Game Is Over......a poem

Ustaz Adil,
I got your email address and saved it. Thank you so much for the song by the prophetic and legendary artist Bob Marley. His songs always plug a sensitive tune that radiates seismic-like waves through the conscious and subconscious of freedom lovers everywhere. Remember his song for liberation of Zimbabwee and his 'war everywhere' song? What about Sudan (War in the West, down South, in the East..everywhere there is war"
"Rat Race" is typical of almost all our past and possibly future?! elections. What a joke. In Africa, our high school dropouts, with the most mediocre academic records and intellectually-barren mentalitties topple our democratically-elected governments and run the poor nations with despotic, megalomaniac, blood-thirsty and corrupt juntas.
You don't have to be smart or intellectually and politically savvy by the way to be a head of state in Sudan; especially for those generals who boot their way into the presidential palace, abolish the constitution and rule with a decree. You don't need a degree to run the affairs of one of the most complex nations in Africa: the sword, or I should say the gun is mightier than the pen in Sudan. With an I.Q of a chicken, and referrals from some connected relatives, those who flunk their exams and fail to perform and lead a class of thirty students academically would often end up in military academies and later lead a nation of 30 million or so to the ultimate 'rat race' and mirage chase. To add insult to injury, they stage their own elections to gain legitimacy (after rigging of course). Well, let's wait and see Adil...we're the bored audience of this classic tragedy.

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