Reviews for Amplitude-Phase Patterns in Dynamic Scintigraphic Imaging

The average rating for Amplitude-Phase Patterns in Dynamic Scintigraphic Imaging based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-14 00:00:00 Mark Seymour Let me make one thing clear from the beginning: we Africans must never forget, or undermine the "old" books published by our early outstanding writers, and not only Achebe or Soyinka or Amadi. We should learn, investigate, do research on the so-called old classics and seek guidance from those older and more knowledgeable than we are in the process. This book is a good example, and I am very privileged I got to read a copy. The author, Obi Egbuna belonged to the top drawer of early African writers. From an early age he was based in England, Europe, but he never forgot his roots; he kept on paying tribute to his ancestry, race and continent. In this novel, Madness of Didi his depiction of African life in the villages or rural areas is superb. Like Achebe, Nwapa, Munonye, Amadi, Chukwuemeka Ike and others did. I concede that perhaps one should not be too carried away with old African life in villages etc; after all, when we read writers like Thomas Hardy or Meredith, we realise that life even among the whites, pre- industrial, pre-electricity etc in their own rural areas at the time was not so different from life in old African villages, with morality stricter and relative serenity in the mix. In this book, Egbuna however presents elements of mystery which make the protagonist very much a man of mystery; a man who had also spent many years overseas. Looking at the whole thing objectively though, we can see the point of the author - Africa suffered horrendously under the colonialists, with Congo just a small example. Countless Africans were butchered, tortured, killed, over-worked by the Belgians even in the 19th century; and during colonialism, so many Africans' lives were apparently worth nothing. Hence when Didi declares that when he was overseas, he had "only killed a few whites" to make a point, against the background of harsh colonialist history, his act becomes just a token, a miniature gesture of vendetta...

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-14 00:00:00 Stephen Jackson Profound stuff in this work: “A man looks into the mirror Sees a pink man, tells himself it is a white man And on the basis of this conception, He proceeds to impose himself and imagined superiority on the rest of mankind Where he meets with opposition He resorts to brutality and violence Even if it means abuse of hospitality, Enslavement And senseless murder of native populations… What makes a man to capture millions of people (from another continent) Drag them away in chains as slaves Then genuinely believe the victims of his savagery to be savages… I was told that the tragedy of insanity Is that a patient afflicted with a sickness Does not know that he is sick…”