Things Fell Apart

All of you by now have seen, read and simply been overwhelmed with images, videos and commentary from the pundits, laymen and goons alike about the life and death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Here is another goon’s take on the issue.

Whats your occupation?

The goal of these questions is to raise critical awareness about how each demonstration, protest and riot around the world is told to the rest of the world, and to imagine other ways to “occupy” a way of thinking.

The Deafening Silence

Democratic government is supposed to bring about, more or less, the wants of the people. Tanzanian democracy should be no different. The problem with the Tanzanian people, however, is that they do not always know what they want.

How prepared is East Africa for opposition?

Indeed, there is no single country in the region that has never harassed opposition parties. The only difference is perhaps the scale of such harassment that puts such events in the Pearl of Africa to a level that could be compared to what is done by occupants of Mirembe or Butabika hospitals in Tanzania and Uganda, respectively.

I am African

Thabo Mbeki defining the essence of what it is to be an African in the 21st century. He made this speech in 1996 upon taking the SA Presidency in the parliament…