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NAVIGATION BY THE NATION'S SHAME TODAY FOR TOMORROW THE FAME:

Social Studies PILOT

17th Speaker Series inaugural Delta State University, Abraka, NIGERIA.

Administered by

Osakwe Emman Professor

BSc (Nig), M.Ed. (Philadelphia), MA (London) Ph.D (Ibadan)

Social studies teacher and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies,

Delta State University, Abraka.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Āc Copyright 2009 Delta State University, Abraka

All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or by any means, photocopying, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright owners.

ISBN 978-33872 - 7-4

Published February 2009 By

DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY, Abraka,

Delta State, Nigeria.

Printed by

Press Justice and Jeco Publishers Ltd.

Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

Prologue / Preface

This teacher is a professor transformed + ... Famous +, Nigeria will become

(A Love Song to my husband and Nigeria New)

And he said "marry me, May!"

"I do no such thing: marry without" teacher "said May

Marc professions: teachers - Disqualified

Yet the most telling, the voice of the persistent class -! Qualified

This teacher is now treated, is a teacher, prophet and priest.

The oil palm, brush and sponge, banga soup - processed palm

Through fire, through water, the cutting blade, the agents of decay - Processed

As kerosene, diesel, petrol, cream, jelly, balm - crude processed

Emmanuelle Osakwe, teacher treated, a voice heard beyond

Beyond the gallery of nations.

Transformed by grief, denial, denial, then ridiculed,

Today's speaker mounted the podium, here it comes:

My husband, my manager, my father

Transformed by the fire, through the waters, denied his due

This teacher teacher teacher

Is a teacher, teaching faculty of teachers of teachers.

Denied promotion to the top for ten years!

My co-parent, persevering through the years!

As the diamond processed carbon, Prince patient and peacemaker

This teacher charged with knowledge:

Intellectual and divine, has a message:

Nigeria is the treatment of shame -

Ashamed of corruption, greed seriously like!

Ashamed of maladministration and mismanagement

Anarchy, poverty yielding great giant of opulence

Shame monumental waste of resources

Ashamed of atheism and religious wickedness

Treatment with the shame of our reputation desired:

Our country celebrates, yes our country;

My homeland, land of my pain, my land of shame

Land of your birth, the land of your pain, your shame of the earth

too long after the independence of dependents, as fragile as the eaglet

For this eaglet fragile, ready to fall, unable to fly,

Become the eagle in flight

famous bird not to fly, but soar -

Land of my birth, country of your birth, our homeland

Land of my glory, the glory of your land, the land of our glory -

Nigeria is your name!

Osakwe Ejima Mabel (2009)

Chair, English

Delta State University, Abraka

Courtesies

The Vice-Chancellor

The vice-V.