Abundance of Being
The singular voice of the crowd and the voice of the individual in that crowd
March 2022
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When Women Ruled and Men Were Fearless
Presidential hopeful, Elizabeth Warren, exited stage-left. The audience that cheered her on muttered disappointment about how it will be a long while before this country ever gets a woman president. It’s still a relatively new thing for the European culture to accept women in powerful positions. That was never the case in the African cultures….
What manner of god
Churches never disappoint in wartime. That the Orthodox Russian church is supporting the killing of innocent humans an imaginary border across is quite unsurprising. The US came from a 4-year era of a powerful Evangelical church supporting a dangerous liar whose regime culminated in a violent insurrection. Without the pact between political barons and the…
Transmogrification
The US imposes a travel ban on 8 African countries over Omicron. Other countries with the same virus detected but not banned include Belgium, Israel, Hong Kong, UK and Germany. This calls for a lesson on transmogrification (the Western gaze that views the African/Black human as a dangerous creature). Its opposite is humanization. Stay with…
The Intruder
First published on November 30, 2021 At exactly zero dark 1, a loud banging on the door woke me up. I jumped out of bed so quick I put a dent in the ceiling and came down with a thud, missed the mattress by an inch. I had no time to think about a sore…
The Shrine
First published on December 20, 2021 So, hmm.. this village is showing me things! The other day the village ATM swallowed my debit card. I beat it, pap-pap, it refused to spit it out. It seems it was angry that I took money from it. The security guard for the ATM kiosk was eating mangoes…
It Can’t Happen To Us
The International Crisis Group will list you the top ten conflicts going on around the globe. When I last used their analysis last Fall, all nations with active war, the kind that comes with ceaseless bloodshed and loss of life, were in those parts of the world where people have learnt to turn a blind…
Going Human
The train station at Lviv is packed, Ukrainians are fleeing war. The entry point at Medyka into Poland is bursting at the seams with those seeking refuge. A hotel in Kharkiv is overflowing with families looking for warmth as bitter cold sinks its teeth into the flesh of those bombed out. In all these situations,…