Pius adesanmi biography for kids
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Flight 302 Legacy Award
The Pauls were a vibrant and loving family. Travelling to visit relatives, Caroline Quinns Nduta Pauls was accompanied by her nine-month-old daughter, Rubi; her four-year-old daughter, Kelli; and her six-year-old son, Ryan.
Caroline Quinns Nduta Pauls
Caroline was a loving mother and wife. She was academically gifted and pursued a career in finance and accounting. She aspired to help ung girls in her native country, Kenya, pursue higher education.
Interests: accounting, finance and traveling.
Kelli Wanjiku Pauls
Kelli was four years old. She was an effervescent girl whose smile was priceless. She lived singing and playing on the swings. She shared a great love for family.
Interests: singing and dancing.
Rubi Wangui Pauls
Rubi was nine months old. She was a bubbly baby girl who brought a lot of joy to the family. She liked the sound of music. She was a princess.
Interests: music.
Ryan Njoroge Njuguna Pauls
Ryan was six years old. He was
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Roasted Faraway (For Prof. Pius Adesanmi)
Beyond the shrubs of Sahara
Lifted a munt of brainy bond
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts
Across the bridge of a foreign land
Hovered a book of beautiful pages
Tightly enclaved yet as an Ireland
In a skull rounded in the clime of golden edges
Off the coast of Addis Ababa
Tears rang bell aloud
Beholding a star being staggered
In a nimbus of a faraway land
A heroic pen was raptly melted
As the book of many pages shattered across the ocean
A nation's pride has become ashes
Making a wave in the hist of the deadly world
Oh! he was roasted faraway
Faraway his father land
Amidst tears in the eyes his nation
A great gem was ruefully tossed
The ashes of his fecund head
The cranes of his creative fingers
The cremains of his eagle eyes
Now pose lifeless in a foreign land
He's gone
A hero is gone
Roasted in a faraway land
Oh! He's gone foreve
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A land named ‘hope’: For Pius Adesanmi, Banky W, Sina Fagbenro-Byron, Moghalu, Sowore, Madame Oby and all the other ‘outsiders’
It is often said that it is not right to mix the dead with the living.
However, in a story of a land that is persistently, against all rhyme and rhythm, named ‘hope’, dead and living of necessity become players in the field, and jostle for space, one with another.
Professor Pius Adesanmi, born in February 1972 in Kogi State, died recently at the age of forty-seven years in the tragic accident involving an Ethiopian Airways Boeing 737. He was on his way to an African Union conference in Nairobi. Among his accomplishments, he wrote three books and was a long-running columnist with Premium Times and Sahara Reporters. One of his books (The Wayfarer and other poems) won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) annual prize for Poetry in 2001.Another book (You’re not a country, Africa) won the first Penguin Prize for African Writing (non-fiction).
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