USA Africa Dialogue Series - A few say-ings to challenge you..

So grateful that Chidi Anthony Opara in the spirit of community
service, sustains us with his quotes.This here is just a one-off and
not supposed to be the first in a bottomless series

Proverbs, sayings, folk wisdom is universal - universally useful. My
mentor Salimonu Kadiri for example(Honourable Yoruba man) usually
invokes a Yoruba proverb at whatever point of his discourse or in
response to a question –these proverbs (often funny) provide instant
miraculous insight – and in a very clear manner too (without any
professorial aura of mystification and greater obfuscation or big
philosophic or worse still that extinct (putrefied) odour and fog
that's sometimes embedded in such talk. If only they could rap!

Algaba Kadiri's pithy proverbs usually result in my instant
enlightenment. You might think that I'm exaggerating when say instant
effect (like Jacob in studying in the Academy for fourteen years) or
when I refer to him as Alagba. In your mind you are probably asking or
wondering, Alagba, like Oga Falola? Well, in real life I always
address him as " Your Majesty!"( formally) or " Carl Gustaf" ( more
familiarly This makes him feel happier than the Oba of Benin.
He calls me " Menachem"

"One must never stand in the place of danger, expecting a miracle to
protect the faithful."(Talmud Kiddushim 39B)

"There's hope, but not for us." ( Franz Kafka)

" Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown."( author unknown.)

"The concept of formal education was developed by
illiterates." ( Chidi Anthony Opara)

" When arrogance appears , disgrace follows" ( Proverbs 11:2)

"One good head on your shoulders is better than two neo-colonial
coconuts in the bush"( Dr. Valentino Ojokwu)

"No one person should walk behind two donkeys." (Old Hungarian
proverb)

"One day, a young Palestinian will raise the Palestinian flag over
Jerusalem," he vowed, "the eternal capital of the state of
Palestine!" (Chairman Mahmoud Abbas)

" I am very careful in the choice of enemies" (Ahad Ha Am, Russian
Jewish Zionist"



--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin.
For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue-
unsubscribe@googlegroups.com