RAMBLE in the JUNGLE
Ramble in the Jungle
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Stadium Facilities et al – Long overdue in Kom?
Wanaku Verdzekov · · Kom & Indigenous
Money can be useful, but money does not "work". People do the work.
Tags: kom, infrastructure, maintenance, higher-education
Sub Saharan Africa Needs a Marshall Plan
Wanaku Verdzekov · · 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
Systems & culture
Wanaku Verdzekov · · Global
It is impossible to separate justice systems from the culture of the region that built them.
Tags: justice-systems, culture
Talking Africa
Wanaku Verdzekov · · 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 · · 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
Time for action
Wanaku Verdzekov · · Global
Informed action is deliberate and positively consequential. Uninformed action is reckless.
Tags: knowledge, consciousness, laissez-passer
Trapped!
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
We have all the tools to release ourselves from this trap. What is the hold-up?
Tags: trap, strategy
Wallowing in Ambiguity
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
It is not enough to cry out "Help!" and expect the world to come running. We must learn to smith our words.
Tags: ambiguity, statelessness, literacy, record-keeping
We the People Have Work to Do
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
If we wait for solutions from "above", our children's children will not even be in the picture.
Tags: cpdm, organising, literacy, secession-label
What is happening on the ground?
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
A decent culture does not happen by accident.
Tags: politricks, culture, obfuscation
When the student is ready, the guru appears
Wanaku Verdzekov · · Global
No one knows everything. When the student is ready, the guru will appear.
Tags: generations, knowledge, learning
Navigating the Intangible (So Much for Tangibility)
Wanaku Verdzekov · · Global
How does our cultural background shape our understanding of intangible concepts like "spirit", "God" or "love"?
Tags: language, culture, spirituality
Neo-Camerounese Civilization?
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
We lost the foundations of our society and never replaced them with anything that can hold water.
Tags: bali-nyonga, memory, foundations
their history, their rights, their future
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Take a complicated problem, break it into smaller chunks, solve those, then rebuild the whole again.
Tags: information, advocacy, cohesion
Beer drinking – response to wallang
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
If the people are not sober, they cannot organize. If they cannot organize, change will remain elusive.
Tags: beer, culture, sobriety, national-conference
Of democracy, constitutions and mottos
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Any constitution that has anything to do with Kom people should put the value of the person at its centre, as the Kom motto does.
Tags: kom-motto, constitution, free-speech
Intellectuals to the Rescue?
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Does an individual's life become more or less meaningful after the change? That is a great brain-muscle exercise.
Tags: intellectuals, constitution, term-limits
Broken Self-Esteem?
Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
A broken system is like a broken calabash. It cannot carry any water.
Tags: self-esteem, bamenda, kom-pride
African Development?
Wanaku Verdzekov · · 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 · · 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