A beautiful tyranny misnamed partnership

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A beautiful tyranny misnamed partnership

The relationship
To which we are wedded
Is a beautiful tyranny
Misnamed partnership.

Our partnership
Is a partnership of unequal partners
Of unequal powers and unequal opportunities
A partnership honeycombed
With labyrinths of genteel deception, division and exclusion.

In our partnership
One party represents
An imperial order of unprecedented sway and intrigue
Into whose hegemonic bosom
The other is conveniently entombed.

In our partnership
One party is the source, centre and symbol
Of all knowledge, civilisation and salvation
The other a mere consumer
Of high culture and QUIPs[1].

We are stakeholders in a bizarre covenant
That folds enslavement
In intoxicating benevolence and grace
Our partnership is afflicted with saintly inhumanity.

In the cold mathematics of our partnership
Our partnership is our destiny.
Amen.
© 1995 Hassan Keynan
Oslo Norway
Keynan, Hassan, (1995). A tyranny misnamed partnership. First published in: Brock Utne, Birgit, 2000: Whose Education for All? The Re-colonisation of the African mind? New York/London: Falmer Press.


    [1] Quick impact projects.

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