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Ousainou Allen, NAFAA Presidential Candidate, and the Questions Gambian Politics Has Avoided. Fatunetwork, 23. Dezember 2025: As global politics tilt inward and borders harden, a familiar anxiety is returning to countries like The Gambia. Migration routes once taken for granted are narrowing, legal status abroad feels less secure, and decisions made thousands of miles away increasingly shape the fate of ordinary Gambians." “The call to sovereignty and self-determination is as relevant today as it was during the pro-independence period,” Allen said, linking today’s challenges to the aspirations of the 1960s. For him, self-determination is not a slogan from history books but a practical question of who controls energy, food, security, and technology in the present. It is here that his critique becomes most concrete. Allen spoke of a country that cannot always repair its own agricultural machinery without calling in technicians from across the border, where hospital equipment can sit idle until foreign specialists arrive, and where digital infrastructure remains largely outside local hands. These are not abstract economic theories, but everyday realities that many Gambians recognise. When a CT scanner is unavailable because no local technician can service it, or when farmers wait for external support to fix a tractor, sovereignty stops being a philosophical concept and becomes a lived experience.
Ousainou Allen, NAFAA Presidential Candidate, and the Questions Gambian Politics Has Avoided. Fatunetwork, 23. Dezember 2025: As global politics tilt inward and borders harden, a familiar anxiety is returning to countries like The Gambia. Migration routes once taken for granted are narrowing, legal status abroad feels less secure, and decisions made thousands of miles away increasingly shape the fate of ordinary Gambians." “The call to sovereignty and self-determination is as relevant today as it was during the pro-independence period,” Allen said, linking today’s challenges to the aspirations of the 1960s. For him, self-determination is not a slogan from history books but a practical question of who controls energy, food, security, and technology in the present. It is here that his critique becomes most concrete. Allen spoke of a country that cannot always repair its own agricultural machinery without calling in technicians from across the border, where hospital equipment can sit idle until foreign specialists arrive, and where digital infrastructure remains largely outside local hands. These are not abstract economic theories, but everyday realities that many Gambians recognise. When a CT scanner is unavailable because no local technician can service it, or when farmers wait for external support to fix a tractor, sovereignty stops being a philosophical concept and becomes a lived experience.
Ousainou Allen, NAFAA Presidential Candidate, and the Questions Gambian Politics Has Avoided. Fatunetwork, 23. Dezember 2025: As global politics tilt inward and borders harden, a familiar anxiety is returning to countries like The Gambia. Migration routes once taken for granted are narrowing, legal status abroad feels less secure, and decisions made thousands of miles away increasingly shape the fate of ordinary Gambians." “The call to sovereignty and self-determination is as relevant today as it was during the pro-independence period,” Allen said, linking today’s challenges to the aspirations of the 1960s. For him, self-determination is not a slogan from history books but a practical question of who controls energy, food, security, and technology in the present. It is here that his critique becomes most concrete. Allen spoke of a country that cannot always repair its own agricultural machinery without calling in technicians from across the border, where hospital equipment can sit idle until foreign specialists arrive, and where digital infrastructure remains largely outside local hands. These are not abstract economic theories, but everyday realities that many Gambians recognise. When a CT scanner is unavailable because no local technician can service it, or when farmers wait for external support to fix a tractor, sovereignty stops being a philosophical concept and becomes a lived experience.
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