USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: A little ramble : Food for thought : “ He is 31 years old”

Mr.. Hamelberg,

Again, thank you. It's always a pleasure to read your essays. Well, mere 2% of Nigerians are more than sufficient to bring a new dawn to Nigeria. The so-called democracy in Nigeria is an aberration.

Kanu and the Igbos are not the only ones with grievances about Nigeria. Many Nigerians are tired of the current dispensation.

While many Nigerians are languishing in poverty, the corrupt politicians, elders, and others are swimming in wealth, privileges and immunities.

Yes, 2 million Nigerians should and must start a peaceful protest to start the agitation that enough is enough to incompetency, complacency, nepotism, old men/old soldiers in power, and suffering and smiling (sending love to the late Mr. Fela).

Nigerians must organize instead of agonizing.

I'm tired jare. I prefer to swim in positiveness.

Have a wonderful evening, Mr. Hamelberg

Funmi, Ondo, West Africa!



"On January 3, 1949, Oba Samuel Ladapo Ademola (1872-1962) the 7th Alake of Egbaland (1920-1962), abdicated the throne due to a strife with Egba women, led by Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900-1978) and her sister-in-law, Eniola Soyinka, mother of Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka (b. 1934) , on the issue of tax. The women were made to pay heavy taxes and were also maltreated. After days, months and years of protest, the Alake, who was regarded as a stooge of the colonial master, was removed and forced out of office and had to move to Ogbomoso (other records say Oshogbo) where he stayed till December 1950 before things came back to normal."

"Harriet Tubman was born a slave, managed to escape to freedom in the North, and devoted herself to helping other slaves escape via the Underground Railroad. She helped hundreds of slaves travel northward, with many of them settling in Canada, outside the reach of American fugitive slave laws. Tubman became well-known in abolitionist circles in the years before the Civil War. She would speak at anti-slavery meetings, and for her exploits in leading slaves out of bondage she was revered as "The Moses of Her People."

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