Kano City has yet again hosted another gathering of dreamers,
bringing together members of digerati community, with stories and promises of
innovation, and challenging limits and pushing boundaries by ideas ahead of our
time.
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| TEDxBabaDanbaffaSt, Mambayya House, Kano, 31st December, 2017 |
Seeing things from the lens of culture, the stage décor, adorned
with TEDx emblem branded to happily marry furnished interior decoration of
Hausa traditional artifacts, was ornamented in such a way that aroused and
satisfied aesthetics, that you may be thinking you are in the bride’s room of a
royally wealthy Hausa family.
As the world marched into the Internet of Things (IoT), armed
with data technology, it is easy to circumvent government and its corruption to
reinvent society.
In the spirit of its Silicon Valley origin, finding the
interplay between Technology, Entertainment and Design, TEDx Talk has the norm
of approaching topical issues and challenges from wide range, multidisciplinary
approaches, cutting-edge ideas and shaft-shifting perspectives. So, the TEDx
Kano was all about connecting dots, and in that regard, it has in it a whole
quite interesting things.
Uber professionals in their varied fields brought to life the
enormously robust talents that our society needed. And these people are not
merely speaking, they are already in the streets making impacts, connecting
dots, yielding result and bringing their ideas to fruition.
One TEDxter has a vision, which has already taken off the ground,
signed himself up to pushing biology beyond the boundaries of science, to find
and harmonize the delicate balance between man and the physical world. He
wants the lay man to have understanding of the microbes, so that most
challenges associated to communicable disease could be solved.
I am always thrilled by scientists having a passion for
literature, for we in the department of culture already discovered the
incompleteness of our universe without aesthetics. I wished that I am a scientist, living with
the anxiety of knowing what scientists know, how they think and see the world,
seeing what we could not, like Richard Dawkins, the British biologist, telling
us the wondrous marvels of the workings of the universe.
But thankfully I am not.
Great scientists are lovers of literature, especially poetry,
because poetry is the distilled elevated form of human imagination. I have got
the idea that poetry is the mother of all imagination and you can write and
consume poetry for personal use, to cleanse the soul and purify the mind.
Writing is the refined arts of human civilization, and the
audience was taken up Through 100 Hours Journey into Literature to the olden
days of our ancestors, from Kanem Empire in Borno to Sokoto to Timbuktu, Mali,
with their Ajami writing and poetry dating back to several hundred years before
the colonizers. That culture of writing, or a version of it, has been retained
in this part, most of us growing up as school children learning first to read and
write in Hausa and Arabic and Ajami sometimes before learning to string the English
word.
Interestingly, the traditional performances brought to mind
the idea of Noetic Science, a nascent field that seeks to investigate and
discover the connection between science and mysticism. A performer swallowed
lump of tissue and produced a string of razor blade, controlled the water
movement inside a milk tin by sleight of a hand and twisting of a man’s ear and a tie. That left me wondering so what field of sciences has got to say about
that?
