RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - My Yoruba/Igbo niece is Miss UNILAG 2014

IBK, though surprising, it was really wonderful to see you in this great appreciative mood.

This is the face of Nigeria I love most. Don't get me wrong.

And don't forget to appreciate the wonderful medicaments and powerful herbs
around you, too - from baobab to bitterleaf.




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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Gloria,

Life goes on. There is perspective in all things. I should not celebrate my own daughter's success which in your warped way you characterise as gloating and preening because of Boko Haram and Ebola?

I have always known that staying too long abroad without going home and being fed on a diet of negative stories about Nigeria stifles one's appreciation of what obtains in Nigeria.

By your logic because of Ebola and Boko Haram all Mosques and Churches should be sealed and all marriages should be banned. Maybe all things that give Nigerians joy should also never be celebrated.

My sister please go home more often to get a better appreciation of the many things going on at home. I am not preening and I am not gloating. I am proudly celebrating the success of my daughter.

If that riles you I have no apologies for you.

Cheers.

IBK

On 28 Sep 2014 20:50, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>> wrote:
IBK,
This comes as a surprise. I never expected you to be gloating and preening- all
starry-eyed and wistful, in this tragic era of ebola and Boko Haram - but enjoy your day
all the same.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
africahistory.net<http://africahistory.net>
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Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora

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Thank you my brother! From birth she has always been a wonderful and remarkable child.

She took Yoruba unlike her other siblings for School Cert and passed. She speaks and writes it fluently. Her first sibling, a female is an Architect, the next a male, a doctor, the third a female s mechanical engineer and the fourth s female is on her last lap to become a doctor. She is the only one who took after her paternal grandfather and paternal uncle and aunt to study law so you can see how special she is to me.

In the rather murky and immoral Nigerian society she would be besieged and buffeted but her foundation is strong her mother is a tough disciplinarian educationist and father a medical doctor and Foursquare Pastor.

With God on her side she will succeed in life.

Thanks again.

Cheers.

IBK

On 28 Sep 2014 19:08, "Olukayode Soremekun" <nikesohe@hotmail.com<mailto:nikesohe@hotmail.com><mailto:nikesohe@hotmail.com<mailto:nikesohe@hotmail.com>>> wrote:
IBK,

Beauty and brain indeed. Your pride came through your post clearly. It is indeed worth being proud of. It's a wonderful combination.

Pray that she uses her gifts well to the glory of her maker.

Sbaba

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From: Ibukunolu A Babajide
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - My Yoruba/Igbo niece is Miss UNILAG 2014



Dear Netters,

My elder brother's daughter a part 3 Law student Damilare Uchechukwu Babajide his last of 4 girls and the penultimate of 6 children just won the MISS UNILAG Beauty Pageant.

To God be the glory. She is beauty and brains!

Cheers.

IBK

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