Never Breathe What You Can’t See
Photos,Poems and Letters to
Philip Emeagwali
LETTERS
If
I say that I'm not impressed by your achievements, I lie. There are Nigerian
engineers and scientists actually, but there is 'A NIGERIAN SCIENTIST' and he
is Emeagwali. You are a source of inspiration to all
from a poor background who feels that they have no place in this world.... They
call you the Bill Gates of
Uleanya Azubuike
I
did not realize fully that l was communicating with 'one of the greatest minds of
the Information Age', ... Philip Sir, you constantly
inspire me whenever l look at your photograph in my room. You make me not to
over sleep and overplay. I always remember your accomplishments, therefore l
soldier on.... I love you for who you are and for your efforts to liberate
humanity. Truly you are the first among equals.
Chigozie Nnatuanya,
The
journey through your website provoked an inventive mind, moments of deep
thought, pity for the African child, even for oneself, but most of all, it also
provoked uneasy interest.... It is amazing that with all your daunting profile
yet you chose to remain rustic and often descend from your Ivory tower to share
in our agony....That there are so many undiscovered Emeagwalis, that alone could
evoke the dullest mind to develop some sort of emeagwalism.
Martins Madufor.
Honestly,
I do not share the same view of O Bill Gates Africano no matter the quarter it emanated from
because it undermined your intellectual capability and profile, since your name
has been painted in gold with the likes of Alexander Graham Bell and Albert
Einstein. Bill Gates should not be used to quantify your superior intellect.
Well, what I stated above is my personal opinion.
Martins
Madufor
Have
a good day
JOSEPHAT
SANDA DAR ES SALAAM
You
and your wife must increase your family size. Your son appears to be a fine
young man. Your must give more Emeagwalis to the
world. Peace unto you and yours. Great man of the century.
Glenn
Waters,
"Congratulations
on all your wonderful achievements. I felt more proud as an African and indeed
a Nigerian after reading about your wonderful accomplishments. What every black
man need today is more Dr Emeagwali's and a forum to
positively showcase our achievements. Left to CNN and the BBC's
"Ike
Orumwense,
"Dr.
Emeagwali your intelliegence
as well as the furtive minds of other scientist of African Ancestory
are light years ahead of european so called great
minds. They are in the way of progress. I sometimes wonder where we would be as
an African people in terms of evolution mentally if we did not have to endure
generational white beastial agression.
I know that someday we as a people will be delivered. Forgive my diatribe. Love, health, and infinite happiness."
Sincerely
Stroman,
May
17, 2002";
Your
name to me is Mr. inspiration. I visit your site
everyday just to get me refreshed on what i need to
do to accomplish my dreams. Brother, keep the flame burning, we are behind you
all the way. I love you with all my heart and I wish there is a way I can make
it possible to meet you in person. This is my dream. I lack words to describe
what I feel in me right now. May be
someday in the future, i will be able to swing by
your city and just say hi. Keep in mind the son of
Ike
Orumwense,
My
Son, Olubusayo, 17 a genius in making advised me to
read through your page. My fear is that how many Nigerians will have the
opportunity of developing themselves like you and how many parents have the
means of sending their children who are geniuses to where their talents can be
developed and harvested for the development of their environment? A genius who is not
exposed to the right
environment or misused will use his or her talent to destroy his
or her environment. This has always been my fear. May the Lord God help
B.F.Oluwagbemi,
This
man inspires me! That is a rare thing for me.
Benjamin
J. Swanson,
If
someone wants to know or learn about
Never
have I ever read such about a Nigerian who has combined among others such
qualities as being handsome, intelligent and young.
Amajam Abwaku Chibok,
I
think is high time you come back to your roots and contribute in rescuing your
motherland
Salisu Danyaro,
People
like you should be on television instead of Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods so
that black people can know that there is use for the brain between their
ears.... I just wish they would stop calling you the Bill Gates of
Nyere Hollingsworth,
I
am an AFRICAN born in
I
work for the Board of Education. Tomorrow morning, your name and achievement
will be announced in the school's public address system... The little honour I can give your name, is to
ensure that, just after the pledge of allegiance tomorrow morning, the people
will know.
An awesome website. A colossal achievement.I
might add. It's huge! ... You know the nuts and bolts of the 21st century
computers & the internet rests on your shoulders ... do your thing lad. And
good luck!
Ben
Ezeani,
To
arrive at this intellectual podium is a herculean feat , but your actions and inaction from this podium will be judged by history ... your
must have to contend with and tolerate the idiosysncracy
and myopia of current African governments, you have to transcend the barricades
of bias and move on to the 'higher
calling' of salvaging Africa from the morass of
intellectual and technological bankruptcy. This should be the tall order
of this new millenium. While you do this, even though you may not
hear our voices, be yea reassured we will support you in spirit and will
respond, anytime you give the clarion call:
Igbo kwenu!!!!
Cyril
Uka Sherif Anyanwu,
A
rough sea breeds a good sailor. You are a good sailor, with focus, vision and a
rich heritage. An impressive site and an even more impressive
personality. Truly an inspiration to me and many other intelligent
Nigerians who wonder what life can hold for them when the odds are 'stacked' against
them. While going through your page i found out 'i
believe i can fly' isn't just a song.
In my flight someday, i know i'll
come to share ideas with you. That is ONE of my goals in life.
Kalejaiye Olusegun,
Philip
Emeagwali, you are forever closest in my heart to inspiration!!
I have two finches each with a name Philip Emeagwali.
X'ane 'Greyster' Maori,
Couer D'Allene (
Phillip,
GOD BLESS YOU. For you are the true son of your
father. Your achievements are like a 'window dressing through which light
percolates into the
whole of
Anthony
Omomia,
It
took me over two years to complete the tour of your website, which involved
opening several pages per day, and continually thrilled to a dose of scientific
homily.
Tony
Orafunam,
It
is my pleasure to identify with you and your family, while praying that God
Almighty will elect your offspring 'Ijeoma' as yet
another upcoming wonder in modern
science, relying on the Ibo adage of 'like for like' a snake does not
avoid giving birth to a long object.'
Tony
Orafunam,
I
take pride in spreading the gospel of your ingenious scientific breakthrough
mainly to avoid
a situation of someone else claiming the credit 'as usual' in several years
to come.
Tony
Orafunam,
I
must say that your website is highly educative and more extensive than the
website of most multinational corporations. ... Your biography is one of great
source of inspiration. One that is no
less rugged, playing from an uneven ground. From grass to
grace, and from the obscurity of scientific laboratory to the pedestral of world prominence.
Tony
Orafunam,
During
these period, I spent greater part of my leisure
making copies of the pages of your website for presentation at several African
cultural fora. I have emailed over 1000 pages of your
website to friends accross
racial divide.
Tony
Orafunam,
I
have shown this to my children to encourage them. I've also been more
encouraged to face the difficulties black men face in this country with greater
hope and refusal to give up. Now I know that I'm a winner and never will I give
in to the detractors any longer.
Philip
A. Ejisimekwu,
I
must say that, bar none yours is the best and the baddest
for music that I have experienced. ... The content and quality of your web site
rate 5 stars plus two extra stars for being black originated and black owned!
... Emeagwali.com is 'tha Bomb'!!!!!!!!!!!!
CEJWorks @ aol.com
I
feel happy when people say that I look like Philip Emeagwali,
who wouldn't?
Isaac
Anietye Inyang,
The
hardships you went through to succeed has been a
source of inspiration to me. Each time dwell on my own suffering here I think
of how you would have handled yours. Mine is nothing compared to yours so I use
that as a standard of what my threshold for suffering should be.
Electrical
Engineer,
I
believe it is an insult for you to be called the Bill Gates of
Electrical
Engineer,
If
you had been a white man, you probably would have been the richest man in the
world and your company would be in Fortune500. Every single person on this
planet would have known who you were in a few days after the media does it's thing.
Electrical
Engineer,
That
was about 10 years ago.... my brother told me that an Igbo man in
A
Nigerian
Without
mincing words, I, Egbeama, Cyprian Emeka, a graduate of Electronic Engineering,
Egbeama, Cyprian Emeka
Your
omission from Time magazine's past
issue on this century's great scientific minds was inexcusable.
Ronald
T. Jones
I
am Scottish and a person who has endured trials in life.... I have sisters and
brothers I don't even know, one of whom is biracial Nigerian/Scottish.... I bow
down in respect to you and your wife and give you my deepest respect for your
many achievements.
Jill
Barraclough,
You
are Buffalo Soldier. Stolen from
Naiman Chavalla,
I
found your site very interesting and your history very fascinating. I am
recommending you as a model to our young students of Imperial School Kaduna.
Simon
Nwakacha,
I
surely hope that you have a bunch of highly trained body guards. We all know
what happened to many of our great leaders in the past.
God bless you Emeagwali.
Edward,
Mr Emeagwali,
you are an inspiration to many of us especially from
Ogunhibe Bankole,
Mr.
Emeagwali,
What
an interesting man you are; it has been fascinating stumbling upon your
website. I wish I had caught your talk at Harvard, but unfortunately I
didn't.... I appreciate your openness and candor on a wide variety of subjects
and look forward to hearing about you and, even perhaps, from you in the
future.
Nokuthula Ngwenyama,
Great
Site and Wonderful Contributor to the world of technology you are. I'd just
like to say thanks for blazing such a wonderful trail for some of us to follow.
I am a 'veteran' of this young computer industry, but in no way on par with
what you have accomplished and provide us all. It fascinates me that we have
come so far so fast and I attribute a great deal of this progress to people
like yourself. Thanx again and again!
Herb
Ransburg,
This
the first pride of
yona fares maro,
There's
always a valued woman behind every every successful
man; I would say 'good job' to Mrs. Emeagwali. Prof. Emeagwali is more appreciated abroad than at home.
SAMUEL
OLAKUNLE ARAOYE,
TRULY,
YOU'RE A GIFT. YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE GUYS THAT MAKE NIGERIAN PROUD, BUT I
APPRECIATE YOUR WIFE EVEN BETTER, FOR BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL MAN THERE IS A
MORE SUCESSFUL WOMAN! HOW ABOUT THA? GOD BLESS.
Oluwagbemi Olubusayo,
Dr
Professor Ph. Emeagwali has done us proud. I think we
all should raise hands up to ask the Almighty God grant him sound health, long
life, more blessings.
Dr.
Emeka Anyanwu,
After
doing my researches on your person and all your achievements I felt so proud to
say this is someone from Nigeria who has shown to the world that, 'the body can
be enslaved but not the spirit.' All
Africans or people of African origin that use the computer and browse through the internet or
whatever purpose they use computer
should be very proud that one of their own has proved to be the FATHER
OF INTERNET. It is now wide open to the world that it is only when people of
all races are given equal opportunities that we see people manifesting their
true talents, skills and gifts. ... Like we say in my part of
AHMED
MAGEM,
I
strongly believe that one day you will give us the AIDS vaccine (although this
is not your field). Perhaps the combination of you and Prof. Dale Emeagwali and other prominent scientists will produce a
think tank to help create the vaccine or get an AIDS cure. Short of addresing this very important priority, all of
Louis
Kanijo,
King god Philip Emeagwali
- A "Living Hero Moment"
Hoteph Beloved
Ones:
Ancestral greetings, blessings,
loving, and light throughout all creations and above.
King god Philip Emeagwali
Because of the honor you give to the Afrikan Carbon
Family, because of the progress that you seek, because of your resolution to
lead the Afrikan people back to their righteous
mind-set not abandoning them there, because of the seen and unseen power in
you, you fall into the position of "A Living Hero," and this is the
moment.
King god Emeagwali helped give birth to the
supercomputer, the technology that spawned the Internet.
King god Philip Emeagwali is credited for inventing a
formula that allows supercomputers powered by thousands of processors to
perform billions of calculations per second -- a discovery that made
international headlines and inspired the reinvention of supercomputers.
The supercomputer comprises of thousands of networked computers and the
Internet also comprises of millions of networked computers. The supercomputer
spawned the Internet.
Emeagwali's 1970s hypothesis on 64,000 networked
computers around the Earth led to his programming of 64,000 processors inside a
big box to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second, a world record in 1989.
For the latter achievement, he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, which is the
“Nobel prize of supercomputing.”
Born in 1954 in a remote Nigerian village, Emeagwali
was declared a child math prodigy. His father nurtured his skill with daily
arithmetic drills. In 1967, the civil war in his country forced him to drop out
of school at age twelve. When he turned fourteen, he was conscripted into the Biafran army. After the war ended, he completed his high
school equivalency by self-study and came to the
emeagwali.com
emeagwali.info
emeagwali.ws
As true Afrikan Queen goddesses,
it is our duty to eloquently equip our Afrikan King
gods/Queen goddesses with the most vital and essential tools and weapons that
will strengthen our Afrikan male/female Warriors on
the Front-line.
The eloquent words from the Queen goddesses lips, are to:
encourage
equip
motivate
For Iron Sharpens Iron.
A nation will rise no higher than its woman, and the profound eloquent words
from the Queen goddesses lips to a Warrior (male/female) lighten his/her load, which
frees him/her up to do battle.
King god 
Philip Emeagwali,
as you enter any room, may your presence always have the appearance of a
gazelle, like a Stag on the mountain.
May the wisdom that comes forth from your lips,
from your heart, a love which consumes with fire for the Afrikan
Carbon Family, terrify
nations, and shake kingdoms with truth.
I plea with you Mighty Warrior Philip Emeagwali.
Let no people, place or thing, cause you to miscarry or abort your mission.
Carry your mission to its full term. I plea with you My
Beloved brother Philip Emeagwali to
do nothing to cause an interruption for your love for the Afrikan
Family.
I do not need to look for you among the flocks of other men.
To you My Beloved brother Philip Emeagwali,
continue to, excite the hearts, souls, and mind of the people (with truth) like
a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.
I plea with you Mighty Warrior Philip Emeagwali,
to continue to ride on in majestic to victory for the defense of truth and
justice. Your strength will win us great victories, and Afrika Will BE BORN AGAIN.
Afrika is for the Afrikans.
May these words continue to fill you with energy, power, and Spirit for the
struggles to come, and there are many.
For if we get tired of racing against men (oppressors), how can we race against
horses. If we cannot stand up in open country (america/Diaspora),
how will we manage in the jungle (Afrika). Many have joined in the attacks against us. Let harmony (which confuse the enemy), with understanding be the
shield that protects you.
I know a King god when I see one, and I know how and when to BOW.
King god Philip Emeagwali
I AM my brothers and sisters Keeper.
Honorable Marcus Garvey. Up! Up! You
mighty ones.
You can accomplish what you WILL.
And, WE WILL WIN. WE WILL WIN. WE WILL WIN.
I KNIGHT ALL Mighty Warriors with the only tools and weapons I have, and that
is the power and weapon of Eloquent Words.
I speak to you from THEE Frontier of THEE Future on THEE Outskirts of THEE City
of
Afrika! Afrika! Afrika!
Afrika! Afrika! Afrika! Afrika! Afrika! Afrika!
Here is loving you.
Hoteph
goddess IsIs Akkebal/Iya of Afrika (Holy
Spirit lover)
Mother of ALL Goddesses
Goddess Of Afrika
Being THEE Change THEE World Needs To See
__________________
Emeagwali Had
an Idea[MSOffice4]
By
Wina
Dr. Emeagwali
had an idea;
to him it was very clear
that bees planned and constructed
honeycombs that can't be obstructed
by inefficiency. So, he thought
a computer made that way ought
to be powerful, efficient, fast.
It was and better that the past!
His 65,000 processors fit a design,
you might say, that
bees would divine.
3.1 billions per second calculations!
To the Doctor citations
and acclamations!
His world's fastest computer now
predicts the weather's when, and
how.
We'll know of future global warming
and when and where the earth is
storming
[MSOffice5]
Dr. Philip, how does he do this?
Wouldn't it be intellectual bliss
to have a similar needed skill
and be the first person to fill
a world wide technological need!
Father helped Dr. Philip to
succeed.
Father's decision when Philip was age
nine was worthy of a genius or
sage.
His decision - Philip would every day
solve 100 math problems - no work,
no play.
Today Philip believes the daily drills
increased his mediocre math
skills.
We should salute his father's decision
that shaped a mind for creative
precision.
Father Emeagwali was a visionary
who understood the
"necessary."
1989, for Philip was the year,
the outstanding year, of his
career.
He won the Gordon Bell Prize, known
as the Nobel of computing. A
milestone
his supercomputer invention, helps the field
of petroleum by a better gas yield
and will eventually lower gas costs
thus less unrecovered
gasoline losts.
Dr. Emeagwali's computer invention
may some day mean more attention,
power, for personal computer users
with more options and more
choosers.
He is husband, father, achiever
research scientist, a modern believer
in technology, and the hope for more
young students to open the
computing door.
Portrait of an Achiever[MSOffice6]
Dr.
Dale Brown Emeagwali
Microbiologist, National Institutes of Health
National Technical Association’s (NTA)
Scientist of
the Year
By Wina
Dr.
Dale Brown Emeagwali,
portrait of an achiever;
an example of a believer
in a liberal education
for a “knowing” nation.
Dr.
Dale Brown Emeagwali,
role model, inspirator;
advocate, youth motivator;
NTA awardee
in microbiology and biochemistry.
Dr. Dale Brown Emeagwali,
youth science volunteer;
promoting science as a career;
keeping expectations high;
helping youth reach for the sky.
Dr. Dale Brown Emeagwali,
role model, wife;
mother, celebrator of life;
intellect, poet, writer;
science literacy fighter.
Dr. Dale Brown Emeagwali,
researcher, with biological finds,
professor, shaper of minds;
guiding new vision, diversity
for student growth at the university.
IKEMEFUNA 1 OF
By Henry Ekwuruke, EuroAfricaCentral Magazine
Wisdom that
tackles the problems of humanity
The
understanding and stigma unfolds
The untold
truth revealed
And now it
can be told
Let the
sons and daughters of our mother
And be
happy for good things rest
In our
cursed land; though we aren’t
A people
rich in culture and heritage
Great in
history but ours not told
Our history
denied and forgotten!
Wanting to
know, yet limited and no fact
Rejoice and
be glad for the jinx is broken
A prophet
is out – speaking out without words
Out of
Like the “mbaise” foul – watching, learning and working
No good
thing comes out of these people?
Indeed a
lie and sad tale
He defiled
the knowledge to a truth
He had
known the truth, but he needs proof
And he did
and archived it!
Philip Emeagwali – a Prophet from
A place
where they “knowledge” says
No good thing come out from
Has made
the black people proud and happy
You really
did
Telling the
world that the beautiful ones are yet to be born
Africans
are best, even in penury
Imagine the
inconveniences and set backs
You
patient, goodwill and hardwork persist
Taking a
people to their glory along side self
Telling the
world that a prophet is out of
And many
more prophets are coming after you
The cut
hairs of Sampson (African people) is growing back to stronghood
You really
defiled the myth, a prolific inventor of African origin
Leading us
children of
They said a
prophet is hardly acknowledged
In his
country home, I acclaim you for what you
Really is.
Yet to
receive honour from his people – he has and we need
him
More than
ever, a gift to a troubled people
The tidings has been proven. He is really “IKENGA”
I nominate
you also for the award and title
Of “IKEMEFUNA
I OF AFRICA” “Dike, Izuru ka emee”
For no two
things than
Restoring
the dignity of the black people and
Making us
know our history and true stories,
which are
Yet untold until you told them.