THE AFRICAN SAGE

Dear Gideon, I have taken hours reading and studying your handiwork and I am impressed. Allow me in this message to sincerely congratulate you for such a piece. It sums up most of what life is and not. You dear friend have set the bar too high. As I was reading on, I appreciated the ease by which your words flow. Your mastery of English language leaves the impression that English is your first language even though I am privy to the fact that it is your third language. The flow of the language is effortless. I would like to encourage you to maintain it at the simple in your subsequent publications. Sir, the message in the book attempts to answer age old question among human being. You have made contributions into understanding who a human being is as an Individual and part of the whole. It is enlightening. What I mean is that as I read on I observed that you dissected the “person” and forces that enhance as well as delimit his existence. You further delved into metaphysical r

The dance floor is full and cheers from the watching crowd are abundant. Every dancer is pulling his or her best strokes and he or she is sure he or she is attracting the cheers. This dance is colorful, it is exciting and it has sent every tongue wagging either in praise or in jeer. Please Raila, stop the dance! Stop dancing and watch the dance a little more. No don’t just watch so you may jump back into the dance, but so you may decide if the dance is worthy or we should move to another arena. The dance as currently constituted has many armature players or dancers. For the armature player; the focus is on winning the dance by all means. By hook or crook, in the most Machiavelli way possible they are determined to win the dance. The armature players have a toddler mentality or what is referred to as the “Me” syndrome. They do not care about the dance, they are not interested in principles, they care not about values or honor. All they want is to win the dance and all focus t