Nigerian Children
Tags: Nigeria, Quotes“One of the great minds of the Information Age is a Nigerian American named Philip Emeagwali. He had to leave school because his parents couldn’t pay the fees. He lived in a refugee camp during your civil war. He won a scholarship to university and went on to invent a formula that lets computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second. Some people call him the Bill Gates of Africa.
But what I want to say to you is there is another Philip Emeagwali — or hundreds of them — or thousands of them — growing up in Nigeria today. I thought about it when I was driving in from the airport and then driving around to my appointments, looking into the face of children. You never know what potential is in their mind and in their heart; what imagination they have; what they have already thought of and dreamed of that may be locked in because they don’t have the means to take it out….”
Bill Clinton August 26, 2000
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then let him help then!
Theres no need stating the obvious is there?
I think there is saying in Nigeria, (somewhere in world or maybe I just made it up)
“Heaven/People will help those who help themselves”
Nigeria has to help herself first.
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