Bad Samaritans: the Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat To Global Prosperity
Author: Ha-Joon Chang Publisher: Random House, 2007 276 pages. You’ve probably heard the Gospel of Free Market: if a country wants to break the cycle […]
Publications
The case for Christianity part 1: The ontology of Christian theism
When you pick up, on a typical day, the arguments of atheists and agnostics against the Christian worldview, you almost always get the sense of […]
“Daddy Pastors”: a matter of ignorance and fear
In the first installment of this series, we focused on the idea that the advent of Daddy Pastors is associated with the struggle for domination […]
“Daddy Pastors”: the struggle for domination and control
In his second epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul was quick to point out that, while he had the responsibility as a leader […]
Book Review: Pedagogy of the oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire Publisher: The Continuum Publishing Company Date: 1970 When Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the world was in the middle […]
Book Review: The Mystery of Capital
Author: Hernando De Soto Transworld Publishers, 2000 276 pages “The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its hour of crisis”. This is Hernando De Soto’s […]
Nigeria: another way
Introduction The modern nation of Nigeria was born in 1960 amidst fanfare. As of then, forty six years had elapsed since the British amalgamation, in […]
The competitive advantage of nations
(2nd edition) Author: Michael E. Porter Publisher: Palgrave, New York, 1998 855 pages Unlike David Landes’ Wealth and Poverty of Nations, which was unashamedly an […]
Predestination and free will
A fresh look at Christian beliefs on the Ultimate Sovereignty of God and Significance of Humans Introduction One of big questions that have attracted […]