http://gbengaaborowa.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/war-the-most-profitable-business-in-the-world/#more-153 After reading “War is a Racket” by Smedley Butler, the most decorated and honoured United States Marine, a very slim book, I came to understand the indisputable profitability of war. Reading the works of Anthony C Sutton, a pariah in intellectual circles for the truth he tells, (see “The…
Month: September 2014
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Botswana: An African Model for Progress
Botswana: An African Model for Progress – A Replay http://gbengaaborowa.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/botswana-an-african-model-for-progress-and-prosperity/#more-134 Botswana, a prosperous African nation (population: 2 million), is a place I worked a long time ago. It fits very well with one of Mancur Olson’s most explicit thoughts on the conditions of economic growth and prosperity of a nation. …
A Nation without Institutions: Elected Politician Orders the Beating of a Judge
When a governor-elect for one of the states in Nigeria can openly slap, then instruct his thugs beat up and chase a sitting judge out of court for comments rendered, the days when the citizens of Nigeria could hope to build the nation up are long gone. Govern-elect, Ayo Fayose,…
Must Nigerians Defend Illegal Arms Dealers?
We cannot reduce malfeasance to party politics or party propaganda alone in Nigeria or any nation on the planet, anonymous and faceless special interests play a bigger role. Military rulers as well as democratic politicians have all contributed abundantly to this disaster called Africa. Democracy is supposed to create far…
President Jonathan, What Are Your Spin Doctors Doing?
President Jonathan, What Are Your Spin Doctors Doing? Hashtag disaster has hit the Nigerian President and it because someone created the unfortunate and ill-advised #BringBackJonathan2015 hashtag as a campaign device. But it is not the end of the world for President Jonathan by any means. Sometimes the greatest of presidents…
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The Ontology of the African V: The Exploitation & The Blindness
The ontology of the African is an emergent creature of exploitation, historical and contemporary. It started with slavery and colonisation. The late Dr Abdul Rahim Tajudeen, former head of the Pan-African Movement, was a fierce opponent of do-gooding foreign aid and charity. To him, when the African adopts the attitudes…
A New Kind of Thanks: To Goodluck Jonathan
After the the image-shattering debacle of the #BringBackJonathan2015 campaign, a new kind of thanks to a national leader has emerged. Many people especially the sycophants, spokesmen and usual suspects are queuing up to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for swiftly taking the courage to order the pulling down the sacrilegious campaign posters. Would…
Goodluck Jonathan & the Ontology of the African
Can Africans in power ever get it right? They can but choose not to for reasons of venality and mediocrity and sometimes sheer stupidity. I concur with the fact that resorting to insulting a President or anyone for that matter via social media, especially cheaply is an incorrigible practice. But…
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The Ontology of the African IV: The Antinomy
The Ontology of the African IV: The Antinomy The claim to being knowledgeable and intelligent as well as acting in denial of knowledge and intelligence, simultaneously, is as Antinomy of an unusual kind. Knowledge is power only when it is usefully and unarguably applied. Is knowledge power to the African?…