This change of guard has so much resonance with all of us in Africa. First of all, we have so many leaders (including President Moi) who simply hang onto power for too long. From Guinea to Malawi, Libya to Namibia, the Big Man syndrome is alive and well. Once a man has been in power, either by force or through the ballot, he thinks he must stay there forever.[1]
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^ From The Monitor, quoted in "No Moe Moi", June Thomas, Slate, December 30, 2002
The Monitor and Sunday Monitor are national newspapers in Uganda. ... Slate. ...
In political science, Bigmansyndrome, also bigmanism, refers to corrupt and autocratic rule of countries by a single person, particularly in Africa.
In anthropology, a bigman refers to the most influential man in a tribe.
In his "Poor Man, Rich Man, BigMan, Chief: Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia" (1963) Sahlins uses analytically constructed ideal-types of hierarchy and equality to compare a larger-scale Polynesian-type hierarchical society of chiefs and sub-chiefs with a Melanesian-type big-man system.
Upon man's plans and exploits to get the world afflicted with tribulations and general destruction, God has continued to prove that His wisdom is greater than that of man just as the heavens is higher than the earth.
Man is so insolent to belief or speculate that the whites, who can manufacture all these things are equal with God.
There is no difference between man and woman, white and fl, between the young and the elderly because He is all and in all.
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