RAMBLE in the JUNGLE

Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

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• TRIBALISM?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2021 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Don't get distracted by the ~ism. Here is the REAL ISSUE: COMPETENCE.

  Tags: tribalism, competence, colonization

• Party Politics is a Colonial Construct

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 3 Jan 2020 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  The definition of "family" in Europe and the US is NOT the same as in an African indigenous community.

  Tags: party-politics, family, divide-and-rule

• United States of Africa?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 2 Jan 2020 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Africa needs to RETHINK government systems, and stay as far away from COLONIAL CONSTRUCTS as possible.

  Tags: pan-africanism, au, colonial-constructs

• AFRICA: Post-Colonial DILEMMA?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2020 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Self-rule is not just words, but ACTIONS: as simple as a village council running a garbage-disposal system for the community.

  Tags: colonial-institutions, self-rule, systems

• One Africa – Not too fast

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 3 Mar 2015 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Having "one Africa" dreams without a strategy to cover 11 million square miles will leave people wondering what is in the pipe you are smoking.

  Tags: pan-africanism, ethiopia-calendar, self-rule

• Cultural Amnesia, Not Imperialism

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 22 Dec 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Cultural imperialism? I'd say "cultural amnesia". Check the budget allocation for culture in Sub-Saharan African states.

  Tags: cultural-amnesia, oral-tradition, mother-tongue, education

• Africa – a toothless bulldog

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 11 Dec 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Africa has become a shell of what it really is: a bulldog that has only a whimper for a bark.

  Tags: africa, human-capital, leadership

• Ethiopia

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 24 Oct 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  As long as you cannot change a person's ROOTS, the logical thing to do is to base your systems on those roots.

  Tags: federalism, ethnic-states, botswana

• Ebola

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 15 Oct 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Where you have humans, there are basic needs: water, food, clean air and… sewage disposal.

  Tags: health, sanitation, infrastructure

• African videos

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 29 Sep 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Are there African universities where students write papers about social artefacts like the Azonto dance?

  Tags: dance, universities, creative-arts

• Africa

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 18 Sep 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  As long as we do not know more about ourselves than people from outside the continent, we will be on the receiving end of injustice.

  Tags: africa, naming, indigenous-justice

• Nigeria

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 3 Jun 2014 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  A country of more than 100,000,000 humans without a water-tight system of accounting for each of them is bound to face problems.

  Tags: nigeria, accountability, identification

• African Preachers

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Change won't happen by magic. It takes the exercise of brain muscles to move Africa from nonentity to an entity to be reckoned with.

  Tags: africa, storytelling, au, restoration

• china - africa

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  My people are TOO kind. I guess that's what UBUNTU is all about.

  Tags: china, ubuntu

• Literacy

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Literacy is important not because it is an English word, but because the concept applies to any language.

  Tags: literacy, vernacular, miseducation

• Sub Saharan Africa Needs a Marshall Plan

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  The key word in the Marshall Plan is "rebuild". In the sub-Saharan African context, that applies in more ways than one.

  Tags: marshall-plan, rebuilding, development

• Talking Africa

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Capitalism, communism: those are just words. What matters is the ability to organize and be organized.

  Tags: capitalism, communism, organisation

• Technology Tx

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  There is no use transferring technology that local brains will not use in the long run.

  Tags: technology-transfer, knowledge

• African Development?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jun 2011 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  There is no magic. There is WORK, WORK and more WORK.

  Tags: work, elites, development, nationalism

• African Armies – Killing Your Own People

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 29 Apr 2011 · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea

  Do post-independence African nations need armies? Here is the side I fall on: no need for armies.

  Tags: militarism, africa, nationhood