Tag: african
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I met Mobutu, forgot to ask of his twin wives.
Congolese Politician Mobutu is considered one of the most flamboyant African strongman ever. First, based on his policy of Authenticité, he rejected all colonial ties & renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga. Translated as “The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to…
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ACCIDENTALLY JOINED A CULT
It was the year 2018, I was a 1L, sitting in Howard Law’s library, as had Thurgood Marshall 85 years prior. TM is best known for the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education that desegregated the US school system. Needless to say, I delulu-ly felt big and bad… That day, I was minding my…
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8 of 54: EQUATORIAL GUINEA
In our usual literary “Tour D’Afrique” we now arrive in Equatorial Guinea. I could speak of the nation’s landscape, culture and arts. But I am a servant of the people and the people want to hear of Balthazar, the unofficial sex czar. The very married man was busy de-frauding the nation he forgot to keep…