A story is told of Alexander von Humboldt, a German baron renowned as a naturalist, explorer and philosopher and a friend of President Jefferson. On one of his many visits to the White House he was taken into the Cabinet to wait for Jefferson. “As he sat by the table,[Read More…]
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New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Revered Imam: Your Friday Khutbah Preach Anti-Corruption From The Pulpit
It is a Friday, Jummat prayers: Dear revered Imam. The lowly and the mighty fill your Mosque, in their Friday bests boubous or Kaftans – of other Fridays, to inhale faith, love, peace and hope. Is it Karl Marx who said ‘religion; is the opium of the masses’? Sitting prominently[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: The Political Blackmailer Is Satan Personified
Blackmail is the ultimate art of political survival. Political blackmail is the threat of -publication, or the actual publication, of true but more often invented stories with the aim of causing an opponent political damage, of slandering him or her, or of depriving him or her of the possibility of[Read More…]
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