Friday, March 31, 2023

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fixing electric power: fela bright and femi otedpla




mr femi otedola of geregu power plant has spoken well about transmission but not enough.he needs to help get this trading platform off the ground and then we would witness a new nigeria. i am asking for an helicopter with a dedicated pilot and a virtual assitant,to work with joseph adeyemi olufela bright a graduate of physics in respect of the commitee of concerned nigerians for fixing energy incliuding electric power in nigeria, i am the convener of the commitees which this trading platform seems to have now taken care off.this plaform is the way to follow. its a major land mark of the buhari administraytion but people cannot appreciate. i can appreciate,its the birth of a new nigeria.. buhari for this platform alone would go down as one of the mots foresighted presidents of nigeri,/ i thank buhari for signing the mambila power project on my 51st birthday.august 30 2017 and i hear the cries of the assocition of electricity consumrers a letter coincidentaly dated on my 55 birthday.15 milion nigrians need to do a rethink.they need to invest first in power in the exchange before anything else power is in demnd and they send 25 bilion dollarsjhome every year much of which is wasted on diesel and pertrol generators.e need to generate 300,000 megawatts now we have only 5000 mw/there has to be massive mobilistion of fund at home and abroad.the story of the 2oth century is the story of electricity.nigeria is not yet in the 20th century and thats the challenge for the trading platform and prevuiusly the commitees,the trading platform would super ceed the commitees of concerned nigerians for fixing the energy crisis in nigeria #energy #project #electricity

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Vatican repudiates 'Doctrine of Discovery' used to justify colonialism after demands from Indigenous peoples - ABC News

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - THE TOYIN FALOLA INTERVIEWS: NIGERIA'S 2023 ELECTIONS

very powerful

On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 18:14, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

The Toyin Falola Interviews: A Conversation on the 2023 Nigeria's Elections

 

Please join us for a conversation with one of our distinguished panelists, Ayisha Osori, on the 2023 Elections in Nigeria.

 

Sunday, April 16, 2023

5:00 PM Nigeria

4:00 PM GMT

11:00 AM Austin CST

 

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https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/2023-nigerian-elections 

 

 

 

Ayisha Osori has over 20 years of experience across the private, development and non-profit sectors in the areas of business development, regulation and compliance, general management, democracy and good governance, gender equality, inclusion and human rights. She has consulted for the World Bank, United Nations Children's Fund, National Democratic Institute and Department of International Development.

 

Currently Director, Executive Vice President's Office, Open Society Foundations, a grant making and advocacy organization, her responsibilities straddle operations and grant making within OSF's Ideas Workshop a new initiative for investing in heterodox ideas. She served as the Executive Director for Open Society Initiative for West Africa between 2018-2021 where she built on the organization's legacy of enabling grant making, led the restructuring of its operations and strengthened the culture of communications and advocacy. Prior to joining the Board of OSIWA in 2014, she was the CEO of the Nigeran Women's' Trust Fund between 2012-2015, taking it from a fledgling organization with no funding, into an organization with absorptive capacity for over a million dollars.

 

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Friday Essay: On BAT's Age and Name - and Impending Presidency

Friday Essay: On BAT's Age and Name - and Impending Presidency

My People:

A lot has been made in recent times leading to and since the emergence of Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), of rumors surrounding his name and age.  Let me say from the very beginning, in case you don't need to read me any further:  all of it is too much muckraking bad-belle, in pidgin vernacular,, or balderdash in cockney. 

Moving on....

I  have known BAT since 1993.  A viral picture is currently circulating with some of us Yoruba PDM June 12 "rascals" in the Washington DC area prominently featured, with BAT humbly in it. I will be 68 years old  in two days time - and I know that BAT is older than myself!  But  when I  knew him, like a good Omoluabi that he was and is,  he deferred then to many people who were older than himself, and who were no where more than 10 years older than myself.    That is why all this nonsense about his age being 80, 87 is just that: plain nonsense. 

He claims to be 71, and I agree with him, but at the most, he cannot be older than 75, natural born. Like most Nigerians born in the 40s and 50s, , like most of six billion people in the world, he may have no original birth certificate, so what? Early 50s were 73 years ago downwards.  Imagine early 40s - or 83 years ago downwards.

I hear that he was born  at Iragbiji in Osun State, allegedly with a name Yekini Amoda Ogunlere,  different from Bola Ahmed Tinubu.  And so?  Can a man not change his name - for whatever reason?  Is it illegal?  Did anyone  hear that he killed someone and adopted that person's identity?  Yes, his  biological mother is alleged to be from Iragbiji.  But remember that we are a paternalistic society.  Every other names of his at birth are speculative, and stand to be corrected whenever  he discovered his real roots.

In any case, all these are  elitist demands from a man who pulled himself from the bootstraps.  I was born to a University academic and I have all my birth and other certificates, and have not had to be  adopted by any other peoples'  parents, but I cannot expect everybody to be like me.

No matter what, BAT is our President-elect now, and we will have to start to  live with his four-year Presidency come May 29.  

He is a worthy "rascal", an original "ipata".  Unlike all of  our other presidents, Tinubu comes fully prepared for the job, and will be a fantastic president because of his humble beginnings, strivings in life,  and his pro-democracy credentials - bad belle by so many people - ethnic propagandists, aged and ageing Afenifere bad-belle-ers and  wide-eyed youthful neo-ENDSARists notwithstanding.  . He needs our prayers and willingness to assist him to lead this nation aright.

Please come join us.

There you have it.


Bolaji Aluko
March 31, 2023.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - THE TOYIN FALOLA INTERVIEWS: NIGERIA'S 2023 ELECTIONS

The Toyin Falola Interviews: A Conversation on the 2023 Nigeria's Elections

 

Please join us for a conversation with one of our distinguished panelists, Ayisha Osori, on the 2023 Elections in Nigeria.

 

Sunday, April 16, 2023

5:00 PM Nigeria

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Register and Watch:

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Ayisha Osori has over 20 years of experience across the private, development and non-profit sectors in the areas of business development, regulation and compliance, general management, democracy and good governance, gender equality, inclusion and human rights. She has consulted for the World Bank, United Nations Children's Fund, National Democratic Institute and Department of International Development.

 

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Ayisha Osori, the author of articles and books, including Love Does Not Win Elections, has degrees from the University of Lagos, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School.

 

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Most times, people cloth their personal preferences and prejudices and present them as positive societal values that must be adopted by everyone. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)


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USA Africa Dialogue Series - on being a mental health patient for 38 years.lambo at 100 a tribute

On being a psychiatric patient; a mental health user and survivor,,my personal experience since 1985,

my doctor have included professor oye Gureje, certified by stanford university as top one per cent in the world, please se wikipedia. then presently i have professor Gabriel ivbijaro ,president of the world dignity project and ex president o the world mental health association ,from edo state EDO BEST! i have also being treated by dr kunle sokoya the only psychiatist now working in a secondary school,life fotre high,badan, lucky children. laosebikan was another simply known as lash.he does not miss the medical journals ,,then there was JIBODU, the stern looking one and falade or fagadem

with roving eye balls

and the controversial one professor jude ohiare because he combines psychiatry with the study of astrology,, the yorubas say, ai gbo ifa ni a nwoke, ifa kan o si n i para the little monk in the play Galileo seems to suggest that to galileo a play by bertolt brecht, that its not being at home with matters o ground hence we begin to scan the sky for solutions ,there are no such answers in the cloud.

yesterday was the 100th annivesary of the birth of the foremost African neuro psychiatristm proressor thomas adeoye lambo. Thomas Adeoye Lambo, OBE[1] (March 29, 1923 – March 13, 2004) was a Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist. He is credited as the first western trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa. Between 1971 and 1988, he worked at the World Health Organization, becoming the agency's Deputy Director Generall

i have been privilege to be traeted at he professor lambos unit for paranoid schizophrenia. i have not only been treated by western trained Doctors but also traditional doctors

both worlds, traditional medicine and western have their benefits and draw backs

in western medicine for instance the medication, i found to be very convenient but you are mde tobe aware that you have a problem by the many actions and words of the doctors,nurses, and medical students and your movemnt s restricte to the hospital ward but in the traditional practice a i have exoerince you are free to move around even to the markt place. it seems the yorubas believe that if a mad man goes to the market place he would never come back normal.they also believe that mad men are good dancers.

in traditional medicine there is no demarcation, you are taken as part of the family s

ypu are not told you have a problem but if you misbehave you might be flogged or put in manacles#the medication from the traditional doctor may prove tobe unpalatable.it was a ig bowl of a green concotion which i had to consume all of it at the appearance of the moon,noe that word LUNATIC is taking from Lunar, meaning of the

moon.i have also been treated by meta physicians and occultic physicians and one necromacist

the occultic physician s dr atagana somewhere in idi ose near the uiversty of ibadan,an ex biafran soldier, ex seminarian,them there is the meta physician, dr adegboyega mabinuori are lato sisa,the equivalnt of an english lord and chairman of the code of conduct of astronauts before the astronauts, EGUNGUN,author of the holy book of IFA.to my usa friends,what is ifa? well ifa is divina,data,statistica,mathematica,bilogica,zoolologica,pharmacopia, encyclopaedia,parapherneia,aurira and more,that is ifa

then there is alhaji tajo of tajo memorial hospital,oke foko,private detective,healer,farmer,buildr,hunter and necromacist.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - UI Department of Philosophy Seminar Series (UI-DPSS)

Dear All:
Greetings!

Please find the Zoom link for our seminar series taking place today. We will be glad to have you with us. 


Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Towards understanding the Nigerian Enigma: Cultural Looms, Social Fabrics, and Ideological Tapestry 
Time: Mar 30, 2023 02:00 PM West Central Africa

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Vacancy: country manager opportunity ,sierra Leone for solar energy

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Conference: FINAL Conference Schedule

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Are bamofin,of Kings college lagos and kings college,london


dr   Anthony Youdeowei was managing   director of ikeja electric, a proct of kings college lagos which has produced a real king,HRH Oba Dokun Thompson
whereas at kings college ,london you had james clerk maxwel l, Mathematician and greatest theoretical physicist of the 19th century, one of the worlds greatest .he was born on saint anthony day ,june 13 1831 and die November 5 1879.
james clerk maxwells equation are crucial  and critical to the electricity industry.so perhaps   are bamofin,chief afe babalola should note this having donated a staggering 10 million pounds to kings college  london and nothing perhaps to the physics  or  electrical engineerring departments in nigerian universities because nigeria has the worlds worst access to electricuty, SDG goal number 7

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Yoruba Affairs - Nigeria's Afe Babalola's Donation of 10 Million Pounds to Kings College, London: Questions Arising

   ibukunolu babajide and toyin adepoju this is from the guardian of uk september 8 2020. i think its a more sophisticated way of adressing the issue.that might be a reason   for being  on this platform

in many cases, elite philanthropy ends up benefitting the super wealthy more than anyone else, researchers say. When such individuals make big donations, the public tends to shower them with honors, distinctions, and favorable media coverage. Furthermore, most rich philanthropists donate to elite causes and institutions.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 4:20 PM Ibukunolu A Babajide <ibk2005@gmail.com> wrote:
Toyin,

If you do not have any wise thing to say, just sit in a corner and whistle.  Is the giveaway your money?  If the answer is yes, then questions arise, but if it is no, Chief Afe Babalola can dispose of his money anyhow he pleases.

Cheers.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

The Second Coming

By William Butler Yeats

1865-1939



On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 15:55, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com> wrote:
Is Afe Babalola really a rich man?

If most people around you are poor, financially poor, poor in access to social and material infrastructure, to good roads, quality health care, electricity, ease of access to communications and information systems, among other fundamentals of modern life, can you really be rich, no matter how much money and property you acquire for yourself?

Why should such a poor man donate the little he really has to a rich man?

10 million pounds!

Will that money  transform King's College, London, taking it to the level of Cambridge or Harvard, for example? 

Babalola is quoted as declaring that he is making the donation because "My contribution to this programme is a way of reciprocating what I benefited from the laudable and unique external degree programme of the University of London in the 1960s without which I certainly would have ended up an unsung farmer or at best the secretary of the local motor union."

Does he not realize that he used that external degree programme because the opportunity did not exist in his own country?

Afe Babalola is described as owning a university in Nigeria and as contributing significantly to various Nigerian universities. 

What is the global ranking of his own university? Is it equatable to King's College, London?

The donation is meant to initiate and sustain

The Afe Babalola African Centre for Transnational Education [ enabling] young Africans to access education and opportunities which they would otherwise not be able to have.

 

… the new centre would offer blended and online programmes, and also offer post-graduate level modules which can be brought together to create professionally recognised qualifications from diplomas to master degrees.

 

[along with providing]  scholarships alongside other funding partners, to support interested and qualified students [ while developing a] bespoke programme for Africa …in partnership with the University of London and an alliance of leading African universities.

 


Why must such beautiful ideas and awesome funding be carried to the University of London, one of the greatest conglomerations of universities in the world, in one of the most prosperous cities in the world, in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth, while Babolola's Ekiti state does not feature significantly on any global development index?

Universities often have transformative effects on their environment. Imagine what such a powerful initiative could have done for Babalola's own university and its surrounding community.

How honest are we Nigerians, though, in the face of money?

The people managing King's College, London, are not hungry people. They can be counted on to spend the money for the purpose it is meant for.

Nigerians are currently struggling with a cash scarcity that has even led to the deaths of people. To what degree can we be counted on to use huge monies strictly for the purpose intended?



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Why should a poor man donate money to a rich man?

Question inspired by thread of post on Chukwudi Iwuchukwu's Facebook wall

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - on Afe Babalala donation:How Philanthropy benefits the super rich

ifrom the guardian september 8 2020 uk
n many cases, elite philanthropy ends up benefitting the super wealthy more than anyone else, researchers say. When such individuals make big donations, the public tends to shower them with honors, distinctions, and favorable media coverage. Furthermore, most rich philanthropists donate to elite causes and institutions.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Are Afe Babalola,Philanthropy and Motivations

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People might want  to look at  Afe babalolas donation   to the very prestigious kings college as an investment some of us have done charitable giving for tthat reason but we have retraced  our  steps.
for it is good to give to hose who have no way of giving back. i  is this donation  an investment or buying prestige and also paying back?
here are seven known motivations for philanthropy according to the book ,titled, The seven faces off   philanthropy :a new approach to culti cultivating  major donors
they are as follows
1  the communitarian: doing god makes sense,( 26,3 pe cent)
2 the devout:doing good is gods will
3the investor :doing good is  good business
4 the ocialite: doing god is fun
5the altruist doing good feels right
6the repayer doing good in return
7the dynast;doing good a family tradition

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Is agbada now the equivalent of a suit?

Sir:

Should people go to office as if they are going to parties?

TF

 

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Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 10:20 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Is agbada now the equivalent of a suit?

As you all know, like a 3-piece woolen or fabric suit, the Western legal regalia was a product of a particular geo-cultural and largely temperate environment. Within the African geo-cultural environment, there are attires that are environmentally-friendly, physical health-friendly and much more amenable to both a modern office setting and a modern courtroom. And yes, lots of people do wear the latter to work.

But I usually laugh and shake my head in silent pity whenever, in a typical tropical setting, such as Nigeria, I notice an African professional on his way to work (including work in the courtroom) adorned in a 3-piece suit and sweating profusely. (I used the possessive pronoun "his" because I hardly see any woman in a 3-piece suit although I may be wrong on this score.) I pity the fellow and wonder silently whether with all his sweating under a blazing sun, he could still think clearly when he arrives in the courtroom. Inside a typical molou passenger bus, one tends to encounter similarly dressed fellows, sweating even while the fully-loaded bus is in motion. This is an example of a geo-cultural fashion mismatch adorned as an adopted mode of dressing, adopted wholescale without, in some cases, being adapted to suit the geo-cultural environment of the cultural borrower.

In a variety of ways, we have not adequately decolonized our aesthetics, our axiology, our minds, and our self-conception though I acknowledge that our mixed heritage (what Ali Mazrui called the Triple Heritage) includes our colonial past. Against the backdrop of that mixed heritage and a contemporary world marked significantly by cultural adaption and cultural hybridization, it's inevitable that we cannot and need not forsake everything that derived from our colonial past and its concomitant tools of indoctrination. At the same time, as we keep all that is valuable and useful for a healthy society from our mixed heritage, let's also preserve, refine and valorize the functional elements of our own indigenous cultural heritage—elements which sustained our forefathers and foremothers without whom we would not have had a past, any past of the cultural dimension of our being, to stand on in the comity of the human cultural landscape.  

 

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 9:55 AM Dr.Iwalodu. SIA Odutola <dr.iwalodu.odutola@gmail.com> wrote:

A welcome development to indigenous Culture, heritage and traditions.

Intune with the climate too.

 

Why wear the Suit?

Same as the legal regalia for the Court room.

In  Monaco / South of France, it is super simplified.

 

How come such ridiculousness are retained surpassing those that colonised You?!

 

Dr. ODUTOLA

 

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, 01:16 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series, <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Clarification 

multilayered embellishments 

 

 

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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A very welcome development,

if you ask me. Multilatered

embellishments would be fine

for social events-  and sack cloth

for church😂

 

 

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Addicted to watching events in Nigeria, I am fascinated and impressed by the attire. Sometimes I wonder how big the wardrobe is. One question that keeps bothering me: are they now wearing agbada as white people where suits to offices? If so, what, then, is the social function dress code?

I now see people wearing agbada to offices. What do they wear for Sunday services and social events?

TF

 

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Professor and Head

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