Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - AFRICA MAKES BIG SHOWING IN NFL/ ANNUAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL DRAFT--NIGERIA TOPS

Dear Baba Michael (Baba M...):

Many thanks, indeed, as I very much liked your brief comment on Nigerian NFL draftees of what you described as "American footie game". I did very much agree with you because several Nigerian youngsters I personally happened to know did succeed in going to the NFL from college, where they made tons of the "Almighty Dollar" (as Charles Dickens once called the U.S. Dollar)! One of the youngsters was my former Indiana University brilliant student, Adewale ('Wale), who started out with Miami Dolphins before being traded to Chicago Bears as a "great sacker"; 'Wale surprised my family and me with his sense of gratitude when he later sent by mail to my family and me in Indiana a box of Dolphin sporting souvenirs of T-shirts, caps, cups, etc. Also, the son of our family's female Nigerian Journalist friend (Mrs. Helen A. Okpokowuruk of Charlotte, NC) made it big to the NFL. So, there is, truly, a tradition of Nigerian youngsters with annual NFL draft connections.

By the way, while I am at it with the foregoing comment, please, let me also thank you very much for the autographed copy of your 316-page monograph, "Phantom Trail....Antiquity", which you sent to me a while back. On recent trips with my family to Louisiana and Mississippi, I had the fortune of bringing the copy to enjoy some of the first class essays in the publication. The monograph made my 2017 spring break trip worthwhile, and I cannot thank you enough, Baba Michael, for sharing with me the gem contained in the monograph! Hopefully, other Dialogue brothers and sisters will try to look for copies of the 2005 monograph, if they do not already have one. The published essays are still relevant to our day (in 2017)!

With warm wishes from Oregon.
A.B. Assensoh, Oregon.





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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - AFRICA MAKES BIG SHOWING IN NFL/ ANNUAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL DRAFT--NIGERIA TOPS

Very impressive showing of Africa folk in annual US Pro Football Draft from US universities. Clearly Nigerians go for the American footie game. All but a few are of Nigerian birth or parentage.
Baba m

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/19285401/http-wwwespnfccom-blog-football-africa-80-post-3116887-africans-europe-weekend-review


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