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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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I once believed that capital was another word for money the accumulated wealth of a country or its people Surely I thought wealth is determined by the money or property in ones possession Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed Ideas are capital The rest is just money I was struck by the si ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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According to history books gunwielding European slave traders kidnapped one in five Africans and transported them across the oceans to the Americas A less visible but no means less drastic technological tool of suppression is the compass a device used worldwide for navigation In the same way that Britain used its maritime knowledge and the U ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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For million Africanborn emigrants the word home is synonymous with the United States Britain or other country outside of Africa Personally I have lived continuously in the United States for the past years My last visit to Africa was years ago On the day I left Nigeria I felt sad because I was leaving my family behind I b ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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Globalization or the ability of many people ideas and technology to move from country to country is not new In Africa it was initiated by the slave trade and given impetus by colonialism and Christian missionaries The early missionaries saw African culture and religion as a deadly adversary and as an evil that had to be eliminated In ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
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Walk with me down memory lane The time In months one million dead The setting a dusty camp in Biafra where survivors waited and hoped for peace The survivors Refugees fleeing from the Dance of Death My mentor One of the refugee camp directors whom I called Teacher out of respect Martin Luther King has been killed Teac ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
I felt the hard cold steel of a gun against the back of my head I spun around and saw my assailants finger shaking on the trigger Dont run or Ill shoot you he said I was just years old and death was a stranger to me It was and Nigeria was embroiled in civil war As a teenage refugee conscripted into the Biafran Army I was ... Read more |
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Monday, May 26, 2008 |
Oil has made us billions and fuelled our economic stability but oil has also become the bane of our existence For some it is a curse that has caused poverty and corruption but for others it is an essential source of untold wealth and power But as the gap between rich and poor countries continues to expand it is clear that intellectual capital ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 |
Imagine that it is May the th anniversary of Africa Day a day for reflecting on Africas successes and failures The newspaper headline announces Last Remaining Oilfield in West Africas American Territory Dries Up The article continues The last patch of rainforest will soon be empty land scarred by oil pipelines pumping st ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 |
Walk with me down memory lane The time In months one million dead The setting a dusty camp in Biafra where survivors waited and hoped for peace The survivors Refugees fleeing from the Dance of Death My mentor One of the refugee camp directors whom I called Teacher out of respect Martin Luther King has been killed Tea ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 05, 2008 |
I once believed that capital was another word for money the accumulated wealth of a country or its people Surely I thought wealth is determined by the money or property in ones possession Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed Ideas are capital The rest is just money I was struck by t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
According to history books gunwielding European slave traders kidnapped one in five Africans and transported them across the oceans to the Americas A less visible but no means less drastic technological tool of suppression is the compass a device used worldwide for navigation In the same way that Britain used its maritime knowledge and the U ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
Globalization or the ability of many people ideas and technology to move from country to country is not new In Africa it was initiated by the slave trade and given impetus by colonialism and Christian missionaries The early missionaries saw African culture and religion as a deadly adversary and as an evil that had to be eliminated In ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
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Oil has made us billions and fuelled our economic stability but oil has also become the bane of our existence For some it is a curse that has caused poverty and corruption but for others it is an essential source of untold wealth and power But as the gap between rich and poor countries continues to expand it is clear that intellectual capital ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 02, 2003 |
Keynote speech by Philip Emeagwali at the Pan African Conference on Brain Drain Elsah Illinois on October Thank you for the pleasant introduction as well as for inviting me to share my thoughts on turning brain drain into brain gain For million Africanborn emigrants the word home ... Read more |
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