The Leadership, Bad Brother 3 The third instalment of The Leadership of a Bad Brother has the same context and focuses on the first two. The random presentation of thoughts should reflect the haphazard manner in which victims of bad organisations and bad leaders order their thoughts privately. Some respondents have questioned…
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The Leadership, Bad Brother
The Leadership, Bad Brother Reflections on the leadership of someone have inspired these musings. As ordinary as they are, daily I can best describe him as a “Brother”. Put together as a diary, it is an attempt to make sense of the tyranny of an individual. With the assistance of…
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures
Native Politics: Thieves and Treasures At the heart of Nigerian politics and the thinking something drives it. It is the pervasive ‘nativity’ that we cannot ignore or dismiss. Musing about corruption without it is impossible. Imagine a polity in which the “high and mighty” as well as the “hungry and…
The Ontology of the African VI: Thieving Patriotism
‘Patriotism of the stomach’ is much more pitiable than it sounds. Patriotism, even in moderate forms, is a thoroughly virtuous state of being to adopt underpinned by loyalty, commitment, support and above all selflessness in support and defence of one’s country. In Africa, it is the reverse, with rare exceptions….