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Proverb source: When a knowledgeable old person dies (Feb 22, 2012 03:13)
I wrote a post last year titled, When an elder dies, a whole library is lost. A reader wrote to ask ..

Archeological finds in Ile-Ife (Feb 19, 2012 20:27)
If I had been born elsewhere, I might have considered becoming an archeologist. But I was born in Ni..

When an elder dies, a library is burned (Mar 7, 2011 02:44)
The words of Elizabeth Lindsey on TEDTalks, "When an elder dies, a library is burned", is so much tr..

Book Review: Greedy Spider (Dec 9, 2009 02:28)
The author of Greedy Spider, Bakeh N. Wleh Nagbe, mailed me a copy of his children's picture book. ..

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