Category: economics
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Can’t See the Trees for the Forest
I always thought the saying “I can’t see the forest for the trees” wasn’t always a good way to observe life, and today I’m convinced. Lemme explain that. Around the nation, people have somehow been convinced that Libya deserves to be invaded by European interests due to civil strife; civil meaning a rife between neighbors.…
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Ignorantly Smart
Sometimes we are the joke, even when we can’t see it, and especially when we’re ignorantly smart. What does that mean? Keep reading . . . In a conversation with an acquaintance, he spoke of his father’s recent death and how he and his brother had inherited his father’s land along with cattle and horses.…
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Wake Up, Everybody!
Over and over it plays— “wake up, everybody, no more sleeping in bed. No more backwards thinking, time for thinking ahead.” Every time I communicate with someone, thinking we might just be on the same level, the verse begins anew. By someone, I mean, other Afrikan people. I swear there’s this switch that clicks on…