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A Call to Restoration

  Riding torrents of mutation, A promise of hope stunted, beacon extinguished, Minds unmade, dreams unending, Never to follow, prevented from leading.   An inverted pyramid emerges, The ancient youth of inexperience prevails, Past the hour of enlightenment, The first follows the last leads.   Back to the ancient tree, Take what is ripe, leave what is not, discard the rotten, Eat of its succulent fruit, A prescription ascribed, a way forward.    

Education a Key to Success

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Education can be defined as   the act or process of educating or being educated. This definition is from a personal perspective. There are three types of education, the formal, informal and non-formal. Personally I have had the chance to experience formal education as well as have reservations about it, I have also had the chance to hear some concern of people. People from different background have different opinions when it comes to education, but the one fact for sure and it is that getting a formal education is the key to becoming successful in life. The goal of this paper is elaborate on these points.                                                                                                        Gaining a formal edu...

Oral Narratives as Reflected in African Tradition Religion.

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  Since African Tradition Religion has no written form of scripture, for indigenous African peoples “hi story” often refers to accounts of events as narrated in stories, myths, folktales and songs. Myth and other oral history are important in providing continuity of their culture, customs and traditions. Some of the things like belief in the Supreme Being, moral values and justice, divine hierarchy and immorality and reincarnation are learnt from oral traditions.   One and foremost, the religion of the African recognize the Supreme Being who is the sole creator of the universe. The Fon of Benin, in West Africa believe in de Supreme Being, Mawu is of indeterminate gender. Mawu is sometimes female (Lisa) and sometimes male (Mawu). In the Akan canon of God, J.B. Danquah records a verse from the Akan songs (which are usually played with a talking drum) that praises Nyame as the creator: “Odomankoma, / He created the Thing, / Hewer – out Creator, / He creator the Thing, / What di...

Monarchy is Institution That Refuses to Die A Gracious Death And It Is Our Fault.

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The world deserves better than monarchies. One would assure this statement is uncontroversial and as such should have been echoed by almost everybody and you will be wrong in your assumptions.   As of today, the popularity of the British monarchy is at 41% among the people of Britain. This is a country that purports to be a democracy, but still has its affairs closely intertwined with the 'divine institution' of the monarchy, they go as far as to call themselves a constitutional monarchy.   On my part, I think the reason why people like seems not to be logical at all. If anything, there seems to be a  mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which is essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people. In this sentiment, one can find a heavy dose of ancient reasons for the choice of men as kings.                           ...