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Indigenous people hunted for food and clothing, not to take photographs.  Hunt is  zingela  in Zulu.    People in what is known as the third world hunted game to eat and make clothes, not to create commodities that could be traded at the Sydney or New York Stock Exchange.   British aristocracy who came to ‘civilise’ Africa and Asia killed animals for sport and displayed lion and tiger skins in their drawing rooms.   First Nations of Canada and the U.S. were also called uncivilized because they performed ceremonies before they hunted animals that gave them food, skins to keep them warm and make mobile homes, like the teepee.   Yoruba movies indicate that it was normal in Africa to take slaves after wars.    Enter European settlers with money.    Their hunger for slaves to sell in Europe and the U.S. led to some chiefs invading other villages for the sole purpose of capturing slaves. Sidney Poitier’s film  Buck and the Preacher  is about the hunting of free slaves, who left white plantat

Students are back in colleges and universities but for how long? Some of them are called ‘red brick’ universities, a badge of honour that is rusty already because of the internet. It’s a university with no fees and doesn’t need royal and rich alumni to fund it. There is a possibility these educational institutions will become warehouses in the future, worse still, just abandoned buildings like car factories growing weeds because jobs relocated off-shore. It can happen. Just look at the things in your basement. They are there because they are useless now. You tried a garage sale on the lawn, but there were no takers, even first-year college students who like bargains did not buy them. Why should they, when they get everything from the dollar store? Universities are exclusive. It’s a place where public knowledge is made exclusive. Yes, public knowledge, the sun for example. It has different names, depending on where you are in the world and traditional communities knew its habits, and ta

  He’s just a little boy. She’s just a little girl. Pedophiles want to have sex with children. That's why they don’t see the stage called childhood, present in all animals. They see sex objects, the reason they are called child molesters. That will change because of trans gender kids. Their mothers give birth to them as boys, but they decide at an early age, that they are girls. Pedophiles are happy about it, because if an eight year old boy takes such a life changing decision at that age, he can also decide how and with whom to have sex. It will be two consenting adults. Society cannot accuse them of being child molesters. The Los Angeles Superior Court granted Zaya Wade, the right to change himself into a girl, despite legal objection from Siohvaughn Funches, who carried him in her womb for nine months. He is legally a girl now. But what is she, in the eyes of the law, a minor or an adult? The American legal system protects children from outsiders and their own families. That’s w

Focus. It’s none of my business but I think Prince Harry’s fight with the media is futile. The media is like that classic movie Jaws , where the shark is as crafty as a bed bug. Scary movie. The media is too big and is protected by laws of the land, but Prince Harry seems bent on it. Focus. That is the only thing I agree with. His trip to London this week for his latest media court case showed focus. The family discussed the matter while giving Lilibet a bath, with Archie making a mess in the bathroom because he wanted to help bathe his sister. Yes. Let me fictionalize their life. Everybody is doing it, using opinion that has been recycled to flour. Focus. The couple agreed Prince Harry must go alone because he was going there for a reason. Media hounds caught up with him and I liked the news items. They were about the case. We learned that Elton John, actress Elizabeth Hurley, fashion designer Sadie Frost and others are also in the lawsuit. No focus on Meghan because she wasn’t there.

Terence Davis (middle) was arrested in 2020, when his girlfriend wrongly  accused him of beating her. The court found him not guilty. Terence Davis, the NBA player who now wears Sacramento Kings colours might be watching the Jonathan Majors case because he has been there. His girlfriend, whose name has never been published, wrongly accused him of domestic assault in 2020, while he was with Toronto Raptors. Case went to court and charges against him were dropped in 2021. Here we are in 2023, Jonathan Majors, a movie celebrity is being accused of the same thing, and his girlfriend’s name is not in the public domain. This will never stop because women are protected. The system gives them the licence to crash and burn a man's life, while they roll along in their daily life unrecognized. I’ll destroy him online.  That is what they say to their friends. Equality extends to all walks of life. Equality before the law is one of them. There is no equality if women lie against men, not just m

RCMP officer touching her boots. Touch is thinta in Zulu. Babies are big on touching. They touch your face while they are on the bottle. Probably checking if it’s not artificial intelligence feeding them. One guy online said women don’t touch men accidentally on the arm. They like you. Thi-nta . You say the first part like tea, the last one like fantastic. We live in a touch world. Phone and computers have touch screens. Shopping malls have touch screen directories: for banks touch here, for shoe stores touch here, for handbags touch here etc.   What is lacking is human touch. Very soon, the U.S. will ban it, like Tik Tok. The world is extremely complicated. We don’t touch anymore. Men cannot touch women at work to remove something in the hair or clothing, for fear of sexual harassment. We stopped hugging and shaking hands in 2020, the year of COVID-19. We still don’t, in case the devious virus is still lurking somewhere. There’s a Zulu proverb about touching the snake on the tail (wat

Trinidad and Tobago. Wonderful childhood. Freedom to roam and swim. Photo Credit: online pic. Swimming is bhukuda in the Zulu language. In the ocean, swimming pool, bottom of the waterfall, in debt, scandal and legal fees, in the case of Donald Trump. Bhu-ku-da . You say the first part like boom, the second like kudu the animal, and the last like dull. Crocodiles don’t swim. They are secret agents, always working underground waiting for any thirsty animal. YouTube has a video of a lion having a sip in the river, and the crocodile watches it. Don’t even think about it! Attacking the lion? I learned how to swim in a swimming pool in Canada because I only rode waves, growing up in a coastal town.  I was therefore not amused when a friend told me I didn’t know how to swim. She rectified the situation and taught me. I stayed in the shallow end most of the time, gripping the rails while she dived into the deep end. Trump is swimming in legal fees which has his lawyers worried. Will they get

Internet banking. Two groups. The first one is the young and wild who cannot imagine wasting time standing in line in a bank to withdraw or transfer money. They might not even know that their local bank relocated to the new mall. The second group is older, scared of being of burnt and losing life’s savings because someone hacked their account.  I don’t think this group still exists because wages, salaries, money from tax returns, pensions everything, is done electronically. On second thought, we visit the bank once in a while, especially when there’s no money in the account. We harass tellers, even accusing the bank of a misdemeanor. It doesn’t help. You broke, you broke. Scared of internet banking? There’s an alternative, the old school way, hiding money under the mattress. Our great grandparents did it for many reasons. One, they slept soundly, knowing they were sleeping on their money. Two, evil banks could not siphon a fee from the $100. For what? For keeping it in cold vaults? Thr

Tech workers laid off by the Silicon Valley brotherhood will be alright. They’ll probably develop some apps and sell them to companies that fired them. They know enough about the tech locomotive, to know where and how to jump in, using personal networks nurtured at institutions such as MIT, Bangalore Institute of Technology or Tokyo Institute of Technology. Street technicians in all four corners of the globe don’t have the money for higher education. They don’t speak code, don’t know the meaning of IPS, but they speak languages of the soil. My phone is blocked. My laptop cannot power up. I can’t open the attachment my brother sent me. I’m dead, money in my bank account just disappeared! Street tech not only solves problems, it can re-engineer devices, the same way they tinker with the electricity meter. Street tech does not have open plan offices with fridges full of bottled water. Word of mouth is the re-tweet. Some might have a stall at the market that sells spinach, sweet potatoes,

It’s important to audit your life. Monthly audits are better. If you audit at the end of the year, you might miss what you did in March 2022, for example. Let’s talk about March 2023. The great milestone for me was cleaning the fridge. That’s right. It’s an achievement of epic proportions. I’m not like you, who does it every month. Don’t ask me when last I cleaned it, as in which year. That would be a trick question. Let’s just say the fridge looks empty. That’s how I saw that shelves had a sprinkling of breadcrumbs look-alike. The vegetable tray had subdued tomatoes, their smooth skin gone. What is an empty eye drops' bottle doing in there? The fridge door had bottles I don’t remember buying, except for the mustard. I bought it for the first time in my life because the rack of lamb recipe, called for it. How long ago was that?  Another trick question. I don’t clean the fridge that often because of logistics. Taking out shelves is a struggle. Should I pull them out this way or that

When Meghan met Harry and they got married, she was given responsibilities as the Duchess of Sussex, as they call her. Not everybody was happy about it, especially some sections of the British media. How else do you explain a homeless prince? The family stayed briefly in Canada. Next address was in the U.S. where Tyler Perry, the film and T.V. producer gave them his house. It must have been that bad, living among British royalty. Therefore, she must let her husband go to his father’s Coronation alone for three reasons: She will not be safe in the U.K. during the royal promenade because Influential men like Jeremy Clarkson an Amazon show host, have called for her public humiliation. The second reason is the future. One day the British monarchy will be summoned to answer for colonialism’s side effects. Therefore, it is in Meghan’s best interest not to be part of that coronation. There’s nothing Prince Harry can do about it, because of who he is. He did not choose his parents. Thirdly, wh

Suella Braverman, Rishi Sunak's Home Secretary,  the British government department responsible for immigration. Nothing personal Rishi Sunak. That is how the British Conservative Party rolls. It is big on short term rentals. PRIME MINISTER TIME SERVED Teresa May 2016-2019 Boris Johnson 2019-2022 Liz Truss September to October 2022 Rishi Sunak Will he survive Coronation? The Conservative Party decides policy. Prime Minister runs with it. There’s a backlash from the public. Make that affected groups like investors, and that’s it. Rishi Sunak does not need to take Liz Truss out for a pint at a small pub in Blistershire  to learn how sharks and foxes in the Party, operate. He was part of the cabal himself. Yes. It’s a new ‘shire’. My invention. Rishi Sunak’s days are numbered because of the royal family’s big day, King Charles’ Coronation. The Prime Minister has his hands full with his immigration bill, which will  deal severely with people trying to enter the shores of Britain illegal

What will be sad at King Charles’ Coronation will be watching some African, Asian and Pacific leaders dressed in their indigenous attire or Savile Row suits, saluting a man responsible for their slums, hospitals and prisons. Their travel and stay in London will also empty the treasury back home, because one British pound needs 30-500 in their money. It’s colonialism’s greatest gift. But why attend the slave master’s coronation in the first place? This is where Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister comes in. He is putting a stop to it through an immigration bill dubbed ‘ Stop the boats’  a reference to refugees and asylum seekers arriving in small boats. Remember Brexit? That’s the reason why Britain broke away from the European Union to avoid that, unwanted elements. Rishi Sunak doesn’t understand why anybody would want to come to Britain. For the same reason British explorers came back with reports of a paradise where they didn’t need a penny to buy anything. Free fruit and wild gam

Animals are an obstacle to 'development' so we kill them. Mama and papa geese are ready to defend their kids. Look at the way they look at us, as we stroll by.  We are god. We create and take life. We even support a 10 year-old boy's decision that she's a girl. Our continuous fight against nature led us to COVID-19. How can the air we breathe be deadly? We are superior to nature and animals in particular, although we don't have the capacity to adapt like them. They’ve done relatively well considering they lost their habitat to money. We needed the land for 'civilization': houses for British masters and two rooms for economic slaves; factories that pollute the air we breathe leading to new diseases like COVID-19; railways to transport Africans to mines and cities to dig gold and platinum that will end up in London England and other G-7 countries; building mega factories on the banks of rivers so that we can throw industrial waste into the water and churches f

False claims are hate of the highest form and they have one intention: permanent ruin. There is wife abuse in marriage. In-laws know about it, teachers know, the reverend father knows, so do kids. Girlfriends tolerate it in live-in arrangements, which is hard to understand, but it happens. That’s why women who lie against men, damage the credibility of women who live that reality but stay because of culture, religion, kids or economic dependency. Did Jonathan Majors do it? The court will decide but if he had been a window cleaner, cab driver or courier, his girlfriend would not have accused him of assault. We don’t know all the facts because it’s only the two of them that know the truth, but high profile men continue to be the target for wrong claims. Because the internet does not have a ‘sorry’ button, we don’t read about coaches and players who were found not guilty, of wife or girlfriend abuse. Their innocence did not make headlines and their life is now broken glass. High profile m

  Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan,                                                Creed 111 stars. The woman who has accused Jonathan Majors of assault believes in equality. Therefore, if men and women are equal, they must be treated equally before the law. That is why her name must also make headlines, so that her future will be destroyed also, not just his. Two people fell in and out of love. Both names should be plastered online.   There is no equality if women are ‘protected.’ Unfortunately, some choose to waive equality and play  ‘the weaker sex’ card. Women demand equality as they should. That’s why they are pilots, app developers, heart surgeons, engineers, the list is endless.   They also demanded to be in NBA locker rooms, which resulted in the case of Ime Udoka and K athleen Nimmo Lync h, the reason why Boston Celtics fired him as Head Coach. It was a struggle to get her name out. Nothing personal. Women want equality, they must get the full circle. Publish the woman’s

School assignment. What is capitalism? Selling nature, not only that, but dividing eggs into small, medium, large and extra large for profit. Capitalism is using capital, the source to make money. That makes the hen the capital. I was robbed last week. The organic eggs I bought are not orange as they should be. The yolks are pale yellow, just like supermarket eggs. I don’t know much about organic but my tongue knows organic eggs like the back of its tongue, if I can stretch the proverb a bit. I’m calm. There are things not worth fighting for. If someone slaps an ‘organic’ sticker just to rob me, no problem. Every dog has its day. This heist made me think about the capital, the source of the eggs. I was robbed but how about hens, do they know that their work of art is divided into small, medium, large and extra large eggs? Nature determines how hens get pregnant and lay eggs. Size doesn’t matter because there’s no size. It is only when the capital (hens) have produced the product that c

  Cook garlic, onion and 2mato in olivoil till soft. Open can, drain water and add tuna. Blend with boiled pasta. Add grated cheese. Cook for 2m. Garnish with apples or oranges. I’ve lost my appetite. It might be for medical reasons or frustration after receiving bad news, such as there’s no Wi-Fi. It’s a serious matter which stops life in its tracks. It happened on 8 July ‘22 when data thieves hacked Rogers the giant Canadian wireless service provider, resulting in the collapse of the banking system and left us with no access to e-mail. I’ve lost my appetite. It is a sign of plenty, abundance, affluence. It is a lost and found situation. There is confidence that food will be available when the appetite returns. That is why we walk away from the table at home or restaurants, leaving food half eaten. I’ve lost my appetite. That statement is a declaration of independence. It says I can overcome the present circumstances that made me lose my appetite. I will eat again. It is a forward loo

Bag of chips or fruit for a snack? All that salt catches up with kids when they grow up. Salt is having a resurrection, thanks to online cooking. It's not a pinch of salt, but half a teaspoon or more. The problem with the internet is recycling without re-thinking. One cook uses a generous dose of salt, all the sheep follow. In this year ‘23 some kids are lucky because they are growing up without salt and pepper on the table. Kids are copy cats. They grow up and have kids who will also shake shake shake the salt cellar, before tasting the food. Their grandchildren with do the same shake-up. Salt was part of the colonizing process in Africa and the Pacific. Natives were uncivilized because they ate fruit and vegetables from the soil. It is called ‘organic’ food now. England took the gold, diamonds and platinum from the British Empire and left behind butter, sugar, candy for the kids and salt. That’s why I once said to mama: It must be hard to eat food without salt . She then explaine

Pizza ovens. Pandemic was good for food delivery. We were on our phones and computers 24/7. What went wrong with tech, that led to power houses like Google, Microsoft, Meta and the like, downloading humans into unemployment bins? Post pandemic is cited as one of the reasons. COVID-19 put us on lockdown. That’s why we were online more, starting podcasts, ordering pizza and other comfort food, buying monitors for laptops and other gadgets to lift up the spirit and swiping cards for online entertainment. Pandemic restrictions are gone, so we are out in the open again. Tech products are another reason why tech companies are off loading workers. They are conceived and manufactured inside nuts. The public sees the walnut’s shell or hull. They don’t know how good the nut tastes. Tech companies must crack the shell and explain why a particular walnut is a must-have for home use, office, factory or workshop. How many products did companies pull from the digital shelf because they were not movin