If you are not growing during a crisis, your way of thinking is certainly flawed and you could easily be preyed. Evolution happens during crisis and crisis are the moment of truth about who you are. Unfortunately, evolution is ugly!
About: Mawuna KOUTONIN
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Maps Readers versus Book Readers
You visit a friend. He has a lot of books. You are impressed. He might be intelligent or an intellectual. You visit a friend. He has a lot of maps. Maps of countries. Maps of cities. Maps of territories and world resources. You’d be impressed and more over, you’d have some of the best time […]
Guiding Symbols
Every year I choose a symbol which would guide me through the new year. Year 2017 was the year of the Eagle. It means to soar high enough to have top view, perspective of my condition, the one of my family, and the one of my communities. The year 2018 was my year of the […]
Silent Creativity
You cannot be creative, innovative if you have strong verbal skills. Vocabulary deals in categories, creativity sprout from breaking categories or ignoring existing categories. Dyslexic, introverts, non talkative people are likely to be more creative than chatty folks. For fitting in, verbal skills are essential, but out of box thinking stems from uncharted territories, yet […]
Useless Activists: No one cares about your ideas
Activists spending most of their time on awareness or consciousness campaigns are either wasting their time or are in entertainment business. In very religious countries, the masses are looking for ‘Gods in human form’ to follow. Strong, powerful, charismatic, provider men or women regardless of their ideologies. They crave faces with a presence that scares […]
Theories and Banks
This was the idea. To reduce corruption, public workers should be well paid. If they are well paid, they won’t be tempted by bribery and corruption. The fear of losing well paid and secure job would logically outstrip the temptation of a quick ill gain. Following such a well thought out, World Bank backed ideology, […]
Rules for Men
Don’t speak while standing. Or very little. A wise man don’t do business while standing. A man don’t talk to his children, his wife while standing. Don’t stand up when you are angry, upset, or restless. Speak only with your eyes when standing. Do your talk only while sitting. Following this simple rule will bring […]
Illusion of knowledge
There is public knowledge and there is private knowledge. Very much as there is public wealth and there is private wealth. In a world where private wealth surpasses by folds public wealth, one must deduct that private knowledge is far superior and surpasses by more folds public knowledge. The best knowledge warehouses are private, guarded […]
Panafricanism is dead
During the last 3 years, I’ve written several articles to warn about the danger of the panafricanist ideology and its various branches like black identity. Those ideas are so entrenched and many have committed so much to them that it’s hard for them to step back and take a second look, let alone examine any […]
I’M RICH, THEREFORE I’M NOT BLACK ANYMORE – THE OPRAH SYNDROME!
Some Black people think having a PhD from Harvard, becoming rich or living in a rich suburb would make them less Black, therefore more acceptable or respected by White people. I called this phenomenon the “Oprah Syndrome”. The tragedy with the Oprah syndrome is that No one knows You are a rich or an educated […]