Wainaina has not much interest in such western posturing ("You guys are in the retirement home already as far as we are concerned").
The center's mission was to "train volunteers in revolutionary warfare from all over the world," according to a 1999 book by Stephen Ellis of the African Studies Center, in Leiden, the Netherlands, in keeping with Colonel Qaddafi's belligerent anti-Western posture.
Today's global agora, at least in terms of contemporary art, is more a mongrel affair than a thoroughbred race, a mix of breeds that becomes all the more impressive when the newest players are remembered as the nations once occupied by European powers who, after decades of anti-Western posturing, today rejoin their former colonizers--this time transacting, if not soon to be dictating.
Taken together here, after decades of anti-Western postcolonial posturing, at last sharing the arena with their former colonizers, they transact, if not dictate, the terms of their own cultural interpretation.
A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country.
But most other members previously set Mr Assad's departure as a precondition for talks—a posture that Western governments at first endorsed but latterly dropped.
It says that "the Russian leadership should urgently re-evaluate the costs and risks of continuing its more assertive military posture, and western diplomacy should be aimed at persuading Russia to move in this direction".
In the bill-up posture, the western jackdaw tilts its bill and head upwards and sleeks its plumage.
Again, this posture will reduce western pressure on the regime.
On the ground, western jackdaws have an upright posture and strut briskly, their short legs giving them a rapid gait.
McShann's battle at the Savoy with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra has the drama and posturing of a classic Western shootout.
