Comments on: Start the African Renaissance without me http://www.globalcommunitytribunal.com/2008/01/14/start-the-african-renaissance-without-me/ Justice for the People by the People Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:21:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: admin http://www.globalcommunitytribunal.com/2008/01/14/start-the-african-renaissance-without-me/#comment-580 admin Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:11:20 +0000 http://www.globalcommunitytribunal.com/2008/01/14/start-the-african-renaissance-without-me/#comment-580 capdog: Thank you for your comment. I must confess shamefully that you may be right and that this article by Brian Chikwava is intended as a well written piece of satire. After reading it through twice again, I still had my doubts. Fortunately your M&G reference to a later post by the same writer under the title “A disabling case of writer’s block” provides some background.. [http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=306502&area=/supzim0407_home/supzim0407_content/]All this being said, the fact of the matter is that I am so negative about African politics and political philosophy at the moment that I fail to detect a ray of sunlight shining in this continental blackout. For you and the intellectual writer this is good satire. For the masses it is a liberating political opinion. Give the article to ten ordinary black citizens on the street to read and see what percentage would endorse the literal view point. JCG. capdog: Thank you for your comment. I must confess shamefully that you may be right and that this article by Brian Chikwava is intended as a well written piece of satire. After reading it through twice again, I still had my doubts. Fortunately your M&G reference to a later post by the same writer under the title “A disabling case of writer’s block” provides some background.. [http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=306502&area=/supzim0407_home/supzim0407_content/]All this being said, the fact of the matter is that I am so negative about African politics and political philosophy at the moment that I fail to detect a ray of sunlight shining in this continental blackout. For you and the intellectual writer this is good satire. For the masses it is a liberating political opinion. Give the article to ten ordinary black citizens on the street to read and see what percentage would endorse the literal view point. JCG.

]]> By: capdog http://www.globalcommunitytribunal.com/2008/01/14/start-the-african-renaissance-without-me/#comment-573 capdog Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:34:06 +0000 http://www.globalcommunitytribunal.com/2008/01/14/start-the-african-renaissance-without-me/#comment-573 Goddammit but you missed the boat on this one. Your sarcasm detectors are obviously malfunctioning a bit? The piece is pure satire. Look at this paragraph for the most obvious: "South Africans went about their business quietly. They never bawled for outside help in the way Zimbabweans are doing. They never moralised to the world about the conditions in their country. They did it all by themselves." He's playing a joke and he fooled you properly. Goddammit but you missed the boat on this one.

Your sarcasm detectors are obviously malfunctioning a bit?

The piece is pure satire. Look at this paragraph for the most obvious:

“South Africans went about their business quietly. They never bawled for outside help in the way Zimbabweans are doing. They never moralised to the world about the conditions in their country. They did it all by themselves.”

He’s playing a joke and he fooled you properly.

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