Gambia: At Large Where Were You? Music Often Takes Us Back to Places in Our Past – – and Oh What a Feeling!

[The Point] The question, “Where were you?” has become a political cliché in The Gambia. At a 2018 press conference, Gambia’s President Adama Barrow lashed out at intellectuals, and asked where they were when he and his supporters stood up to get rid of former President Yahya Jammeh. But I want to use pose the question in a different sense, namely, with regards to music, because I REALLY love music. And I can’t help it because it is hard-wired onto my brain.