About asabagna
I go by the name of Asabagna Alatentou, "Asa" for short. I took this name as my African/Spiritual name when I went on a pilgrimage to West Africa in 1997. I visited Senegal, The Gambia and Ghana. "Asabagna" means "hunter" and I received that name during a naming ceremony when I visited a village in northern Ghana. "Alatentou" is Mandingo for "God is gracious" and I received that name from a village Griot in Senegal. I was born in England and my parents are of Jamaican heritage. I spent most of my formative years in Jamaica, but grew up primarily in Toronto Canada. I currently live in Ottawa, the national capital of Canada. I am professionally employed, married, 2 wonderful kids and regularly attend a Pentecostal church. I am a born-again Christian. I do not consider myself conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, centrist etc., or any of the multiple categories that society likes to confine and define people by. However, I do have strong views, beliefs and opinions but I also consider myself open to listening and contemplating other viewpoints. I am a firm believer that "if you don't believe in something, you will fall for anything".
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Asa…More than surprised, I’m just thoroughly disgusted. The West’s “pot-calling-the-kettle-black” behavior is definitely par for the course, so I appreciate and applaud Kwenda and Anas not only for exposing its money-grubbing duality, but for their bravery in calling out African leaders who benefit from it (certainly they’ve ruffled the feathers of some very dangerous folks on both sides of this) Thanks for this.
On a kinda same, but different note, I read this “blame the Black guy for graft” piece the other day and found it interesting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/william-ward_n_2122379.html?ref=topbar
I thought, Yeah, use “the Black guy” to set up AFRICOM (since he looks like them) for a smooth foot-hold in the area (he was the first AFRICOM commander from 2007-2011 based in Stuttgart); then once they’re in, demote him for doing the same things the “white guys” have been doing since forever (not that he’ll really be hurting financially when he does retire) — so they could replace him with “the white guy” — because, of course (after 4 years), he was suddenly “ineffectual.” I found this later and realized, as is always the case, there’s more to all this than meets the eye: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/oct/28/general-losing-his-job-over-benghazi/ {SMDH}
Blessings and regards to the family…
Hey Sis! Thanks for the links… very informative and I concur with your analysis.
We are all doing well here. I hope you doing are well too. When you have the time, please hollah at me via email and let me know how you’re doing! A recent post on your blog sparked a personal interest.
Peace and blessings!
Asa, hey! No problem, Man, I keep running into their machinations everywhere I turn it seems. It’s amazing the thing you see when you stop looking at your world with your “eyes wide shut.”
Glad everybody’s well. The Princess should be coming into her own by now! 🙂 All I have is time, Chile! Thanks for thinking about me. I’ll shoot that to you in a minute.
Peace and Blessings right back atcha…