Liberating Ourselves from "Big Men" (podcast)

Stream of Subconsciousness · Jul 7, 2025 · 53m

“All of this (current world situation) is very familiar to anybody who's lived in a country that has experienced the takeover by a… we used to call them Big Men in Africa.“There was this post-colonial, post-liberation period when these figures, very Trump-like figures, came in. And it served a purpose, which was to give people a sense of comfort that in this rapidly changing world they (The Big Men) would control it and turn things back to the way they'd always been. So in Zimbabwe, you know, very similar rhetoric, very similar playbook.“It's interesting to be in Africa as all this happens…