austinobama

In Europe and America, the rise of POPULISM is spreading like wildfire. President Trump rode on this wave to get him elected in 2016, constantly attacking the establishment and feeding off widespread discontent of the people, the high level of unemployment, high immigration rates, and the dislike of the ruling establishment.  These issues formed the central theme and the policies on which he ran his campaign in 2016, promising his base big changes in these areas, some of which were his obsession with erecting a wall over the Mexican border,  his constant attack on Obamacare, the Paris climate accord, and the Iran deal.... And he didn't renege on those promises.  In his first week in the Oval Office, he pulled the U.S. out of the Iran deal, successfully dismantled key parts of Obamacare, and withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accord with 150 signatory countries. Just like President Trump, in 2015  President Buhari rode on the same wave of POPULISM to get him...

Africa, so replete with many Yet so poor. For so long, those whose chains bound her have long left her shores But yet in chains she bind herself. Those chosen to represent her now eat Alone in a bowl  in cliques. Her leaders intoxicated by power never let go Sniffing lives out of any who dare oppose And so the people became slaves in their homes. Africa for once we all pointed fingers at the colonials.. Saying in one accord let them leave. Gone they all left But now we are worst than they left us In colonialism our children had jobs, Now with power our children are jobless For isn't power more useful in the hands of the Oppressor? Why do we chose to betray the very tenant which we fought to be free Sadly, like the Israelites in the wilderness We ask our moses why has thou brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness??        With so much, yet very little to eat         Africa her people, her ...