Honor systems are only as durable as the cultures that breathe life into them. In the traditional African village, honor was not an abstraction....
It has become strangely unfashionable—almost a thought-crime in certain circles—to say that my children are mine, that my children belong to me. The trouble...
What Is Education? What Is Its Value? Why Should Ghanaians Chase It as if It Were a Wandering Goat With Gold in Its Belly?
What...
Some historians—gentle scribblers with trembling academic pens—have attempted to sketch a historiography of Africa's last five hundred years of civilizational mutilation. They summon the...
In 1970, in a sanctified Stanford laboratory adorned with the self-anointing glow of Western developmental psychology, Walter Mischel’s Marshmallow Experiment—an otherwise flimsy conjecture about...
They say the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment began in 1970, but anyone who has lived long enough among the ruins of empires knows it began...
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Stupidity Masquerading as Tradition
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...
Why We Pick Bad Leaders: How Africa Lost Its Elite.
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...
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Why Brotherhood, Not Polygamy, Built the Modern World.
There’s a growing trend among some men to peddle polygamy like a revolutionary idea—as if they deeply understand it or have truly lived it....
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