The Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuściński, travelled throughout Africa during the postcolonial period and recorded his insights in the renowned work, The Shadow of the Sun.
Powerful and lucid. Many thanks Chris. Stay clear of becoming anything like Canada. I grew up in Africa, and my heart will always belong there. Strangely, I don't feel the same about Canada. Home is where the heart is. And you can't "decolonize" the heart.
The world was colonized twice. First geographically and then intellectually. The second one, soaked with atheistic marxist garbage was more insidious as it kills the religious spirit and measures everything via material and progressive ends, both excusing an eventual earthly utopia (no place).
The western educated that have come to lead the world, both western and non, have been corrupted with ideas formulated to excuse the concentration of power held by a small gang of experts but really a small mafia of unsatiable tyrants who care only for money and power.
On the topic of time: I look forward to one solution in particular, which I think is the best place to start. The "need to invest" as opposed to the "option to save" - everything from time to value has been corrupted by fiat money. The idea idea that we are forced to choose "investments" because of inflation, rather than the ability to be thrifty and to put some notes under our mattresses for a (literal) rainy day, is absolutely something too complex for Africa - and was certain to break it. IMO.
Powerful and lucid. Many thanks Chris. Stay clear of becoming anything like Canada. I grew up in Africa, and my heart will always belong there. Strangely, I don't feel the same about Canada. Home is where the heart is. And you can't "decolonize" the heart.
We must never let them
Kudos on covering such a difficult topic.
The world was colonized twice. First geographically and then intellectually. The second one, soaked with atheistic marxist garbage was more insidious as it kills the religious spirit and measures everything via material and progressive ends, both excusing an eventual earthly utopia (no place).
The western educated that have come to lead the world, both western and non, have been corrupted with ideas formulated to excuse the concentration of power held by a small gang of experts but really a small mafia of unsatiable tyrants who care only for money and power.
Yes. The political decolonisation happened at the worst time. The global new deal of FDR and Marxism at its zenith.
Super piece!
On the topic of time: I look forward to one solution in particular, which I think is the best place to start. The "need to invest" as opposed to the "option to save" - everything from time to value has been corrupted by fiat money. The idea idea that we are forced to choose "investments" because of inflation, rather than the ability to be thrifty and to put some notes under our mattresses for a (literal) rainy day, is absolutely something too complex for Africa - and was certain to break it. IMO.
So true. I recently saw how bad housing inflation is in the US. Yet the value of houses has stayed static in gold terms. Massive problem.