Successful Aging and Your Brain

Staying Sharp Booklet: Successful Aging and Your Brain

We all know people who seem to blossom after 50, or stay sharp well into old age. What can we learn from their experience? Find out what steps you can take now to improve your brain fitness, regardless of your age.


Also three new Staying Sharp booklets (Memory and Aging, Learning as We Age, and Late-Life Brain Disorders) available for download @ Brain Awareness Week - Dana Foundation

Tribute to the Weird One : the Abami Eda, Fela Anikulapo Kuti

Shuffering & Shimiling



Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling |SongMeanings | Lyrics

“Without this Fela music, I probably would not have been able to trek from Ojuelegba to Ojota, but as I danced and I sang along with Abami-Eda, I did not even feel anything; it was fun all the way. The man was a prophet; things he said years ago are still relevant today. We must fight this injustice.”
The Nation - On the trail of protesters

Fela Kuti - Beasts of No Nation


Fela Kuti Beast of No Nation Egbekegbe by Kola Ogunkoya Atlanta Afrobeat Orchestra

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion

Beier: You never really took to Christianity at any stage ...
Soyinka: Never really - not even as a child. I remember distinctly my first essay prize at secondary school - that was in my first year. My essay was entitled: "Ideals of an Atheist." Yes, I went through all these phases. I just felt I couldn’t believe in the Christian god and for me that meant I was an atheist.
Beier: How old were you then?
Soyinka: I was eleven! But I also enjoyed being in the choir - I was a chorister. I went regularly to rehearsals. I enjoyed the festive occasion, the harvest festival, etc. Then we processed through the congregation, rather than sneaking in through the side entrances. At Christmas and New Year I enjoyed putting on the robes of a chorister. On the way to church I went to see my friend Edun, who lived in Ibarapa. And my Sunday was made even more interesting, when we met the Egungun masquerades on the way - which was quite often.

...

Beier: There was a writer from Northern Nigeria ... I think it was Ibrahim Tahir. And he made a statement, the gist of which was that Nigeria was, or was about to become, an Islamic country ...
Soyinka: I have actually forgotten that, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Beier: I am not quite certain what his real argument was or how it was phrased. But I do remember your rather fierce reply! The gist of which was that both Christianity and Islam were conservative forces that actually retarded Nigeria’s ability to copy with the modern world, whereas traditional religions - Yoruba religion at least - was something much more open, and much more capable of adaptation ...


Isokan Yoruba Magazine: Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Religion

Wole Soyinka - Wikipedia

Wole Soyinka - Wikipedia (Nederlands)

#Nigeria #OccupyNigeria

★ 'Hoe durven ze' ★ Peter Mertens & Dimitri Verhulst

Voorzitter van de PVDA, Peter Mertens samen met Dimitri Verhulst, een dam opwerpend tegen het neoliberale eenheidsdenken, dat de Griekse bevolking verkettert als luiaards en het Duitse model voorstelt als de weg naar het aards paradijs.

(De Zevende Dag, zondag 8 januari 2012,  - Griekenland, het Duitse model en de miljonairstaks waren de thema's van het gesprek.)

Het boek Hoe durven ze? van Peter Mertens (met proloog van Dimitri Verhulst) kan je nu bestellen aan de speciale prijs van € 15,00 ipv € 20,00 !
(tot de 2de druk eerstdaags van de persen rolt)

'Hoe durven ze' op De Zevende Dag - YouTube

Dimitri Verhulst's pleidooi voor eerlijke belastingen - Knack