Status Updates From The Guardian of the Word

...the defence of their kingdoms was the natural duty of free and noble men, and perhaps the concept of honour at that period compelled those in high positions in the kingdoms to guarantee the liberty and reputation of the territories they controlled. The establishment of the armed forces here was an accepted activity for the nobility and for high dignitaries of the order of free men.

This was the drop of water that makes the cup run over.

…there are affronts whose cruelty freezes the heart and paralyses the tongue.

But what has the colour of one’s skin to do with faith? ‘Man is just like a sword, whose sheath represents the pigmentation of his skin; but the sharp edge of the steel blade symbolizes moral values that count much more!’ he thought.

In a continent where the heat in certain regions reaches 40 [degrees] in the shade, should our African ‘emancipation’ consist of the three-piece all-wool suit and the bottle of scotch? Should it not rather have its source in our own deep roots in that distant past, and, at the same time, in the opening-up of our new frontiers to universal values?