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FIRST LETTER In celebrating Professor Bolaji Akinyemi at 80, Professor Monye, former Executive Secretary of the National Planning Commission, a former Special Adviser to the President on Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, and the Chief Policy Adviser to the Governor of Delta State, wrote from Asaba in Delta State, Nigeria. Akinyemi was just 33 years old […]

As Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi turns 80 today, 4th January 2022, let us reflect on the life of this great African. A few exceptional persons have had consequential influences

Growing up in the bronx could only look to a joe lewis or ralph bunch or to a jackie robinson for inspiration. maybe it was because even though i grew up in an integrated neighborhood in new york city, i knew i was a second glass citizen. >> do you think powell understood the role model he became for black kids around the country and his legacy, especially as it comes to race relations and black americans in this country? >> oh, absolutely. in fact, don, he never forgot really where he came from. in fact, you know, he benefited from others also. let's remember it was the carter administration ...

It was intimate; Shadrack serving from the sunken bar, a band on Tuesdays and killer buffalo wings.

Generosity. when ralph bunch agreed to come to speak at the university of indiana law school -- >> american ambassador. >> he had won the nobel peace prize, and the all-white students who went to school with bobby said, no, we can't have that. that will cause trouble in our political careers. and bobby said, no, we're going to do this. >> that night that mlk was killed, going into that club with a flashlight, you saw the video -- >> by the way, thanks to our nbc connections, i was able to get the tapes of him going into indianapolis that night. it was a tough neighborhood, african-american aud...