“I’ve a grand memory for forgetting”- Robert Louis Stevenson THE 30 rights and freedoms out lined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR, of1948 may be varied and touching upon many areas of human life and activities, but they are beneficial by and large to the proper ordering of societies and the establishment of […]

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”- William Shakespeare THE convergence of liberal political ideas and laissez faire economic philosophy and their transportation into the realm of human rights, have blurred the distinction between right and wrong, and morality and immorality. The elasticity of interpretation of morality in certain lands and climes, […]

“”Failure is the mother of success”- Chinese Proverb  Multilateralism and the collective resolve of the international community to deal with the growing challenges facing the world today, will be put to the test, especially in ending conflicts and the suffering of vast numbers of people in Africa, in Palestine and the Ukraine. Other issues taxing humanity’s […]

“The due arrangement of men in the active part of the state, far from being foreign to the purposes of a wise Government, ought to be amongst its very first and dearest objects”- Edmund Burke Adversities carry within them the seeds of revolution, reform and progress. Such was the case with the fall of the regime […]

“Life demands that we attentively reconsider all our intellectual stock-in-trade when we step on to new ground”— Georgi Plekhanov, Socialism and the Political Struggle THE appropriation of patriotism is a conscious intellectual and political act that also transcends other boundaries, such as economic nationalism and social engineering. The realisation of the fact as pronounced by Aliko […]