Do you know?

* Coca-cola was originally green 


                             *  The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue


*  Its is impossible to lick your elbow (try it!)


                             *   You can't kill yourself by holding your breath 


*  A snail can sleep for three years! 

The Kru People of Liberia

THE  KRU  PEOPLE  OF  LIBERIA,  ‘FREE  FROM  THE  DREADED  SICKLE  CELL,  SUSCEPTIBLE TO  THE DREADFUL  MALARIA’

The Kru people of Liberia are perhaps the only race in West Africa who have not got ‘sickle-cells’ in their blood. Sickle-cell is nature’s way of protecting West Africans against malaria. Malarial parasites multiply in the red blood cells, feeding on hemoglobin which carries oxygen to all parts of the body. Whereas ordinary blood cells are disc shaped, cells containing sickle-cell  hemoglobin tend to be pointed, like a crescent, and are completely devoid of oxygen

Culled from ;

PEOPLES A ND EMPIRES OF WEST AFRICA,

 BY G.T. STRIDE & C. IFEKA.

Regret

BEFORE A YAWNING HOLE    (a poem of regret)

A  HOLE YOU  MAY NAME IT,

A CHASM YET ANOTHER NAME,

APPROPRIATE THAT WHICH MEANS WIDEST,

AND ALAS,MOST FORBIDDING.

BOTTOMLESS,EDGELESS,FORMLESS,

IT MAY YET BE NAMED A YAWNING,

STRETCHING HOLE,

STRETCHED BY THE HANDS OF TIME,

AND BY UTTERANCES.

ALAS,IT IS BEFORE THIS CHASM I FIND MYSELF,

EYES OPEN,REGRET SEIZES,

EYES CLOSED,DREAMINESS,

HAD I BUT KNOWN,

I WOULD NOT HAVE DUG THE TRENCH,

WITHOUT EYES TO THE MORROW,

IN DIGGING WAS I INSPIRED,

BY NOTHING SHORT OF A RAGING FIRE.

AND WHEN EVE’S CHILD LOOKS TO THE ASHES,

SHE CAN SEE THE OBJECTS OF THE CONFLAGRATION,

OBJECTS TINGED WITH  FRAGMENTS OF A HEART,

PRIMITIVE FIRE IS DOWN AND BEATEN,

RECOGNIZABLE

,

IN THE FAINT SUNTINGED WOODS AHEAD,

WHEN LOADS OF SAND,

MAY ARISE TO BEAT THE CHASM SO WIDE,

AND AMENDS MADE. AS HERS.

OH! WHAT HAVE I DONE.

LOOKING BEYOND,

THERE MAY YET COME A TIME

BUT OUGHT I TO HARBOUR SUCH HOPES,

THIS GULF STRETCHES EVEN FURTHER…

                  Author ; Ursula Joseph