Our Forefathers Deserve More Respect Than We Give Them – Ishola Ninuola

I am familiar with Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. They had a beautiful program for Applied Geology & Geophysics in the mid-70s, to which most countries of the then 3rd world sent geologists. We on the Ajaokuta Project sent our geo-scientists also in the mid-70s. I had privilege with our boss then to go there and access the program. There, between the Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam and Delft, I first saw the windmills standing in the expansive and beautiful farms of Tulip flowers, one of the most picturesque fields one would ever see. The windmills were exactly like the ones drawn in the classics we borrowed from our high school library in EBBHS of the early 60s. When I saw the windmills live in Holland, I was nostalgic and remembered my high school in Ekiti.

There in Holland also, I saw these boat-houses in the swamps, and the picturesque houses on stilts. My mind immediately also went back to the ones in Makoko Lagos. This author is now letting us know that the ones in Makoko are more adaptable to nature. Wonderful! They are the types you would find in the riversides from Ondo State to the Niger Delta.
It means those our forefathers deserve more respect than we seem to be giving them. God continue to bless their memories. I first saw picture of the windmill in that classics of my high school library, titled ‘Don Quixote and the Windmills’. I later read the book by Rider Hagard, I think. How time flies.