Love is greater than fear

In my Facebook post of 29th April 2018, I had to quickly cry out as my heart and mind was becoming too weak and the psychological trauma and torture I had gone through these last five years coupled with the economic trauma of unemployment and underemployment in the last eleven years was almost beginning to take a neuropsychiatric tone. Yes, my mum actually called me in tears some days back to remind me that this was my eleventh year after graduation with really nothing to show. I felt very broken but also felt some peace that someone was in all these struggle with me.


The leader of the orchestra of my travails is a man I deeply respect and I have mentioned him in times past as one of my mentors. I still deeply respect him as his message of inspiration helped me survive very turbulent times in the past. Even recent experiences in no way reduce my respect for him. I think one of the reasons for my travails are my views about religion. I have written in several fora that African nations can not love God so much and also have some of the poorest HDI's in the world. it is either we are doing religion wrong or that we are doing politics wrong. In Africa religion has an over-arching influence on politics and this takes us to a single conclusion; we are doing religion wrong. Upon this premise, I have moved that there be global reforms in the Abrahamic religions as I believe this will spur rapid growth and development across Africa. This, I think is the basis of my travails even as I continue to plea the path of peace and humanity with my traducers. Also more important than the travails is the lessons I have learnt and I will never reduce the value of those lessons to a battle with personalities. The lessons are actually a study in the failure of government to provide strong safety nets for citizens. It has given me a deeper perspective as to how Nigerians and Nigerian enterprises fool-proof themselves from the failure of governance.


I was in a whatsapp chat with my colleagues (Uniben Engineers 2007, Worldwide) around 12 hours ago. Their understanding/acceptance of my story and the solidarity they showed me, even as I only provided scanty information as a result of the sensitivity and technicality of the matter, revived my hope in humanity and strengthened my already frail heart. They are in talks about my accommodation and not just that, they are thinking of going further to crowdfund my startup. A food, Learning and Design Centre. I was speechless and almost shocked at this intention of love. I hope they are able to see it through and use Gofundme or other crowfunding sites so as to give the rest of the world the opportunity to key into this purpose. Whatever the result of the global crowdfunding will be appreciated and anything around a $100,000 will be just fine so I can create deep enough structures that will be impregnable to my traducers should they want to continue the path of war. I have a plan to bootstrap this to around $1000000 in some years. I also will be seeking the support of the Lagos State governor under the able leadership of His Excellency, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. This is to further deepen the institutional structures for the enterprise in view of the size of my travails.

Why food and learning? In my several years as a teacher, I discovered that access to nutrition is a major impediment to learning as many students either come to lectures hungry or know there will be no food when they get back home. I want to incentivize learning with food while having them as two seperate business cases. I also want to teach physics and design for the rest of my life and also train leaders/teachers on the art/science of thoughtcrafting. Thinking is quite a difficult activity; it is why Africa stays poor, deprived and exploited. I hope that the design lab takes care of designs in energy, healthcare, manufacturing and web applications.

I hope that the funding will also provide opportunity for a foundation to rehabilitate and/or re-establish prisoners/victims of conscience. These are those special people who dare to challenge widely held and mediocre opinions all around Africa. They are often damaged beyond repair as they are not lucky enough to get help before their traducers crush them completely. There was the story of a young man in Kenya that I think was so destroyed, that went viral on the internet some time ago.

I will also like a database of all the contributors if possible ( when the crowdfunding plan goes on successfully) so that they will be given priority slots should we decide to issue an IPO for any product that will emerge from this seed stage in the future.

Let us create a spot of light in Africa's deep darkness.

My heartfelt gratitude.