[Cross-posted at my blog Method to the Madness] Don’t know how I missed this, but (via Africa Unchained) Former Central Bank Chairman Charles Soludo said “our politics must change”. How? Well… Soludo who was guest lecturer at the Faculty of [...]
(This piece is cross-posted at my blog Method to the Madness) Pankaj Mishra has a devastating piece on Ayanna Hirsi Ali [Somali-Dutch, now living in the U.S., Islam critic (hater?) extraordinaire] and her newest book “Nomad”. A taste: “Nomad” is [...]
(Cross-posted at my blogging house Method to the Madness). There’s something about a suit that irks me. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate a well-dressed man as much as the next girl, but there’s something about a perpetually well-dressed person [...]
Hearing Acting President Goodluck Jonathan live was a confrontation with my pre-conceived impressions. All the news reports from Nigeria have a similar air, in that they tend to depict him as an accidental leader being floated about in the wave [...]
Nobody wants to ever think that, but it’s true. Homes have been demolished. Lives have been upended. Entire worlds have caved into themselves, collapsed like broken hearts, been swallowed whole. What to do? What to do? The eternal cynic that [...]
Below is an article of mine previously posted at allAfrica.com. The previous post on this subject and Nigeria can be found here. Update: I suggest reading the allAfrica.com copy with the link provided above. There, you will see all the [...]
This. I have a lot of respect for Dr. George Ayittey, but come on. “In many African countries, government has ceased to exist or function. In its place is a vampire state — a government hijacked by unrepentant bandits who [...]
The idea that underlines the banality of evil relies on the notion that people are put in situations – by their respective governments or larger authorities, even mere families – where the perpetuation of evil acts stop being evil and [...]
Exceptionalism seems to me a distinctly Western way of thinking about things. Yes, I know how that sounds. I don’t like the whole Ubuntu notion either, which seems like the most obvious counterpoint to a more Western-suitable capitalism meme, but [...]
This is a problem, and not just a Ugandan problem.
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