What culture has yet to undergo any/some form of change since its inception? Realities of change and changing eras tend to produce nostalgia and amnesia in living persons. Those who are around now often decry the status of things, believing that the age of yore is past. For example, it is highly likely that one white man is unhappy somewhere that slavery is over. But it is very true too that a black family which has served as supervisors of other black men (who were treated as slaves) is unhappy because slavery would be abolished. Such is the complex reality of life that one’s meat is another’s poison.
Memory collects the past into the gourd of the present. The performance of rememory both heals and strengthens; it revives hope that tomorrow is going to be better than today. This function of the human ..
It is not a surprise that the United Kingdom would do something crazy with breaking scripture. A kingdom which has produced thinking revolters, from John Wycliffe to John Calvin’s (Protestant) Reformation, ..
Witchcraft, the dreaded belief in the supernatural to cause harm on a target, is considered by many to be a reality comparable to tangible objects such as table, stones, chairs, etc. It is a phenomenon ..
Nigeria, Africa’s giant and father figure to several nations on the continent, continues to be appear in both local and international news and social media platforms, and not for all the positive ..
With renewed tensions in Ferguson Monday night after the vindicating verdict for white police officer Darren Wilson on the shooting death of unarmed eighteen-year old Michael Brown, the question on the minds ..
Among westerners, Americans, in particular, there are individuals whose orientation about black Africa is of one big country, with several families, of weird-looking, very dark people. Also among Americans–and ..
Memory collects the past into the gourd of the present. The performance of rememory, both heals and strengthens; it revives hope that tomorrow is going to be better than today. This function of the human ..