Taj Mahal!
Taj Ma - what???
Are we simply a bunch of illiterates in a nation packed full of people who have been to school more than citizens of most nations of the world???! Do we have any premonition for the simple art (not science) of KNOWING? We are logic-challenged - straight up and true? Did anyone ever ask questions as simple as, "What does the phrase 'Taj Mahal' mean?" "Where does it come from?" "What is the historical significance of Taj Mahal or the root cause of it, in the first instance?"
Taj Mahal kè?
Are we talking about the resting place of the same Adelabu "Penkelemeesi," the extraordinary interlocutor, the Number One Opposition Leader, popularly known to friends and foes as "Olori Alatako?"
Why on earth would a Taj Mahal elevate the glory of this great man, Adelabu, among the giants of a great city from a great ethnicity within a great nation? Would anyone not see this as a demotion?
I have an answer, call it exasperating speculation: Our base is weak! This is the aphorism of the man with the crooked top, as the Yoruba would say; you only need to look at the foundation. Has anyone visited Abuja of late? Please if and when you do, go to the best residential areas and tell me the names of those streets on the beautiful hills; they are names like California Road, Mississippi Close, Missouri Street, Indiana Path, and the list goes on and on, all named after American states, rivers, and other landmarks. "Lord have mercy!" was all I could mutter to myself when I saw this aberration a few months ago.
Not done. I even visited a state house, where the governor of a great historical state lived, and the building's official name is "The White House." All I could do was scream my lungs out. There are a thousand and one towns and cities, not counting legendary villages, hamlets and other historical monuments all across Nigeria. There are sites of historical warfare in Yorubaland, Hausaland, Igboland, Edoland, Tshekiriland and a gazillion more and there are countless names of rivers all around Nigeria. Why on earth can we not name our streets (in Abuja, a national capital that we created in 1976 or thereabout) after those?
Whoever came up with the name "Taj Mahal" for the Adelabu historical site could have just picked up a cell phone, called the likes of Professor Akinwumi Isola or any of the legendary repositories of culture who are still living and ask for suggestions. Don't we have the likes of Toyin Falola, a celebrated intellectual juggernaut who has written every conceivable book on every conceivable subject in the humanities and could suggest an appropriate name? Rather than spend valuable time contesting and contending the name given to a dog, fellow Nigerians, why not spend quality time to think of a name to be given the mausoleum of a Yoruba icon? Can't we do better?
My goodness! You could have referred to it as "Qabr Rajul Eazim" (Tomb of A Great Man) and we will have something to debate about the inappropriateness of an Arabic phrase on the tomb of a Yoruba Great. You may proffer a counter argument that he was a Muslim who studied Arabic. We will still reject the argument and shoot out ten thousand phrases in Yoruba that would dwarf the Arabic phrase. But to say Taj Mahal, there is nothing there to debate.
A Taj Mahal for an Adelabu Tomb is a desecration of the sacred, an abomination of desolation. Nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else!
It beats my imagination.
I am curious. Really, I am . . .
Michael O. Afolayan
From the Land of Lincoln
On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 5:40 AM, 'Afis Deinde' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:
What's the matter with black race, really? Taj Mahal? An Indian already taken name? Haba, no shame?
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Oyo State lists Adelabu' house as tourist site
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The Oke-Oluokun, Ibadan, home of late Chief Adegoke Adelabu is to be officially enlisted as one of the tourist sites in Oyo State.
This was revealed at the weekend during the memorial programme tagged "58 years after 1958"and public presentation of the newly rehabilitated home in honour of the late minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Speaking through the State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun, Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi explained that this is in recognition, remembrance and celebration of the eloquent and flowery politician's enviable academic records, exceptional writing skills, oratorical prowess and contributions to the Nigerian political landscape especially as the pioneer of grassroots politics in the then Western Nigeria during his short lifetime.
The spokesperson of the Oyo State government commended the consistent efforts of the Adegoke Adelabu Foundation at immortalizing the academic and political hero emphasizing the need to ensure that our heroes past did not labour in vain.
Adegoke Adelabu's home located in the heart of the ancient city of Ibadan popularly known as the Taj Mahal has undergone extensive rehabilitation and positioned as a monument containing his grave, library, literary works, office, personal effects, photographs and other historical items.
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Afis
"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." — Dhamapada, verse 81.
Leave my friend alone ooo.Stevek is just exercising his Right to Free Booze!
Hehe!Afis"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." — Dhamapada, verse 81.Sent from my iPhone--Tell this to that alcoholic toxicologist called compound fool SteveKOJFrom: 'Afis Deinde' via AfricanWorldForum [mailto:africanworldforum@googlegroups.com]
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] Re: STATE OF THE NATIONThe guy is not "explaining" what the govt is doing to the people.All Lai Mohammed is doing since inception is to play Naija's "Baghdad Bob", which makes him look silly and unbelievable.
Unless all info attributed to him in the press were not from him, he hasn't been impressive at all.What are the ministers doing? We don't know details, nothing nada.All we hear is PDP stole Trillions of Naira.That is not info, that's rerun of news!What steps are the govt of Buhari taking right now to channel those stolen funds back into the economy? We don't know. Poor people are just being told to be patient.Alhaji Mohammed engaging in propaganda cannot impress a people who need food on their tables. He's behaving like the ex-PDP Reuben Abati. That's not change.
I am sure Buhari and his govt are working hard, but Lai Mohammed is not doing them justice, he turned himself into the "defender-in-chief", instead of the "Explainer-in-chief".That ain't good.ShikenaAfis"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." — Dhamapada, verse 81.
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On Sep 5, 2016, at 5:47 AM, Ishola Williams <isholawilliams@gmail.com> wrote:People,Nigeria can never fail ,if the Middle Class accept their responsibilities and continue to follow the bad habits of their elders.I was an anti-Corruption Town Hall meeting of CSOs with some anti-Corruption Enforcement Agencies in Ikeja last week.I am sorry to say that GMB has tough nut to crack as these Agencies are not thinking outside the box and still following the routes that has put us on a bridge to nowhere.NO SYSTEMIC CHANGE FROM THE POLICE CULTURE.I was happy when the Chair of Ikeja Branch of NBA gave a balanced and objective analysis of the situation and made some solid but not new recommendations.I had to leave but left a Message behind that is those who have the opportunity and the position to steal with Impunity and that is the so-called the Middle and the Upper Class.This where the leadership in Poilitical parties transform into Candidates for Elections at various levels.Unfortunately,for our country,Nigerian Middle Class(30-55yrs) are COWARDS.They have refuse take up and live up to their socio-politico responsibilities.They have become hustlers.The women are busy shouting Beijing,Feminism,African Womanism,Equality without being ready for responsibilities including the decadence of family(the basic unit and foundation of any greta country.Let me leave with you with George Bernard Shaw wrote over a Century ago."I have to live for others and not for myself:THATS MIDDLE CLASS MORALITY."Do I need to say more?iwLet me remind--
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