USA Africa Dialogue Series - TOFAC 2014: ENDEAVOUR & BOUNDARIES

>Presentation comments by Michael Vickers
>
>ENDEAVOUR SUPREME
>
>We all here are
>Explorers,
>Adventurers,
>Each of us has
>His/ Her dream,
>Our reach for what
>We hope to attain.
>
>This painting is of
>Captain James Cook's ship,
>The Endeavour.
>
>I saw it on a visit
>Not so long ago to
>Great Yarmouth in East Anglia.
>
>I knew at once
>I wanted it for
>Falola.
>
>Why?
>
>Cook was a man
>Who stepped into
>The Unknown.
>
>With Endeavour
>He cleared The Horn
>Of South America, and
>Moved on into
>Terra Incognita.
>
>Cook was not only an
>Explorer and adventurer,
>But a Boundary breaker.
>
>He not only
>Broke boundaries
>Heading into Unknown Territory,
>But he also radically
>Broke boundaries in
>Fields of geography, and mapping, and charting.
>New methods
>Evolved
>Under stress of
>Conditions and requirements.
>
>Falola?
>
>Explorer, adventurer,
>Man with a Big Dream,
>Which has meant
>Confronting many boundaries.
>
>Al have been challenged,
>And most surmounted.
>
>And the challenges continue.
>
>What we have with us tonight, is the
>Boundary Breaker Supreme
>Of our day.
>
>The result?
>
>Folk in Africa
>Have a very powerful,
>Increasingly networked friend
>Working throughout the continent
>On their side.
>
>Awareness,
>And Restoration,
>AND incorporation
>With ALL that Modernity
>Brings into our world;
>This is the product of his
>Efforts.
>
>This painting
>Was to go to him
>At the Celebration of
>His Installation as
>Bobapitan of Ibadanland
>In April.
>
>I could not manage it then,
>So here it is now.
>
>After the past two days,
>I would suggest a few more boundaries
>Have been identified, and the
>Challenges raised.
>
>It is this TOFAC 2014 Gathering
>That has enabled this.
>
>It is with great pleasure
>That I present this gift to you
>In thanks and appreciation of
>What you have done
>Not just to elevate
>My consciousness
>And Quest for
>New Goals and Boundaries
>Of my own;
>But I say this on behalf of
>All of us
>Who have been assisted
>In so many ways.
>
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>
>
>Sent from my iPad

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