RAMBLE in the JUNGLE

Ramble in the Jungle

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• Stadium Facilities et al – Long overdue in Kom?

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · 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 · 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

• Systems & culture

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · 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 · 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

• Time for action

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · Global

  Informed action is deliberate and positively consequential. Uninformed action is reckless.

  Tags: knowledge, consciousness, laissez-passer

• Trapped!

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · 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 · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · 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 · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · 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 · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · The Cameroons

  A decent culture does not happen by accident.

  Tags: politricks, culture, obfuscation

• When the student is ready, the guru appears

  Wanaku Verdzekov · approx. 1 Jan 2013 · 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 · 13 Jan 2012 · 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 · approx. 1 Jan 2012 · 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 · approx. 1 Jan 2012 · 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 · approx. 1 Nov 2011 · 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 · 31 Oct 2011 · 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 · approx. 26 Oct 2011 · 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 · approx. 22 Oct 2011 · 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 · 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