Alieu Bah has said that anyone born in The Gambia should be granted automatic citizenship.

The outspoken political activist, who has parents from Guinea Conakry, said in a Facebook post: “Whenever we talk about citizenship within an African context we are invoking the legacy of a colonial enterprise —that’s where the conversation should begin. When Africans are born in this land but both parents are not of this colonially created land, we should confer full citizenship on them— nothing more, nothing less.”

He continued: “Decolonial praxis begins with recognizing the border for what is, a monstrous, abstract coalition of colonial memory. And in decolonizing we must do away with these useless toubab borders and Africanize (both continental and diasporic) —that is the beginning.

“Africans, both home and abroad, should never be “foreigners” in this little land. It should invoke memories of home hood and not estrangement and alienation for them. The last thing that Africa should add on its itinerary of suffering is the statelessness of bonafide children of the land. So abolish these clawed, jarring, barbaric laws of othering our people.”

More than 30 people liked his post, including Mam Yassin Sarr, a former student union leader in the country.