USA Africa Dialogue Series - Drama at the National Conference

 Drama  at the  National  Conference   by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth,London,England

 What kind of Drama do we expect at the National Conference?

We have heard of Christopher Okigbo"Being invited"surveying the crowd,finding there were no poets and subsequently boarding the next plane home..

 We have heard of  Political economist,   Professor  Claude Eke, in T shirt and Jeans, coming from no where, dazzling the crowd  and going like that..Plane Crash,.

I have  just  learnt of  Professor  Esko Toyo ," thundering", saying he knows more economics than the IMF.

There has  even  been Kayode Soremekun,internationalist, now Professor, breezing into the venue of an international conference on Nuclear Energy, at Ile-ife, going Nuclear, and telling the participants at the conference that they had  a knack for keeping their heads in the clouds,  the participants, ruffled and eliciting some assurance from a certain Dr.Onwuka present at the conference, a senior colleague to Soremekun who himself had been involved in another Drama at the University of Ibadan.A skirmish 

over  his plagiarised publication,

Lastly there has been Ayodele Awojobi, Professor, mechanical engineering genius, activist and self taught economist,then known for his bow tie and suit but suprisingly

showing up in Fila and Agbada and snatching the the Microphone in the midst of a press briefing

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