Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Goodluck Jonathan and Albert Einstein

Dear Toyin,Kolapo,Gbenga
I must confess I do not have the wisdom to uncover a deeper meaning of these coincidences but I am curious as to why Some one like  Wole Soyinka would exclaim" God moves in a mischievous way! And Einstein said"God does not play Dice with the Universse". What eintein is saying here is that things do not happen by Chance. they all follow an exact. law.


I have written about 40 writeups on Historical coincidences between Nigeria and other developed parts of the world  ,5 of them have been on Albert Einstein and  a Prominent Nigerian.Perhaps if you take these 5 write ups together you could uncover a deeper meaning


Take  Albert Einstein and Chike Obi 

Einstein was born March 14 1879,Chike Obi Died March 13 2008,
Einstein died April 18 1855, Chike  Obi was born  April 17 1921.

Einstein was a theoretical Physicist
Chike was a Mathematician and theoretical Physics Prize winner
Einstein was at the Swiss Federal institute of Technology and the Institute of Advance Study
Einstein s wife name is Mileva
Chike Obis Wifes name is  Melinda
Einstein was a jew and Chike Obi an Igbo and the Igbos have been described as the jews of Nigeria.Members of the lost tribe of Israel.
you can see thee is some kind of Symmetry
Chike Obi was at the Massachussets Institute of Technology and the Nana Institute

Take this also below
Regards
Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth,London,England
Albert Einstein and  Wole Soyinka

Germany has the world's third largest economy and
Nigeria is the 160 nation on the UNDP's human
development index, the second poorest nation in the
world next to Ethiopia. Despite the aforementioned
facts there are some strange developments and
coincidences happening between Germany and Nigeria,
particularly as it concerns Albert Einstein and Wole
Soyinka on the hand and Berlin and Ibadan on the
other
.Einstein and Soyinka have both been associated with the unconventional.
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany a Federal
Republic and Wole Soyinka was born in Ake, Nigeria now
a Federal republic. Note that Ulm and Ake are both
three letters.

Einstein as a clerk wrote scientific papers

Soyinka  as a clerk wrote Radio plays

Einstein has been described as the
greatest scientist of the 20th century and Wole
Soyinka perhaps the world's greatest living dramatist.
They both won
the Nobel Prize.

They are both associated with social
and political causes. Einstein loved sailing and
relatedly Soyinka is a self confessed Sea Dog

Einstein and Soyinka are both known for composing and
playing string instruments. In the case of Einstein it
was the Violin, whereas, Soyinka plays the Guitar.
Einstein and Soyinka were at first not successful as
married men.

They both remarried
.Einten And soyinka campaigned against lives wasted by the first world War and Road accident respectively

Einstein had a
friend, a fellow physicist, Max Planck, then the
recognized head of German science, he gave a lift of
some sort to Einstein in the academic circles,.He brought him into the fold of the Berlin Academy. Planck
was President of the Kaiser Willem Society (now Max
Planck Society for the Advancement of Science).
Einstein and Planck parted ways.

Soyinka had a friend, the physicist, muyiwa Awe,
first African Professor of Physics on the African
continent, first President Nigeria institute of
Physics; first President of the West African
Association of Science and first Secretary General,
African Union of Physicists

. Awe was a member of the
appointment and promotions committee of the University
of Ibadan, just before a final decision was to be
taken as to the suitability or otherwise of Wole
Soyinka for a professorship.
Soyinka did not bag the
professorship. Awe raised a technical objection to the
procedure of the committee. So revealed Awe in the
book, Before our very eyes (spectrum) a tribute to
Wole Soyinka as edited by Dapo Adelugba.

Like Einstein and Planck, Soyinka and Awe, parted ways
at least spiritually. Soyinka did write in the
Guardian Newspaper that Awe had a penchant for fouling up
relationships.

Planck retired from the University of Berlin and Awe
retired from the University of Ibadan. Note that
Berlin is the political and cultural capital of
Germany and Ibadan is the political capital of the
Yoruba Nation, and to used to serve as the cultural
capital of Nigeria.

In Berlin we have the free University of Berlin,
founded in 1948, the University of Ibadan was also
founded in 1948.

In Berlin the Cultural capital of Germany and largest city we have the German institute of

economic Research

In Ibadan,largest city in Nigeria and former cultural capital we have the

Nigerian Institute of social and economic research

Einstein went into exile. Similarly Soyinka went into
exile. Einstein slugged it out with the military
dictator Adolf Hitler and relatedly Soyinka had his
battle with the military dictator Sanni Abacha

There is the Albert Einstein society, and there is as
well the Wole Soyinka society. Einstein said Imagination is a lot better than knowledge and Soyinka,Imagination is the soul of the spirit.

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On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:11 AM, toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com> wrote:

Beautiful observation:

...contingencies and the myth that can be associated with such coincidences could be channeled by insightful leadership into hope and purpose for great achievements. At a general level, though, these kind of coincidences and chance occurrences serve to humble the modern man's triumphalist rationalist thinking; many times contradicting reason. 

Femi Kolapo

On 9 July 2011 21:40, Femi Kolapo <kolapof@uoguelph.ca> wrote:

interesting coincidences - though not perfect ones, in that only the months and the days agree. Also, the coincidence of the meaning of his name with his anti-typical and almost magically easy rise [in almost equally magical circumstances] from being deputy governor to governor, to vice president, to acting and finally to president in such a nepotistic and hierarchical country as Nigeria certainly is compelling. It is generally considered difficult to effectively explain chance, coincidence, and absurd irregularities that from time to time turn out to impact major changes in history. However, each aspect of Jonathan Goodluck's rise, as contingent as they seem or may actually be, can fit into an explainable historical pattern or framework - at least of the geopolitical history of Nigeria- without which the coincidence and contingency that describe his emergence could not have occurred. 

 However, a problem of looking at great occurrences via the lenses of contingency and coincidence and wondering whether similar coincidental happenings will occur [magically, to transform Nigeria], is that it could become a robber of purposeful analysis and painstaking plan. It could legitimize fatality and encourage impunity, recklessness or the like, especially, if for example, President Goodluck comes to consider himself as untouchable, predestined, or if on the other hand he abdicates some or most of the difficult and complex responsibilities of doing leadership and management and rather resign himself to the unchallengeable fate that has brought him thus far to keep him there and do things for him.

On the other hand, contingencies and the myth that can be associated with such coincidences could be channeled by insightful leadership into hope and purpose for great achievements. At a general level, though, these kind of coincidences and chance occurrences serve to humble the modern man's triumphalist rationalist thinking; many times contradicting reason.  

whatever the case, these are very interesting observations.

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F. J. Kolapo,  

(Associate Professor of African History)
History Department *  University of Guelph * Guelph * Ontario * Canada* N1G 2W1
Phone:519/824.4120 ex.53212  Fax: 519.766.9516

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From: augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abickersteth@googlemail.com>

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Sent: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Goodluck Jonathan and Albert Einstein

Goodluck Jonathan and Albert Einstein by Augustine
Togonu-Bickersteth,London,England
Goodluck Jonathan took his first decisive step  by sacking the Yaradua
Cabinet on March 17  2010 which coincides with the publication of Einsteins"

miraculous" paper on light quanta, March 17 1905.

Goodluck Jonathan was declared wiinner of the  Nigerian  Presidential
elections by INEC on April 18 2011, anniversary of the death of Einstein, on
April 18 1955.

Goodluck Jonathan was  sworn in on May 29 2011, anniversary of the
confirmation of the General theory of relativity as advanced by Einstein,May
29 1919.described as the greatest discovery of the 20th century.

Einstein, a Physicist and Goodluck Jonathan, a  Biologist.

The 20th century has been described as the century of the Physicist

and the 21st Century, the century of the Biologist.

Within or outside the Laboratory,would Goodluck Jonathan write his name in
the great Books of history?.Would Goodluck Jonathan turn out to be a Great
discovery of the 21 st century?  OnlyTime would tell.

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