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May Prof Oso soul rest in peace.
Osakue S. Omoera, Ph.D., FIMIM, M.Sonta
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Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: Jun 25 09:20AM

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It’s the painful and sad reality that we have to accept that our brother, mentor, colleague and leader, Prof Lai Oso has died yesterday in a ghastly road accident. It’s the fluidity of life and transient nature of our existence; here today, gone tomorrow. Let’s take heart as we try to adjust to the reality of the permanent physical absence of our highly respected intellectual giant, Prof Oso. It is a collective loss of immense proportions. Please, I enjoin us to take heart and await additional details from the family and LASU. Adieu, brother, Professor Oso
 
 
 
 
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 11:35AM +0100

May his soul rest in peace
 
On Sunday, June 25, 2023, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>
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Akin Alao <akin...@gmail.com>: Jun 25 02:40PM +0100

May his soul find eternal rest.
 
On Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 10:21 AM Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>
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segun...@gmail.com: Jun 25 09:17AM -0500

Sorry to hear about his tragic accident that resulted to his death. May his family be comforted by his service to humanity.
May his soul rest peacefully with his ancestors and Creator.
Segun Ogungbemi.
 
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Michael Afolayan <mafo...@yahoo.com>: Jun 25 07:55PM

Ever so sorry to hear this! May the family of our colleague and all of us in academia be comforted!MOA
On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 03:19:03 PM GMT+1, <segun...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry to hear about his tragic accident that resulted to his death. May his family be comforted by his service to humanity. May his soul rest peacefully with his ancestors and Creator.  Segun Ogungbemi. 
 
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On Jun 25, 2023, at 9:06 AM, Akin Alao <akin...@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 
 
May his soul find eternal rest.
On Sun, Jun 25, 2023, 10:21 AM Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
 
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It’s the painful and sad reality that we have to accept that our brother, mentor, colleague and leader, Prof Lai Oso has died yesterday in a ghastly road accident. It’s the fluidity of life and transient nature of our existence; here today, gone tomorrow. Let’s take heart as we try to adjust to the reality of the permanent physical absence of our highly respected intellectual giant, Prof Oso. It is a collective loss of immense proportions. Please, I enjoin us to take heart and await additional details from the family and LASU. Adieu, brother, Professor Oso
 
 
 
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Olatunde Babawale <tunde_b...@yahoo.com>: Jun 25 08:06PM

Veer sad! May the Lord grant our brother’s soul eternal rest.
Tunde Babawale
 
 
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On Sunday, June 25, 2023, 10:21 AM, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
 
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It’s the painful and sad reality that we have to accept that our brother, mentor, colleague and leader, Prof Lai Oso has died yesterday in a ghastly road accident. It’s the fluidity of life and transient nature of our existence; here today, gone tomorrow. Let’s take heart as we try to adjust to the reality of the permanent physical absence of our highly respected intellectual giant, Prof Oso. It is a collective loss of immense proportions. Please, I enjoin us to take heart and await additional details from the family and LASU. Adieu, brother, Professor Oso
 
 
 
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 05:46PM +0100

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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 05:26PM +0100

Academics politicians and civil servants and Safety : waiting for the
nigerian Army? Let's not wait for the nigeruan army to do that is needful
.Academics have a duty to step up research not only on security but also on
safety.this explains why I invited the now chief of army staff ,major
General lagbaja to see how safety measures are put in place at the
university of east london.this time fire safety. Lagbaja had organised a
workshop on firesafety after seeing nigeria loosing 1 trillion naira in
2022 to fire!Can we have civilians stepping forward to organise workshops
to eradicate or reduce this menace of accidents to a reasonable level.one
death is too many.
 
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Olusegun Olopade <bcma...@toyinfalolanetwork.org>: Jun 25 08:39PM +0100

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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 04:13PM +0100

Who is charge here?. I mean beyond national security.should the nigerian
president have an adviser on safety .?somebody to give advice on safety in
all it aspects.the whole value chain.because use it appears there are some
weak links.
Fir instance we must be more stringent with driving lessons and issuing
out driving licences. Enforce car insurance if that jn any way would
encourage us to drive safely, construct good roads and put up street
lights ,curb the menace of drug abuse . Intensify public
enlightenment.set speed limits. Have the road well marked.promote mass
literacy for drivers and passengers.
*Various national and international researches have found these as most
common behavior of Road drivers, which leads to accidents.*
 
- Over Speeding: Most of the fatal accidents occur due to over speeding.
...
- Drunken Driving: Consumption of alcohol to celebrate any occasion is
common. ...
- Distraction to Driver: ...
- Red Light jumping:
 
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Olusegun Olopade <bcma...@toyinfalolanetwork.org>: Jun 25 04:09PM +0100

The Toyin Falola Interview: A Conversation with Samia Nkrumah (Daughter
of Kwame Nkrumah)
 
Please join us for a conversation with the renowned Pan-Africanist and
former Convention People's Party chairperson, Samia Yaba Nkrumah.
 
Today, Sunday, June 25, 2023
4:00 PM Ghana //5:00 PM Nigeria // 11:00 AM Austin CST
 
Join via Zoom:
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 02:52PM +0100

The Nigerian Space craft: latest news
According to the independent Space Engineers the Rockets of the newly
acquired Space Craft are firing beautifully. The Spaceship, the Nigerian
Space 🚀 ship is hovering beautifully metres above the ground the
captain iof this ship is the newly recruited Bola Tinubu.and some of the
independent Space Engineers with words of assurance and commendation
jnvlude Mr Ben Murray Bruce, professor bola Akinyemi. Professors Banji
Akitoye and commodore olabode George..there are about 218 milion
nigerians on the Spaceship. On a journey planned beyond planet shared
prosperity .
Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovde...@gmail.com>: Jun 25 10:07AM +0100

Thanks Cornelius.
 
Can you help with this since its you who hold that my views are
Islamophobic-
 
'' if you as a non-Muslim were to take a good look at what Islamophobia
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Islamophobia>implies and then compare
some of what you have said variously in this forum, you will find more than
enough evidence in print to quod erat demonstrandum
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=quod+erat+demonstrandum> convict you of
that which I suggest you are guilty of when I wrote that,
 
 
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 at 18:03, Cornelius Hamelberg <
Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovde...@gmail.com>: Jun 25 11:18AM +0100

Thanks Ayoola.
 
Over the years, I have taken pains on this group and other platforms to
refine my terminology and definitions in relation to the escalation of
Fulani imperialism through the agency of violent Fulani herdsmen, Fulani
militants, Miyetti Allah Fulani Socio-Cultural Organizations and the Buhari
govt.
 
If I can be further assisted with such clarifications I would appreciate it.
 
Does the term ''Fulani imperialism'' necessarily implicate all or most
Fulani?
 
We know that the term ''British imperialism'' for example, does not
implicate all or even most British people.
 
Imperialistic orientations are the initiatives of a relatively small group,
the ruling class and its close associates, working through a military
force, and who present themselves as representing the larger population to
which they belong.
 
This larger group demonstrates various degrees of identification or
disidentification with the imperialistic orientations of that smaller,
dominant group.
 
Fulani imperialism may be said to have undergone two major stages so far in
what is now Nigeria.
 
The first stage is represented by Usman dan Fodio's jihad, which, in the
context of religious and social reconstructions, created a Fulani hegemony
in the conquered Hausa states, getting as far as what is now Kwara state in
their conquering mission until they were stopped by a force led by the
Ibadan military.
 
The second stage is demonstrated by the 2015 escalation of the
activities of the Fulani militia into ethnic cleansing and land grabbing
through recurrent massacres in the Middle Belt, mass killing and extortion
in the rest of Nigeria as they fanned out from the Middle Belt and
escalation in individual killings, maimings and rapes by violent Fulani
herdsmen, activities empowered by the open advocacy of elite Fulani
imperialists represented by Miyetti Allah and the security and policy
protections of the Buhari government.
 
Most other Fulani and Northern Muslims either kept silent, tried to
rationalize the situation as fallouts of grazing and mobility pressures
faced by Fulani herdsmen, or supported those developments, such as
Professor Labdo, if I got the name right, declaring that Borno belonged to
the Fulani by right of conquest, a position challenged by reference to the
resistance of Borno to the imperialistic initiatives of the Fulani jihad.
 
Some Northern Muslims did try to speak up against the incongruity of
supposedly respectable members of society, represented by Miyetti Allah,
being the spokespeople and stragesists for the massacre machine of the
Fulani militia.
 
These efforts, however, came years after the escalation of this horror
commenced with the Agatu massacre on Buhari's entry into the Presidency
and was never prominent in any media, whether social media or offline
activity.
 
When using the term ''Fulani imperialism'' therefore, I am referring to an
imperialist initiative carried out through a military wing, represented by
the Fulani militia, which engages in massacres, land grabbing and
extortion, a highly organized and well armed private force complemented by
violent Fulani herdsmen, engaging in individual killings, maimings and
rapes, those two groups being agents of armed violence supported by the
civil society pressure groups represented by the two arms of Miyetti Allah
Fulani Socii-Cultural Organizations who justify these violent activities.
 
These non-state actors, a combination of armed violence at various levels
and civil society advocacy, is further empowered, given
foundational support by a political wing, represented particularly by the
the security protections, verbal support or strategic silences and policy
initiatives of the Buhari govt, in which even some non-Fulani fell into
line, such as the then President's spokeman, a Yoruba name I dont recall,
once declaring that its safer to surrender one's land than to die at the
hands of the violent Fulani herdsmen.
 
The entire structure is further empowered by the attitudes of most Fulani
who do not engage adequately, if at all, with the horrors being
perpetrated by their fellow ethnic members using their ethnic capital as
leverage.
 
Ill be pleased if I could be helped with better understanding of these
issues as well as with developing more precise terms and more accurate
definitions of those terms.
 
Great thanks
toyin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 at 18:03, Ayoola Tokunbo <toks_...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
 
Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Jun 25 07:04AM -0700

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju,
 
Many Thanks in Return.
 
Sincerely, you are so polite ( mostly), civilised, circumspect, respectful,
fair in judgement, sometimes pious, thank God that at least you never
strike me as being a bigot, “holier-than-thou “ or unctuous or overbearing,
or worst of all, arrogant - Satan the accuser’s specialty (arrogance). I’m
oddly reminded of the Siddur footnote to “Good Prophets “ :
 
“The theme of the Haftarah blessings is the integrity of the prophets and
their teachings. Even when it is their mission to criticize and threaten,
they are good to the Jewish people. Also, they are chosen because they are
good people: learned, righteous, impressive, etc. Our tradition does not
accept prophets who are lacking in any of the attributes of Jewish
greatness.
<https://www.google.com/search?q=%3A+%E2%80%9CThe+theme+of+the+Haftarah+blessings+is+the+integrity+of+the+prophets+and+their+teachings.+Even+when+it+is+their+mission+to+criticize+and+threaten%2C+they+are+good+to+the+Jewish+people.+Also%2C+they+are+chosen+because+they+are+good+people%3A+learned%2C+righteous%2C+impressive+etc.+Our+tradition+does+not+accept+prophets+who+are+lacking+in+any+of+the+attributes+of+Jewish+greatness.%E2%80%9D&rlz=1C1YTUH_en-GBGB1062GB1062&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8>
”
 
BTW on the issue of President Tinubu’s cabinet appointments, I’m most
interested in who he is going to appoint as the Attorney-General / Minister
of Justice. It's a wide field of potential appointees in the much
wished-for, soon-to-be-announced Government of National Competence. Who is
going to hold the Security, Education, Agriculture, Petroleum, Finance,
Information, and Foreign Affairs portfolios are a little less interesting.
 
I think that we (you and I) are in essential agreement that in Nigeria, and
indeed in much of cyberspace, Islamophobia
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Islamophobia>per se is not a criminal
offence and from that point of view I'm not suggesting that criminal
charges should be brought against you or that you and e.g.Peter Obi and
Nnamdi Kanu and Cardinal Arinze and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto
should be dragged to a Sharia Court in Zamfara or the Pontus Pilate of
Owerri representing Rome/ The Vatican/ Amnesty International for any crude
or not so subtle perceptions that the religious divide in Nigeria is in
fact tantamount to an ongoing “religious war” between the forces of good vs
evil or the contending religious factions for political or economic
dominance,” Northern hegemony” etc.
 
You are of course entitled to your opinions just as I also have mine, about
Islam, Muslims, idol worshippers, cute little booty, big booty, LGBTQ
rights, same-sex marriage, Christians, pagans, Jews, Zionists,
anti-Zionists, Semites, Bruno Schulz
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bruno+Schulz>, , Nazis, anti-Semites,
Marxists, Ojogbon, Capitalists, the military-industrial complex, the
prison-industrial complex, Malcolm X, Pius Adesanmi, Joe Biden, Ezra Pound,
Aleister Crowley, Tony B-liar, Saddam Hussein, warmongers, Vitovsky
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Vitovsky>, comedian Zelensky, Mayakovsky
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Mayakovsky>,
 
Because of the anti-Semitism that resulted in the Holocaust while some
people of so-called conscience choose to look the other way, never again
means that anti-Semitism has to be nipped in the bud and not allowed to
flourish, just as likewise, wanton Islamophobia has to be outlawed,
criminalised without further delay.
 
I’m not about to dissect you, your cosmology, your poetry, the way that *T.S.
Eliot* has been dissected and infallibly associated with anti-Semitism.
 
I wouldn't like to embarrass you; I don’t want you to be brought to trial
or crucified for whatever harmless opinions you may entertain about any of
the aforementioned or whatever you have expressed from time to time down
here below, none of which deserves the death penalty, but please be aware
that there are places where you cannot ask certain questions -not even in
their philosophy y departments ( I had several meetings with a Sheikh at
al-Azhar in Cairo soon after Ramadan in 1991. I had been a good student of Sayyid
Sharafuddin al-Musawi
<https://www.google.com/search?q=Sayyid+Sharafuddin+al-Musawi> , his Al
Muraja'at
<https://www.al-islam.org/al-murajaat-abd-al-husayn-sharaf-al-din-al-musawi>
// Al Muraja’at
<https://alulbeyt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Al_Murajaat_A_Shii_Sunni_dialogue.pdf>
( another translation), you should read it. There was a look of thunder on
the face of the learned Sheikh, he looked daggers at me when I asked my
first question at that bastion of Sunni Orthodoxy, so I pursued the matter
no further.
 
And dear Oluwatoyin there are certain “things' that you have said down
below here that you couldn't have said to the learned Sheikh over there,
either.
 
Adepoju : Islam
<https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/search?q=Adepoju%20%3A%20Islam%20>
 
Adepoju : Terrorism
<https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/search?q=Adepoju%20%3A%20%20Terrorism>
 
Adepoju : Boko Haram
<https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/search?q=Adepoju%20%3A%20Boko%20Haram>
 
Adepoju :Fulani
<https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/search?q=Adepoju%20%3A%20%20Fulani>
 
Adepoju : Northern Hegemony
<https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/search?q=Adepoju%20%3A%20%20Northern%20Hegemony>
 
Adepoju : Civilisation
<https://groups.google.com/g/usaafricadialogue/search?q=Adepoju%20%3A%20%20Civilisation>
 
 
 
 
 
 
On Sunday, 25 June 2023 at 11:21:27 UTC+2 Oluwatoyin Adepoju wrote:
 
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: Jun 25 01:08PM

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A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR PAUL LOVEJOY, PART 3 OF 3
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Paul Lovejoy at 80: The Institutional Builder
Toyin Falola
Intellectuals are defined not exclusively by the ideas that they share in their engagements, writings, lectures or other knowledge-production process but also by how their ideas constantly influence, determine, and, in a sense, drive positive changes to the human world. This is commonly the case since what scholars usually dedicate themselves to always involves the concentration of their intellectual resources, at which end they produce profound projects with prospects to propel humanity to a different position. They query issues of the world using various methodologies and ensure that they come out with reasonable results. This involves giving more than one's attention; it includes staking their names in them. When you see scholars dedicated to a particular line of research, they are prompted by the understanding that knowledge is not inflexible; it is not constant and can change at any particular point or level. Their research undertakings may compel them to shift grounds to accommodate new information, which always requires the modification of existing methodologies for the opportunity to get the best results from some of these situations. In the case of Paul Lovejoy, he remains an excellent institutional builder, for he raised substantial ideas that generally provoke deeper understanding about otherwise controversial phenomena that all have defined the activities of humans, especially Africans, in recent history.
Building an institution requires producing never-before-known ideas that are in themselves impregnable to exogenous attacks. This is underscored by the awareness that institutions are effective tools for creating awareness about things and phenomena that are not easy to come by in our everyday engagements. Therefore, organizing such a system requires building solid ideas that can stand the test of time while simultaneously giving us expected results. To that extent, Paul Lovejoy is considered a builder of institutions, for he has dedicated his life to some research engagements that enlighten us about the deep-seated atrocities in the question of slavery as it underlies human behavior.
In whatever best way possible, his works would remain an enduring intellectual achievement that educates humans about the hollowness of their thoughts in thinking that the survival of humanity depends on how the few powerful can mow the powerless to keep themselves at the echelon of power and relevance. It is readily difficult and ridiculous to believe that humanity, as well intellectually evolved as we are, still does not understand the devastating consequences of endangering others as the precondition to our development and growth. His works have taught us how the politics of vendetta, bitterness and exclusion has saturated the world because we decide to prey on others or exploit their vulnerability. His research works have confirmed to us that the experience of slavery, for example, might have added enough economic strength to its perpetrators, but it left more damning legacies than can be fathomed.
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Toyin Falola and Paul Lovejoy, May 29, 2023
 
One beautiful thing about intellectualism is that people's works usually advertise themselves and amplify the thematic concerns of the scholars themselves. More than one could have imagined, they give the audience a wide template to think and refine their thoughts themselves so that they would understand an entirely different perspective and how it potentially affects their individual or collective beliefs. Scholars that are, for example, dedicated to finding more about slavery are not particularly interested in revealing all the involved bitterness and nattering atrocities faced by the victims or encountered by the perpetrators, but they are concerned about using their probing to understand why such engagement cannot prosper the totality of humanity generally. In that way, their interrogation of the phenomenon created the opportunity to understand the alternative ways we should do some things as humans. In essence, the fact that an individual wants to increase their economic growth does not particularly mean that others will have to undergo excruciating experiences to actualize such an agenda. There should always be other ways by which issues would be handled without it affecting individuals, regardless of their vulnerability or otherwise. Of course, the history of nature itself is that things are achieved through brutal behavior, but nature has been surpassed millennium before humans could think and convert their thoughts into operatable ideas.
The character of institutional behavior here is that, by revealing the numerous problems associated with every painful experience that the powerful subject the powerless to, the attainment of global peace would be provenly difficult to achieve. One would see the connectivity of his works and the continued hostilities of powerful countries against one another today, as their civilization is founded on eat-or-be-eaten philosophy, which undermines the collective ability to understand the usefulness of plurality, multiplicity and diversity. He has, therefore, educated us that the best way to construct an atmosphere for enduring peace is to make existence enjoyable and lovable to the lives in it. In other words, humans have the potential to look at a problem and create a win-win situation for all so that they would not remain in the abyss of terror, chaos and hostilities, all of which continue to challenge their ability to become their best versions themselves. The spontaneous reactions of the oppressed worldwide would always be an attempt to survive, thereby denying themselves the opportunity to live maximally. That would have created challenges that impeded them from manifesting in their fullest form. Meanwhile, the possibility for diversity of success is entrenched in nature's capacity to allow individuals, groups or communities to attain that level regardless of their number. Africans who have been victims of slavery in recent history are still reacting to that experience, and the research works of Lovejoy have pointed to this.
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The Biographical Accounts of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas with Dr. Paul Lovejoy, hosted by hosted by Duke and UNC in 2022
 
This is not unconnected to the fact that ideas possessed by other people are very integral to the building and development of the global community, especially if given the mental and political freedom to undertake them. The institution of African studies that has been increased across different countries today is ineluctably cemented by the study of intellectuals such as Lovejoy. By dedicating himself to stimulating research engagements, he has uncovered the layers of significant contributions made by the African people at different levels of their evolution or development. Consider, for example, that he examined the contributions of Africans to science and technology. His findings consolidate the conclusion that Africans are individuals with extraordinary capabilities and can facilitate development if offered the opportunity to do so. That does not indicate, for example, that they play victims but reinforces the argument that they have inherent capabilities to change the world through their ideas and values. There are layers of history that reveal to us the deepened intellectual capacity of Africans and how they facilitated the transformation of their world at some moment. Therefore, the repudiation of hegemonic ambition and aspirations would unlock their access to abundance and results, for which the world would move in the right direction. That discovery has necessitated the aggressive negotiations of their world through their own ideas and intellectual perspectives.
By creating ideas that are themselves invulnerable, Lovejoy is therefore building an institution that would continue even after he has successfully roamed the face of the earth. Whereas it was the idea of some great individuals to create universities as an institution, the ideas of individuals such as this scholar would be important in creating a healthy intellectual practice that would outlive generations. This is impossible without the resurrection of intellectual contents of Africa and how they helped sustain their civilization at every stage of their development as a people. With his efforts, the understanding of African intellectualism has increased monumentally, and his contributions effectively fortify the DNA of the African epistemic traditions, which would survive in different dimensions even after momentary setbacks.
It is, therefore, not unexpected that someone with that outstanding addition to African issues would have the level of attention accrued to him in the last forty years. Intellectuals like him are the reason why we have had to advance as a people, and that indicates that they earn their place in whatever accolades we have given them today. He has been extremely useful in enhancing new ways of thinking to create a generally acceptable creed in educational services for the betterment of the human world. The numbers of works in his name underscore the reasons for his excellence in global intellectualism today.
Olusegun Olopade <bcma...@toyinfalolanetwork.org>: Jun 25 12:52PM +0100

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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 01:36PM +0100

Lo like the never say die spirit of Helen Ese Emore
<https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/heleneseemorephd>Helen Ese Emore
1stPremium memberPhD Scholar, Venture Builder - Circular, Creative,
Agribusiness &Tech Enabled Ventures | Founder, Scientia Venture Studio |
IFC- LPI Certified Entrepreneurship Trainer | Adjunct Faculty, Pan Atlantic
University, LagosInternational School of Management, France Scientia
PartnersNigeria i have just written about Kunle Oshobi
<https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/kunleoshobi> management consultant and
author of the thoughtful book,PROJECT NIGERIA such that you ask " what am I
doing here in london or what are we all doing in UK? there is much to be
done jn nigeria. ?There are opportunities and alternatives. Can we have an
online course tagged doing budiness in nigeria live and girect from
nigeria? Out of 15 milion nigerians jn diaspora one miliion should be
interested so that they can make efficient use and productive use and
progressive use of part of the 25 bilion dollars sent home yearly.much of
this money flies out of nigeria shortly after landing at ikeja airport in
search of imported goods and services. We need to trap as much of the
bilions of dollars sent home as possible
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: Jun 25 09:31AM

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On Alaafin Hopeful Princce Dr. AJiBADE adebayo Adeladun featured jn the
trbune today .was born on january 4 1961.hm a most important day jn the
history of physics. The demise of erwin schrodinger.
We lost our best physics students to medical school. Prince ajibade
adeladun is a medical doctor with eyes on the throne of Alaafin
Erwin Schrödinger
 
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger&action=edit&section=0>
"Schrödinger" redirects here. For other uses, see Schrödinger
(disambiguation)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_(disambiguation)>.
 
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (UK
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English>: /ˈʃrɜːdɪŋər/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English>, US
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English>: /ˈʃroʊ-/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English>;
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#cite_note-3>
German: [ˈɛɐ̯vɪn
ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German>; 12
August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or
Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrians> and naturalized Irish
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people> physicist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicist> who developed fundamental results
in quantum theory
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory>: the Schrödinger
equation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation> provides
a way to calculate the wave function
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function> of a system and how it
changes dynamically in time <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_physics>.
 
Quick Facts Born, Died ...
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erwin_Schrodinger_at_U_Vienna.JPG>Bust
of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of
Vienna <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Vienna>, Austria
 
In addition, he wrote many works on various aspects of physics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics>: statistical mechanics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics> and thermodynamics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics>, physics of dielectrics, colour
theory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_theory>, electrodynamics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamics>, general relativity
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity>, and cosmology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology>, and he made several attempts to
construct a unified field theory
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory>. In his book *What Is
Life? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F>* Schrödinger
addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from
the point of view of physics. He also paid great attention to the
philosophical aspects of science, ancient, and oriental philosophical
concepts, ethics, and religion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#cite_note-frs-4> He
also wrote on philosophy and theoretical biology. In popular culture, he is
best known for his "Schrödinger's cat
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat>" thought experiment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoore1992194-5>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#cite_note-mactutorA-6>
 
Spending most of his life as an academic with positions at various
universities, Schrödinger, along with Paul Dirac
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac>, w
Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 05:39AM +0100

Deans,Campaign for DR Congo:Electric power and peace
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth
6/27/22
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More than any other country DR Congo is crucial to the electronics
industry and also the electric vehicle industry in terms of mineral
resources.
It has the world's largest deposits of mineral resources worth a
staggering 24 trillion dollars with a 77 per cent literacy rate 75 per
cent live on less than 1.9 dollars a day.
Large geography biodiversity and arable land and forest resources it has
aficas highest hydro electricity potential
It is my considered opinion that concerned consumers of electronics and
electric vehicle's meed to be mobilised to bring peace and prosperity to
the dr congo. So also the manufacturers of electronics goods and electric
vehicles. Same with enginerring students and Dean's o Engineering at
universities world wide
Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: Jun 24 10:14PM

Dr. Akwasi Aidoo to join the Panel Discussion on Ama Ata Aidoo, July 2, 2023
 
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Dr. Akwasi Aidoo is a philanthropy professional and a creative writer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Humanity United, and was the founding Executive Director of TrustAfrica – a foundation dedicated to promoting equitable development, social justice, movement building and democracy in Africa.
 
His previous positions include head of the health sciences program of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) in West and Central Africa, head of the Ford Foundation’s offices in Senegal and Nigeria, and Director of the Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative for Africa.
 
Dr. Aidoo currently serves on the Boards of several international organizations including Human Rights Watch, International Development Research Centre, and the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment at Wits Business School at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He also previously chaired the Boards of Fund for Global Human Rights, Resource Alliance, Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group, and two units of Open Society Foundations. Other Boards Akwasi has served on in the past include those of OXFAM America, Resource Alliance, Global Greengrants Fund, and the Global Network Committee of the Ash Institute at Harvard University.
 
In the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Aidoo taught at universities in Ghana, Tanzania, and the United States. He was educated in Ghana and the United States and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in medical sociology from the University of Connecticut in 1985.
 
 
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Jun 25 06:09AM +0100

entrepreneurial Gap: solid minerals despite the super abundance of solid
minerals in nigeria there is almost no one conerting these materials into
finished goods or secondary raw materials. This belongs to the province of
chemical Engineerrs, metallurgical engineers like profesdor Benjamin
adewuyi of federal univrrdty of technology akure.we need to break the jinx
in nigrria. If we do.thrte would be an enormous amount of wealth and jobs
created in 🇳🇬 nigeria With the Dangote refinery now operating I call for
a chemistry and chemical engineering bank to help our chemists and
chemicall engineerrs to do what is needful
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