Posts filed under: The way we are

From each… to each… (6 March 2012)

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” (Karl Marx). This simple statement says so much and I raise it here out of concern that what is given to Sierra Leone and how it is given […]

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Praying and Hating (10 August 2011)

I often find myself staggered by posts and comments on various forums that point to mistrust, dislike and outright bigotry driven by religion. Is it my upbringing that makes me incapable of what to me are very negative feelings with the […]

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Survival (1979) – Refuse to be what they want you to be (22 October 2010)

1979!!! There is revolution in Iran and a power struggle in Chad; Michael Bishop coups in Grenada and Tanzanian troops force Idi Amin out of Uganda; Flight Lieutenant J J Rawlings seizes power in Ghana and Saddam Hussein does the […]

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Kaya – Get up and turn I loose! (13 October 2010)

Kaya – Get up and turn I loose! What made my Dad buy me an album from an artist he knew nothing about? Kaya was that album and after the initial appreciation of the music, the words of Robert Nesta […]

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Nesta and Fela – No place for fear (6th November 2010)

Did Robert Nesta Marley ever meet Fela Anikulapo Kuti? Ah well, I can only imagine it would have been quite a conversation. Nesta, exiled from the mother continent by the injustices to ancestors and unrelenting in his dream for all […]

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