A crash course in changing the world.
It is the year two thausand and sventy nine. Exactly sixty nine years ago, the World was saturated with worries of how the way we lived at that time could errode the exact code that defines the various people of the World called "Indigenous people".
Though the World was so complex, I realised that though we were groups in terms of communities, villages, towns and countries; everything that affected us were the results of individual actions. Hence I thought of my own contribution to…
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'Like all professionals, journalists are profoundly ambivalent about their own norms. Any time anybody stands up in front of a roomful of journalists and says, “You ought to care. You ought to make people realize how serious obesity is!” reporters…
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Food Security In Nigeria
The bigest threat to food security in Nigeria is Urbanization and Rural-Urban migration, though Agriculturists are swift to proclaim "land tenure system". In terms of Urbanization, Most villages which had been centres of Agricultural activities are being abandoned by young people who are inclined to searching for other jobs. The pace is so severe in some cases that I could state an example in one abandoned village called "Iyanomo" where only the sight of…
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The subsistence hunting activities of the Inupiat Eskimos is a typical traditional knowledge success story that is worthy of emulation.
The Inupiat Eskimos are found in the state of Alaska in the USA. They are heavily dependent on the subsistence harvest of marine mammals, fish, terrestrial mammals, and migratory birds. It is the process of hunting and harvesting that gives strength and meaning to their culture.
But, it is the Bowhead Whale that is the most important of all the…
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My Hero: Mr Frederick Msisaka.
acMr Frederick Msisaka is a Thinker who ventured to practice the contents of his thoughts by using improvised tools and raw materials to create simple models of what could have required very high technological methods and technical training in distant lands.
A peasant farmer that could not have been the one to resort to in search for solutions for practical problems, he made use of his innate intuition to make a list of plans for projects to…
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We must not be unconscious of arriving at an array of limiting factors as diverse as the various cultures and ways of life peculiar to the people of various towns and villages all over Africa, if meaningful solution is to be proffered. This position is based on the failure of globally proven experiments such as the responsibility of Governments to provide basic services like water and electricity.
Once upon a time in Nigeria, Government was solely responsible for the provision of…
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