Fiat Lux
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…
April 6 2017 – Education, as we commonly talk of it, is that process by which an individual is taken through formal structures that inculcate in him/her a certain body of knowledge and values qualifying the individual for a useful and serviceable existence. This usually denotes the school system, complete with its classrooms, teachers, syllabuses and books. But there is always another education, which is not that formal, one which…...
May 26 2016 – Another example of my romance with T-shirts with catchy words in my youth came from Paris, and it went (my translation): “They all notice when I’m drunk but not when I’m thirsty.” Obvious, wouldn’t you say? It sure would be a crazy world if people went around looking at other people and saying, “Hey, you look thirsty; what’s the matter with you?” First, in our overly…...
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…...