Otto's Random Thoughts

The semester is coming to an end. As far as teaching goes I think this semester was pretty successful. It certainly seems like these were ...

This is the fourth Thanksgiving I have spent in Africa. Like every other Thanksgiving here I had fufu, groundnut soup, and goat to eat. Th...

It has been a while since I have done a reader survey. It has also been a long time since anybody has commented on this blog. I am not sur...

Since the Russian annexation of Crimea a total of 15 Crimean Tatars have been killed or disappeared. I want to say I was wrong, but I did ...

On the morning of 15 November 1944 the NKVD began the systematic deportation of the Meskhetian Turks , Kurds, and Hemshins from the area ...

Today is the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the first stage of the International Left's global experiment in restructuring e...

Seventy six years ago yesterday the Stalin regime executed Yusup Abdrakhmanov, the man most responsible for the creation of the borders ...

It does not look the recent revolution in Burkina Faso will progress along the lines of the one led by Thomas Sankara from 1983 to 1987 . ...

This is two days late. But, 2 November 1943 marked the mass deportation of the Karachais from their Caucasian homeland to Kazakhstan and K...

A good song from 1983.

I don't remember Halloween being any type of big deal here in Ghana in the last three years. So I am pretty sure nothing will happen t...

On Monday I attended a presentation on the Legon City project. Basically this is a project by the university being spearheaded by the Vice...

Three things that happened this week. 1. My tro tro driver was arrested again. This seems to be a frequent occurrence. 2. I gave four ...

Iranian rock from 1972 in Tehran.

It seems to me on the basis of a very small amount of reading that there are some significant between racial discrimination and caste discri...

Around the corner from my flat is the Mighty Jesus Supermarket. It even has its own bags with its name printed on them. The Mighty Jesus S...

Last night I realized that my kitchen is a hybrid of Ghanaian and South African electric outlets. Earlier this week my kettle died after t...

On Thursdays I have to get up at 4:00 am in order to get to my 7:50 am city campus class. So by noon I have already been up and moving for...