Where do mothers come from? I have always pondered this question. All humans come from planet earth, of course. But, what of mothers? They have this uniqueness about them that makes me wonder if they could only have come from earth like everybody else. For one thing, everybody that breathes on earth came out of a mother. Even the Pope, the President and the most powerful men and women on earth -- all those men and women of pomp and pageantry. Everybody must have done their plus or minus nine months in the womb of a woman. Every individual was nursed as an infant in the warm arms of a mother. Whenever you were hungry, mother was there. Whenever you felt fear, mother was there. Whenever you were in perplexity, mother was there. Mother was the one who would sacrifice everything to make you into a person of worth. My own mother was barely out of her teens when she married my father, a much older man. Mother was 19 when her first child was born. She said she was preparing for
Saturday 16 February was supposed to witness the first leg of a series of elections that will likely determine the future direction of our country. Unfortunately they were postponed to Saturday 23rd February. Last week also witnessed Valentine’s Day, precisely 14 February. St. Valentine dedicated his life to love and to helping others. Lovers the world over mark the day by re-dedicating themselves to each other and reaffirming their testimonies of undying love. I don’t care what you profess, the person you spend that day of all days with is your true love. And so it has always been for ages and ages, world without end! The stellar constellations may be telling us something by putting the elections in the same week with St. Valentine’s Day. Love and politics have more to do with each other than we imagine. It is said that electioneering politics is a form of warfare without bullets. It is also true that war is the continuation of politics through the barrel of a gun. The
For the records: I am no hater of France. This is the first line of defence for scoundrels. As a matter of fact, I hate nobody on earth – not the French, Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese or anybody else. I am a humanist and international socialist. I believe in human solidarity. I had the benefit of a French Government scholarship which enabled me to have some of the best education in France that anyone could boast of. I love France, its cultures and peoples. But I can never tolerate the historic injustices, rapine and enslavement that France has meted out and is still meting out, to the African people. Of course, Africans have themselves to blame, by and large, for allowing themselves to be raped in such a wanton manner. A few centuries ago France was the leading continental power in Europe. After the 1789 French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte became master of Europe. A man of great ambition, he aimed to bring all of Europe under French hegemony. He almost succeeded
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