Speaking at the occasion, the Chairperson of the Economic
Community of West-African states (ECOWAS), Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, called on serving and former African presidents to establish presidential libraries as part of efforts to preserve
the rich history of Africans.
The ECOWAS chairperson said the call had become necessary
to enable Africans tell their stories from their own perspectives and avoid distortion of facts about their history.
The library houses over 42 million books, documents and archival materials including the former presidents primary school uniform, shoes, military uniform, his first car and other personal belongings.
Johnson-Sirleaf said that such libraries would help the
governments to preserve records of their past for future generations. She explained that such records would also strengthen the belief of the people in their past and present, as well as enhance their capacity to forge ahead to a glorious future.
The event was attended by some serving and former African
presidents, governors, ministers and senators.
from pm news
Waoo that's great
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DeleteGood one
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely use of stolen funds. Hope it will be well maintained and easily accessible to everyone at an affordable fee. Wonder if Downhill will be employed as a librarian there.
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DeleteHeheehehe u just spoke my mind
DeleteIf laughter they say is the best medicine then SDK is the best prescription. Stella I fell in love with your blog and it's commenter, I was going thru your post and comments and I got carried away. I read and read, laugh, giggled, smiled and made all the expressions you can ever describe a happy person with.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even got to church today, your blog is worth every attention.your jokes are the best your commenters can insult for Africa. Since the govt is making things unbearable for nigerian it's good to come to SDK and cool off, shift your mind off sad thoughts.
I swear if any suicidal person reads posts and comments on your blog the person will kill the tot of killing himselve from his head.
Pls if I'm to strive here I need to get aquinted with some acronyms like (IHN, shoki, and many others)
Yours truly daniel
IHN means In house News... shoki means recharge card..
DeleteIHN (In house news),SHOKI ('Richard card')if you say Recharge card,everybody will know you are a newbie. Just flow along,don't pass your boundary,else aunties that reset brain will do that for you here.
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Deletewhat about bv and bvs?
Anon 11:30, why are you encouraging cyberbullying?bv & bvs are one & the same-it means "blog visitor(s)".
DeleteThis is wonderful
ReplyDeleteThe glory of looted funds. It shall not stand the test of time.
ReplyDeleteA monumental thief! You should be ashamed of yourself OBJ.
ReplyDeleteI was expecting see the pic of d librarian son from rumour has it.
ReplyDeleteI no see king Kong for the pishure na or is he a retired librarian?
ReplyDelete😂 retired librarian how kwa? Na wah for you.
DeleteWho will be the liberian? Churchill or his Father?
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DeleteNa kungfu not kingkong lol
DeleteSweetheart, its librarian.
DeleteKing kong don get new job😂😂
ReplyDeleteAll I can see is 42 million books, please how can one have access to the library I won't mind visiting. My love for books though
ReplyDeleteStella I just want to cool off, so me and my friend traveled to Abeokuta from Ibadan we began to see the town and tried visiting the Olumo rock but it was crowded as some PRI/SEC school students were on excursion so we turned back and somehow found our way to legacy resort, the Obasanjo library is located within. Stella I didn't regret the journey or money spent. Every one is welcomed there. Its a beautiful place. Stella Obj is a man of vision. I was there upper Thursday and Friday. Nigerians please let's appreciate our leaders. Happy Birthday Mr. Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo.
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DeleteWhites are only 10% of the world's population, yet are the most industrious, ingenious, and innovative race the world has known. Whites have formed nations, built civilizations, assumed and administrated power, created the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, the Industrial Revolution, automation, technology, the space program which landed men on the moon and launched probes exploring beyond the solar system, discovered electricity, created wonder drugs and architecture and have harnessed nuclear power, have unlocked the secrets of DNA and relativity, created computer science and the internet age...... sub-Saharan Africans still cannot even feed themselves. No pre-contact sub-Saharan African society ever created a written language, or weaved cloth, or forged steel, invented the wheel or plow, or devised a calendar, or code of laws, or any social organization, or formal religion, or system of measurement, or math, or built a multi-story structure or bridge or sewer, or infrastructure of any kind, and they never harnessed a river, or even drilled well or irrigated, or built a road or railway or sea-worthy vessel, they never domesticated animals, or exploited underground natural resources, or produced anything that could be considered a mechanical device. Blacks are the only race incapable of caring for themselves. Whites still have to provide food, medical, financial and engineering aid to Africans. They couldn't survive without White charity. Blacks became an out-of-control invasive species after Whites domesticated them. Blacks lived alone in sub-Saharan Africa, a vast continent with temperate climates and abundant resources for 60,000 years; so they cannot blame racism, poverty, imperialism or anything else for their failures. How could they live with all that shoreline and never contemplate putting a sail on a ship like every other culture did? Blacks are the oldest race, they had a huge head-start so they should be the most advanced race; but they are the least advanced race. And in fact they never did develop until they were domesticated by Whites. 19 of the 20 poorest countries are sub-Saharan African (Haiti). There has never been a successful Black country. No modern creations or civilization exists in sub-Saharan Africa that was not brought there by Whites. There are no White Third-World nations, but all Black ones are. Put Whites on an island and you get England; put Asians on an island and you get Japan; put Blacks on an island and you get Haiti. Nowhere Blacks live are they considered achievers. In fact they are universally viewed as unproductive and disruptive to society. Simply, life is an IQ test. Sub-Saharan Africans have never made a contribution to the world. Blacks can only achieve either because they are mixed with White genes or because they reside in White societies. For every one gifted Black there are eight gifted Whites. 80% of gifted Blacks are mixed-race. Today there are 738 million Europeans and 1.2 billion Africans. In 2050, according to the latest U.N. projections, Europe’s population will have dipped to 707 million, while Africa’s population will be 2.4 billion. By 2100, half of all children on earth will be African. On current trends, within 35 years, 1 in every 4 people will be sub-Saharan African. By 2100,
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ReplyDeletethere will be 4.4 billion Africans – two of every five human beings overall — and Europe’s population will be just 646 million. The 41 nations of sub-Saharan Africa produce no more wealth than the tiny country of Belgium, which has only 1/45 the population. The entire continent of Africa produces less than 1% of the world's manufactured goods. Of all of the region’s economic production, White-run South Africa accounts for three-quarters of it. That Whites are only 8% of South Africa's population demonstrates how productive and industrious Whites are that so relative few can carry the load for so many unproductive Blacks. Blacks are unable to achieve within their own race because not enough of them are smart enough to even build a sufficient infrastructure to allow for the Black intellectual elite to achieve. If allowed to become too numerous they destroy previously thriving and safe White cities. Blacks cannot achieve on their own without the intervention of Whites giving them all the things they could never produce or maintain themselves. Without the continuous intervention of charity into Black Africa they could not even maintain what they have been given. All current Black civilization is in fact transplanted White civilization. There is no Black society on Earth that has independently developed and maintained its own technological way of life. All of the Black nations with the highest GDPs benefited from White-created enterprise to exploit their natural resources. Some groups succeed all the time, everywhere. Some have never succeeded anywhere. Blacks are the oldest race so they should be the most advanced, but they have never been successful anywhere. But civilization didn't begin until humans evolved from Blacks by hybridizing with the large-brained Neanderthals which produced a modern human with an increase in cranium capacity and a heavier, more developed brain. Blacks are also the only race without MCPH1 microcephalin which produces increased brain volume density. This is why Blacks seethe with jealousy and hatred of Whites yet can't seem to stay away because they want what we create and maintain, no matter if they deserve it or not. They want our peaceful and clean neighborhoods, our law and order, our technology and science, our school systems, our inventions, the jobs we create, the food we grow, the transportation we invent, the entertainment we provide..... Blacks hate us but can't live without us. That's why they demand that we take care of them and give them special rights and privileges that we don't grant ourselves, just to compensate for their inability at living in a modern and technologically-advanced civilization. Slavery was the best thing to happen to Blacks. After defeating George Foreman for the heavyweight title in Zaire (now Congo), Muhammad Ali returned to the United States where he was asked by a reporter, “Champ, what did you think of Africa?” Ali replied, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.” There hasn't been a single contribution from sub-Saharan Africans to the world. Show me any community, city or state that is predominantly inhabited and run by Blacks anywhere in the world that is equal or superior to a comparable White one. By their fruits ye shall know them. Show me the fruits of that intelligence. "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so." Dr James Watson
You do realise Africa is a continent not a race ?
Delete@Anonymous 15:58, if this is your summation of world events, especially, as it relates to Africa & Africans, then you are a man/woman to be most pitied. Even more, do take to heart the words of a very wise man: "All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber." Blair Pascal..........QED@atm
Delete@Anonymous 15:58, if this is your summation of world events, especially, as it relates to Africa & Africans, then you are a man/woman to be most pitied. Even more, do take to heart the words of a very wise man: "All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber." Blair Pascal..........QED@atm
Delete@Anonymous 15:58, if this is your summation of world events, especially, as it relates to Africa & Africans, then you are a man/woman to be most pitied. Even more, do take to heart the words of a very wise man: "All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber." Blair Pascal..........QED@atm
DeleteHow I wish all Our stolen funds ll be utilized this way. God bless you OBJ
ReplyDeleteDoes he really have books that many books there? Research material, dknated and/or bought. Then he should take it upon himself to make the library useful to Nigerians by making it remotely accessible.
ReplyDeleteImagine the research h materials that the.just going to be lying there if it can only be accessed locally. In fact it will become a mere monument.
The glory he is seeking for , he can achieve it by opening up the place and putting it to great use. He should put all these young wizkid minds to it. It would be great
You're right. Me thinks some of books should be converted to e-books and put online. I was trying to do a course from here and I couldn't get the books I needed from any nigerian resource center. We also need books from indegenious research. Books by PhD holders from U.I, Unilag, ABU Zaria, UniPort, UniJos, UniCal. Etc. We will be amazed at the level of research she of them have done on indegenious topics and they even have been published in international journals. First class and distinction candidiates should submit at least one copy of their dissertation to this library. Let's start building our own.
DeleteI'm proud of obj for this!