1) There seems to be a relatively widely held belief here that men have a non-negotiable biological need to have sex at least once every few weeks. If this need is not satisfied, people believe the man can become very sick. Now consider that women often have 6 or 7 children here (which is considered absolutely necessary to provide for one's own social security) and that there is a generally accepted practice of a man abstaining from sex with his wife when she is in the last trimester of pregnancy and for the first couple months after giving birth. Additionally, many men will abstain from sex with their wife when she is sick. Given these assumptions and practices, if a man only has one wife, sooner or later, he will have no choice but to cheat on her. Islam clearly discourages infidelity, so polygamy is the obvious answer.
2) Another seemingly relatively widely held belief here is that there are significantly more women in the world than men. As a result, men have a social and religious responsibility to take more than one wife to provide for all those extra women. Using the same logic, since polygamy is not widely practiced in the US/UK/Europe, there are large numbers of eligible young women there who can't find a husband and therefore would happily take a Gambian husband, get him a visa, and bring him to the US/UK/Europe. This explains all the beautiful American/British/European young women Gambian men find on internet dating sites.
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