My son, listen to your father’s words of love. I know you have book learning. But the wise man is he who has been taught by someone who has seen it all before and has learned from the experience. A career of theft and robbery is the only one for anybody calls himself an adult.Continue reading “RKS African Literature: Learn from the Whites and You’ll Never Go Wrong (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
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RKS African Literature: Ratchet Down Your Greed and Brutality or Face the Threat of Chinese Communism! (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
What, me, accept being ruled by the party of workers and peasants? Me, accept being ruled by a party dedicated to eradicating the system of theft and robbery on Earth? Me, go back to working with my hands? Eat only what has been produced by my sweat alone, without having access to the products ofContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Ratchet Down Your Greed and Brutality or Face the Threat of Chinese Communism! (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: Theft and Robbery the Cornerstones of American and Western Civilization (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
I think there is no one who does not know that theft and robbery are the cornerstones of America and Western civilization. Money is the heart that beats to keep the Western world on the move. If you want people to build a great civilization like ours then kneel down before the god of money.Continue reading “RKS African Literature: Theft and Robbery the Cornerstones of American and Western Civilization (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: Theft and Robbery are the Measure of a Country’s Progress (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Believe me when I say that theft and robbery are the measures of a country’s progress. Because in order for theft and robbery to flourish, there must be things to be stolen. And in order that the robbed may acquire possessions to be stolen and still be left with a few, they must work harderContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Theft and Robbery are the Measure of a Country’s Progress (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:16September2026: Stop the Welcoming Verbal Onslaught, I’m Tired! Athens
Easy peasy 45-minute turbo prop flight on Sky Express from Samos to Athens. A very small airport and as flight departures are few no passengers ahead of us at security so through that in a flash. As this was a domestic flight no need to suffer passport control at Athens Eleftherios Airport. Our baggage wasContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version:16September2026: Stop the Welcoming Verbal Onslaught, I’m Tired! Athens”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 15September2026: Pythagorio, Samos: Doryssa Seaside Resort to be Saved by the Bell of Renovation?
Hotels, no matter their greatness, take a battering through age and careless guests. You’ve seen it previously I am certain. Failure to renovate and the reputation of a hotel may plummet when word of deterioration hits the market. Yesterday’s darling may be tomorrow’s enfant terrible. One can’t fail to take note of the battering theContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 15September2026: Pythagorio, Samos: Doryssa Seaside Resort to be Saved by the Bell of Renovation?”
RKS African Literature: Mistaking Foreign S*** for a Delicious National Dish (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
Where are our national languages now? Where are the books written in the alphabets of our national languages? Where is our own literature now? Where is the wisdom and knowledge of our fathers now? Where is the philosophy of our fathers now? The centres of wisdom that used to guard the entrance to our nationalContinue reading “RKS African Literature: Mistaking Foreign S*** for a Delicious National Dish (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS African Literature: English Cultural Imperialism (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
“You talk as if you knew I came from the university, and it is true. I am from there. I’m a kind of research student in culture. I’m a junior research fellow in African culture. Our culture…sorry I mean our culture. That is what I call English cultural imperialism. Cultural imperialism is mother to theContinue reading “RKS African Literature: English Cultural Imperialism (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
RKS INTERNATIONAL FILM: “No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman”
Surely a typical misogynist ISIS saying. I suppose it means if a woman kills an ISIS warrior that unfortunate might as well forget about paradise and the seven virgins! Moralistic greed with seven and misogynist fussiness demanding they be virgins! Vyan (Avan Jamal) is a sniper for the Peshmerga Kurdish security forces in Northern IraqContinue reading “RKS INTERNATIONAL FILM: “No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman””
RKS African Literature: The Effects of American Experts on the Kenyan Economy (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)
“Nairobi is large, soulless and corrupt.” He moved nearer to Warĩĩnga, leaned against the wall and went on: “But it is not Nairobi alone that is afflicted in this way. The same is true of all the cities in every country that has recently slipped the noose of colonialism. These countries are finding it difficultContinue reading “RKS African Literature: The Effects of American Experts on the Kenyan Economy (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)”
