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Continue reading →: How the Woke Broke AfricaFrom 100 million to a billion: liberals’ promise of a bridge to progress proved to be a tightrope of peril for Africans. People ask why I lay so much of the blame for sub-Saharan Africa’s chaos on ultra-liberals and their woke offspring chasing fairy-tale “fairness.” Easy: They sold a lie–told…
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Continue reading →: Africa Got Everything for Free-And Blew ItA Blunt Tale of Hype, History, and a Colonial Trainwreck In 2024, a 75-year-old South African became Africa’s No. 1 shot-putter in his age group. No Biden White House fanfare. The effort’s cute, but the world champ throws a ball twice as heavy twice as far. Since time began, results…
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Continue reading →: Strike the Problem, Make OpportunitiesVotes are worthless—strikes work. How many remember Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe? He started the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to oppose the world’s most loved president, Robert Mugabe. Although most of the country knew that Mugabe and his policies had to go, Tsvangirai was one of a handful who said…
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Continue reading →: Colonial Africa: No Maturation TimeToo much, too quick for a culture change. Cowboys chasing Indians—not for me! My games featured Cecil Rhodes’ pioneers and Lobengula’s Matabele impis. Shucks, I was where it all happened—Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. It was 1958, and I was an impressionable 9. I had a flat. My annoyance turned to delight…
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Continue reading →: Fireside Slumber to Skilled ColonialThe reluctant classroom: where the pain and progress of colonialism forged civilization. Colonialism is a big word, isn’t it? Wikipedia’s definition makes you think of kings sending ships full of lecherous citizens to occupy and plunder faraway lands. Sometimes it does feel like the West bragging, “We did it all!”…
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Continue reading →: The Inequality Trap: How Equality Killed AfricaInequality kills poverty. The proof is Sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty has a cure: celebrate the “unequal” person. The achiever, the innovator, the one who sees and thinks further, works smarter, and crucially, pulls others up. Without these unequals, societies regress. With them, they flourish. Yet across Sub-Saharan Africa, a devastating cultural…
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Continue reading →: From Hunter to Handout: The Truth About African AgricultureTaking farms is like handing out 747s and expecting cronies fly on behalf of SAA. Why the shock? Wrapped up as apartheid’s big fix, again the ANC pushes land exploitation. Thirty years of messing about reduced most of the magnificent properties seized to scrub or dust and folk living on…
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Continue reading →: Intelligence—Grow It or Kill ItA tale of two grandfathers—one stuck in comfort, the other chasing tomorrow—explains why some brains stalled and others sprinted. Every animal alive—from worms to whales—gets smarter the same way. They stumble into something that works, like dodging a hawk or cracking a nut, and do it again. And again. After…
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Continue reading →: Grandfather’s Hundred-Year Plate“Vegetables are your key to health.” 100 years later, my family pays the price. In 1932, a scrawny 15-year-old—my dad—sat glaring at a plate of limp vegetables in a dusty South African kitchen. For three days, he’d refused to eat until his widowed aunt slapped the same plate down and…
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Continue reading →: Flourishing Europe develops Same-Same AfricaNine out of ten Africans would not have been born if the Europeans had looked, said, “No, too much trouble,” and sailed home. Before the return of now non-blacks to sub-Saharan Africa, the indigenous black experienced population growth barely exceeding replacement rates. This stagnation birthed a unique form of tribal…
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My Grandfather’s Fireside Tales emerge from a lifetime of learning and unlearning. In an age where adults often remain stuck at superficial understanding, and follow a preset political agenda, these stories challenge young people to think deeper, question assumptions, and look beyond convenient narratives. They’re for minds still open to take fresh perspectives, lay them on the table before their elders and ask, “so what about this?”
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