RAMBLE in the JUNGLE

Ramble in the Jungle

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• Cultural Dexterity

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 26 Jun 2015 · Global

  The Age of Information is also the Age of Cultural Wars. Students need a new course: Cultural Dexterity.

  Tags: culture, media, western-culture, kom

• 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

• Set up to Fail

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 8 Jan 2015 · The Cameroons

  We have been set up for failure. Answer with dignity, a plan for how it ends, and sharpened skills.

  Tags: dignity, skills, nyamfɨkah, youth

• Youth Question – What to do?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 7 Jan 2015 · The Cameroons

  Know our history, sharpen one skill, build entities of trust, and hold meetings with purpose.

  Tags: youth, organising, skills, restoration

• 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

• Truth Commission in the Cameroons?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 12 Dec 2014 · The Cameroons

  You cannot tell the truth about now without knowing how "now" came to be.

  Tags: truth-commission, corruption, national-conference, language

• 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

• Dignity royalty of Kom Kingdom

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 24 Nov 2014 · Kom & Indigenous

  As long as there is no written book of Kom laws, customs and traditions, the person with the loudest voice wins.

  Tags: kom, protocol, documentation

• Religion and Violence

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 24 Nov 2014 · Global

  A dead person cannot believe in anything. So what's the point?

  Tags: religion, violence, poem

• Stunted Growth

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 25 Oct 2014 · Global

  If humans also have a spirit body, is there a way to measure how tall or short it is?

  Tags: spirit, measurement, philosophy

• Telling our story

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 25 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  The hardest thing to do is to tell a story so well that everyone is willing to listen.

  Tags: storytelling, narrative

• 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

• Culture?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 23 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  What kind of microorganisms is the "system in place" growing in the Cameroons?

  Tags: culture, systems, biology-metaphor

• 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

• The System, Not the People

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 2 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  Ordinary citizens do not really have issues with each other over systemic issues. The system in the Cameroons is broken, and everyone is running away from fixing it.

  Tags: assimilation, anglophone, francophone

• We have been scammed!

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 2 Oct 2014 · The Cameroons

  We did not become independent until 1961, October 1st. Oh! My mistake: we never became independent.

  Tags: statehood, decolonization

• 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

• Self Rule

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 17 Sep 2014 · The Cameroons

  The thing that WILL make our people independent is a set of common IDEALS that the majority believe in and can work towards.

  Tags: self-rule, ideals

• The Deliberate Dismantling of the Neo-Culture of a Nascent West African Modern Anglophone State

  Wanaku Verdzekov · 17 Sep 2014 · The Cameroons

  We are 30+ years late in kick-starting the rebuilding of our communities.

  Tags: restoration, camfranglais, community