African Chronicle of Wealth and Philanthropy volume 1 number 1 .April 1 2023
first my Book of the week: Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies
Chief Afe Babalola, Are Bamofin of Yoruba,father of Africa and wotlds greatest living lawyer made a staggering Donation of 10 million pounds to the world class and cutting edge, King college strand,London for the african transformation centre named after him.
afr babalola has com a long way from he times of sleeeping o banana leavs,to becomimg the secretary of the produce union up to the time of being a corresponding and extrnal student of the university of
london
some have criticised this donation saying charity begins at home.for instance some are saying the money could have gone to university and other institutions in ekiti his home base.
from the way i see , on second thoughts, philanthropy does not operate on the basis or thiking that charity begins at home otherwise bill gates would restric all his donations and interventions to usa where there a enough problems to attend to
.secondly what chief Afe bablola has done is to invest in knowledge. expertise, talent, skills ,competences on a long term, Knowledge not readily available in nigeria amd he is clerly on the same page as the youth and co founder of the Billion dollars start up, flutterwave ,Iyinola Aboyeji who has emphasised the importance of knowledge to starups rather than throwing money at problems
it clearly marks the difference between CHARITY and PJILANTHROPY in the best of traditions. this is pjilanthropy at its best. for maximum IMPACT #philanthropy
first my Book of the week: Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies
Chief Afe Babalola, Are Bamofin of Yoruba,father of Africa and wotlds greatest living lawyer made a staggering Donation of 10 million pounds to the world class and cutting edge, King college strand,London for the african transformation centre named after him.
afr babalola has com a long way from he times of sleeeping o banana leavs,to becomimg the secretary of the produce union up to the time of being a corresponding and extrnal student of the university of
london
some have criticised this donation saying charity begins at home.for instance some are saying the money could have gone to university and other institutions in ekiti his home base.
from the way i see , on second thoughts, philanthropy does not operate on the basis or thiking that charity begins at home otherwise bill gates would restric all his donations and interventions to usa where there a enough problems to attend to
.secondly what chief Afe bablola has done is to invest in knowledge. expertise, talent, skills ,competences on a long term, Knowledge not readily available in nigeria amd he is clerly on the same page as the youth and co founder of the Billion dollars start up, flutterwave ,Iyinola Aboyeji who has emphasised the importance of knowledge to starups rather than throwing money at problems
it clearly marks the difference between CHARITY and PJILANTHROPY in the best of traditions. this is pjilanthropy at its best. for maximum IMPACT #philanthropy
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