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Land Reform is an emotional issue.
It is a topic in which the diverging concerns about fairness, rights, order, justice, merit, efficiency, solidarity and yes, history of the distribution of productive resources have been colliding ope… more →
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Land Reform is an emotional issue.
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: It is a topic in which the diverging concerns about fairness, rights, order, justice, merit, efficie … more →
Malthusian trap or social policy ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Check the interaction between fertility and per capita income in Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville in this … more →
Isn't this how it always starts ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: from the BBC Bundu Dia Kongo (the People of Congo) challenged the state’s authority and tried … more →
Why can't we have better intellectuals ?
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: In the same week, two of Africa’s leading intellectuals have managed to publish pieces on the … more →
FYI: there's a nuclear reactor in Kinshasa
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/story/0,,1954795,00.html or http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/ … more →
Savimbi is confusing
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: Between this quote: “I am not communist because it serves no purpose. Nor am I a capitalist. S … more →
Question about migrant labour in apartheid South Africa
aflakete wrote 1 year ago: There’s something I have trouble understanding: why did apartheid South Africa import labour f … more →
When the OAU became the Dictator's Club
aflakete wrote 1 year ago: In October 1965, in Accra, this resolution was adopted by the second ordinary session of the assembl … more →
Links as a bribe
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aflakete wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been suffering from a small case of writer’s block. And I really don’t want t … more →
How did they get away with it ?
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aflakete wrote 2 years ago: 1887, in Congo Free State, King of the Belgians Leopold II’s private propriety, a company was … more →
fun with maps: trade and roads
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aflakete wrote 2 years ago: (click on the links to look at the maps in detail) If you’re interested in african history or … more →
if you show it often enough..
aflakete wrote 2 years ago: Have you ever seen this ? may be here ? or here or here or even here (where they say: “Think a … more →
questions, answers and more questions in Kongo history Part 1
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aflakete wrote 2 years ago: After years of confusion, between elementary school teachings, popular folklore, online essays and a … more →
