Onjalazbroz- Testing the Foundation of Knowledge

The African continent faces numerous challenges. It is evident in the high level of human trafficking, poverty, wars, and xenophobic attacks. News channels are filled with painful narratives of how thousands of Africans risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean to Europe on rickety boats and ships that often capsize and drown. They pass through unsafe Libya, a country ravaged by a war that should not have occurred in the first place. The story of the African man remains sad and painful, despite several years of independence and self-governance. There is no better place to get a full view of such a story than the novel  Certificates of Doom  by David Onjala.    Certificates of Doom  traces the hopeless life of a young African man named Kepha. Kepha works at Aviation, a middle-level college, as a tutor. The work environment of the college is exploitative and autocratic. Employees work several hours, yet the pay is less than that of unskilled workers.  ...

  Recently, I was having a conversation with a friend about her marriage. She told me she had been married for 20 years but wanted out. I tried to talk her back into her marriage, but she seemed adamant. It was hard to fathom that a marriage that had lasted for 20 years could experience great turmoil and get to the brink of collapse.  Then I came across this 2012 movie titled " Hope Springs ." The film is about a couple, Arnold and Kay Soames. They have been married for 37 years and are now on the brink of collapse.   The thing that glues me to the movie is that this couple has been married for 37 years, yet their marriage still faces turmoil, just like newlyweds in their second year. If my friend's 20 years of marriage felt like forever, what about 37 years?   Plot   Kay and Arnold are two nesters. Since their youngest child went to college, they have slept in separate rooms. It is over five years since they last made love. Kay is unhappy primarily with th...