Swart Donkey

My understanding of South African history and the clashing introduction of Europeans was very different from the “New World” rushes where ad...

We constantly unpack as we move, rebuilding our spoken and unspoken contracts of how we agree to work with each other. Negotiating complex r...

Complexity is hard to deal with. So we ask easier questions. We model reality with stories and characters. We come up with simplifying num...

I have never been in a proper physical fight. Some facing up, and posturing, but never in a full flung war. So I am not sure how I would re...

We have limited capacity. Limited time. Limited attention. Limited energy. The power of this is that we will make different mistakes. Mista...

Four Cities in China have the same rank as Provinces - Tianjin, Beijing, Chongqing, and Shanghai. Shanghai has a population of about ...

The English Civil War tore England apart. Thomas Hobbes was 64 years old when the conflict began. He became one of the leading thinkers ar...

Durante mucho tiempo, España fue la potencia mundial dominante. Crecí en Sudáfrica, donde cualquier impacto duradero no es inmediatamente o...

Yemen is the home of the biblical ' Queen of Sheba ' - the leader of a trading state that flourished for over a thousand ye...

Continental Colours Thirteen Star Flag The  Thirteen Colonies  which declared independence from Britain in 1776 were on the eas...

Ethiopia was the only African country never colonised by the Europeans. It is the reason so many flags in the world bear the Ethiop...

Civil war has often followed independence from foreign conquerors. Tajikistan became an independent nation following the 1991 disso...

Unlike other islands which were colonised and the populations replaced, the Samoan people's ancestors reached their country abou...

Saint Lucia was known as "Helen of the West Indies" because it swapped hands between French and British control so many ti...

North Sea Empire Cnut the Great was King of England, Denmark and Norway with his North Sea Empire from 1016-1035. Henry IV was the fi...

About 10 million Filipinos live outside the country, making one of the world's largest diasporas . It sneaks into the 13 count...

Two big drivers of some of the bloodiest wars the world has seen were Conspicuous Consumption and Work Ethic . War was partly a commercial ...

As nations are a story, they need people willing to listen for them to be 'true'. The Middle East is one of the most contr...

European Colonialism was in part a trade war between the rising European empires. It started largely about ports and trade routes be...

Nauru is a Sovereign Nation with a population of just over 10,000. It is the third smallest state in the world after Monaco and th...