Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede has returned to Nigeria.

Now is the time to examine the extraordinary, and for me, life-changing events that have occurred in and around me in the last two weeks now that Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede has completed his tour Creative Health Connections - You Me Nigeria Africa The World in Brighton and Hastings and moved on to his final tour in Bristol, also attending a conference in Brecon.

He kindly appeared on my live monthly show Vision Shack on RadioReverb, the local non-commercial independent community radio station in the Brighton area [97.2FM and http://www.radioreverb.com/ ] on 8th November, the day before he returned to Nigeria, for an interview with Paul Chi and Jocelyn Jones. He truly enjoyed and excelled himself, a born Ambassador unafraid, in fact relishing the coverage that the media can give his vision in action. I learned from Paul Chi last night that just as Seinde was packing to leave he was filmed by our friends Moving Sounds and excelled himself. I hope we can see this video interview.

Please see the web-group that he suggested we set up on http://www.worldfamily.ning.com for most of the show (apart from my introduction for lack of space) and with the music faded out for copyright reasons. The show will be repeated on RadioReverb, always on the 12.00 noon spot and I will give dates of this where possible so you can enjoy the music too. I also wish to thank my new sister Nadia Franchi for forming this group the very next day.

I have to say how grateful I am to Jocelyn for inviting her friend of over 30 years to visit and enlighten us about a situation no-one else seems to know anything worth knowing about. Certainly not the media. I do not want to write too much, because I am verbose, but here is a man who was a medical doctor and a UCLA post-graduate fellow in neuroscience and has been for most of that period Jocelyn has known him a small-holding farmer amongst south west Nigerian farmers.

In his words he has "built a road that millions will travel". A road for smallholding farmers all over the world, whether in Africa, the 400,000,000 in India or small dairy farmers in the UK being squeezed to extinction by the giant food chains and those who have the temerity to own such resources as seeds, minerals and water - the huge multi-national agro-industrial giants.

This road includes us in participatory development, we who can influence the monster organisations that desire a stranglehold on the food sovereignty of the world. A road against the manipulators who use fear of loss and desire for gain, who offer us shopping and luxuries in return for true freedom to live as Humankind.

The odd thing about meeting men of vision is it seems so normal. Well, that's because vision is normal. Blindness (of the mind) is abnormal. I have never in many encounters, formal and informal, seen or heard anything from Seinde that is not absolute clear sense. It is simple. He is so unpretentious, a gifted story teller, witty, wise and very well informed, and he has put his life where his mouth is.

Many people use words like One Love, One World, and many mean it. There is indeed a spirit of world communion about, but so often it is worn on the sleeve, not because a person is bad, but because it is something comforting, comfortable to tell oneself. It becomes like other over-used words like Love and Peace, Brothers and Sisters, and so often it is just a fashion, what I call Laura Ashley Spirituality, an intention, or as Seinde so succinctly puts it Starry-eyed Idealism.

However there is one thing that has emerged powerfully in me during the last two to three weeks and that is that we do not change the world with misery and gloom, with anger or bitterness, but with rejoicing and singing and dancing, with the laughter (and tears) of children in the street or playing on a patch of ground, be it concrete or dust, playing cricket on a piece of waste ground in New Delhi or an improvised song or game in a clearing in south west Nigeria.

For us adults and workers for one true global family, what has come to me in a recent recurring phrase in my mind and my heart and my soul is A Nation of Souls. No boundaries, no regulation, outside the influence of politics or corruption, beyond the purview of those who think they can imprison the Human Soul within a sarcophagus of fear and self-censorship, living small, thinking smaller.

There is a Nation of Souls that calls out from this Great Planet Earth we co-occupy and radiates out to the Greater Kinship of Universal being, registered and logged, noted, witnessed and recorded for all time in places or domiciles, mansions of existence we cannot even imagine. This is the lasting impression that Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede has left in my soul. Everything is possible in such a climate of feeling and caring action with joyful hard and easy work in proposition for the future.

Please have a look and if you are pure of heart and intention, join us in our Web Group:
http://worldfamily.ning.com/

Finally, dont ever say within my ear-shot "Yes, but what can I do, what can one person do?". Nadia will shortly be posting the minutes of the first meeting of the Brighton Branch, the birthplace of World Family, and you will see what jobs there are to be done. If you have any contacts within Universities that carry courses in Agriculture, please contact me. I am planning a series of seminars to young people to bring them on board, actively, and to show them the rewards of dedicating ones life to something more than oneself... to have an ambition for the impossible dreams of history that are now possible.