Who Are We As a People?
By Owu Adeboye, PhD | 31 Jan 2009
Most Nigerians do not have to think about this question: Who is a Yoruba? They already know some of the answers from past verifiable happenings. But I will attempt to give a more detailed response here for the world. I am a Yoruba from Ekiti State, one of the states in Yoruba Land. Therefore I know the answer to this question better than any other Nigerian from outside the region. The Yoruba is a self-absorbed person who only thinks about his self and his self-interests. His whole life and thinking is centered on self-created phantoms and illusions. We live to lie and lie to live. We murder to survive and survive to murder. Very simply, a Yoruba is a person whose being is centered on lies, deceptions, and criminal activities. It is a person whose life is controlled by self-deceptions.
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By Kevin Phillips, Barry Gewen
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Even if his pessimism doesn’t seem wholly warranted, a sense of foreboding surely is, which is why his warnings have to be taken seriously. Mr. Phillips writes that the inventors and marketers of the new financial instruments didn’t entirely understand them. An executive of Fidelity International says a panicky feeling has set in on Wall Street because no one knows where the risks really are. The finance minister of France observes that investments may have reached such a level of complexity that no one can assess them. And Charles R. Morris, in his own gloomy book, “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown,” reports that even Citigroup’s chief financial officer “did not know how to value his holdings.
- What Ails the American Economy?
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By Kevin Phillips, Barry Gewen
28 Feb 2009
Even if his pessimism doesn’t seem wholly warranted, a sense of foreboding surely is, which is why his warnings have to be taken seriously. Mr. Phillips writes that the inventors and marketers of the new financial instruments didn’t entirely understand them. An executive of Fidelity International says a panicky feeling has set in on Wall Street because no one knows where the risks really are. The finance minister of France observes that investments may have reached such a level of complexity that no one can assess them. And Charles R. Morris, in his own gloomy book, “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown,” reports that even Citigroup’s chief financial officer “did not know how to value his holdings.