A different prespective to Life

  During the last confirmation hearing of  Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, when asked to define "what is a woman" by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn , Judge Ketanji Jackson replied, "I can't… I'm not a biologist". This might seem like a simple question. Still, recently, it has become susceptible and politically damaging, where people are ready to jump on you from both sides on whatever answer you give. The non-answer she gave might be the most correct thing she has done in this situation. There is a documentary out by Matt Walsh captioned "What is a woman". Matt Walsh is a right-wing political commentator, writer, and speaker who has a podcast and is often seen on Fox News. He is married with 4 children and said he did not attend university. I had to watch it at the insistence of my sons, who wanted to get my view on it. Matt believed things were complicated now, even for those in the know. Hence his first interview was with  Ger...

  My first job after I graduated was as an intern at the University Training hospital, where I had trained. Even then, I was surprised that I was taken as it was usually reserved for the best of the best or you had to know someone. I did not consider myself a top student. Although I came from a village next to the city where the University was located, it seems that it is now engulfed by the city and now considered a suburb. As a junior doctor, you notice the effect immediately. As a medical student, you are chased away from the wards as they see you as a hindrance to the senior nurses' effective, well-rounded running ward. All the nurses now take special care of you as a doctor. I noticed that I had many mothers, sisters, aunts, etc. and even made the extra effort to ensure that you had eaten, especially when they found out we were from the same city. The cafeteria delivers food to each ward for the "doctor on call". Although, for all intent and purposes, your work is a ...

This fictional book was recommended to me by a Scottish work colleague who told me that he found it very interesting and rich in African culture, both of which are true. I do not know much about the Igbo culture, but it seems similar to have some elements in it which are similar to other African cultures. I know a little bit of my own Yoruba culture but not as deep as I have wished to have known, which I often use as a baseline. Although in Yoruba culture, we have kings, priests, etc., from what I am told, the Igbo pride themselves on being more egalitarian for males, saying, "The Igbo have no King". The book was written by Chigozie Obioma . He was a finalist for the Booker Prize and is a Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is his second book, the first one being "The Fisherman".  Chigozie Obioma The book follows a poultry farmer, Chinonoso Solomon Olisa , and it is explained to us via his Chi or guardian spirit, defined as " the pe...

  Ronald Regan, the 40th President, famously said that government is not the solution but the problem. He also is known for famously saying at a press conference on August 12th, 1986, " The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.' ". He is a Republican, and the Republicans believe in small government and low taxes. Some people believe this because there is a racist element to it, and the well off, rich or white population are not happy seeing their tax money being spent on helping or "wasted on" the poor black population. Regan painted the picture of welfare queens and black single mothers being a drain on society and not contributing to its progress. This has has proven to be a myth. It turns out that the white population in the US uses welfare and government handouts more than the minorities. Then not to think about Government bailouts and loans to the Banks and subsidises to various i...

  This book deals with failure, and it is about self-improvement in life. It is a well organised and structured book with a beautiful layout and many simple graphs and tables to clarify the points it is making. At the end of every chapter, it summarises the points of the chapter and runs over the crucial aspects. Then at the end of the book, it has additional notes  with practical advice. It took me such a long time to write the summary as I also felt I never did it justice enough, and I had to read and reread it to find the book's core story. I felt that some most important advice would be left out and be a total injustice to the complete story. This also prevented me from starting another book, although it seemed they were crying out to me from my bookshelves. However, I believe that I did give it my best shot considering the circumstances and had to delete or overlook a substantial amount to make sure it did not come across as being too dull. But I hope that this will push ...

The late Stephen Hawking has a unique, beautiful gift. He can break down complex and challenging phenomena in cosmology and astrophysics and make it easy to understand with wit, humour, and some jokes added in the mix. From Dark Matter to Black Holes, Quarks to Super Nova, he was able to bring the understanding of space and atoms from the ancients to the current time to a wider and broader audience. He has stimulated the interest in physics, astrophysics and space for a new generation. Hawkings has occupied the chair that Sir Issac Newton once occupied, the Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics and was born on the 300th death anniversary of Galileo Galilei and died on the 139th birth anniversary of Albert Einstein. Hawkings famously hosted a party, and he did not send invites and announcements till  after the event to see if any time-traveller from the future would drop in. I brought this book years ago, and I had read some parts but never in one g...

  Note: I was told of this presentation by a lecturer of mine in secondary school, another in University and never had the opportunity of reading the whole thing until I found it on the internet recently. This lecture I have heard of in parts and snippets and not as a whole article as first published in Daily Times Newspaper of January 1st, 1964. But I always got the general gist.  Tai Solarin was seen as a general critic and a moral crusader of the generation that I grew up in, in Nigeria. However, like another government critic, Prof Wole Soyinka, IBB knew how to deal with them. As a critic who had no job but to criticize it is easy, he gave Tai the People's Bank and Wole he gave Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). In 1989, The Peoples Bank was founded by the government, and Tai Solarin became the first chairman. The bank was created to disburse soft loans and other forms of credit to the very poor to start their own businesses. But this was a problem as it was filled wit...

  This is a documentary on how a small company had found out how it could "Hack" the democratic process of the Western world using data. The idea was to identify the voters on the border fence who had not made up their minds, then bombard them with specifically targeted advertisements that had already been mean tested and proven to change the minds of the test sample to produce the required result.   Ms Britteny Kaiser At the beginning of the film, a woman whom we later know to be Miss Brittany Kaiser was at what looked like a Parliamentary Inquiry, answering questions. They were asking about her morals after working as an intern for Obama, Amnesty International, various Human Rights Organisations, Ministry of Agriculture and later for Cambridge Analytical, which were responsible for Brexit and Trump's victory later, it seems. She indicated while working for the Obama campaign and the Human Rights Organisations, they paid her very little money and at times nothing at all....