Happy birthday to an iconic African leader, Professor Toyin Falola. May God continue to bless and keep you. Shalom.
Osakue.
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"Dr. Oohay" <oohay2x@yahoo.com>: Jan 01 06:57PM
Thanks, Toyin F.-- may you in 2021 continue to (ALSO) feed us (as you did throughout the preceding year) WITH THE FOOD OF LIFE THAT WE CANNOT DO WITHOUT: MUSIC!
On Friday, January 1, 2021, 12:44:41 PM CST, Nimi Wariboko <nimiwari@msn.com> wrote:
Happy Birthday, Prof. God bless you.
Nimi
On Jan 1, 2021, at 1:35 PM, Elias K. Bongmba <bongmba@rice.edu> wrote:
Happy birthday Professor Falola. Many more years to you.
Elias
On 1/1/2021 12:16 AM, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series wrote:
"God is fit to be honored . . . God is fit to be praised!" (BJO)
Indeed!
What else is there to say? How else could it be said? Not much! TF, the drum major for the music of our collective social and intellectual conscience and existence, needs to be celebrated, not just today, but each and everyday the sun rises and its rays fall. May the dawn of a new day be to this hero a new beginning, as if he had never started; may it be the real start of his productivity - as if none had taken place before; and may today be his launching pad of his relevance to humanity - as if the past relevances have been a child play. In the prayer of our ancestors, "May 200 years be to TF like the passage of a single year!"
Congratulations are in order, Ojogbon Agba! you are highly celebrated. The Miliki maestro, Ebenezer Obey has put my thoughts in lyrics and sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SttvvjZ_oqE
Let the music play on!
Michael O. Afoláyan - with two thumbs-up of your friend(From the State of the Living Spring)
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For those of on this side of the pond, New Year's is still between 6 to 3 hours away. But, we can begin to celebrate the inimitable Falola, whose birthday is some 3 and a half hours away, on January 1.
I have taken, hopefully, the first shot in a salvo of big ups and boo yaa to Falola in the attached document.
Congratulations, Chief Falola, the Muse of Round Rock!!!BioDun--
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ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com>: Jan 01 08:09PM
Happy birthday to an uncommon scholar.
He could easily sacrifice much to add value to others .
Many happy healthy years ahead!
Lawrence Ogbo UgwuanyiUNIABUJA.
On Friday, January 1, 2021, 09:25:59 AM GMT, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
"God is fit to be honored . . . God is fit to be praised!" (BJO)
Indeed!
What else is there to say? How else could it be said? Not much! TF, the drum major for the music of our collective social and intellectual conscience and existence, needs to be celebrated, not just today, but each and everyday the sun rises and its rays fall. May the dawn of a new day be to this hero a new beginning, as if he had never started; may it be the real start of his productivity - as if none had taken place before; and may today be his launching pad of his relevance to humanity - as if the past relevances have been a child play. In the prayer of our ancestors, "May 200 years be to TF like the passage of a single year!"
Congratulations are in order, Ojogbon Agba! you are highly celebrated. The Miliki maestro, Ebenezer Obey has put my thoughts in lyrics and sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SttvvjZ_oqE
Let the music play on!
Michael O. Afoláyan - with two thumbs-up of your friend(From the State of the Living Spring)
On Friday, January 1, 2021, 3:39:29 AM GMT+1, Dr BioDun J Ogundayo <akande1098@gmail.com> wrote:
For those of on this side of the pond, New Year's is still between 6 to 3 hours away. But, we can begin to celebrate the inimitable Falola, whose birthday is some 3 and a half hours away, on January 1.
I have taken, hopefully, the first shot in a salvo of big ups and boo yaa to Falola in the attached document.
Congratulations, Chief Falola, the Muse of Round Rock!!!BioDun--
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Uyilawa Usuanlele <biguyi@hotmail.com>: Jan 01 09:03PM
Happy Birthday and many happy and blessed returns Oga Prof.
Uyi
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I have taken, hopefully, the first shot in a salvo of big ups and boo yaa to Falola in the attached document.
Congratulations, Chief Falola, the Muse of Round Rock!!!
BioDun
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com>: Jan 01 11:12PM +0100
Fine poem, brother
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Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>: Jan 01 10:02PM
Mabel Mafuya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKIonJ-vSY
Uyilawa Usuanlele <biguyi@hotmail.com>: Jan 01 09:00PM
OAA.,
I wish you God's healing and speedy recovery. Happy New year.
Uyi
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - COVID-19: TO THE PORTALS OF HELL AND BACK.
Let me first of all thank divine providence for the opportunity to be back from the portals of Hell and share the story, the grim spectacle of the glimpse beyond. Many were not so lucky with death tolls being recorded in the 700s and 800s.
Listen to no one who writes or tells you that the new strains of COVID-19 are not deadlier than the previous ones; they are! I rode roughshod with the various strain as if it did not exist and every morning with the cocks siren its ' pírí lolongo nji'. For more than three decades I have humiliated the Western flu because it could find no nitch in my body from where it could secure a foothold let alone luxuriate.
Then came the Monday a fortnight ago with aches spreading gradually all over my body and attempts being made to shrug it off with normal exercise regime. By Wednesday it was clear I was dealing with a totally different invasion force. I could not leave the house for work. Indeed I could not get out of bed easily except for hours of planning even to use the bathroom. I could not sit up straight in bed for more 10 seconds before collapsing back. I was bedridden.
Every part of my body ached the way never did: from the lower back and the kidneys to the upper back by the lungs it was clear all the organs in the body were being besieged by the invisible invading force. All energy left me. I would swagger the few short steps to the bathroom like a drunk. even though I took no drop of alcohol. All appetite vanished. I took only two small bowls of cornflakes in 72 hours.
Government said 10 days self- isolation would do the trick. Mine's more like 20. But its the horror of this new strain that most have been economical with the truth about. This is a dangerous disease; this is a deadly disease. And it is making its way into America.
For the purpose of those on this forum from time to give a just send a 'just checking to see you are doing ok' to our 70+ members. They will be extremely vulnerable to this new strain especially if they had underlying conditions in any of their internal organs.
OAA
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Biko Agozino <bikozino@yahoo.com>: Jan 01 09:49PM
Happy survival.The abstinence from food helped you healYou prolonged it with those two bowls of cornflakesFast for 24 hours with lots of water and fresh air to recover.
Biko
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OAA., I wish you God's healing and speedy recovery. Happy New year.Uyi
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Let me first of all thank divine providence for the opportunity to be back from the portals of Hell and share the story, the grim spectacle of the glimpse beyond. Many were not so lucky with death tolls being recorded in the 700s and 800s.
Listen to no one who writes or tells you that the new strains of COVID-19 are not deadlier than the previous ones; they are! I rode roughshod with the various strain as if it did not exist and every morning with the cocks siren its ' pírí lolongo nji'. For more than three decades I have humiliated the Western flu because it could find no nitch in my body from where it could secure a foothold let alone luxuriate.
Then came the Monday a fortnight ago with aches spreading gradually all over my body and attempts being made to shrug it off with normal exercise regime. By Wednesday it was clear I was dealing with a totally different invasion force. I could not leave the house for work. Indeed I could not get out of bed easily except for hours of planning even to use the bathroom. I could not sit up straight in bed for more 10 seconds before collapsing back. I was bedridden.
Every part of my body ached the way never did: from the lower back and the kidneys to the upper back by the lungs it was clear all the organs in the body were being besieged by the invisible invading force. All energy left me. I would swagger the few short steps to the bathroom like a drunk. even though I took no drop of alcohol. All appetite vanished. I took only two small bowls of cornflakes in 72 hours.
Government said 10 days self- isolation would do the trick. Mine's more like 20. But its the horror of this new strain that most have been economical with the truth about. This is a dangerous disease; this is a deadly disease. And it is making its way into America.
For the purpose of those on this forum from time to give a just send a 'just checking to see you are doing ok' to our 70+ members. They will be extremely vulnerable to this new strain especially if they had underlying conditions in any of their internal organs.
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Moses Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>: Jan 01 01:24PM -0600
Perhaps Jibo, if Farooq is correct, meant provincialism, not nepotism. Even on that score, Jibo's statement would still be way off.
To be sure, since 1999, all Nigerian presidents have favored certain constituencies over others. Jonathan did did as well, but even before Buhari, he was not the record holder. It was Yar'Adua who was.
In fact I remember that the signature marker of that administration was it's clannishness. It was during that administration that the word "clannishness" intruded forcefully into our political lexicon. It wasn't just provincialism with him, political inclusion/exclusion was also clan-based, which led to the popular idiom of his administration not just being dominated by Northwestern Muslims but by Katsina people in particular.
At the time, we were so scandalized that we never imagined that anyone would eclipse Yar'Adua or progress from provincialism into crude nepotism. But here we are.
Jonathan's provincial politics was the garden variety type of pandering to one's electoral base. His cabinet indeed favored the Southeast and South-south, but compared to Buhari's unabashedly Arewa Muslim administration and security formation, Jonathan comes across as a nationalist and statesman.
In fact, then and now, some of the commentary on Jonathan was that he was too naive in aggressively but futilely courting the Muslim north, which would never vote for him over Buhari or any other Muslim northerner, when he could have focused on doing more for the Southwest and in particular patronizing Tinubu, the region's political godfather/kingmaker.
The least provincial (ethnic, region, and religion) person in the post-1999 period was Obasanjo. He cultivated the PDP bloc of Southeast, South-south, and Middle Belt, but his cabinet and administration had a national outlook, especially in his second term when the PDP captured the southwest and Obasanjo, perhaps in response to criticism that he was empowering the wrong kind of northerners (Christian Middle Belters) brought more Northern Muslims into the administration.
No previous administration in short comes even close to Buhari's record of ethnic-religious and regional exclusion. Not even Yar'Adua.
So Jibo's statement that Janathan was "as" nepotistic as Buhari is completely false, whether we consider it semiotically narrowly in terms of nepotism or more broadly in terms of provincialism.
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Okey Iheduru <okeyiheduru@gmail.com>: Jan 01 12:32PM -0700
*"This is the nature of humans and humanities. You and I cannot do anything
about it. We cannot see the same issue in the same way.*
*And it is foolish for anyone to assume that he/she is smart and wise. This
is hubris, and that person is ridiculous." **TF, January 1, 2021.*
This is also my answer to that hubris.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 11:35 AM Farooq A. Kperogi <farooqkperogi@gmail.com>
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"Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com>: Jan 01 02:08PM -0500
Iheduru has also made it his life's calling in this forum to be an
unthinking defender of Goodluck Jonathan's unrelieved failure. What gives
him the moral right to take umbrage at Jibo's own defense of Buhari's
failures?
You, Iheduru, need basic lessons in critical self-reflexivity. The world
doesn't revolve around your little world, and your fragile emotions are not
the lifeblood of disputations. Develop the maturity to be self-aware that
people have a right to be like you: defend the absurdities they benefit
from.
Your evidence-free charges against Jibo must be classic projection. They
reveal what motivates your instinctual defense of Goodluck Jonathan's
incompetent regime.
Farooq
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com
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"Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com>: Jan 01 03:47PM -0500
Moses,
You're right about Yar'Adua's previously unexampled record of provincialism
in governance. I think the word his clannishness introduced to or
popularized in Nigeria's political vocabulary was "cabal."
Yar'Adua had Nigeria's first overtly provincial cabal since 1999; it was,
as you rightly said, an entirely Katsina cabal.
Buhari's cabal is at least spread between Katsina and Borno, but this is
perhaps because Buhari's mother is Kanuri, which makes him no different
from Yar'Adua in the final analysis.
Buhari went beyond cabalism to outright nepotism since his family members
are strategically ensconced in the inner recesses of the power structure he
heads.
But Jonathan, being Ogbia, an ethnic group that numbers fewer than 300,000,
couldn't possibly play the sort of narrow provincial politics that Yar'Adua
played and that Buhari plays.
So Jonathan's slightly broader Southeast/South-South cabal wasn't a
consequence of his broadmindedness; it was more a deliberate calculation
for survival. If he could also get away with an Ogbia cabal, he would have
had one.
Nothing in Jonathan's temperament and comportment suggests that he is
different from Yar'Adua and Buhari. He only had to make different choices
because of the quiddities of his identity and the nature of how he got into
power. This, after all, was a man who defended MEND against a terrorist
attack it carried out in Abuja that it owned up to and even
forewarned--similar to Buhari's defense of Fulani murderers.
Only Obasanjo, as you pointed out, had a broad governing clique out of
choice. So, for me, anyone who defended or defends Jonathan but criticizes
Buhari deserves to have their motives questioned.
Farooq
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
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