LEGACIES
– Would Today’s Deeds Haunt your Tomorrow’s Depiction? “You are likely to be gone 100 years from now, but HISTORY and POSTERITY would be here, to place you where you belonged. They would determine whether…
Category: THE BLOGGER
RULER, POWER, AND CANDLE
– Limitations of Authority "Like a candle burning in the open, power lacks a definite term of luminosity. Pleasant breeze sustains candlelight, but an abrupt gust of wind takes the glow out of it. Like…
DISCERNMENT
– In a world that only pays attention to the drivels uttered by the famous "We write for all; only a few comprehend the writings." - Dele Ajaja IMAGE: Keen minds learn from all. #AfricanPerspectives…
LIBERTY
– Scruples "True freedom is the point where you fear your CONSCIENCE more than death." - Dele Ajaja IMAGE: Brightened Conscience. #AfricanPerspectives #AfricanPhilosophies #Africa #Africans #Diaspora #Culture #Traditions #Yoruba #Yorubaland #AfricanAmerican #Parables #Folktales #Wisesayings #Ogunde…
TIMES GONE BY
– Failing to learn from History at our own risk “History is a consequential part of the past, but it is the piece that humans hardly learn from.” – Dele Ajaja. IMAGE: The Clock is…
CONVERTING SORROWS TO BLISS
– Making the Best Out of Circumstances "The dark and disconsolate phases of life teach me the life lessons that the blinding lights of the bright days prevent me from seeing." – Dele Ajaja IMAGE:…
HEAL THE WORLD
– Build Bridges “Our wounded yesterday shouldn’t remain our children’s unhealed tomorrow, when we are done and gone. Build bridges and smoothen the rough edges between groups.” – Dele Ajaja IMAGE: Links. #AfricanPerspectiv es #AfricanPhilosophies…