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54 part . The African Salon of Salons in Ile Ife
(My Life – from my subjective point of view) ◆ I am revealing this story for the first time in Poland. I had an agreement with my father that, in order not to worry our mother unnecessarily and so that in the future she would not worry so much about our travels, we would not tell what exactly happened to us in Nigeria. ◆ Just as for the first time I will reveal what I experienced during the period of changes in Lithuania and Belarus — those stories, in turn, I did not tell either of my parents. ◆ I remember it was the year 1986 — that will be an important year for me. ◆ My father, still occasionally working at the Hahn Meitner Institut, receives a proposal to go at the beginning of April of that year together with another scientist, also of nuclear chemistry, and give several lectures at the Nigerian “Institute of African Studies,” though at the time we operated under the name “University of Ife,” located as I remember in the university town of Ile-Ife north of the then capital, which was situated directly on the Gulf of Guinea. Already in February my father proposed that I fly there with him for two or even three months. ◆ The Berlin institute had a defined, quite close cooperation with the Nigerian university; I remember that my father mentioned several times the names of two friendly scientists from Ife — Doctor Olomo and Doctor Oluwole. ◆ I remembered those names because I would later meet one of them in Ife and try to learn the local language. I always thought they spoke Swahili there, but on the spot it turned out they did not. The language of communication was Afro-English and the Igbo language. ◆ I had never been in Africa before — and it was also a wonderful opportunity for me to escape for those few months from the shabby post-PRL and get to know a completely different world. ◆ I imagined that the airport in Lagos would be somewhere among straw huts made of palm leaves. I had more or less the same idea of Nigeria as contemporary Poles have of contemporary Cambodia.
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54 part . The African Salon of Salons in Ile Ife
53 part Bitter Summary of the Polish Reservations
(My Life – from my subjective point of view) ◆ In Poland there is a widespread conviction that there are essentially no intellectual elites except for marginal and partial ones, because most were murdered during the wars and repressions, and the rest left Poland long ago. ◆ And partly this is true, except that the span of two or three generations is long enough to effectively rebuild any elites. ◆ For this to happen effectively, however, there must exist a favorable environment for it — for example, the authority of science, excellently organized education, real prospects for intellectual development, international cooperation, and the promotion of valuable people. None of these things exist in Poland in a performative, that is, effective sense. ◆ There exists a quasi-authority, quasi-cooperation, and quasi-promotion. ◆ I had the opportunity — the honor — to actively participate in several salons, both in Warsaw and in Kraków. They always functioned, however, like Indian reservations in a hostile environment of proletarian, peasant, National-Democratic-litigious, and other purely political colonizers. Very rarely did these tribes cooperate or even communicate with one another — the Warsaw Apaches formed no networks of cooperation or think tanks with the Kraków Cheyennes. They simply existed as social and reflective clubs. ◆ On the individual level this gave a momentary comfort that one was not alone and that there was someone to talk to about important topics. Besides that, a valuable thing was that one could meet and build excellent relationships with many wonderful people, which I passionately took advantage of. Nevertheless, none of this translated into any effective force, nor into the development of education, nor into the building of authority — and that remains the case to this day. ◆ Theoretically there should exist an influence of intellectual circles on the entire parliament in the form of the Senate — but in practice the Senate is a marginal chamber of reflection and an almost exclusively prestigious dead body of little significance.
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53 part     Bitter Summary of the Polish Reservations
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