Fiat Lux
Under the heading, “More a marathon than a sprint”, last week’s “The Economist” wrote about the deindustrialization of the African continent. Comparing our continent with Asia, the newspaper painted a picture of a continent that has been dismantling even the few factories that it had built three decades ago and shows no signs of embarking on any programme of putting itself out of the hole it has dug itself into….
It’s official, it is not working, it just isn’t. It is this election thing that I’m talking about. It clearly is not working for us at all though, like the proverbial madman, we keep repeating the same thing the same way every day, expecting different results. Whomsoever introduced elections to Africans was either ill-informed about our fundamental philosophical infrastructure or ill-intentioned and wishing us to be stuck forever in a…...
October 13 2016 I cannot in any way be characterized as a Luddite, one of those people who suffer from a morbid fear of technological advances as were witnessed in England at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The term “Luddite” itself is supposed to have come from Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire worker who led his fellow proletarians to wreck machinery because technical innovations threatened workers’ jobs. By the standards…...
December 21 2015 Our bright little lady century is coming out at the sweet age of sixteen, and this is perhaps something we may or may not celebrate, given what has been and what we have seen. Still, wishing each other the best does denote good manners and proper conduct, and on this I certainly am keen. To my readers and friends, comrades all, I take this space to send…...