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- Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those…
- One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is…
- Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.
- Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of…
- Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and…
- Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always…
- The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad…
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