Nigeria: Between Mailafia, Stephen Hawking And Quest for African Einstein (I)

Posted to the web 2 July 2008 Jibo Nura Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it. And the beauty in it is to always consider the good moments by reflecting on the bad ones in order to live as peacefully, as cheaply and as satisfactorily as possible. I read with enthusiasm Obadiah Mailafia's piece titled "In search of African Einstein" that appeared on the back and the 60th pages of the Sunday Trust's Guest Columnist of June 8 and 15, 2008 where Mailafia intelligently expressed his dismay, and at the same time, lamented for not being a pure, but an applied social scientist. By the time I finished reading through the excerpts, I could not contain myself and had to recommend it to my very close friends to read and furnish me with their candid opinion(s) on what they think is going to be the future of... [read full story]