I live in a small town where almost all men over 50 are alcoholics. More worrisome the men around 30 years are massively alcoholics too. Men gather only around drinking alcohol. There is no other socializing places except bars and white curtain pubs. There are no cinema, no theater, no festival, no musical concert, no […]
Lottery, the ultimate drug
Are you a doctor of our society? You keeping throwing diagnoses after diagnoses! Do you have cure for any? No, madam. I’m not a social doctor. I’m just chronicling the things I see around. Not sure there is any on the shelf cure. Social diseases don’t have any doctor here. Those who suffer from them […]
Things I witness with sadness
You see our government pretends to develop our countries and our leaders claim to work tirelessly for our population to get out of poverty and become rich. How true is that? In my country, every person with a little bit of money and social status is called ‘chief’, ‘boss’, ‘patron’, ‘amegan’, … All day long, […]
The tyranny of silence
Some say the poor are noisy. They go live far away from noise. Some say the poor speak loudly They scold them for lack of manners Some say the poor are splashy They adorn immoderate sophistication Yes the poor are noisy A hunted prey scream when cornered A man suffering would shout A woman in […]
Modernity madness
What is modernity? Modernity is an ideology based on a rational and utilitarian approach to life. Modernity means decisions and choices should be explainable, justifiable, argued according to logic and utility. In any circumstances, the best option is the one based on reason and utility. If you cannot justify, explain or ague anything rationally, therefore […]
Extroverts and the Covid19 pandemic
If you think your life is miserable, please imagine the suffering of extroverts and attention seeking addicts at this hard time of confinement and lockdown, with closed bars, closed churches, closed stadiums, closed night clubs…? Extroverts get stamina from being around people, and a lot of people. Attention seeking addicts constantly seek an audience to […]
Indirect competition and the nice guy syndrome
Most people look nice and civilized only because they are not confronted by a direct competition. They never know directly the people they are competing with. Humans quickly return to a jungle status once they know the people competing with them for the same things. You are looking for a job. You are in competition […]
God played fools
On Monday the sun rose at East The city as usual, no one spoke Except the lady without clothes On Tuesday the sun rose at North The roosters lost their voice The charlatan was busy The church was full The mosque was louder The wise men got bolder The science man broke few instruments The […]
The seagulls and the monkeys
There a two kinds of activists: the seagulls and the monkeys. The seagulls are bad activists. The monkeys are the good activists. The seagulls fly over shit on the boats and then fly away, while expecting the boats to give them some fish. The monkeys fake submission, keep reading the situation, and once the tyrannical […]
Activism without advocacy is entertainment
An African from the Diaspora wrote on her Facebook wall ‘Black people are sold as slave in Lybia and the World is doing nothing’. I told her, ‘We are the world. Did you write to your senator? Did write to your congressman? Did you go to your pastor, imam, or priest to ask what is […]