A Trip Down Memory Lane
By Satish Sekar in Accra © Satish Sekar (September 25th 2017) The African Malaise Africans don’t know their history – worse they don’t want to. During the WAFU Cup of Nations I was in an area steeped in history. I…
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Opportunism and Hypocrisy
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 15th 2017) Pitt’s Hypocritical Opportunism Toussaint Louverture adeptly played the colonial superpowers, France, Britain and Spain against each other, seeking the best arrangement, but his belief that independence was unnecessary ultimately cost him…
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The End is Nigh
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 19th 2017) A Free Hand Baron William Grenville, succeeded William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister in 1806. Four years earlier he played an important in securing a temporary peace with Napoléon Bonaparte’s…
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The Opening
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 15th 2017) Gifted Toussaint Bréda was born a slave in 1743. He had a liberal master who allowed him to learn to read and write. He was influenced by the Enlightenment philosophers. He…
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Call to Arms
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (May 15th 2017) Boukman Men of Colour (Mulatto) leaders, Vincent Ogé and Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, had been martyred in February 1791, but rather than crush expectations of equality and political rights, it united blacks and…
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