KANSIIME ONESMUS

But why can't anyone invent their own currency!!! Overtime, even after the invention and operation of real money, people in crisis such as war have invented items or modes of exchange such as the cigarette currency in the Prisoner of the War Camp. This has disguised a market situation and aided trade but however there is increasing debate on whether these invented means of payments and medium of exchange can be regarded as mere money, near money or no money at all but tools that aid barter trade. The debate has for long been tainted with the popular premise of likening everything used in exchange to money and the arguments become more grounded when such means of payment have a monetary value, are durable, portable and divisible. We need to delve inconsequentially, analyze critically and explicitly, into the details that guide the arguments that will either qualify or disqualify invented currencies as money. "The difficult question as to the best definition of money has been...

SAFE CIVIC SPACES FOR YOUTHS kansmus@gmail.com As a world, we are bound to draw attention to a well thought fundamental collection of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. "safe spaces for youth" should be a mantra even though it carries sheer talk in most countries that have direly mastered the divisive art of deprivation of the youths' right to safe spaces which include public, civic, physical and digital spaces. More emphatically to note is that having youth in a country is no reason to celebrate them but rather having the will to give the youth safe spaces. Lest, let the civic society carryout pro-youth campaigns, the nonviolent crusades that brand the quest to quench the thirst birthed by the deficiency of safe spaces and the uncertainty immersing the safe spaces platforms. The consideration of youths gives the countries where peace, economic dynamism, social justice and tolerance for the youth has not been prioritized to indemnify the youth ...