It doesn’t matter how long I live l will never get used to the idea of accepting colonial rule. Yet I see many leaders of African and Developing World countries doing just that and selling their people’s interests to their colonial masters.
Anyone who opposes colonialism gets labelled something bad by the colonialists who are adept [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:58 on July 1st, 2008 in Culture
No Comments »From time to time I bump into people who feel they have to tell me about Channel 4’s Big Brother programme and the latest ‘events’ happening on that game show. Honestly, people, I really do not care!
The way how they present their opinions you would think Big Brother is a vital life-important elixir you have [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 01:00:00 on June 25th, 2008 in Culture
No Comments »After spending nine pleasure-filled days in Bulgaria I returned to Britain having learnt far more than I was expecting to. For instance, I had no idea that the Turks/Bulgarian slavery fault line was still erupting and a major cause of concern! In fact, I didn’t even know it really existed!
According to Wikipedia “the Bulgarian-Ottoman wars [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:32 on June 20th, 2008 in Culture
No Comments »I am continually grateful to be blessed by God’s grace to have the skills and abilities to have achieved much in my life. Despite all this there are times when I feel I have not achieved much at all and that there is so much more to be done.
It is not that I want to [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:42 on June 15th, 2008 in Culture
Comments OffNo matter how hard he tries history will not remember George W. Bush favourably. Not when a succession of former White House press secretaries keep writing scathing memoirs which chops down the illusion of him being a successful president.
The latest whistle blower (it would be so unfair to call him a traitor!) is Scott McClellan [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:16 on May 30th, 2008 in Culture
No Comments »There was a time when I held Rastafarianism in great esteem and looked upon some Rastas as being great examples of an ideal that I knew was hard to uphold. Things are changing. I still respect the ideals and ideology of Rastafarianism but now I think I would be hard-pressed to find a Rasta adherent [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 23:59:33 on March 25th, 2008 in Culture
1 Comment »Pigeons must be the dumbest, stupidest birds alive! This thought filtered around my brain as I waited for a train this morning watching one fight with a piece of bread on the train platform.
My eyes keenly followed this lone pigeon in front of me viciously pecking this bread so hard that it flew up into [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:02 on March 14th, 2008 in Culture
2 Comments »On Saturday, at the One Hand Can’t Clap reworking session I attended, we discussed in passing the reality that Black people never seem to value what they have until someone outside the culture, usually a European, exploits and profiteers out of it first! All in the room agreed with some sharing examples that represented the [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:12 on February 24th, 2008 in Culture
1 Comment »It is only a three hour flight to Morocco’s Marrakech Airport from England’s Luton Airport but the difference in culture between the two countries could not be more distant!
This was the first thought that came into my head as I settled into my Mercedes-Benz driven taxi that was taking me from Marrakech to Essaouira, a [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:04 on September 22nd, 2007 in Culture
No Comments »The word “Africa” does not exist in any of the 1,000 languages used by any of the 720 million people in the 50 countries that make up the so-called African continent. This is a fact.
Yet, people say “Africa” when they don’t remember the names of the countries and many people wrongfully believe there is a [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:54 on September 16th, 2007 in Culture
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