One of the things that history has taught me is the appreciation of conscientised minds. History, especially South Afrikan history, has taught me that revolution is a process of architecting a liberating pedagogy both of the oppressed and of the oppressor. And this process is not a spontaneous rapture, a once-off event. Rather, it’s aContinue reading “A Captured State; From Citizens to Subjects”
Category Archives: Africa
The Power of Collective Voices
I’m not the same person who stepped into these blogging waters on Monday June 3, 2024. 11 blogging days later, and I have evolved. Each day has presented a major discourse. You cannot read over ten different approaches on the same topic and remain the same man. These creatives have left my mind reeling withContinue reading “The Power of Collective Voices”
No New Years Resolutions
True Happiness is being present in our experiences. For the longest time I have tried, and successfully failed to come up with New Years Resolutions. I thought it was a disease, a sign of the underachieving unambitious person that I am. Sigh. I would try, I mean it’s always easy to get caught up inContinue reading “No New Years Resolutions”
Education in Africa
In a continent with high income inequalities where most of the population is the below the poverty line, the only thing that mitigates the class structure is Education. Education by its nature gives an equal footing because the children of the poor and the rich to level up in terms of the meritocracy to accessContinue reading “Education in Africa”
Magna Carta
Yesterday the 15th, marked 808 years since the magna Carta was written. It literally means the great Charter. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting hisContinue reading “Magna Carta”
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