Officially known as the Republic of Madagascar, this nation is an island (including other smaller islands) in the Indian Ocean and is situated in the shoreline of Southeast Africa – over 400 kilometers from the coast of Mozambique. The island of Madagascar is the fourth-biggest island on the planet.
The terrific pyramids of the Egyptians (the Egyptian symbol of human advancement) are viewed as the primus inter pares of the seven miracles of the world. From the Aztecs, to Maya, to Teotihuacan, to Chinese and different civic establishments, with every last one of them loaning their one of a kind touch to the idea of pyramidal engineering, the masonry structures which date as far back as the third dynasty is what puts the Pharaohs on the globe as the pacesetters of modern day civilization.
With the soul of Kasparov, Karpov, Fisher, Botvinnik, and the other immortals in the world of chess, 8-year-old Tanitoluwa (“Tani”) Adewumi is gradually becoming the embodiment of all the virtues that the game teaches: ingenuity, resilience, tenacity, and ambition.
January 1994, I was only 7years old. It was a cold, dry typical African morning. The tension in the hospital waiting room was almost palpable. The only sounds I could hear over the shrieking of the harmattan wind as it blew through the trees in the premises was of my mother and aunts sobbing. We had all rushed to the local hospital to visit an uncle who was reported to have collapsed at his home while preparing for work. Uncle Padosa and my father had a close friendship that even predated my parents' marriage and he was my dad's lawyer.
