Toyin Adepoju the words of wisdom that Chief Afe BabalolaSAN shares every week in his columns in vanguard and nigerian tribune in my own opinion are worth more than the 10 milion pounds he donated to kings college. money is not the only currency so we should not be distracted by the ten milion pounds. we have already been told that when an elder dies in africa whole libraries are lost and so what we should be trying to do is harvest what Papa Afe babalola has strored in his brain and stocked in his physical library.
-- at 94 years he is stil writing meaningfully and heavily supporting the staff at the Afe babalola universty and specialist state of the art 400 bed hospital with the result that they are winning global awards, the highest prizes in their categories/ what i understand by papas action is a staggerd strategy, immediate term, intermediate term and long term. i can see the immediate term in the kings college donation.he wants quick results for africa and i can discern long term plans for his own university which has some of the best facilities in the world like the relativlely unreported PLANETARIUM one of the biggest in the world .yes! in EkiT! so lets give it to Baba. he has done well,
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