The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment—Walter Mischel’s now-canonical study in developmental psychology—was originally an unremarkable inquiry into behavioral variation among children. Yet the 1970 iteration quickly...
When I wrote, some half a decade ago, “Boeing, USA, vs Russian Science. Merry Christmas!”, I meant it as both satire and prophecy. The...
The Russians have done what others only theorized: they have miniaturized an entire nuclear plant. To test this wonder, they have fitted it to...
Some Mis-Educated Than His Ancestors—the Metha—have risen against me once again. I wrote recently about certain new weapons the Russians had managed to produce...
Long Version.
The savanna had a tradition. For so long, she demanded the blood of her best sons. Her covenant was simple: greatness must perish...
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”— Frantz Fanon
I. The Covenant of the Captain and the...
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The Republic of Hair: Ghana’s Quiet Civil War Over Her Daughters.
I have stalked the Hair Debate in Ghana the way a cat stalks the scent of a mouse—patiently, silently, with eyes that never blink...
When You Can’t Beat Him. Join Him.
A Tale of Material Balance and Other Forms of Sorcery.
In those humid university days when the moon hovered too close to the earth and...
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The Myth of Protection: How Control Masquerades as Care.
There are people obsessed with the population control of other nations. Why? Because if other nations...
The idol of a strong cedi inside a weak republic is not progress. It is apostasy. Ghana’s leaders are mistaking monetary illusion for economic...
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Universities of Confusion: The Flagitious Minds of Ghana’s Metha.
In Ghana, the West African country hijacked by the Mis-Educated Than His Ancestors—the Metha—national affairs have been surrendered to the incompetent. And it shows....
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Your Idea of the Truth is Probably Wrong: Video Footage vs....
People watched an American police shooting of an African American man on video. Many versions of what happened in that video now abound. Some...
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