The Turkish International Basic Neurosurgery Course (IBNC): A Panacea for Continuing Neurosurgical Education.

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Thinking

One of the most difficult thing in life is trying not to think. The human mind was made to think and it is just unthinkable when one tries not to do so. Most of the times we spend a lot of time thinking about the past, pondering about the present and worrying & speculating about posterity. The past is gone, the present  just passed to become the past and  only time will tell what the future holds. No need to be worked up thinking so much! Cheer up and relax!

Enya-Only Time

Life

Three things for sure will happen in life: Birth...Growth...Death! As for the timing, place and person ....only the God knows!

One Life

The reality of life is that each individual cuts his/her own path. In the course of your path, have courage.There is no real loss in occasional failure.Be patient and satisfied with small rewards and steps all will add up.Most importantly, enjoy the process of living coz you've only got one chance to live!

Difficult times

It is in times of difficulties that one understands the realities of life. It is in times of difficulties that one comprehends people.It is in times of difficulties that one understands the Power of God.
Truly, God keeps away flies from the tailless cow! You just have to pray and trust in him.

Vision and Action

Vision without action is a dream. 
Action without vision is simply passing the time.
No vision with no action makes a negative difference 
Action with vision is making a positive difference.
(Joel Barker)

Effort-Reward in Real Life

Most of the times Most people will always like to put in the least effort and expecting to reap the highest benefit-This is the phenomenon of inverse/paradoxical reciprocality of life.But when things turnout otherwise demotivation is incriminated as the cause for inertia. The reality of life is that, for a given effort, one gets at its best an on par benefit or less but never more..except….! (EIN 2013).

Values and Virtues

Never give up your morals values or virtues in exchange for anything. When the European missionaries came to Africa, they told us, polygamy or more precisely polyandry was “bad” and a “sin”. Polyandry was an African cultural value for an avalanche of reasons. Then, nothing was mentioned of human rights to protect this African value. Today, same countries under the pretext of “human rights” want to force homosexuality to us something which is not only considered as a sin in most religions but a cultural taboo that doesn’t tie with our good African moral values. Africans wouldn’t succumb to any duress as homosexuality will only add our burden and increase the pending list of unsolved social problems. In Cameroon, it is proscribed in accordance with article 347 of our penal code with deviants punishable, likewise in most or all African countries. If you are a proponent of homosexuality then Africa is not the place for you. Bravo, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, Gambia…….

Wars & Peace

Wars are a consequence of geopolitical power struggle and financial gains. The majority have nothing to do with bringing peace and happiness to ordinary people which is always the media motive for war. Don’t go to war hoping to gain peace in return!

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world says Joseph Addison.

Everyone must not share the same opinion and everything must not be the same- homogeneity is alien and utopic to man. Discussing differences & compromising to come out with practical win-win solutions is what really makes life interesting. Life is not a dichotomous black/white Yes/No, Left/Right, Win/lose ….as conventional teaching has conditioned us to think. Life is a spectrum with 80% of the events,  people & thinking falling within the Gaussian middle. Unfortunately, the powerful, minority and  extreme right-left 20% determine and set the pace for the rest to follow!

Imagine a homogenous world where everyone one was to think in the same way, had same hobby, ate same food, spoke same language, belonged to same religion, ethnicity, and

all plants had same color…what a dull world would it have been!

Therefore we must not simply fight, nor go to war because we are different or think differently!

Just thinking aloud at the dawn of a New Year.

African Leadership Fallacy

It is a long held African Fallacy that change in leadership is the silver bullet that will solve all the nations' and continent's problems. This strips the vast majority of the entrepreneurial duty to work at bettering the lot of their people waiting for the day when the Almighty God or some telekinesis will take the life of their incumbent or usurp them from power. But sooner or later they're disillusioned when the much awaited change doesn't arrive with a change in leadership. Certainly leadership ought to be an important component to the "Development Equation" but in most African countries it has been made the sole predictor, and with this fallacy in mind we're all hands folded waiting for magic solutions.
It is time to forget this governance obsession and return to nation building. It is time to consider "poor leadership" a constant in the equation of development and begin to do what we need to do to advance. When good leadership meets our train having left the station it will only propel us many generations ahead. There is no problem without a solution but as long as the solution is narrowed down to some concepts called "good governance" and "democracy" which I am quite sure we wouldn't be having even in the nearest remote future we are bound to keep spinning our wheels on same spot. 
Democracy is just a simple template.Its application must consider the timing,logistics, cultural values and social preferences. A copy and paste solution has never worked and will never be. It is just one of the many forms of governance, if it doesn't work then alternative forms should be a given a try.Insisting that democracy is the only solution is dogmatic and fallacious.It is time to try something else... ( Gabila Fohtung and Ignatius Esene)