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You have probably heard of Joseph Heller. He is famous for the satirical novel called “Catch 22”. A catch-22 is a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or limitations. The novel is set during…
Continue readingThe election results from several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are coming thru this season. Either the incumbents (and winners for that matter) are too popular that all the voters endorse their continued stay, or there is something more pungent…
Continue readingSometime last week a friend posted a digital copy of M. B. Nsimbi’s ‘Luganda Names, Clans, and Totems” or “Amannya Amaganda N’ennono Zaago”. The cover had a stamp of California Institute of Technology (popularly known as Caltech) and it was…
Continue readingLast week I recounted the infamous escapade(s) of ‘Kabangala Asassude’ and how his guile and cunning enabled him to pull one over Mr. Patel. This kind of one-upmanship tends to make us take a short term view of the idea…
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