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A series of essays and articles from my days in academia. Many of these essays were written in response to a question and some of them no longer represent my current views.

Cash-cropping and Economic Growth in Africa

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For many African states, cash cropping is a major livelihood and prime source of income. Despite this importance, the industry has not achieved long...

Frankenstein: Science, Nature and Genesis

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Frankenstein (1818) is a multi-genre novel by Mary Shelley (1797-1851). It contains themes of Gothic and science fiction, among others. This essay will be...

Social Isolation and Evil in Camus’ The Plague 

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The Plague (Originally called: La Peste) was written by Albert Camus (1913-1960) and originally published in 1947. The story, written as a chronicle by...

Imperial Fatigue and the Disruption of African Colonialism during WW1

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Abstract Despite British and European colonialism only truly dissipating after World War 2, the Great War did see European colonialism and empire weaken dramatically on...

Socrates on the Soul

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In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates sets out a number of arguments to prove the immortality of the soul. One of these, which many of the...

Pastoral Genocide: An Evaluation of Adhikari’s Arguments

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Mohamed Adhikari makes the case that settlers practicing pastoral farming had a unique predisposition to commit genocide on indigenous populations – specifically, indigenous hunter-gatherer...

Sen’s Approach to the Bengali Famine of 1943

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This article came to my attention years later (2022) and successfully debunks Sen's methodology by refuting his statistics. Sen uses forecasts, not actual production...

Plato’s Condemnation of Rhetoric in Gorgias

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Plato in his Gorgias seeks to accomplish multiple tasks. This essay will be focusing on the first, that being the condemnation of rhetoric and...

Machiavelli’s The Prince Today

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Machiavelli’s The Prince has risen to become one of history’s most controversial books. Its contents are, no doubt, seen as immoral to our modern...

Language as a Tool: Analysing the Pirahã

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Language is a tool. Like all tools, it exists to solve a problem. Philosophy is also a tool, aimed at identifying and, hopefully, elucidating...