Amidst all the controversy about nationalisation and whether it will or won’t be government policy in South Africa over the next few years, I read a book recently which just may contain within it, a key solution to the many problems that face not only South Africa, but Africa as a whole. The book, written [...]
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The Application of the Concept of Grace in the Conduct of International Relations
Watching the recent escalation of tensions between South Sudan and Sudan and also in a different context between the USA and Iran, with both situations threatening to explode into full scale war, got me thinking about the world of International Diplomacy and the need for new theories to inform its practice, if we are going [...]
Africa’s Central Role in the Development of World Civilisation
A few weeks ago, I read an exceptional book by Thomas C. Oden titled, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, which given the central role that Christianity played in the development of Western civilisation for the majority of the centuries before the Age of Enlightenment, revealed the critical role that African thinking and African writers [...]
Is the Modern, Rational, Enlightened Man any Better?
As usual, a large part of my December holiday was spent reading, thinking and endeavouring to write, in between drinking copious amounts of alcohol, partying like I was some mad teenager and of course spending quality time with family. I ended up delving into some of the writings and the thinking of Immanuel Kant [...]
