Bemgba Nyakuma

Bemgba Nyakuma is an MSc Sustainable Energy Technology student of Technishe Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands. Visit his blog.

War Child: A Novel by Bruce Cerew

War Child is a tale of humor and tragedy, courage and fear, hopelessness and anticipation, love and betrayal, hope and triumph...

Sustainability and Unsustainability: Critically Rethinking The Status Quo

Issues such as Sustainability are a matter of priority. For a country in Africa, Sustainability does not rank high up there among issues like daily hunger, disease, AIDS, poverty, corruption among other things...

Sustainability and Unsustainability: Critically Rethinking the Status Quo

"The so-called ‘Unsustainability’ of the world is a dangerous lie! Nature is unimportant; only environment is important.” The environment improves and human life becomes better through technology, people and consumption..."

An Encounter with Mr. Sustainability

My first impression of Mr Sustainability was akin to Clint Eastwood in the 1967 movie, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, with a brimmed cowboy hat and outfit. Professor Wubbo Ockels in not a Hollywood hunk but he has the popularity of a movie star...

Interview With Prof. Venâncio Massingue, The Mozambican Minister Of Science And Technology

A wise man, an African maxim declares, is one who knows proverbs and can reconcile difficulties using them. A trained engineer, Prof. Venâncio Massingue believes that “There is no single scientist who is not a politician”...

Essay: Sustainable Energy

The Stone Age, Sheikh Zaki Yamani once said, came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones. The former Saudi Oil Minister was referring to the now ubiquitous notion that the Oil Age will soon come to an end and it will not be due to a lack of oil...

True Heroes of Africa

The darkest thing about Africa has always been the huge ignorance and misconceptions of this aptly termed cradle of civilization...

Bread of Life

Everything the mouth nibbles here turns to bread, every meal, snack, or bite has an element of bread. My sad verdict is that man should not live by bread alone even though when I see so many students carrying around sandwiches...

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