Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Empowerment Guru Juggernaut, Chika Onyeani, Meets with the Immovable Force, Toyin Falola

September 30, 2013 By conyeani Leave a Comment

The Empowerment Guru Juggernaut, Chika Onyeani, Meets with the Immovable Force, Toyin Falola

September 30, 2013 By conyeani Leave a Comment

It is always an honor to meet an African intellectual and elite, who is not one of those I have always criticized as parasitic and do-nothing to advance the cause of Africa's economic growth.  So, it was that yesterday, Saturday September 28, that I came face to face with the immovable force called Toyin Falola, founder and moderator of this listserv.  I had never met him in person, I believe.  So I was pleasantly surprised and thanked him profusely for the great job he is doing in providing a forum for African intellectuals, those genuine and not-so genuine, to articulate cogent issues or vent grandiloquent verbosity.

Okay, this is what happened.  The African Writers Endowment, based in New Jersey founded by Dr. Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji, as well as his Sungair Book Publishing Co, was honoring the Governor of Rivers State in Nigeria Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and the Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly  Ms. Sheila Oliver at the Lafayette Yard Hotel in Trenton, NJ.  I had been invited by the Speaker's office to be one of their guests;(Continue reading)

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