No, Toyin, his own was to walk on water (as we will have to do if we make the mistake of relying on Apple's new maps to get from my garden to Victoria Island).
Prof did not want to be called a liar then. We shall draw the veil of courtesy over what might be said on this forum now! I expect Prof left it to the student to work out how the pilots and cabin staff made it to their hotels (being unaccustomed, as they must have been, to tree swinging). And indeed, to work out why anybody would have been bothering to land a plane in such a place.
Meanwhile, I was congratulating us at the CLEEN Foundation because the road which passes in front of the CLEEN head office at Ojudu on the outskirts of Lagos, which was so much of a ' shake, rattle 'n' roll' experience that it took at least 5 good minutes to reach the front gate, has now been tarred. So smooth is the ride now, that we almost drove past the CLEEN office because we got there so quickly! There's no point complaining that we shouldn't be grateful for this expanding evidence of government doing something of what it is supposed to do for the people. I was grateful when they tarred the road outside my mother's house just a few days to her 80th birthday and we were able to celebrate with a garden party in peace, instead of being blanketed in a thick layer of car-churned dust.
Driving around Lagos this weekend, I stopped at working traffic lights at sime junctions, was directed by traffic police and traffic wardens at others, extracted money from an ATM, made purchases at a supermarket, sent a gentle SMS inquiry, followed by a stern demand - again by SMS, about (what eventually ended up as) the three hours we spent without electricity last night. I drove to and from a friend's 'open house' party, to church, to a service of songs ...
In all this ordinary commerce of the weekend, perhaps only the power cut and how it was dealt with might raise eyebrows in the US. It isn't great stuff, life should undoubtedly be better for more people. But it's not nothing either.
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Jesus Christ!:" "Since Nigeria has no roads how did you make it--
to the airport, Professor," asked a student who had attended the local
event discussed earlier. " Did you swing from tree to tree like a monkey,
to get to your destination?"
"Yes." I replied.
I did not want to be called a liar. "
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:"Since Nigeria has no roads how did you make it
to the airport, Professor," asked a student who had attended the local
event discussed earlier. " Did you swing from tree to tree like a monkey,
to get to your destination?"
"Yes." I replied.
I did not want to be called a liar.--
CompcrosComparative Cognitive Processes and Systems"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
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