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Review: Intelligence and Schooling
The Significance of Schooling and Cross-cultural Differences in Intelligence As modern influences penetrate all remote corners of the world, the contemporary universal view is that if you introduce formal schooling to any group of rural people, they will learn to … read more
Pain and Suffering
A third of the way into the movie, the sniffles among the audience turned into sporadic moaning and weeping. The relentless blows that Jesus endured en route to his crucifixion made me flinch. Perhaps the first pragmatic lesson about watching … read more
Do You Love to Walk?
I love to walk. I yearn to walk. I would like to walk to the store, to work, to the Post Office, and grocery store especially in the summer in North America. But I can’t because the places where I … read more
The Demands of Being Christian
The Powerful Demands of being a Christian in Our Lives These ideas have been inspired by my life-long human struggle and contemplation of goodness and evil, human suffering and triumph, appreciation of both beauty and ugliness. Growing up as a … read more
Zumbwe Wild Cat and Human Greed
Why is it that Martha Stewart, Bill Gates, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and other rich moguls want more billions upon billions of dollars? Why is it that we consume more and more oil polluting the environment, gorge ourselves on too … read more
So Many Ways to Express Romantic Love
My Entrancing: So Many Ways to Express Romantic Love My entrancing, Your letter was truly splendid. Your phantasmagoric interpretation of our panomic culture was most enlightening. Your symbology provoked me to regard your conceptual lucidity and articulation when concretizing the … read more
Memories of a Lover
Kamthibi and Trish were in Williamsburg that memorable weekend of the Fall in October. They parked their red convertible car on the lovely Winery Grounds surrounded by acres of grape plants. Holding hands, they excitedly floated into the Italian festival … read more
Challenges of Village Library Project
Over four decades ago, a young village African boy was summoned urgently from his goat herding chores. His uncle told the boy to wash his body, comb his hair, wear the brand new khaki uniform and the uncle was going … read more
Kamthibi Diaries: Diary of a Young Teenager
Unedited Diary of a Young Teenager – Book One August, 1969 I went home that day semi-discouraged and encouraged. I had very high hopes, expectations, dreams and imaginations about my school holidays. On the other hand, I had planned with … read more
The Ghosts of Man-Eating Lions
I must have been about seven years old. My dad had gone out of town on business riding his bike through sixty miles of dangerous desolate wilderness in Luangwa Valley of the Eastern Province of Zambia in Southern Africa. At … read more
I am Glad I am Not In Jail
As a child growing up in my home village in Lundazi in Eastern Zambia in Southern Africa among the Tumbuka people, an incident changed my life forever. I was in the middle of a squabble with my little cousin that … read more
Thanks to all Teachers
We all at one time or another thank someone who played a very important role in our lives. This could be a parent, a friend, an uncle, aunt, a teacher, or just sometimes a total stranger who was kind to … read more