The African Reign

04/04/2015

We could use some of the principles surely. There is no need to keep re-inventing the wheel. For instance virtually the whole of the Japanese camera, motorcycle and car industry as personified by such driven men as Kiichiro Toyoda and Soichiro Honda was originally based on copying ( reverse engineering) products from the west. All three managed to eventually wipe out the European camera industry and decimate the car industry respectively. The irony is that currently, virtually all the mass produced cars made in UK are made by subsidiaries owned by Japanese parent companies. It is surely possible to adapt some of the foreign ideas and adapt them to our advantage. The Japanese, South Koreans and Singaporeans managed it. There is hope. ~George Bhima, Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 1:23am

04/04/2015

I have always had my apprehensions about the stainless saint as deceitfully tragically portrayed and strewn allover for whoever cares...even so the treatment as Africans get in India, leaves little, if anything, to be desired.

All quotes are direct quotations from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. They are taken from his writings and statements during the years he spent working as an attorney in South Africa, before he went back to India in 1915 to fight for independence. Note: “Kaffir” is an offensive term in South…

29/03/2015

Australia gets the better of co-hosts New Zealand, win the 2015 ICC World Cup Trophy at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, beat Kiwis by 7wkts.

07/03/2015

Woman

Her duty's not eased by Nation
Hers remains a story of giving
Sacrificing of self and all can
Woman, what a journey of life
No man accomplishes as woman

27/02/2015

No progress will be realised without unity, peace and stability. ~President Uhuru Kenyatta, whilst in Meru yesterday.

25/02/2015

a lot of people in America especially Whites (some not all) dismiss slavery, racism, Jim Crow and segregation as being menial when so many Blacks in this country suffered insurmountable damage because of the bigotry. ~Ted White, Wednesday, February 25, 03:27am

24/02/2015

A fact that still disturbs many having to bring themselves to accept it, rather sadly.

Amelia Boynton Robinson was nearly beaten to death in 1965 during the first march in Selma, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr. She was 53 years old at the ti...

18/02/2015

Like the days of the week, I tend to think that today barely looks forward to tomorrow, rather focuses on giving the best can, if only we learn to live as such.

05/02/2015

Mandela: What manner of man?

The human psych's a phenomenal if I were asked as to my view about the same.

For how it can switch from being unrepentantly set in apathy to being empathetic, and so forth as it oscillates, is remarkable.

Anyhow the cause of my marvel is something some may dismiss, the Sarafina Movie, based on the indelible evil Apartheid Systen in South Africa, precisely the 1976 School children's massacre event.

The movie set, by no means a definitive window into the horrors of the supremacist White minority rule unto the native South Africans.

What the now long dead and gone, only God knows the heartache and pain they lived and sadly died with. Treated in the most barbaric, inhumane and vile ways, devisable possible, is heartwrenching to this day and perhaps always will be.

For years after watching and rewatching the movie, there's always awakened unimaginable pain and wander. Till one's tempted to question, Mandela, what manner of man was he to forgive all that evil and sincerly move on?

05/02/2015

Watching and rewatching the movie: Sarafina; moreover mere glimpses into the dark past, I wonder if we'll ever truly pay enough homage to those we lost cruelly.

02/02/2015

Dolly History.

Taofick Okoya, 43, from Nigeria, created a range of dolls that Nigerian girls could identify with. The toys, which are called Queens of Africa, are modelled on three of the country's biggest tribes.

21/01/2015

The African Reign as the World awaits is only delayed by you and me, through shear apathy, laziness, procrastination, among others in that selfsame family.