I need a poet, I need a wordsmith.

   Between an Inuit and a Desert Dweller. 

Between the days of studies and the work days.  

Between the struggle not freeze and the struggle not to burn.  

Between the life we wish to have and the life that have us in. 

Between the life of hopes and dreams and a life of ways and means.  

Between the struggle to need and the need to struggle. 

Between the life of possibilities and the life of  impossibilities. 

 Between everywhere and nowhere. 

 Between the honor of work and dishonor of looting the honor.  

Between there and here.  Between pure joy and pure crime.  

Between the limits beyond the sky and limits below the sky. 

Between we are one and we not one at all.  Between empathy and apathy.  

Between the beautiful soul and the ugly demon.  

Between live-and-let-live and live at everyones expense.  

 I need a poet, I need a wordsmith. 

I need someone with a gift of writing to draft the 

endless contradictions into a beautiful piece of poetry. 

I hope this writing will capture the contradictions so

 that I can start again, all over again.

With Gratitude to the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research

“I am very excited about this Novartis workshop. This is a very good move by a visionary company to inspire a new generation of scientist from Africa. We have a lot of problems to be solved and we appreciate the efforts of a global leader like Novartis in preparing us to take charge. Every section of the workshop has been excellent. I will not change anything but rather ask for more capacity building. Without these kinds of activities there will only be slow progress in global health. I hope that Novartis will take this move a step higher and create a program to empower young scientists to set up their research programs.”

NextGen VOICES survey 4: What one big idea in your field do you wish that every non-scientist understood? Why?

And comment in the NextGen VOICES survey 4 got selected as one of the 17 for print: Sure I am excited.



Science 5 October 2012: 
vol. 338 no. 6103 pp. 40-43 
DOI: 10.1126/science.338.6103.40


In the 5 October 2012 issue, we ran excerpts from 17 of the many interesting responses we received. Below, you will find the full versions of those 17 essays (in the order they were printed) as well as the best (in alphabetical order) of the other submissions we received

Mine is one of the top 17 selected out of 200: And the only from Africa.

What one big idea in your field do you wish that every non-scientist understood? Why?

The idea that one of the biggest threats to public health is the rise in the drug-resistant pathogens. Due to increased global trade and travels, these pathogens can spread easily. A truly global research system is necessary and timely. We never know when local problems and solutions may become global, and every part of the world has a contribution to make.

Patrick Kobina Arthur
Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana.
E-mail: parthur@ug.edu.gh

Led by the blind

They can dig deeper ditches,


but remind them to put some ropes in there,

 they will need it.

As for me,


I saw them digging

and I will not fall in it.



When the blind leads the "blind".......???

How can the blind lead the visionary???



I am glad you simply said, I should allow myself to
be "led" and not to be "led astray".

Everyone is a leader, some lead in the front, the middle
and the back. Everyone has a contribution to make.