CONGRATULATIONS, PRIME MINISTER ABIY AHMED, AND A PEARL FROM ZIK
Kissi, Edward
“...In one of its most instructive editorials, toward the end of the war, the West African Pilot recalled on 2 May 1945 how Adolf Hitler had “basked in the sunshine of fame,” how “by the majestic wave of his hand, the destiny of nations was sealed,” and “by the stroke of a pen, life was given or life was taken...from any person within the jurisdiction of the Third German Reich.” But “today he is dead [having committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin on 30 April 1945] and his stinking carcass is food for the populations of the world of microbiology.” Like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini’s “words, like lightning, destroyed those who dared to stand in his path....Wherever he went, his pomposity and arrogance created terror in the minds of his people. They called him ‘Duce’.” Yet, like Hitler, “Mussolini is dead [captured and executed in Italy on 28 April 1945] and in spite of his callous invasion of Ethiopia, only six feet of earth await to swallow his bloated corpse.” The Pilot observed that “there must be a lesson for Africans from the biographies of Hitler and Mussolini.” That lesson is that ambition and fame are noble, “but man must not allow his head to be swollen as to forget that life has a meaning---service to humanity.”
[Source: Africans and the Holocaust, pp.136-137].
CONGRATULATIONS to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, and proving Nnamdi Azikiwe and his famous paper right.
This is a deserving recognition of a leader for serving his people, and for his “efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation.” That is called Leadership, the noblest of human ambitions pursued through “service to humanity.”
Edward Kissi
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to John Goodenough of The University of Texas at Austin
Dear All:
Many Americans know that the country's President (Mr. Trump) and his supporters were craving for the
Nobel Peace Prize, hence his North Korean and other zealous efforts at expensive peace summit meetings.
To him, African nations are "Sh...t hole" countries. What, then, will he say now, as the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has
been awarded to Prime Minister Ably Ahmed, from one of Mr. Trump described "sh...t hole" countries? Can the Nobel
news make Mr. Trump see African nations in favorable terms now?
A.B. Assensoh.
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1. Nobel Prize in Peace · 2019
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Gloria Emeagwali
“...In one of its most instructive editorials, toward the end of the war, the West African Pilot recalled on 2 May 1945 how Adolf Hitler had “basked in the sunshine of fame,” how “by the majestic wave of his hand, the destiny of nations was sealed,” and “by the stroke of a pen, life was given or life was taken...from any person within the jurisdiction of the Third German Reich.” But “today he is dead [having committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin on 30 April 1945] and his stinking carcass is food for the populations of the world of microbiology.” Like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini’s “words, like lightning, destroyed those who dared to stand in his path....Wherever he went, his pomposity and arrogance created terror in the minds of his people. They called him ‘Duce’.” Yet, like Hitler, “Mussolini is dead [captured and executed in Italy on 28 April 1945] and in spite of his callous invasion of Ethiopia, only six feet of earth await to swallow his bloated corpse.” The Pilot observed that “there must be a lesson for Africans from the biographies of Hitler and Mussolini.” That lesson is that ambition and fame are noble, “but man must not allow his head to be swollen as to forget that life has a meaning---service to humanity.”
[Source: Africans and the Holocaust, pp.136-137].
CONGRATULATIONS to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, and proving Nnamdi Azikiwe and his famous paper right.
This is a deserving recognition of a leader for serving his people, and for his “efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation.” That is called Leadership, the noblest of human ambitions pursued through “service to humanity.”
Edward Kissi
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to John Goodenough of The University of Texas at Austin
Dear All:
Many Americans know that the country's President (Mr. Trump) and his supporters were craving for the
Nobel Peace Prize, hence his North Korean and other zealous efforts at expensive peace summit meetings.
To him, African nations are "Sh...t hole" countries. What, then, will he say now, as the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has
been awarded to Prime Minister Ably Ahmed, from one of Mr. Trump described "sh...t hole" countries? Can the Nobel
news make Mr. Trump see African nations in favorable terms now?
A.B. Assensoh.
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Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
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dept of english
michigan state university
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