It was one of the great joys of this Blogger’s hasty life, to know the stevedore-philosopher Eric Hoffer. He was the author of the tome, THE TRUE BELIEVER; a tome, which everyone interested in politics and the foibles of human nature, should read; he was one of the great minds of the 20 th Century. This Blogger met Hoffer while he was in exile; he had antagonized the Liberal Elite with his working class insights; he was specifically in exile because of one heresy. He opposed the Elitist viewpoint that Afrofuturism was the inevitable future of Mankind. Hoffer maintained that post-colonial Africa was all fake glamour, a P.R. veneer; a veneer which would crumble, deteriorate, and atrophy, because Africans did not have the will, nor instincts nor common sense to MAINTAIN democracy or infrastructure. As this Blog is being written, one of the super powers of post colonial Africa, the Republic of ...