The violence seen in some movies stays with us long after we leave the darkened theatre. These movies often incorporate the dark and primitive nature of humanity to grab our attention and make us think. After much dispute around the office, here is RELATIVITY OnLine’s own top ten list. Let us know if you think we [...]

A country’s independence day is always a time for celebration and reflection. In 1962 Uganda became and independent nation, free from British colonization. The theme for Uganda’s birthday celebration this year was unity. RELATIVTY OnLine’s Ugandan correspondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo takes inside the reason’s why unity is badly needed in the country known as the Pearl [...]

Movie audiences have always had a long standing love affair with gangster movies.  For many, it’s the climb out of poverty and a rise to power that so many are drawn towards. For others its the life without rules or limitations. More than anything else, the stories of hardened criminals are anchored by the idea of fellowship, rooted [...]

Most of us go through life searching, our lives a contstant quest for all we want to have, to be and to feel. In our search for more, however, we sometimes get lost in a thickening fog of self-doubt, unable to trust our own programming. RELATIVTY OnLine’s David Anthony Hohol shares with our readers his own origins and [...]

Before America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Sunni / Shia divide was lost on most Westerners. Setting aside the more complex issues surrounding Wahabis, Druze, Sufis, Ismailis or even Bahia’s, on its most basic levels, Islam is broken down into two primary sects. When one searches for the fundamental source of all differences between [...]

  Dr. Ron Villejo is set to take RELATIVITY OnLine readers on an odyssey of experience and faith. September 11, 2001 changed so many things for so many people and this article is one’s man’s trek into the heart of trauma, fear and understanding. “The Psychology of Trauma” is the first in series of three [...]

From James O’Hearn… Twitter is a dichotomy. On the one hand it is the most vapid, pointless extrapolation of the useless small talk paradigm ever put into concrete form. On the other hand, it is the most powerful collaboration tool, and passive information retrieval system ever devised.   Say wha?   Simply put, if you [...]

From Abdulla Abdulsalam Belal…   The world is now a very small place. With just a click on the button I can be anywhere I want to be. In just seconds I can be in another country, another time or another place. I can watch what people are doing in their homes or at their work; I can talk [...]

From Nora Fakim… Home to around 44 million people, Colombia is best known for its lucrative drug trade and violent, internal conflicts. But a growing number of passionate and vocal musicians are keen to show their country in a new light. Straddling the Pacific and Andean Oceans, Colombia also has Andean mountain ranges and densely [...]

From Lute Wa Lutengano… So I was in Dar es Salaam. Like it or not this formerly sleepy and maybe sleezy city is now catching up with the modern cities of the world. Its illuminated electronic billboards, international restaurants, modern night spots, glitzy and ugly cloud kissing structures and bumper to bumper traffic jams are [...]