Simoen Toko

HE AVATAR SIMEON TOKO Fragile Beginnings Simeon Toko was born on 24 February 1918 in a village in northern Angola (the Tsafon of Psalm 48:3), portentously named Sadi Banza Zulu Mongo (“Village of the Celestial Mountain”). The newborn emerged from his mother’s womb into a very hostile environment. For almost 50 years, from 1872 to … Continue reading Simoen Toko

Attah Ameh Oboni

ATTAH AMEH OBONI, THE MOST FAMOUS AND REVERED IGALA KING ATTAH Ameh Oboni was born in 1911 in a village near Ugwolawo. He was about three months old when his father, Attah Oboni Akwu Odiba died, and with the death of his father, he left the palace to stay with his mother’s relatives at Adumu … Continue reading Attah Ameh Oboni

Yemoja the original African Mermaid

Goddess Yemoja/Mami Wata(Water)- The Original MermaidOnce upon a time there lived an African Mermaid goddess named Yemoja who dwelled in the Ogun River.Yemoja was a very beautiful goddess with hair that was as black as midnight and skin brown like sweet molasses.Around her neck she wore a beautiful necklace strung with river stones.Yemoja had come … Continue reading Yemoja the original African Mermaid

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the Moon in 1969 (taken at MIT in 1969 by a staff photographer for the Instrumentation Laboratory). Image unknown, comment for credit.

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan explaining the Drake equation: N = R*β€’fpβ€’neβ€’flβ€’fiβ€’fcβ€’L “In 1961, Carl’s close friend, fellow astronomer Frank Drake, created an equation for calculating the number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy.” The Drake equation is: N = R*β€’fpβ€’neβ€’flβ€’fiβ€’fcβ€’Lwhere: N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which … Continue reading Carl Sagan

Quantum Physics

The task is … not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ~Erwin SchrΓΆdinger

The British stronghold on Kenya

The British Stranglehold on Kenya and Empty-belly Freedoms In early 2000s, an outfit started by a Dutch billionnaire, Paul van Vlissingen, tries to take over some of Kenya’s national parks. Around the time, the outfit, African Parks, had adopted an audacious strategy of taking over national parks in Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of us writing on … Continue reading The British stronghold on Kenya

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