In an exclusive interview, he provided context with regard to the title. He averred: "What I did was I took five problems affecting The Gambia, and I decided to put it inside an ENVELOPE to be given to Gambians for reflection.
These chapters range from the problem with professionals adults, leadership illusion, social stimatisation, corruption and tribal sentiments
Jobe said these chapters are organised in such a way that they are more or less connected. That is to say the chapters are interwoven.
He delved into the genesis of the work, disclosing that its inspiration has some connections with the late state leader John Magufuli and his rule in Tanzania. The work is inspired by what Magufuli did in Tanzania within a short spell "as opposed to what we have now in our systems".
He added: "Going by far, the Nkrumah liberation of Ghana, without Facebook Live, Instagram or no Tiktok, was able to inspire the whole of Africa. It is something you still cannot imagine. On the opposite, the ones we now have, with all these socials, cannot even inspire themselves.
On the broader sense, Jobe underscored that the book is pivoted around "our professional adults, those in control of our common resources or the common wealth that belongs to all of us”; who, instead of using their expertise and the resources placed under their disposal to develop our nation, decided to align with the oppressors to sink our nation.
Babucarr lamented: "So our common wealth, which belongs to the nation, has now been turned to someone's private car, private house, hotel and reservation. So in The Gambia now, what has happened is that we have a broker system, where true elders are absent. We have professional adults, but we lack professional elders.
"The difference with those like Magafuli and others is that those people were professional elders who used their expertise, knowledge and national resources to develop their nations."
The bottom line, according to Jobe, is that the problem is not the young people, but those in positions of power.
