Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Mr Cornelius

Happy to know you are there, hale and hearty. May the Almighty continue to bless you and us all...

Oladosu A. Afis
Professor of Middle Eastern, North African and Cultural Studies
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies,
University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Nigeria.
"The best of princes is he who visits scholars."
- Jalal al-Din Rumi, 13th century Persian Sufi poet



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On Sat, 12/23/17, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Mr Cornelius
To: "USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, December 23, 2017, 2:28 PM

Dear Professor Falola,
Many thanks for your Christ-like
concern Sir !  
Here is the evidence that you have
been waiting for, that your Cornelius is alive, although he
hates this time of the season in Sweden, hates the weather
and hates the climate (Very much. Much hate).  At this time
of the year our love affair with November to March,  day to
day it's a standard comment you hear from from fellow
African sojourners in Sweden, some bonding and some sharing
of a common experience , if not a common destiny, an
agreement, a general consensus arrived at  : "This place
was not made for human beings"
But most of all at this particular
time , hates the mad-rush shopping for Christmas presents
and New Year fireworks going into billions of dollars worth
which for a consumer population of a mere ten million, at
least from  the point of view of the Nigerian commitment
 to the be fruitful and multiply policy, a negative birth
rate, nevertheless spending so astronomically on Christmas
goodies..
We are based at our various local
climate places  and alas Cyberspace has no particular
climate, it's place where we create our´own particular
climate...
Sir,  I arrived at the sound
conclusion that I would take off to Jerusalem if not bodily, then at least
mentally and spiritually via London and Casablanca, and that
I should hope to be back to the forum sometime after your
blessed birthday on 1st January and to wish you a Merry Xmas
and a Happy New Year in advance.  I arrived at this sound
conclusion after I saw that at the rate I was going I was
close to having posted most items to the forum. And that I
had better absent myself for a while, although I read all
the postings on the net and forwarded Professor Kperogi's
diatribe about Brothers Buhari and Atiku to
Ogbeni Kadiri since it undercuts Ogbeni Kadiri's thesis
that Professor  Kperogi is being financially rewarded by
the TRUST newspaper which backs Atiku. My exact question to
Ogbeni Kadiri was : "So the Professor of Buckingham
Palace English is not on Atiku's payroll after all, or
is he biting the hand that feeds him?" Who knows, maybe,
Ogbeni Kadiri will take the bull by the horns, once more and
this time, even more ferociously? ?
Well, it's said that " A thief ,
while breaking into a home in order to steal, calls upon God
to help him" (Rabbi Shneur Zalman of
Liadi
I should like to say about Atiku
that in this case he is one of the few : "There are many who despise wealth
, but few who are willing to part with it "( Ecclesiastes 5


On Tuesday,
19 December 2017 20:49:01 UTC+1, Toyin Falola
wrote:We have not heard from him for some
time.

We need
someone to check on him. His silence is unusual

TF



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