As a student of the social sciences, nothing fascinates me more than the fact that despite thinking of ourselves as very intelligent human beings, we are extremely prone to making bad decisions. Personally I keep on making bad decisions that…
Continue readingYou 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…
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