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Lá Fhéile Pádraig.NYC

Saint Patrick’s Day NYC

2 min readMar 22, 2024

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Lá Fhéile Pádraig.NYC

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Gerry Gouy

Flabbergasted by the Kerfuffles

Brouhahas aplenty put us all on Tenterhooks

1 min readNov 17, 2023

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Flabbergasted by the Kerfuffles

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Gerry Gouy

23.5 Hours in Lisbon (No more sadness)

10:05 // Vai, minha tristeza // Go, my sadness

3 min readApr 22, 2023

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23.5 Hours in Lisbon (No more sadness)

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Gerry Gouy

The African Renaissance is over & never was, so can we please stop pretending…

The United Nations has a measure of a country’s success called the Human Development Index (HDI).

3 min readApr 21, 2023

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The African Renaissance is over & never was, so can we please stop pretending…

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Gerry Gouy

The day the circus came to town

Some folks like to get away

2 min readApr 6, 2023

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The day the circus came to town

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Gerry Gouy

Has a porcupine called Ukraine saved the world?

Picture this view from Taiwan’s Taichung City in April 2025: Hundreds of Chinese warships emerge from the horizon with hundreds of…

2 min readFeb 18, 2023

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Has a porcupine called Ukraine saved the world?

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Gerry Gouy

30 Years of Protest: What was it good for?

I want an education that’s not based on my race (or how us mixed-race people are no longer happy with being top of a very low pile)…

4 min readOct 28, 2022

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30 Years of Protest: What was it good for?

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Gerry Gouy

Why is Africa so misguided on Russia?

With significant exceptions, many Africans have tended to support Russia’s narrative around their sadistic invasion of Ukraine as being a…

2 min readAug 7, 2022

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Why is Africa so misguided on Russia?

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Gerry Gouy

Why Ukraine will win

I’ve spent time in recent years in cities in Russia and Ukraine: Lviv and Leningrad, Kyiv & Moscow etc

2 min readApr 22, 2022

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Why Ukraine will win

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Gerry Gouy

How NOT to make a rock opera: The Ceaușescus v Alexander Hamilton

Full disclosure: I may not be the most uniquely qualified person to write a rock opera about the Romanian dictator’s state visit to the UK…

2 min readFeb 13, 2022

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Gerry Gouy

Gerry Gouy

New York-based global citizen, believer in rationalism, modernity and 80s pop. Global media exec by day, writer and photographer by night.

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