Sentletse Diakanyo - Rise Africans, rise!

18.2.11

Thought Leader � Sentletse Diakanyo � Rise Africans, rise!: "“Nothing will come of nothing,” the old King Lear lashed out at his youngest daughter Cordelia. Cordelia unlike her older siblings, Regan and Goneril, had failed to shower the King, who was nearing the end of his mortal existence, with praises in order to earn an inheritance. This enraged the old king. For having “nothing” to say to the king, Cordelia was banished from the kingdom empty-handed and stripped of her royal title.

In Shakespeare’s tragedy lies a greater measure of truth about the manner in which particular events are necessitated by antecedent conditions; that ex nihilo nihil fit, “out of nothing comes nothing”. History provides for us instructive lessons that we only can ignore at our own peril."

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