USA Africa Dialogue Series - letter to the Emir of dubai by Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 9 2026

Dear  Emir of Dubai

This is my fourth letter to you

.if I may ask do you love  mathematics.? Have you got a map room in your  palace? Why i ask?

 Because  I have read Justin Marozzi's Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization highlights key locations, including Mecca, Baghdad, and Istanbul, that shaped Islamic history. The book explores how these 15 cities, spanning from Cordoba to Kuala Lumpur, built and defined the civilization. 

Emir  of Dubai there is something called  Mapmathematics .the convergence of mathematics  and map making.

Dear Enir I was taught  by the Theoretical  physicist Professor  Akin Ojo.

 Prior to becoming a Professor   Akin Ojo he was known as the Nurse Because  he was perpetually  so to saying in white Buba.a white top. And interestingly without  a wrist watch. But when promoted to the rank of Professor  he began to dress appropriately  but still drove  what observers  would call  a funny car. outdated car or an ugly car.

Dear  Enir that was the nature of the car park of the physics  department  university of ibadan  of those  days. So Professor  Akin Ojo informed me. Taught me .he is a Princeton university  trained  Theoretical physicist  so he perhaps understands  his subject. A phD from Princeton  university  one of his published papers  was the feature  of an exhibition  at the Kenrth Dike library! THE  CENTRAL  LIBRARY!!!

So professor  Akin Ojo  told me that if you  want to solve  a mathematics  problem you must first  define  the space  in which you are working. Tantamount to demarcation OF a football  pitch.so EMIR where there are no maps  there may be no development. 

Town planning  is related. YOU can use town planning  to eradicate poverty.

The town planners  arrange  or re arrange  the city so that  it works  like  clock work.AND then the city is more creative.  More productive 

Dear  Emir of Dubai to round up

What a mathematical physicist  does  according to Professor  AkIn ojo is analysis and what a theoretical  physicist  does  is synthesis. 

I rest  my case.thank you  for reading  Emir of  Dubai

Signed 

Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 may 9 2026 

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: EDITORIAL: Taxpayer ID Trap — Tinubu Squeezing Blood from Stones. Nigerians Must Rise Against

Shabbat Shalom ? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yfXZasMdgI

Post Spinoza, and Dark Bible Secrets, the Enlightenment, Nietzsche and all that,

Mister Dylan was still on the road, with When you gonna wake up - singing 

“Counterfeited philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts

Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger's got you tied up in knots.” 

#The Surprising Origins of Judaism Before Jesus

#The Jesus Hustle: The Origin of the Greatest Scam on Humanity

Fast forward :Dr Oohay and his aversion to ism , as if in a denigration mode, substituting Christianism for Christianity implies a change in the contents of its mysticism or the genealogy of the son as an indivisible part of the Godhead for 1.3 Billion Christians.

Van Morisson :Let's go into the mystery vs Bob Marley’s i-manity : “Almighty God is a living man” versus he who was crucified as a heretic : Mansur Al-Hallaj, Mystic and poet

Of course there is a similar distinction to be made between the term Islamism of recent coinage  - and often linked to “ terrorism” ( another ism that Dr Oohay does not like) to cover what the critics refer to as “ political Islam” - whereas adherents of that great religion insist there is only one Islam/ “there is only one Islam” ….. 

Completely out of context, some pacifistic Chrsitian apologists love to make these kinds of vile contrasts:

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=980215454923056&id=100088038306252&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=HsMPaZguyoKNLdTt#

And Judaism  - another ism , the mother of all isms? 

Of course, that ism also has its holy alphabet and its genealogy: 

History of the Hebrew God ; concretely, Mark S. Smith : The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel

Wherever we may be, we all have our moral obligations and  if "Think globally, act locally" means anything at all then now that the world’s people of conscience  are avidly listening to what  Pope Leo XIV  is saying, in the Nigerian sphere, I’m also looking forward to be hearing from Bishop Kukah who has been quite for some time now….

On Friday, 22 May 2026 at 22:11:52 UTC+2 Dr. Oohay wrote:

Nietzsche STRONGLY rejected the Enlightenment for its own ironic dogmatism and belief that in scientism (aka “idealism”) lies the opportunity to realize the ultimate freedom of “man” —- tho understand Nietzsche requires one to READ him (his body of texts) intra-textually and inter-textually).  “Gott ist tot AIN’T” an ATHEISTIC claim.  Hence, he declares, I love Jesus but hate “Christ”. “Christo” AIN’T a personal name a crown associated with dogmatizing of a faith that tries to show how to live a life. But note the paradox of Jesus as FULLY human AND FULLY non-human — aka KENOSIS in Greek. 

     By banning religion, the Enlightenment’s desire or banishment of religion became a BIAS itself and thus this knowledge movement failed. All western philosophy does now amounts to dangling between questions regarding PROBABILITY (inductive logic) and CERTAINTY (aka DEDUCTIVE LOGIC — either X is certainly false OR certainly false. Today we move back and forth between these two phenomena, perhaps, ETERNALLY again and again. Nietzsche’s concept here AIN’T a cosmological claim. I regard it as a “mereotic” position (my own lingo). Marx, a former follower of Hegel. turned Marx turned Hegel upside down. Materialism became the song or refrain of Marx which means Marxism, aka “communism” —- now sugar-coated as “socialism”.  When Marx died only about 4 or so people appeared at the funeral, today it would be multimillion people. The oppressor and the oppressed. My dearest comrades, Marxism AIN’T an answer and religion AIN’T necessarily your enemy. My dear brotha and sistha comrades of this wild whole world, MarxISM AIN’T an answer but the ability to accumulate capital constitutes what makes one a capitalist. But do NOT turn this ability into an ISM. Now many of these attackers have become millionaires themselves —— but now draw a fallacious  distinction between millionaires and billionaires.  The  KAPITAL also means  THE AMERICAN dream —— the magnet that attracts  millions to the  USofA periodically. Hence   No other  recognized or recognizable  dream  so far. Of course, no  dream (perhaps, has lived  for ever). Any  Naija or UK or Australian Dream with same “attraction“ as  Uncle  Sam’s? Well,  note ALLL that glitter AIN’T gold.

Oohay

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On Friday, May 22, 2026, 11:08 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:

BTW, I think that it all has to do with the concept embedded in “The Blood of Jesus” - the whole idea of sacrifice , anthropologically speaking in so called primitive religion , and in the case of the Christian mission, the great idea about “the perfect sacrifice” - in this realm of reality (Spinoza, Nietzsche, capitalism, the Enlightenment, the death of god, nihilism, ,Dr.Oohay, Marxist philosophy) the theological case that has been made  and is still being made for Jesus as the perfect sacrificial lamb, the  “O Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us !” 

Indeed, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” and you too probably have great difficulty imagining Peter Obi/ Alhaji Atiku or better still, Donald J as a sacrificial lamb sacrificing himself  - not for all mankind but  his chosen people,” America First” having already given the standing order that if he is assassinated then Iran should be bombed ! 

Sometimes it cuts, has cut both ways - so back in the Day we had Malcolm X at the 1963 Harlem Black Unity Rally telling the good folks there about old blue eyes, “They like their meat rare - They are cannibals !”

Historically, the unpleasant subject of Christians and Cannibals has to be cleared up and not just left to dwell in the fog of prejudiced popular imagination - just as by assiduous rejection, the defamatory blood libel has not been left to rot in the antisemitic imagination.

Norman Mailer’s Christians and Cannibals comes to mind as a misleading title for quite another type of political subject matter. This new American century, what would Mailer, the iconoclastic master of chutzpah not have been chirping about idolatry and today’s expanding American Empire under the largess of one, big, fat, naked American emperor leaning on his trumpet, pissing words from his tower of babble, his Trump Towers, twin towers, tower of Pisa, currently all  set to erect his own arc de’triomphe, the United States’ wannabe emperor who wants to make his 21st century version of  Rome, Great Again by incorporating ,  Venezuela as the 51st State, and in his earlier dreams,  Canada, Greenland, The Bay ofMexico , and of course also in his pipeline, Greater Israel!

On Friday, 22 May 2026 at 14:17:27 UTC+2 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:

A very important correction, so that The White Man either disguised as as  the friendly missionary or wannabe great colonial emperor himself doesn’t misquote my error 

“and as a preface to the forthcoming malediction, they’d say (with their mouths)  “da mot wae dae eat pepper ehn salt” ( the mouth that eats people and salt) - and then proceed to curse…” 

and use (invoke) that error and his own many misunderstandings, Racism and other prejudices, to go around talking about “Cannibalism in Sierra Leone “ as a sufficient motive to wanna send more clergymen and women on a new round of the civilising and salvific mission….

The standard expression is “ da mot wae dae eat salt ehn pepper” ("the mouth that eats salt and pepper”  -pepper, not people) ought not be used in cursing anybody. What is not clear is whether the curses from such a mouth are more effective or efficacious…

You would have thought that the saying should be more in line with “ The mouth that’s used for praying to the Almighty and praising Him , should not be also used for cursing any of the Almighty's creations.

According to Surah Al-Hujurat (49:12) and Islamic tradition / Hadith, back-biting and evil gossip is akin to Cannibalism, akin to “eating your brother's flesh “ 

Left unanswered, The Doctrine of Transubstantiation, the idea supporting the ritual consumption of The Holy Eucharist

 

On Wednesday, 20 May 2026 at 21:44:59 UTC+2 Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:

On reading or misreading “Tinubu Squeezing Blood from Stones !” 

Re- This sordid, sinful allegation : “Tinubu Squeezing Blood from Stones “

Just for the record, a little slice of history, where I’m coming from. As the good Saro People used to say back in the mid-sixties of the last century, and I still don't know from where these elders, pissed off orators flexing their rhetorical muscle were usually quoting these cliches, platitudes, piling them on, they were most probably translating directly from the oral tradition, some of the proverbial standard Yoruba wisdom, because whenever something outlandish occurred, such as back in the day, Albert Akpata Margai’s Mende-i-zation policy, you'd hear some learned Saro Creoles erupt, “Provocation is next to madness !” after which you’d hear some of the same old learned Saro Creole people cursing Akpata Margai  - and as a preface to the forthcoming malediction, they’d say (with their mouths)  “da mot wae dae eat pepper ehn salt” ( the mouth that eats people and salt) - and then proceed to curse Akpata Margai, roundly, “In the Name of The Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” - in true missionary style , as some kind of righteous, Divinely Sanctioned holy fire to the ire, prayerfully adding to the venom their most ardent wish of that moment : “God go pay Margai! “  (meaning “May God Almighty  punish him”) - and this would occur when any Permanent Secretary Ayodele Johnson had been unceremoniously booted out of office and replaced by one of Margai’s ethically closer Mende buddies - just like that. Ayodele Johnson would have done no wrong but it was now Mende-i-zation time, by hook and by crook, at all costs the Mende-in-zation of the Sierra Leone Civil Service was then in the works. 

Being neither a “tribalist” nor an ethnic jingoist by birth, by necessity or by inclination,  more than fifty-six years after I was last in that country - and only for ten days ( April 20 - April 30, 1970) like the late Leonard Cohen (Canadian) , "I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean”, and that’s why I’m free-ly &  hope-fully still wondering if the Mende-i-zation tendency is still part of the current SLPP’s government indigenization agenda, these days 

Not right now, but a little later, in your more quiet, sane & tranquil moments, away from the noise from Upon the straits...The Sea of Faith unto the Straits of Hormuz 

you might well deem mine a mega-reaction, and if you wanna pronounce it correctly you had better spell and understand it as Re-X-tion, most populous Black Nation 

Somebody is pissed. Pissed off. Some lumpenproletariat is. If he is not, then he's supposed to be.  He or she,  he and she and they are supposed to be a part of the lumpenproletariat at heart - and angry, like Wofa Akwasi - belated happy birthday to thee,  once upon a time - as he says, exonerating “Sir TOYIN “ for being  “in the trenches” - where we all ought to be ( in the trenches) or shaking the barricades down to their foundations., angry, pisssed, as in the opening lines of Amiri Baraka’s Somebody blew up America : 

“They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn’t our American terrorists It wasn’t the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn’t Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring

It wasn’t The gonorrhea in costume The white sheet diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of humanity, as they pleases

They say (who say?) Who do the saying Who is them paying Who tell the lies Who in disguise Who had the slaves Who got the bux out the Bucks

Who got fat from plantations Who genocided Indians Tried to waste the Black nation

Who live on Wall Street The first plantation Who cut your nuts off Who rape your ma Who lynched your pa?” 

For some time now, I have been thinking that sooner or later, somebody is bound to react. 

The more usual expression is “ squeezing water from a stone”

as in 

"Hey mister, can't you see 

that I'm as dry as a bone 

I think I'll spend some time alone 

Yes, unless you've found a way 

of squeezing water from a stone." 

It’s as clear as daylight ( as natural as black and white ) not some weak light or some hapless student reduced to  reading by candlelight shining in the Naija darkness) it’s even more clear than the latter, that by all intents and purposes, This Dawn Media outlet is an opposition paper mainly focused on criticising and bringing down the Tinubu Government.

Well, it’s a free country / territory, whether it’s  Nigeria, or USA Africa Dialogue Series being hosted in somebody's undisputed  nobody's land  known as LAGOS, or in Nobodaddy’s Jerusalem or in cyberspace 

What is all the more surprising is that they are being given ample space - almost a news monopoly in this forum  - without - for balance - any counterbalancing regular media rebuttals issuing from the government’s side to at least occasionally set the record straight. Islamically speaking, a man is judged by his intentions. Jesus is reported to have asked rhetorically,  "Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?”

The sad reality is that whenever the spurious claims being made in  poison pen articles and reports are not challenged, their contents are thereby allowed, so to speak, to pass uncontested as some “Gospel truths”. If we should go back to the kinds of headlines emanating from This Dawn the past couple of months since they first started posting here, you’d think that Dear President Tinubu  JAGABAN, the economy wizard wants to be re-elected because he “has perfected the art of turning suffering into policy.” 

This is not a tribalism  Yoruba-i-zation or Igbo-i-z-ation (“I-GO-Before-Others” ) thing - the masses - of all ethnicities are all basically united by or in poverty. 

Therefore, for balance, I’m looking forward to John Onyeukwu’s conscientious take on the necessity, wisdom or folly of President Tinubu’s Taxpayer Identification scheme which should normally - in accord with sound Social Democratic principle, I suppose would aim at basically, taxing the rich, some kind of Robin Hood tax-a tion 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1aUk4XJFUq/?mibextid=wwXIfr 

On Wednesday, 20 May 2026 at 12:22:23 UTC+2 Tim Elombah (This Dawn Media) wrote:

EDITORIAL: Taxpayer ID Trap — Tinubu Squeezing Blood from Stones. Nigerians Must Rise Against

https://thisdawn.com/editorial-taxpayer-id-trap-tinubu-squeezing-blood-from-stones/

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Letter to the 54 African heads of state by Augustine Togonu Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 April 15 2026

Dear  African Heads of state 

Sick individuals beget unproductive populations: Clarion call for improved healthcare system in Nigeria is the title  of an article  written by ex first. Lady  of Ondo State  Betty anyawu akeredolu. It's  compulsory reading  for  the African  head's of state. July  18 2025. Nigerian tribune newspaper. 

Secondly .Africans  should be encouraged to eat  a rainbow colour of vegetables every day. The more colourful  your plate  in term's  of vegetables the better  for  your heart  and health in General.  Africans  should  sleep  Eight hours  a day. Sleep is medicine. African s should have at least  170 minutes  of walking exercise every week.exrercise is medicine .Africans  should  socialise  more offline  line  and not  online.there is mo health  without  mental  health. 

.Africa's should go out of the way  to breathe  deeply  and learn about the importance  of deep  breathe and cultivate  deep breathing. 

.Africans  should  watch their  weight  and not be over weight.

 AFRICANS should  eat to live and not live eat. AFRICANS. should  not eat  belly  full. They should not eat or drink  to dullness. They should  eat and drink  to moderation. 

We have only one  body. So let's start  from our body. 

1 The  brain  in the words  of professor  Made Adeuja is the conductor  of the  human orchestra. 

Nigeria alone  loses 50 bilion  dollars  every year to brain diseases. The best way to make money  is to save it.so said Jean paul  Getty baba ijebu once the world's richest  man.

2 The eyes. The  king and queen of the body.  Crucial to productivity  and GDP.

3 The mouth  the gate way to the vital organ s.

4 the heart  the power house ifvtge body 

5 kidneys the cleaner  of thr body. 

What's more I want you  to read Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu  a sick nation 

 Dear  African  head of state  all roads  lead to Ekiti  state. Your Ambassador s and high  commissioners should  be there  to see  what's happening  or why brings are not happening  at all.

 They have Afe babalola universty  86th bestbin the world  onnlast count. Multi  specialist hospital. Export  processing zone  and the the World  tourism organisations recognised  Mr wale  ojo lanre a tourism expert  and journalist  and administrator  plus a knowledge  park plus a cassava  plantation. 

We have lessons  to develop  most of the cities  in Africa  from Ekiti  state.

Chemistry..

Deal  African  head of state  chemistry takes care of us from  cradle  to cradle  so yiu should be aware  of three  chemical Engineers 

1 professor banji oyelaran oyeyinka 

2 professor  Baba el yakubu

3 professor  Okechukwu  Ukwuoma 

The chemical  engineers  are in a class  of their own they  are known as the universal  engineers. Their  work load  at the University  is second only  to the Architecture  students. So they  have a reputation  for work.  The Chinese  president is a chemical engineer.Xi Jinping  Chinese president  is credited  with the giant developmental strides in China.

Lastly the  music  has stop playing  for the youths  in Africa. From south  Africa  to Sudan  to Spanish Sahara  300 milion  youths  are looking for jobs.

What are  the African  head's of state's  doing about this abd the 125000 dollar millionaires  in Africa  .340 of them centi millionaires  and 21 of then dollar billionaire's.with wealth  comes responsibility. 

To generate 300 miliion jobs African  head's of state's  should turn to the chemical engineers  I have listed 

Thank you for reading  your  execellecies

Signed

Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth London England 🇬🇧 April 15 2026 

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