A world where one does not understand what the other is doing/saying/writing, while asking questions in order to know is misunderstood as a/an challenge/contest/insult ... . Its like reading the exchanges between Cornelius and Segun most especially and Kenneth. I hope I won't be misunderstood.
O.
On 4 Aug 2013 15:11, "Cornelius Hamelberg" <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:--Wofa Akwasi,
Ghanaian-African Diaspora Ambassador at large, did you ever come across Molefe Pheto (South Africa) or James Allie (Sierra Leone) at the Africa Centre? I know that they were attached to the Commonwealth Institute, but being that kind of African, they must have been connected to the African Centre. And what about Sylvester Ekundayo Rowe (Sierra Leone) - did you ever bump into him or break bread with him, there in the Mighty United States?
About the intrepid impy's question "Which is the most civilised African Nation?", on first thoughts I would have answered, " Hitler's Germans", but there again Hitler was not an African and he himself did not personally butcher the Herrero
The impy's question reminds me of another question that was asked by the wrinkled old lady who you almost bumped into at Hötorget tube station in Stockholm. Two Swedish writers deeply connected to Africa Henning Mankell and Lasse Berg were holding audience at ABF, presenting their latest and come question time, towards the end of the session your old bag lady put her hand up and asked, " Is it true that there are cannibals in Africa?" Big Brother (Sidney) the guy who gave a horse to His Majesty the King of Sweden, Big Brother as he is known, took care of the situation. He told her, a little incensed, but still speaking standard Swedish, "I wish that there were cannibals in Africa, then they would have eaten you up" I'm sure that the old lady went home that night and had nightmares. We Are All Africans - YaleGlobal Online
If the little impy had asked me the same question, ""By the way, which is the most civilized country in Africa today." – in the early 70s or even today, leaving impulsiveness behind, I would have said, calmly and without any hesitation, " The Black Star Nation, GHANA !"
The basis of my abiding admiration is something that we can all see: that in spite of it all, in spite of all the trials and tribulations that Ghana has been through since Independence, including the Ashanti's resentment of Jerry Rawlings being in power for a good nineteen years, yet at no time did the people of Ghana degenerate into a bloody, destructive fratricidal civil war. This is not a debate, and of course there are many other reasons that can be given to those who want to debate civilisation.
If we are indeed all God's people then we should hold on to this hope given in Psalm 29:11 : The Lord shall grant strength to His people; the Lord shall bless His people with peace."
Without peace, the development we dream about is not possible. If I'm "serious about this sentence: "Nigeria is as it were about fifty-four African countries rolled into one." ? Of course I'm serious...
From the most peaceful nation, Sweden,
Might as well slip this in here
Correction: Not Shams meets Rumi but Rumi meets Shams.
"One day Rumi was reading next to a large stack of books. Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked him, "What are you doing?" Rumi scoffingly replied, "Something you cannot understand." On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a nearby pool of water. Rumi hastily rescued the books and to his surprise they were all dry. Rumi then asked Shams, "What is this?" To which Shams replied, "Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand."
A second version of the tale has Shams passing by Rumi who again is reading a book. Rumi regards him as an uneducated stranger. Shams asks Rumi what he is doing, to which Rumi replies, "Something that you do not understand!" At that moment, the books suddenly catch fire and Rumi asks Shams to explain what happened. His reply was, "Something you do not understand."[9] "
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