Tag Archives: Africa

Wayne Lotter’s Death, Illicit African Ivory & Despotic Kingdoms

Posted on October 11, 2017 by William Holland

When Wayne Lotter was murdered in route to his hotel in Dar es Saalam, he was fighting pitched battles against Africa’s weak institutions and perennially corrupt regimes.  Brave throughout his life, Lotter suffered for his conviction that illicit African ivory … Continue reading →

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Libya: Failed State. . . again

Posted on August 8, 2017 by William Holland

Studying the Arab Spring would require one to look at Libya and U.S. efforts immediately after the popular uprising. The American’s didn’t want Gaddafi but they also didn’t seek any measure to sustain Libyan presence into U.S. orbit either.  Today, … Continue reading →

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How To Understand African Political Economies

Posted on June 6, 2017 by William Holland

The continent of Africa really is difficult to embrace without stolid concepts shaped from both geography and history.  Can one really make sense of Ghana and its British heritage as a west African nation state surrounded by failed French colonies? … Continue reading →

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Islam & Famine

Posted on May 8, 2017 by William Holland

For a millennia humans struggled to fathom nature, sensing the world as an object in need of inquiry fell to pre-Socratic philosophy, it was here where we find man as an object of question that the Greeks discerned the beginnings … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram, Nigeria & A Flailing West

Posted on January 5, 2015 by William Holland

AFRICOM is Stuttgart Germany has its hands full given the challenge of managing Boko Haram with insufficient political stability throughout Nigeria, not to mention falling oil prices threatening the entire Nigerian political class.  Entire nation states, especially those with un-diversified … Continue reading →

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Chinese Strategy In Foreign Aid Expansion: Encirclement & Defense

Posted on March 14, 2014 by William Holland

Dr. Charles Wolf Jr., is the distinguished chair in international economics at the RAND Corp., and is professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Corp., graduate school.  He continues as a senior research fellow at Hoover, Stanford University.  Dr. … Continue reading →

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Why We Have The World’s Poor

Posted on March 11, 2014 by William Holland

I cannot turn this entry into a disputation of diverging cultural achievements between Islam and Christendom.  I would need to begin with the glaring philosophical achievement of the Church Fathers as they grappled with the Christological heresy known as Arius, … Continue reading →

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Genocide, Francophile Africa & The Colonial Mind

Posted on October 4, 2012 by William Holland

Contemporary education is no longer capable of discerning nor appreciating the philosophical distinctions that reeled the ancient world, any person familiar with Patristic thought can indeed understand how Francophile Africa, specifically Rwanda became a conduit for genocide.  Yes, the British … Continue reading →

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Ancients & Moderns: Measuring The Earth From Ptolemy To Louis XV

Posted on August 19, 2011 by William Holland

It is true that most students hate science.  For the most part the teachers teaching it never studied the historical impact of discovery.  The ancient Egyptians understood how to measure a sphere.  They did so with a plumb line across … Continue reading →

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