tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post1868850966872137064..comments2023-10-24T20:47:13.885+05:30Comments on The Spaniard In The Works: Sounds familiar?Space Barhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-14179280213083896472008-04-22T10:21:00.000+05:302008-04-22T10:21:00.000+05:30Feanor: Hey there. And precisely; how can anyoneon...Feanor: Hey there. And precisely; how can anyoneone blame present corruption on past wrongs? To be fair to people like wa Thiong'o, I don't think they did that. Their exiles were the result of their outspokenness against current government. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how a call for the return of intellectuals is to be achieved, really, when so many of them had been imprisoned or forced into exile.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-18739375034544749772008-04-21T21:32:00.000+05:302008-04-21T21:32:00.000+05:30Hiya, SB. I suspect we should blame the Brits for ...Hiya, SB. I suspect we should blame the Brits for that mess as well. They were adept at sundering tribes and family loyalty in the name of 'nations' created with artificial frontiers - the usual story. I might glibly add that it's been several decades since independence for most African countries, and surely that's long enough to realise in the interim that they gotta sort out the colonial mess themselves now? A Zimbabwe-based columnist, Joram Nyathi, in the free UK newspaper, the New Zimbabwe, had several intelligent and cogent suggestions, but nobody in power wants to use people of talent like him (pls. see last two paragraphs of <A HREF="http://jostamon.blogspot.com/search/label/zimbabwe" REL="nofollow">this</A>, if you like).FĂ«anorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17101113676992105240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-68785534074706335592008-04-19T19:25:00.000+05:302008-04-19T19:25:00.000+05:30km: hmm. I don't know enough to say, of course, ex...km: hmm. I don't know enough to say, of course, except the little I've read on Kwani?, the essay by wa Thiong'o and VAssanji's wonderful <I>The In-Between World of Vikram Lall</I>.<BR/><BR/>It appears to me that Kenya's stability came at great cost to a number of people. But I really don't know.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-4348663879426887122008-04-19T19:08:00.000+05:302008-04-19T19:08:00.000+05:30No, no, no cost at all. I was just saying Kenya wa...No, no, no cost at all. I was just saying Kenya was mostly peaceful till the elections happened.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-18516104085791557512008-04-19T09:23:00.000+05:302008-04-19T09:23:00.000+05:30km: But stability at the cost of what? swar: I can...km: But stability at the cost of what? <BR/><BR/>swar: I can imgagine. <BR/><BR/>I hope you didn't think I was trying to argue misfortunes; I was just pointing out that we are equally smug in India.Space Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08251329008160756254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-58514698654977669832008-04-19T02:14:00.000+05:302008-04-19T02:14:00.000+05:30My Kenyan classmate, who left her country 5 months...My Kenyan classmate, who left her country 5 months ago, doesn't want to talk about it. <BR/><BR/>At our regular Stammtisch, I have found that my Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan friends who have lived away from their countries for long find it a little easier to talk and argue misfortunes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28464200.post-21581281537820671402008-04-18T19:09:00.000+05:302008-04-18T19:09:00.000+05:30And Kenya was among the few stable places left in ...And Kenya was among the few stable places left in that mighty continent.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.com