What I saw on Facebook this morning under the keyword "broke" is overwhelming, to say the least. All these people whining about how broke they are would appear to them, to be a pretty daunting predicament to overcome, and reflects the true state of the economy. The recession is really biting in, that's for sure. So what can you do about it? In this short article, I want to go over the reasons why people go broke in the first place (recession or not), and how to seriously curb the spending....

I recently received a poignant yet corny SMS message from a pal in Scotland, it read The world has been Obamarized! The fascination, amongst Africans, with all things African-American certainly goes way back. If you've lived in Africa this isn't news at all, and now, with Barack Obama becoming the very first African-American president of the United States Of America I can only see the Obamarization of the world -- and especially Africa -- getting bigger and louder by the day. Africans are now going...