Onjalazbroz- Testing the Foundation of Knowledge

The African story remains one of cruel contradictions. Decades after independence, the continent still grapples with systemic failures that force its people into impossible choices: risk death crossing the Mediterranean or endure slow suffocation at home. Certificates of Doom captures this dystopian reality through the life of Kepha, an educated yet trapped everyman whose struggles embody Africa’s post-colonial disillusionment. This novel is more than fiction—it’s a forensic examination of how economic violence distorts culture, breaks families, and reduces human dignity to a bargaining chip. Part 1: The Institutional Rot – Aviation College as Microcosm The novel's fictional Aviation College serves as a potent allegory for systemic collapse: 1. The Exploitation Machine Kepha and colleagues work marathon hours for wages lower than unskilled laborers Management consists of unqualified quacks who prioritize profit over education The "Certificates of Doom" scandal exposes ram...

  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...

Mahatma Gandhi once said that the only language the poor people understand is bread and butter. He was right with this observation. Poverty limits people’s thinking and endurance and makes them susceptible to manipulation and misguidance. That is why the African continent remains colonized even today. We are peasants. Imperialists know this fact and use it to make us eat our people. They know that the only language we understand is bread and butter. A few years ago, colonialists conquered our lands and stirred divisions among us. They separated relatives and friends. They created boundaries in a continent that people traversed with ease. That's why a Luo in Kenya calls himself a Kenyan while a Luo in Uganda calls himself a Ugandan. A Tutsi in Burundi calls himself Burundian, while a Tutsi in Rwanda calls himself Rwandese. There are Zulus and other similar tribes spread across southern Africa, yet they call themselves South Africans, Zambians, Zimbabweans, Malawians and much more. U...