If you use a high-end phone, but didn’t buy it from the brand or an authorised reseller, and the phone was ‘Made in Vietnam,’ then that beauty in your hand might be a dud. A fake. I paid for one last week. A brand new Samsung S24 Ultra. Bee’s knees, that phone. Sleek and features-laden. …
Usually, I do not care about whatever name a father decides to christen his child. He can name the child Hitler, Pol Pot, Anini or Ivan The Terrible; I don’t care. It’s none of my business. But when a loi-loi-eating Nigerian father looks down joyously upon his chortling newborn and decides to name him ‘Heineken’, then I’ve got to weigh …
So, I find myself moving to the ‘Island.’ I enjoy going to the Island now and then but never fancied living in that neck of the woods. I’d lived all my years on the ‘Mainland’. I love it there. Life is simple, inexpensive and less vainglorious. In contrast, I esteemed the Island as extortionate, bougie and full of affectation. But …
So, that was me worshipping at the Temple of Kukulcán at Chichén Itzá, Mexico. If you look closely at the top of the pyramid, you will see the feathered serpent god Kukulcán slithering down the steps. If you can’t see him, that’s because you are not spirit-filled. Nothing a few shots of tequila can’t fix, however. But you can’t go …
“What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing…by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our …
