The Gambian is hardworking.

She wakes before the sun,

He walks to the fields,

He plants the seeds.

She smiles at the rising day,

carrying water, carrying hope.

The Gambian is cultured.

He knows the songs of his ancestors.

She braids the stories into her children’s hair.

They (the Children ) dance “paraamisending”

Under the vast skies of The Gambia,

The smiling coast of Africa.

The Gambian reads. The Gambian writes.

He writes poems in the sand with his feet.

She writes history in her life every day through strength and patience.

The Gambian sings.

He sings to celebrate, to mourn, to remember.

She sings lullabies that cross oceans,

carrying the soul of The Gambia to every ear willing to listen.

The Gambian is proud.

He loves The Gambia. He loves Africa.

She wears her nation’s colours like a crown; red, white, blue, white, green.

They live the culture, breathe the traditions, and smile because it is who we are.

He is a farmer under the vast African sun.

She is a doctor, healing the broken with the light of hope.

The Gambian is a teacher, a fisherman, an artist, a mother, a dreamer.

They are Gambians because they open their hearts

to guests from all over the world,

that is what we know.

The Gambia welcomes you with both hands, a warm smile, a plate full of food, and a story full of love.

We are Gambians when we build.

We are Gambians when we lift each other.

She is Gambian when she gracefully faces hardship, raising children strong enough to reach the sky.

He is Gambian when he works all day to put food on the family’s plate and laughter in their home.

The Gambia is tiny, but its heart is mighty.

The Gambian spirit is a flame that will never be put out.

We carry our country in our words, work, and dreams.

We sing for The Gambia, we stand for The Gambia, we live for The Gambia.

The Gambian is every mother selling vegetables in the market.

The Gambian is every fisherman pulling nets from the Atlantic waves.

The Gambian is every child laughing barefoot in the rain.

The Gambian is every elder, wise with stories, weaving the past into the future.

The Gambian does not give up.

He falls, but he rises.

She struggles, but she smiles.

The Gambian is the soul of Africa.

A small country, a proud nation, a people whose hearts shine bigger than their borders.

We are Gambia — the smiling coast of Africa.

We are Gambians, and the world is better because of us.