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My Journey from Africa to America:: In Search of Education
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By Dr. Tommy Olawuyi Oke
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Nigerian-born Dr. Tommy Olawuyi Okes story pays tribute to a remarkable journey from Nigeria through England to the United States in pursuit of an education. He came from Ogbomosho, Oyo State in Nigeria. Tommy Olawuyi Oke is a true pioneer among Nigerian immigrants who today have the highest levels of education in the U.S. Tommy Oke was the fi rst student from Africa to attend Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He completed his pre-pharmacy at TSU before obtaining his BS in Pharmacy from the University of Oklahoma. He went on to earn advanced degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, MI, where he graduated with both MS in Pharmacy and Pharm.D. (Doctor of Pharmacy) degrees. He has been recognized for his expertise by being appointed and re-appointed as a consultant and member the World Health Organization (WH
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Gridlocked world: where are the world's worst traffic jams?
When this idea was first put forward, I envisaged Paris would be somewhere near the bottom of our gridlocked table. Most so-called Parisians live outside the historic inner city, in a patchwork of communes and communities that lie beyond the outer ring road. Each morning immense commuter traffic flows towards the centre.
Many of the streets are narrow, and Parisians suffer from this one infuriating habit. They will sit in kartong junctions, at busy crossroads, oblivious to the traffic cutting across them. It makes for some extraordinary, life-sapping, traffic jams.
Our particular experiment coincided with the first day of the Paris sales. Brave, you might say. And yet, once we were past the inevitable log-jam on the Peripherique, traffic in the city moved relatively freely. Perhaps that speaks more of the economic crisis in France today than it does of City Hall's attempts to tame the bil.
But Paris has made