Why my grandpa Ibrahim was way smarter than scientist Albert Einstein

Social life goes beyond book knowledge

Ibrahim, the Butere Intermediate School Standard Three dropout and a tipsy sage from whose loins I sprung, would have been horrified by Albert Einstein’s carelessness and naiveté.

Note in passing, however, that Einstein is never addressed as ‘Professor’ or ‘Dr’. Nonetheless, it is generally agreed, even by his worst political enemies and detractors, that he was a peerless intellectual who, apart from bagging a real doctorate, must have had bagfuls of the honorary accolades that our politicians wear like wedding bands.