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Re-Education
HONORABLES WITH NO HONOR
When we give power to indisciplined people
Chioma & Samuel Phillips
ne of the problems ed from people trying to conceal
with adopting a foreign their Syphilis-induced patches of
culture, without under- baldness. Don’t laugh at them, oh
Ostanding either its roots ye wearers of sunglasses – the same
or how it connects to your own history exists for those ‘stylish Chioma Phillips
culture and refining it to suit that, fashion symbols’ you seek to adorn
is that the things embraced from yourself with. One of the symp- is the Editor of Msingi Afrika Mag-
the foreign culture take on nothing toms of Syphilis was an extreme azine and the host of Msingi Afrika
more than ritualistic symbolism. sensitivity to light. So, there you go. Television. Her hope is to see the Truth
That is why we ended up with shared, with all who will listen, for the
the ludicrous wig-wearing lawyers Likewise, the honorifics used in
and judges in Afrika, who may or many countries in Afrika, following transformation of the people and the con-
may not have been aware that this their exposure to colonialism. Titles tinent of Afrika - and the world.
awkward piece of fashion originat- like Honorable, Venerable, Right
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