African Political Analysis Think-Tank Vignettes

I woke up from this long dream, my heart is still racing and my body is drenched in sweat. In it I was confronted with the following questions and later was asked to oversee Freetopia! Where did Freetopia go wrong? What is wrong and what is right anyway? What is better, for Freetopia? To be stable or to be perfect? The Ozymandian (read president) came to power following a coup. The Ozymandian (Ozy) promised and concentrated effort on rights, interests and choices of Freetopians as individuals.   Ozy, was first and foremost consciously POLITICAL.   So, because of the political, this led to inclinations or connections to other determinants including working with a team of like minded people. Driven and willing to sacrifice for a common goal. The Ozy would then proceed to cleave Freetopians into small target groups for better outcomes of the Ozy administration goals. Ozy began the Ozy quest with employable Freetopians! ATOMIZATION. By targeting...

Microcredit has its promise as long as one is disciplined but it can be a mirage to a hopeless romantic.   Imagine a situation, you already have an idea which you wrote down as a business plan. You have gone out and tested the market for the business you are thinking of. The business, it turns out cannot take off unless you get an injection of money. Your friends cannot come up with Uganda Shillings 5,000,000 million you need to run the business initially. Then you remembered there is a micro-credit bank next to your home town. You walk in and you are told you need to be trained in financial handling skills. After two weeks of preparation, you get the first installment of a loan extended to you to start your business. That is what defines the criteria of a microcredit. Micro means small. Credit is the money extended to you but will have to be returned after a given time.But, there are other factors one needs to be aware of once they have got a loan in form of a microc...