When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonder “Why are there no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans destroyed most of them. We only have a few drawings and descriptions by travellers who visited the places before their destruction. In some places, ruins are still visible. Many cities were abandoned when Europeans brought exotic […]
The Dark Truth About Why South Africa Destroyed Its Nuclear Weapons in 1990
Why would any country voluntarily dismantle its nuclear weapons which take years and billions to develop? South Africa is the only country which ever give up its nuclear dissuasion power. But Why? Did they dismantle the country’s nuclear weapons because they believed in a vision of an Africa free of nuclear weapons, as the press […]
How to Secure your assets the best?
The rich and the poor have something in common. They both do not store value in money. Because money is too volatile and outside of their control. They convert assets to money only when needed for a transaction. The wise poor keep their harvests as store of value, they also keep value in jewelry, precious stones, gold, […]
The Melian Dialogue
The Melian Dialogue In the 16th year of the Peloponnesian war, the Athenians troops besieged the small island of Melos, which was neutral in the war, and asked the Melians to become part of the Athenian empire, or to be invaded, all men killed and the women and children sold into slavery. The Melians argued […]
How colonization works?
People who have no idea how colonisation could be brutal, are having a live lesson in Palestine. That’s how Africa was colonized with white people killing daily Africans, shelling their homes, arresting thousands, murdering their leaders while the whole world was mute. Slavery was even more brutal. Arabs Islamization of Africa was similar. Europeans christianisation […]
Gender Trap
Women look for men to marry. Men look for woman to marry. That’s a trap. A ‘Man’ is a social construct: protector, provider, visionary, leader, domineering, imposing, intimidating, bold, inaccessible, admired, feared, … If a male person matches most of those attributes, he would then qualify for the honorable title a man, and consequently become […]
A book that saved the world
In August 1962, the young 45 years old American President Kennedy was on vacation reading a book that would literary save the world from nuclear war two months later. The book is ‘Guns of August’. The main story of the book is how European leaders at the beginning of the 20th century sleep walked into […]
Hot Season Hot Things
Slowly the hot season is coming October opens the flowers season All plants have to mate All have to spread and bury seeds All compete for the butterfly The bees are buzzy amassing food Ants are refilling their stock The northern birds are coming soon Men would soon go hunting. Just before all die, it’s […]
Newton second law of motion
You call it a mass. Or the masses. A mass is a mass, regardless of what it’s made of. In physics, a mass is defined by the inertia (resistance) it opposes to anything trying to move it. The bigger the mass, the more inertia and more opposition to any change. The most simple definition is […]
Vanity is more important than money
African music has been ‘completely’ decolonized without any other incentive than fame and recognition. African musicians revolutionized African music not because of expectation of monetary reward. Their motivation is mainly self expression, talent showcase, recognition and fame. They love what they do, and they just want to do it, even if they have to sell […]