Of unconnected consciousness is there more to say beyond the clear recognition this is destruction's keenest tool against the soul? - Ayi Kwei Armah

She spoke of those needing the white destroyers' shiny things to bring a feeling of worth into their lives, uttered their deep-rooted inferiority of soul, and called them lacking in the essence of humanity: womanhood in women, manhood in men. For which deficiency they must crave things to eke out their beings, things to fill holes in their spirits.

The present is where we get lost -- if we forget our past and have no vision of the future.

Changes that seem reasonable, natural and basic," Armah says, "the academic world, far from performing as the rational part of a confused universe, seemed peculiarly denatured in its own right