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    Leaders and Idiots
    Leaders and Idiots
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    Leaders and Idiots

    By Brian Ligomeka, Sr

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    This book is a collection of articles that rebuke mediocrity, exploitation, social injustice, archaic traditions, autocracy and strategic myopia.

    Written by an African living in an African society where all sorts of crooks from political mavericks to religious fanatics turn people they are supposed to serve into ignorant victims of their manipulations and exploitative tactics, through this book, Malawian-award winning journalist and newspaper columnist has endeavoured to advocate for political, social and religious change by confronting many forms of malevolence in African societies and beyond Africa.

    If pieces of advice in this collection are taken seriously, they can open eyes of the exploited and give caution to the exploiters. This book, which is a collection of several opinions and the author’s personal experiences, offers a message of caution to educated idiots who despite having university certificates, diplomas and degrees still behave worse than illiterate and semi illiterate fools.

    This book is a call for honesty, integrity, transparency, social justice, media freedom and the upholding of democracy and respect for human rights.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Ligomeka, Sr
    Release dateJul 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301931828
    Leaders and Idiots
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    Brian Ligomeka, Sr

    Multi-award winning journalist, Brian Ligomeka, is currently working as the managing editor of Times Group in Malawi. He has published dozens and dozens of articles in Africa and outside Africa. Prior to his joining The Times Group of Malawi, Ligomeka who is a former stringer for Africa Information Afrique, Inter Press Service, African Eye News Services and several international magazines, worked for the defunct Mirror Newspaper and The Malawi Standard. A holder of a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication, Ligomeka at the time of compiling these articles was studying for his Masters Degree in Business Administration with Edinburgh Business School, a graduate wing of Scottish institution, Heriot Watt University. He has attended various schools in Malawi including St Patricks Secondary School (Limbe), Blantyre Teachers College, Domasi College of Education, Shareworld Open University and University of Malawi Management Centre at The Polytechnic. He currently lives at Yasin Trading Centre, (near Mapanga Industrial Area) in his home town of Chiradzulu with his family.

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      Leaders and Idiots - Brian Ligomeka, Sr

      Brian Ligomeka Leaders and Idiots

      Leaders and Idiots

      A collection of personal opinions on politics and social issues

      BY BRIAN LIGOMEKA

      Published by Smashwords

      Copyright: Brian Ligomeka

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Contents

      My Inspiration Page 2

      Introduction Page 4

      Leaders are made Page 6

      Educated Idiots Page 18

      Prophet Moses’ fall Page 23

      Never fight with a pig Page 28

      False Prophets Page 32

      Marketing Noise Page 37

      Never Fight God’s Prophets Page 41

      Power of Pillow Talk Page 47

      Hypocrisy and abortion Page 51

      The Chewing Gum Page 57

      Journalism Hazards Page 67

      Like Goliath, like dictators Page 75

      Of University funding woes Page 81

      The defeat of Zambian leader Page 86

      Romance and leadership Page 90

      My Inspiration

      There are two kinds of knowledge. One is general, the other is specialised. General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money. The faculties of the great universities possess, in the aggregate, practically every form of general knowledge known to civilisation. Most of the professors have but little or no money. They specialise in teaching knowledge, but they do not specialise on the organisation, or the use of knowledge.

      Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organised, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that ‘knowledge is power.’ It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organised into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

      This missing link in all systems of education known to civilisation today, may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students how to organise and use knowledge after they acquire it.

      Napoleon Hill (1937), Think and Grow Rich

      Introduction

      This book is a collection of articles that rebuke mediocrity, exploitation, social injustice, archaic traditions, autocracy and strategic myopia.

      Written by an African living in an African society where all sorts of crooks from political mavericks to religious fanatics turn people they are supposed to serve into ignorant victims of their manipulations and exploitative tactics, through my writings, I have endeavoured to advocate for political, social and religious change by confronting many forms of malevolence.

      If pieces of advice in this collection are taken seriously, they can open eyes of the exploited and give caution to the exploiters. This book also offers a message of caution to educated idiots who despite having university certificates, diplomas and degrees still behave worse than illiterate and semi illiterate fools.

      This book is a call for honesty, integrity, transparency, social justice, media freedom and the upholding of democracy.

      This collection is the work of a postgraduate student who believes that the pursuit of education ought to be a life-long goal. I wrote the articles in this collection while pursuing my Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree with a Scottish based Edinburgh Business School – a graduate school of Heriot Watt University.

      A number of great authors inspired me to write pieces in this collection. Notable among them are Ben Carson and Cecil Murphy, Kiki Theo, Larry Winget, Collin Powell, Barack Obama and Robert Greene, just to mention a few. Few quotations from these great authors have been duly acknowledged in the text.

      I am grateful to Times Group of Malawi for grooming me. Even if I quit Times Group today, I will continue saluting my mentors the Times group Managing Director Leonnard Chikadya a respected Malawian chartered accountant, Times Group Financial Controller Mrs Veronica Masikini, Dr Tikhala Chibwana, Vynn Phiri my former editor other former editors namely the late Jika Nkolokosa, the late Edward Chisambo.

      Special thanks also go to my old aged father Mr Lameck Genest Ligomeka, my mum Mrs Linley Bwanali Ligomeka for inculcating in me the spirit of hard work, honesty and stewardship.

      The Ligomekas of Yasini in Chiradzulu namely Sarah, Bridget, Brian Jr, Blandina, Beatrice and Bright deserve commendation for giving me space to think and write my opinions.

      Brian Ligomeka, 2013

      Leaders are made

      Are leaders born or made? While most people would take time to choose a correct answer and back up their response with chapters and chapters of arguments or the whole PhD thesis on this ancient-old question, the managing director of Malawi’s oldest and largest print media house, The Times Group formerly Blantyre Printing and Publishing Company, Leonnard Chikadya has a straightforward answer.

      Leaders are not born. I have never heard a doctor announcing that he or she has just delivered a baby who is a new leader! I have never seen a newspaper announcement stating that a new leader was born today! Have you! How did we then become leaders? Leaders are born as ordinary people. They learn leadership tricks as they grow up. Sometimes circumstances persuade them to take up leadership roles. This is why leaders come and go. Once they go, they are immediately replaced by new leaders! This is the explanation, which Chikadya gave in his key note speech when addressing managers of his company in September 2012.

      I bought his argument because it is in tandem with various researches, including those conducted by one leadership thinker who concluded that leadership

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