nonchalant I
17 December, 2007 | No comments | Category: i.mmigration, peace & conflict, thinking...
“nonchhaalant…!”
she proclaimed, as she described one of those criss-crossy-sweater-wearing ‘so what?’ types to me…
…the type that oversleeps an international conference call and emails out a casually-put “ehhh” email scoffing at the fact that he was not even jet-lagged. The type that collects obese benefit packages and flexible hours to lounge on government/investment money; because he played the game right. He knew the right people, fit the right profile or once in some past he has been through a prestigious college~graduate school.
…excuse my intonations but nonchOllaaant, i feel! …like this dude, and frankly, it’s quite pathetic!
whether i have the same access to power~money as dude’s type, is another issue… |maybe perceived helplessness excuses indifference? for sanity’s sake?|
this blooming nonchalance reminds me of 3:
During a heated discussion about what a friend saw as a grotesque lack of activism and a fascination with the commercial glitz of america …she asks “Do the African students on campus not care what is happening in their countries?!”
During a class period, a professor (an Africanist, a white woman from the ‘American’ mid-west) went ahead and asked the question painful for the ears: “Is an African’s life worth least in this world?”.
During one incarnation of a discussion on Africa…a southern african asks “why do you northerners always fight???”
phew… anyway, i need to change my news sources and find a new perspective. cos boy this world is getting uncompromisingly predictable!! its like the world is on the looping setting, playing the same scene over and over and…! and that’s drenching flaming passion in blah! it is disconcerting…
c’mon, you can go ahead and say it!!: “duh, where have you been your whole life? venus?” …lol …Ask me again!
“Ethiopia denies Somalia bombing
Ethiopia has denied involvement in an mortar attack that killed at least 17 people in the main market in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Thursday. More gunfire and explosions were heard near Bakara market on Friday morning, but there are no details of casualties.…”
Zimbabwe’s precarious survival/ Starving in Harare
With the Zimbabwean economy in ruins, it is the people leaving the country who are helping those who have remained to survive.
Bread queues
A couple of hours later, as dawn breaks over the capital, many people – the mothers and unemployed – start forming long, silent queues that wind around entire blocks of the city.
There is a rumour that bread could be arriving in the city today.
Five hours later, people are still waiting. Policemen arrive, apparently helpfully supervising the queue and giving a surreal air of normality to the city scene. “They just pretend,” said one man in the queue with five children at home to feed.
“They get the first news if a lorry is on its way with bread, sugar, or mealie meal and they jump to the top of the queue and loot the food.” Once one of the richest countries in Africa, Zimbabwe has become a barrow, bucket, and bag economy. You see people walking for miles, wheeling barrows, buckets on their heads, and plastic bags in hand. Like the “bag ladies” in the former Soviet Union, they are always on the ready just in case something turns up. But it seldom does.
People are starving. The evidence is in the hospitals where tiny, wizened babies lie dying in their cots while their mothers look on helplessly….”
“Zahara’s Biological Mom Speaks Up
Zahara Jolie-Pitt may have a bright future ahead of her, but the story of her past is less uplifting.
According to her biological mother, the two-year-old adopted daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was the product of rape. Mentwabe Dawit, 24, told Reuters that she was walking home in the dark after a day of a work in the southern Ethiopian village of Awasa when a man approached and attacked her.
“He pulled a dagger, put one hand on my mouth, so that I could not scream. He then raped me and disappeared,” she recalled…..“
Mugabe looks to prolong his rule
Mr Mugabe could stay in power for six more yea |
President Robert Mugabe has seen off his rivals within Zanu-PF and secured the party’s nomination for the presidential elections scheduled for next March.
African migrants drown off Yemen
The capsized boat was carrying Somalis and Ethiopians |
About 180 African migrants are believed to have died in the Red Sea in the last few days while trying to reach Yemen, a Somali diplomat in Yemen has said.
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