GOING IN FOR A BABY

‘Little Muhammad Bah, son of my Armitage buddy'

I wasn’t somehow amazed… Did I? A line-up of events that needed my attention and urgent consideration, first it was the news of friend whose wife brought him a bouncing baby boy – being the first baby for the young couple whose age ranges 23 to 31.

What makes the first piece of news inviting was the fact that the young couple had just started settling down abroad, the fact that none of their biological parents attended the christening ceremony clearly showed that at times distance and death can separate the spirit that connects a mother and his dear son.

The baby, innocent as he is, has found himself in two worlds: the one that push his parents out of their country of nativity, and the new world where he is born under a completely different environment.

So in other words, this young couple could not tell me about it, simply put it wasn’t the case of ‘I don’t care’ rather it was more or less about whether things that appear big and superfluous is indeed real. Simply put, I likened it to the often-neglected story of the hyena that left its children in search of food, is not sure whether those he left in the house are still fateful to him, and that they are with him.

The heart is willing, but the mind is speaking otherwise, that’s why I insist the new baby has come relatively under serene but complex situation.

Talking about the other baby born just a stone from my place of abode,I was later told that he is named after my biological dad, so he is going to be my father too. Just fresh from my U.S trip, I visited one of room mates in Armitage now a teacher and student at the University of The Gambia. A married man, his wife brought him a nice baby in the person of Muhammad Bah.

What a coincidence, all these people who are close to me have babies, and who happen to have the same sex.