It was supposed to be a religious discussion. Then it moved to engineering and then to the woes of Africa. Nigerian roads are at their worst. Travel times have practically doubled. Famers have graciously donated their plantations to the feeding of Federal cows. Interstate travels are done with caution since …
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Let there be light
the breakage of education in Nigeria and Africa is the basis for our power outage. If that's true, then education will be the foundation of our improved power supply.
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There’s this discussion that happens in the ranks of progressive African youths. It’s about why African nations appear to be behind in everything. Western nations have everything working for them while African nations have almost nothing working. In Europe, a small town can be the world’s largest manufacturer of a …
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As an African “youth,” the experiences of our countries are completely inconsistent with the capacities which the people doubtlessly possess. While Africans have been portrayed as unenlightened, no one has been able to replicate several African feats for example, the Terracotta arts. Africans have great capacity. This capacity is however …
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A friend was walking on the streets of London last week, and he saw the house in which Benjamin Franklin lived in the 18th Century. This is the 21st Century. We had previously reasoned together about the building codes and styles of Africa as compared with those Europe. Neither of …
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The nature of my job got me purring over contemporary climate challenges lately. Once, I drifted to think about the annual fear of “the coldest winter in hundred years” in UK, and then the gradual warming up of the Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa. By implication, while …
Read More »The heart of the teacher
A few moments ago, I got thinking about my secondary school days. I recalled the loving teachers such as Mr Awe and Mr Oyedotun. Mr Oye must have been the most popular teacher with parents. For science students, Mr Awe was the best with clarity of communication and contemporary anecdotes …
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How far? That obviously is a phrase peculiar to Nigerians! However, I am writing from another perspective. I heard about an Englishman who served as a missionary in East Africa from 1981 to 1991. He taught English at a local secondary. In 1981, he had an offer to teach in …
Read More »Once a slave in Syria! (2)
Knowest thou that I was once a slave in Syria? (2) Some months ago, I learnt the story of ìdá in the Yoruba mythology of West Africa. He was a slave. He was such a fine young man that his master could not help but see beyond the slave. He saw …
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“Many” yeas ago when we got into Physics class, our teacher, in trying to explain the definition of WORK as the PRODUCT of FORCE and DISTANCE, picked a piece of chalk from a desk and dropped it on another desk, and he claimed to have done work. Then he pointed …
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