuse to be legal producers of even hemp? My point is we are too happy to be consumers of many things and producers of only or mainly babies…
Our so-called natural resources are largely useless without enough respect to Showlove Trinity and conscience in general. Although I was not born, I study history in deep ways and am lucky in different aspects of learning. Around the sixties, Naive Europeans were saying ‘Africa’s future is bright, they have a lot of natural resources…’ No! The problem is not the killing of a few so-called good African leaders. The problem is Africa is yet to know the importance of standards in learning and working+, and what is universal target(s)? Giving examples will make it too lengthy. Fast forward, Naive Europeans and even Africans are now saying ‘our youth population is a huge asset [than enough learning and working]? Repeating, ‘Africa is the future’. It goes to the point of Ousman Sonko of Senegal claiming ‘Europeans will be coming for our youths, because of their ageing population’… Such An idiot rose to power, but will he learn and by when? Their problems does not mean we are the only solutions. Robots, AI, other continents, and even making more babies mean they may never need us or for how many decades before they learn? He is literally encouraging more babies than more learning, the same pathetic mindset our ancestors had? So the children of Africa as other races keep re-enslaving Africans with almost never enough learning. When American Rapper, Nas, sang about Timbuktu in misleading ways, he had no idea when and what type of learning was going on there. What percentage of Africans were/are learning matters, not just top one percent. I do not think it makes much good to show how Africans barely respected learning then, but will we respect learning beyond education for the money we sometimes sadly worshipped until the worst of our children worshipped it against us? When we belittle ideas and visionaries, we are disrespecting the foundation of learning and progress. Some will say, let him do, we will wait, meaning they are not ready to push along? When it is realized outside, they claim he only talks or white folks are great? The Chinese and white folks+ are making billions on hemp, and partly thanks to my ideas and few other people. Sometimes I wonder even if God loves me and you financially, but the world is beyond finance. Still, we use finance everyday, so may I never lean on hypocritically belittling the importance of finance like questionable Bob Marley. Fun is part of the trinity, but we must sincerely respect every major aspect of Showlove Trinity more than culture and so-called religious trinity. Showlove Trinity varyingly helped the world before and after the most respected prophets. So may God bless me squarely and every loving spirit through Showlove Trinity: Let’s learn, let’s work, let’s have fun.
By Jarga Kebba Gigo
An Activist and Transformer.
Author of Juts Quhr-aahn
