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ASK, thanks. The date was a mistake. It has been corrected. I have copied the Presiding Officer.

I agree with your idea. I remember the Sarkozy episode. I believe the wife of the then Chairperson of the AU, Alpha Oumar Konaré, Dr. Adame Ba Konaré rebutted and initiated what you proposed.

I will retrieve the information.

Best.

MsJoe

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ECOSOCC: This statement is dated 13th December 2018.... 😟

Some intriguing statements in the communique..The idea of "elders" and "respectful language" left me with a few questions.

I am reminded of a book that was put together on the back of some unfortunate remarks made by Sarkozy just over a decade ago. Would be great to see a well put together Pan African intellectual project to the POTUS statement(s). A number of great pieces have already appeared on this platform. From Countee Cullen's What is Africa to me? to Thabo Mbeki's I am an African there is plenty to mull over.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-africa-sarkozy/africans-still-seething-over-sarkozy-speech-idUKL0513034620070905

AKS

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January 14, 2018, 1:20 am

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I thought that the great Toyin Falola had sired another scion!

Congrats all the same Prof.

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Naipaul's loose lips helps to sell his books, his publishers, I am sure, encourages that, it puts cash in his pocket. Moreover, although famous, Naipaul is a private figure.

On the other hand, Trump is the President of an important nation, a public figure. He has no business being like Naipaul. He(Trump)gains nothing from being loose lips.

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I join my voice to others to chant a joyful wellcome to the new born baby. May he be a source of joy and pride to his family and to us all, being part of his trans-continental tribe.

Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY

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The Falolas painted Tony Blair's north London constituency in multicolours 13th January as they welcome the latest addition to the clan baby Leo amid wine, songs and dances.

Join us in congratulating the clan for their good fortune and wish the new entrannt (son of Dolapo) long life and prosperity.

May he imbibe the fount of knowledge that has distinguished the family

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Though Nigeria is actually a "shithole", we do not need those who helped to create the "shithole" and helps to sustain it, to remind us of that.

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January 14, 2018, 6:09 am

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Great, great congratulations!

toyin

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I join my voice to others to chant a joyful wellcome to the new born baby. May he be a source of joy and pride to his family and to us all, being part of his trans-continental tribe.

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The Falolas painted Tony Blair's north London constituency in multicolours 13th January as they welcome the latest addition to the clan baby Leo amid wine, songs and dances.

Join us in congratulating the clan for their good fortune and wish the new entrannt (son of Dolapo) long life and prosperity.

May he imbibe the fount of knowledge that has distinguished the family

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Based on the testimonies of people who live around there, the Abuja-Kaduna expressway is a den of kidnappers. Avoid it if you can. Flying is the best option.

Farooq

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Kidnapping and robbery are not serious threats on the Abuja-Kano-Zaria axis.

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January 14, 2018, 7:30 am

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We lost 1000 people, two million cows, Fulani herdsmen lament

A Text of Press Conference by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) on Sunday, January 14, 2018

Members of the general public are already aware of the burning national security challenges with violent hostilities affecting pastoralist community in different parts of the country.

These very unfortunate crises have since degenerated into dangerously intolerable level of killings, maiming and unprecedented destruction of property. More worrisome is the fact that the pastoralist community which has been the main target of the offensive is also deliberately been pointed as the attackers at the same time.

This horrible accusation in both intent and purpose is meant not only to smear the image of the herdsmen as a peace loving community, but to also allow further criminal justification to carry out total ethnic cleansing on our members, as witnessed in different parts of the country.

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria as the premier pastoralist body in the country has remained in unimaginable pains on daily basis as we receive communication of gory details of attacks, maiming and destruction of our members across the country.

For the avoidance of doubt, we totally condemn violence, in whatever form anywhere in Nigeria and by whoever.

It is important to note that the pastoralist share a long relationship with many communities in the country, as they carry out their legitimate occupation of nomadism/pastoralism; carrying along their lives, families and possessions making it impossible to foment trouble.

Our disposition as the immediate neighbours to almost all Nigerians does not only make us vulnerable but also susceptible to baseless accusations by promoters of violence, despite us being the worst victims.

We are however not denying the fact that, as any other community in the country, we are also battling with misguided and criminally motivated elements who indulge in social vices and criminal activities. However, these few miscreants do not represent the mainstream of herdsmen.

In fact our case is worsen by long years of exclusion suffered by the Fulani herdsmen as the most neglected community in the country, thereby depriving us of so many things.

The current situation in our opinion is fuelled by the draconian laws put in place by some state governments with the singular aim of chasing our people out of the states simply for ethnic hatred. The anti-open-grazing law in Benue, Taraba and other states is nothing more than a symbol of intolerance and do not in any way intend to solve the farmers/grazers conflict as the livestock breeders interest is neither captured in the law nor in its implementation mechanism.

While as a body we are not against any law that can engender peace, create societal harmony and stability, we cannot oblige any self-centred regulation with primordial sentiments based on injustice, intolerance and infringement of people's fundamental rights. It is no longer hidden that to achieve these, some State Governments are sponsoring ethnic militia against our people, recruiting and arming locals to kill our people and rustle their livestock as seen recently in Benue and Taraba States.

Two days ago, the media was a washed with the story of Tiv militia gang arrested in Taraba State by the Army who confessed that over 1000 of them were recruited and dangerously armed by the Benue State Government to kill the Fulani herdsmen. No doubt the activities of these criminal gangs are putting our people in unbearable pains as they operate with the greatest impunity under the protection of the State Government.

Only very recently we have lost over 1000 people including children, women and the aged and over 2 million cattle to this gang. We are more disturbed today as this state government hides under the self created crises and blackmailing the Federal Government into releasing to them security operatives to achieve their illegal and wicked agenda on our people.

The trend of attacks on our defenceless members by ethnic militias oiled by a deliberate profiling through coordinated media campaigns against our members, to say the least, is the worst crime against humanity.

What started as communal clashes has since metamorphosed into a coordinated operation to exterminate our people. From the killings in Plateau State, to southern Kaduna to Benue, Taraba and Adamawa among others the story is only worsening by the day.

Let me refresh your mind on the unprovoked attack on the Fulani communities on the Mambilla Plateau in Taraba State. The attack, which took place around June last year on the sedentary pastoralist Fulani families who have practiced the much deceitfully advocated ranching for decades left about 700 people killed, over 20,000 cattle rustled or killed with over 300 communities burnt down. In Lau, 24 Fulanis were also killed. In Numan, Adamawa State, about 82 of our women and children were slaughtered in cold blood by Bachama militias. In Kajuru, Kaduna State, 96 were killed.

All these were committed in a span of 7 months, beginning in June 2017 to January, 2018. All the killings were done by ethnic groups who see themselves as indigenes and the Fulanis as marauders, even where the latter have been settled for nearly a hundred years. However, up till today nobody is arrested even when the perpetrators are well known to the victims. The pastoralists have been abandoned, unfortunately, to their predators.

In conclusion ladies and gentlemen, our story is a very sad and painful one. While we have suffered decades of neglect by the government with attendant consequences, the current national gang up against the herdsmen is not only endangering our survival as a people but also justifying action against us, no matter how crude and inhuman it is.

After reviewing the current challenges as they affect our members we are of the humble opinion that following steps can go a long way not only in dousing tension in the country but will also go a long way in reducing the perennial conflict to the barest minimum.

1. We confirm the position of His Royal Highness the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that in spite of the fact that 732 of our people were killed in Mambila and 82 women and children killed in Numan and nobody was arrested. We hereby demand for the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of these heinous crimes without further.

2. We further state that the refutal of the Emir's position by the Taraba State Governor is merely a continuation of his desperate act of hiding the state government's involvement and protection of the perpetrators of these acts.

3. Pay compensation to the victims of all crises to reduce their level of suffering.

4. The Federal Government should create a Federal Ministry of Livestock Development to attend to the multidimensional needs of the industry as is obtained in many countries and the enactment of a national law to carter for the peculiar needs of pastoralists in particular and the livestock subsector in general since the mischievous anti open grazing laws promulgated by some states have woefully failed to address the contentious issues.

5. We call for a federal judicial commission of inquiry into all these killings so as to unravel the truth and the offenders.

6. We wish to register our appreciation to all those who have refused to be blinded by sentiment and are standing on the path of truth and justice especially the governors of Bayelsa, Plateau, Kogi and Nasarawa states, in the face of these complicated circumstances.

7. We disassociate ourselves from any other group or individual that is out to foment trouble in the country.

8. We also welcome the Federal Government's current resolve to address the lingering crises and submit ourselves for any positive participation to restore mutual and harmonious relationship in the country.

9. We demand for immediate disarmament of all illegally armed militias across the country in the interest of peace, security and stability. Finally, we condemn in totality any attempt of branding herdsmen as terrorists as is being clamoured from certain quarters. We view this as the continuation of the hate agenda on our people and a very dangerous trend for the country.

Baba Usman Ngeljarma

National Secretary MACBAN

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He is a horrible embarrassment to us in the u.s.
He is a risk to populations at risk.
He has elevated fears worldwide through his tweets and policies, so that the panic in Hawaii made sense; it wouldn't have occurred in the past.
He has awakened dismay, embarrassment, anger, hatred, shame, and self-righteousness throughout the entire continent of Africa. Has any president ever done anything so stupid?
This is patently obvious, which means his supporters agree with the evil he enacts, and are as racist as he is. that doubles our embarrassment. Now it is not simply trump but his supporters who are an embarrassment to the world.
That's what we have to live with here.
Ken
p.s. did I say he is a racist, so it isn't just Africa, but people of color throughout the world, from Haiti to brazil to france to the u.s. to Canada to latin America….
And he has the biggest "button" of all. God help us.

Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
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On 14/01/2018 04:44, "Chidi Anthony Opara" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Naipaul's loose lips helps to sell his books, his publishers, I am sure, encourages that, it puts cash in his pocket. Moreover, although famous, Naipaul is a private figure.

On the other hand, Trump is the President of an important nation, a public figure. He has no business being like Naipaul. He(Trump)gains nothing from being loose lips.

CAO.

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Thank you segun!

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It is safer to fly than to go by road. But to go by air, generally speaking, at this time may cause several hours of delay because of haze and dusty weather right now.

SO

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On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

Dear friends

I have two good friends traveling to give presentations in Nigeria next month. Their itinerary is abuja, kano, and zaria

I am concerned about the safety of their travel between these cities. Specifically, would they be better advised to fly between the three cities, or is the safety of the roads good enough. when I say safety I am not referring to accidents, but the risks of kidnapping and robbery.

If you can advise me, I will pass on the advice

thanks

ken

Kenneth Harrow

Dept of English and Film Studies

Michigan State University

619 Red Cedar Rd

East Lansing, MI 48824

517-803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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January 14, 2018, 9:10 am

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Thank you chidi!
ken

Kenneth Harrow
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On 13/01/2018 16:44, "Chidi Anthony Opara" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com on behalf of chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Kidnapping and robbery are not serious threats on the Abuja-Kano-Zaria axis.

CAO.

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January 14, 2018, 10:44 am

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For any route in Nigeria, I'd say if the concern is safety (accidents, robbery, kidnapping etc etc), air travel is the preferred option, no caveats.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Miyetti Allah, the Untouchable and Feared Parallel Government of Nigeria by Moses Ochonu With Commentary Pro and Con

January 14, 2018, 11:28 am

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Discovered this in my 2017 email drafts. Still very valid

Miyetti Allah, the Untouchable and Feared Parallel Government of Nigeria

Moses Ochonu

Moses Ochonu's Facebook status update of 14th October 2017

The herdsmen massacre in Southern Kaduna has subsided but it has resumed on the Plateau. That's the way they roll-- Nigeria's ubiquitous and ghostly herdsmen whose ethnicity must not be named so as not to offend some highly placed people.

It's like the game of wack-a-mole. You contain or repel them in one area and they pop up in another.

But we must not say that Nigeria faces a herdsmen menace analogous to Boko Haram, an existential threat that is more geographically widespread than the threat of Boko Haram.

And of course our military will come alive only when villagers in the affected communities decide to defend themselves in the face of the inertia and spectatorship of our security agencies instead of waiting to die in their own homes.

The security agencies will come alive not to tackle the herdsmen but to arrest the self-defenders.

Meanwhile, Miyetti Allah, the untouchable and feared parallel government of Nigeria, will continue to confess to and claim the massacres as revenge for cattle theft in spectacular press conferences and, as usual, not a single one of these confessed mass murderers will be arrested, let alone prosecuted for their crimes.

Miyetti will continue to issue ultimatums to communities and give notice of "revenge" attacks as they recently did in Kwara State. That's just how we roll in Nigeria.

Some people are untouchable and enjoy both impunity and immunity. Others are expendable humanity who will not only be abandoned to their tragic fates but whose efforts to defend their villages against murderous herdsmen will be thwarted.

And the media has effectively been silenced with the unspoken threat of the Luka Biniyat treatment, which was never extended to equally guilty hate speech merchants and inciters of the Arewa Youth and Miyetti types. Report on herdsmen massacres and perish seems to be the guiding principle of the media.

And we wonder why there is so much distrust, mutual suspicion, and hate in the country. The perceptions of double standards and injustice, which government seems to wittingly and unwittingly cultivate, continue to deepen our fissures.

Compiled, titled and edited for typos by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Selections from responses to the post. The emphasis is on comments that present a view on the politics of the situation.

Jolly Iguodala :

The tragedy is the orchestrated media blackout of the on-going massacre on the Plateau.

Ahmad Shehu:

The same way the long-mouthed critic of everything suddenly became deaf and dumb when thousands of the same people were killed and maimed somewhere in Mambilla Plateau. Such self-appointed objectivists have suddenly found their ears and mouths now that it is the other people against their own.

I am 100% against violence from all angles but people like you, are part of our problems!

Muhsin Ibrahim :

Going by your assertion, it sounds as if the so-called Fulani herdsmen target only some selected communities of, needless to mention, Christian population. This actually downplays the coverage of their attacks or something else. These people, known to so many of us, do not discriminate between ethnicity, religion or region. They have, in fact, caused more havoc and damage to more Muslim communities in Katsina, Zamfara, some remote villages between Kebbi and Sokoto, etc than in the Southern Kaduna and Plateau you care so much about, or, better still, the mainstream media focus its attention unto.

You may wish to research further that these faceless "Fulani Herdsmen" do not care Islam, thus their agenda is not Islamic. Most of them are no more than armed robbers, kidnappers, bandits whose aim and objective has nothing to do with Islam or territorial gain in northern Nigeria. The so-called Islamisation, northernisation, or whatever agenda of the Northern oligarch is a nonexistent thing in today's Nigeria. It could have played role in some cases in the past, particularly in the early years in colonial northern Nigeria. You are a professor of political history, thus you (should) know better. The northern "elders" of today are, obviously, too preoccupied with their kith and kins issues and, perhaps, corruption to invest in that.

Responses to Muhsin Ibrahim :

Egbo Chinedu : Yet your president refused to regard them as Terrorists and has not done anything tangible to checkmate their activities. Bravo to President Mohammed Buhari.!

Habib Tijjani Inuwa : Nice one Muhsin Ibrahim. A prof of history should know better.

Ahmad Shehu : Egbo Chinedu can you tell us what previous governments did better about this?

Muhsin Ibrahim : Egbo Chinedu, I think you need to check the law regarding declaring a person or a group as terrorist. The IPOB, for example, everybody knows their identity, their leader, their ideology, their aim and objective, location, etc. So, how do you expect the faceless, so-called Fulani herdsmen be tagged, terrorist? No doubt, they are terrorizing people but what the appellation would do to them? What purpose? Let's reflect, please. Let's not be blinded by ethnocentricism

Ja'afar Baba Muhammad:

If a whole renowned professor could so boldly write this, with biased mindset, with no interest in research on victims of ethnic crimes across the country, I give up on studying history. Everything in Nigeria is viewed with ethnic and religious lens, genuine human cause has lost its universal appeal, its now we versus them, only caveat is "who exactly are we or they"?

Responses to Ja'afar Baba Muhammad:

Egbo Chinedu : Nigerians are still waiting for this administration to tag them a terrorist group.

Mohammed Sarki Bashari:

Ike Michael, lectured by whom? FB wailers? No. Read this lecture:

One of the for seen fallouts of Global warming is the possible security conflicts arising from the drying of Lake Chad and its tributaries. This has ultimately led to the scramble for both grazing and farming lands and the resultant conflicts being witnessed in Chad basin countries.

Before this, bring in the Berom- Hausa fracas in Jo's, which was political in nature. In people's foolishness, they shifted their aggression to the Fulani, as soft targets, living in remote forests and away from urban centres. The Fulani were massacred and their livelihood stolen, sometimes with nudges from christian clergies( some rustled cows were recovered in some churches).

Back to Kaduna and rewind to Zangon Kataf crisis, where the Hausa's were decimated and to date, Lewkot, Atom and others were never prosecuted. In due course, the killings in Zangon Kataf shifted to the Fulani in remote areas.

All these set up the conditions for what is happening today.

The Fulani herdsmen( different from urban Fulani) have certain characteristics their attackers failed to notice.

1. Loyalty to clan. All is one and one is all.

2. Protective of their cattle. All their livelihood and existence is tied to their cattle.

3. Their penchant for revenge. Enmity is bequeathed at death bed and adhered to.

4. Goal achievement. Once there is need for revenge, self sacrifice is nothing.

5. Irreligiousity. Murder, mayhem and brutality are norms for lack of religious instructions.

Religious clerics are more to blame for these, because it is they who instigated others to attack Fulani( Apostle Suleiman is a good example).

Have you ever wondered why these killings occur only in Southern Kaduna?

There are many Fulani in Pankshin, Mangu etc, but it has never occured there, because the Fulani were never attacked.

As for nationality, are they really Nigerians? You know the Fulani in Nigeria; they only carry a staff and a matchet, but not AK47s. People posted pics of gun wielding Fulani herdsmen for propaganda from the Muir tribe of S. Sudan and claim they are the culprits. When it is pointed out that they are not Nigerians, they claim of bias.

Talking of bias, have you or this poster ever made a comment on the Fulani ethnic cleansing that occurred in Taraba? The videos went viral on the Internet and you must have seen them. You chose to look the other way.

The more you stick to purely tribal and religious propaganda as opposition, the more you are going further from the goal you set to achieve.

Mark my words, there was a mistake in Taraba and unless Govts act quickly, there will be atrocious reprisals from the Fulani. They will mass up, commit crimes and vanish like thin air because they are pastoralists; they don't need tarred roads or GPS to navigate even at night. They are extremely enduring like the Spartans.

This is a real unbiased lecture. Study and write an appraisal!

Ike Michael :

Mohammed Sarki Bashari, when are Fulani people going back to where they came from and allow peace to rain among indigenous people?

Idris Ibn Idris :

Ahmad Shehu I just checked your profile and realized that we are from the same LG. Please, get a copy of his book on colonialism by proxy, and read those chapters relating to Adamawa, and especially Chamba in particular, which I believe you will relate very well with, to see how he twisted facts upside down. Goddo mon may wanyi fulɓe be julɓe masin. Allah yowu'en dow maɓɓe.

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January 14, 2018, 11:43 am

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CONGRATULATIONS !!!! Oluwa yio wo, OOluwa yio da si

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:18 AM, Olayinka Agbetuyi <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

The Falolas painted Tony Blair's north London constituency in multicolours 13th January as they welcome the latest addition to the clan baby Leo amid wine, songs and dances.

Join us in congratulating the clan for their good fortune and wish the new entrannt (son of Dolapo) long life and prosperity.

May he imbibe the fount of knowledge that has distinguished the family

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January 14, 2018, 12:47 pm

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As some Africans would wahala (trouble) dey ooo

Liberia's outgoing president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has been expelled from her own party, for allegedly failing to support its candidate to succeed her.

President Johnson-Sirleaf is accused of encouraging people to vote against her Vice-President, Joseph Boakai, and having held inappropriate private meetings with election magistrates before the Oct. 10 vote that resulted in no winner.

Footballer living legend, George Weah, won the presidential elections in the December 26, 2017 runoff, defeating Mr. Boakai in a landslide.

The President-elect, in one of his first acts, visited Vice President Boakai to, among other courtesies, introduce his wife and soon-to-be first lady. This is a beauty of African values. Another example of the African exceptionality was seen last week. South African President Emmerson Mnangagwa reassured Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Angolan President João Lourenço that former President Robert Mugabe will be protected and taken care of, and Mugabe's "rich legacy" will be preserved. Among these are a fully furnished office and over 20 staff members, diplomatic passport, a public holiday honoring him, etc.

President Lourenço the current Chairperson of the SADC's organ for Politics, Defence and Security.

In Liberia, this is not a case of opposition party and country in tension. It is a curious intra-party wahala on a cocktail of internal constitutional vexations. It goes without saying that the party is not disposed toward post-presidential honors.

President Johnson-Sirleaf, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Africa's first elected woman president, was term limited after serving two six-year term.

She had denied earlier accusations of derailing the chances of her vice-president.

However, a spokesman for the governing Unity Party said the President had still violated the party's constitution as she was seen campaigning with Mr Weah, who ran under the Coalition for Democratic Change banner. He lost to President Johnson-Sirleaf in his first run in November 2005.

Four other party officials were also expelled, the party said in a statement distributed on Sunday.

The President has not commented on her expulsion.

Mr. Weah will be sworn in later this month. It will be the first smooth transfer of power since 1944. Party is not country. So expect President Johnson-Sirleaf to be at the inaugural...sitting at a socially safe distance from her former party members.

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January 14, 2018, 1:08 pm

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Femi Mimiko, mni
(@FemiMimiko):

On Trump's 'Shithole' Characterization

Where does one start on the 'shithole countries' remarks of US President DJ Trump? For one, denials do not arise. Whoever is minimally conversant with the Trump persona, and track records, going way back before his presidency, would know that it is not beyond the man to make such incendiary, racist and hate-filled comments. Several pundits have rightly noted that though with gargantuan challenges back home, the preponderance of Africans in the US are not just doing very well, they are indeed much better educated than Trump's own America.

It is rather unfortunate how low the US presidency has fallen. It was President Obama who said in the run-up to the presidential election in 2016, that Trump was uniquely unqualified to be president. The facts are bearing out Obama since Trump got into office. The man has not only launched into the darkest recesses of American cultural life for support, he is indeed turning the US into an unusual pariah, unbelievably alienating traditional allies of the US from the Middle East, through Europe, to the Americas. That he has little or no respect for non-whites, especially Africans, is what has come out clearly in his latest commentary. This is as unfortunate as it is distressing. His idea does not only lack any basis in biological fact, as the UN once said of racism, it is a product of a warped, if stable, mind.

That said, I think it is also needful to self-study ourselves as Africans. The reggae icon, Peter Tosh, once sang that 'it doesn't matter where you come from, as long as you are a black man, you are an African.' An adaptation would read like: it doesn't matter your level of personal accomplishments, as long as you are a blackman, you are an object of derision in the estimation of folks like Donald Trump. Yet, if the truth must be told, Trump is merely one more evidence that Africans, especially our leaders, must up our game. Our leaders must begin to govern responsibly, and rapidly catalyze development on the continent. It is then, and only then, that we would begin to put a final lie to suggestions by people like Trump that we are inferior.

As at today, much of what you have as leadership on the continent is an embarrassment. Over-centralized and truly suffucating governance structures, fixation with power as an end in itself, tenure elongation, cronyism, sectarianism, rent-seeking, brazen stealing, and all manners of chicanery, that deny the generality of the people the reasonable space they need for productive engagement. A few days ago, New Telegraph was good enough to give some space to one's thoughts on the need for focused intervention for stability and development on the African continent. Those thoughts speak to issues similar to the ones presented here.

A final anecdote: the Japanese were also once an object of derision in some quarters in the West. By the time the Japs began to make their loud entrance onto the global economic space, bigots still referred to them as 'honorary whites,' whatever that meant. It was not too long, however, before even the most bigoted recognized that you could no longer suggest that the Japanese were inferior to anybody. Africans must ensure that only individuals with vision, character, and capacity are set at at the head of their countries; have a turnaround in the blighted lives of their peoples, and thereby put a permanent lie to the narrative of racists everywhere, no matter how powerful the positions they hold.

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January 14, 2018, 2:03 pm

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Kenn,

It is impossible to do the entire itinerary you outlined without some road travel. But road travel and its risks can be minimized. Here's what your friends should do. Fly from Abuja to Kano. Travel by road from Kano to Zaria. The Kano-Zaria stretch of the road is not infested by kidnapping and armed robbery, but the road is bad. As long as the driver knows the road and does not over-speed, your friends should be fine. Upon finishing their business in Zaria, they should travel by road/car from there to Kaduna. It's a short 45 minutes drive and is very safe because the Zaria-Jaji-Kaduna corridor is a heavily militarized zone with many military installations. From Kaduna, they should take the train to Abuja. Under no circumstance should they travel the Kaduna-Abuja road by car. It's arguably the most dangerous road in Nigeria in terms of kidnapping and armed robbery. The Kaduna-Abuja train shuttle is fairly reliable, comfortable, and safe, and the schedule is online.

As someone who grew up, went to school, and continue to do research in that part of the country, this is my advice for your friends.

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:

It is safer to fly than to go by road. But to go by air, generally speaking, at this time may cause several hours of delay because of haze and dusty weather right now.
SO

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On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

Dear friends
I have two good friends traveling to give presentations in Nigeria next month. Their itinerary is abuja, kano, and zaria
I am concerned about the safety of their travel between these cities. Specifically, would they be better advised to fly between the three cities, or is the safety of the roads good enough. when I say safety I am not referring to accidents, but the risks of kidnapping and robbery.
If you can advise me, I will pass on the advice
thanks
ken

Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
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January 14, 2018, 2:20 pm

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From: Funmi Odusolu <eleda.odusolu@gmail.com>
Date: January 14, 2018 at 3:07:53 PM CST
To:"mvickers@mvickers plus. com" <mvickers@mvickers.plus.com>, "R.H.Finnegan" <r.h.finnegan@open.ac.uk>, Prof Toyin FALOLA <toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu>, "Dr.Remi SONAIYA" <remisonaiya@yahoo.com>
Subject:Fulani Declares War

MEDIA RELEASE Kano, Saturday January 13, 2018 Summary of Deliberations by the Fulani Nationality Movement, (FUNAM). The Fulani Nationality Movement, (FUNAM) after extensive deliberations on the state of the nation in the context of the recent killings and national uproar, met today in Kano, the capital of Kano State. Among other things, the FUNAM deliberated on attacks on cattles by rustlers, kidnap of Fulani men and women in some parts of Nigeria, displacement of Fulani traditional settlements in Northern Nigeria and some parts of Southern Nigeria, stealing of properties belonging to Fulani cattler owners amongst other issues. The group also deliberated on the political situation in Nigeria occassioned by the irresponsible calls for restructuring of Nigeria, the historic and vicious attacks on Fulani people by Southern nationalities and their cohorts in the middle belt, the plot to ensure Fulani are pushed to the backbench in the power equation in Nigeria and above all, the vicious campaign against the God ordained place of Fulani as the leading star guide in Nigeria, and after extensive deliberations, we hereby make the following declarations: a) That the killings in Benue of Tiv is well deserved. It was a revenge attack on the series of onslaught on the Fulani which was most horrendous on November 17 2017 when 30 Fulani men and women were killed in Nasarawa State. We notice the recalcitrant culture of the Tiv people as demonstrated even during the 1804 Jihad when they obstructed our ordained conquest of Nigeria. b) We condemn the media propaganda being waged against the Fulani and supported by Yoruba, Igbo and their bigotry allies in the Middle Belt. c) That we are aware of plots by the minority ethnic groups in the Middle Belt to attack Fulani settlements. d) That we have asked all Fulani across West Africa to raise money and arms to prosecute the oncoming war. We call on all Fulanis to prepare for this Holy War. There is no going back. All over the world, Nigeria is the only country given to Fulani by God. e) We oppose the anti-grazing laws which obstruct the ability of Fulani to move freely and stay anywhere in Nigeria. The Fulani, if not for the British would have actually conquered the entire Nigeria which God has ordained as our dominion. f) That the Cattle Colony is the only solution to the crisis. Whether the Federal Government or State Governments accept or not, we have asked all Fulani herdmen all over West Africa to move to Nigeria and penetrate every corner for the upcoming Jihad. We have asked them to be armed since it seems it is the only language Nigeria understands. The Nigerian Government has failed to protect us. g) We warn those who oppose the Fulani cattle trade to be cautious of the consequences. We are ready for the worse. We are prepared for war. There is hope for peace if and only if attacks on Fulani herdsmen stop and the Fulani is allowed to settle anywhere that the Fulani chose to settle in Nigeria. We are Nigerians and are free to settle anywhere we desire with our culture, our families, our commerce and our values to the glory of Almighty Allah. Any attempt(s) to reverse these demands will be met with Holy Uprising never before seen in the History of Nigeria and in the scale compared only with the 1804 Jihad. A word is enough for the wise. The Fulani is capable of defending itself. Signed Badu Salisu Ahmadu National President Umar Amir Shehu

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - advice requested

January 14, 2018, 3:42 pm

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Thanks moses!

Kenneth Harrow

Dept of English and Film Studies

Michigan State University

619 Red Cedar Rd

East Lansing, MI 48824

517-803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/

From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of "meochonu@gmail.com" <meochonu@gmail.com>
Reply-To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday 14 January 2018 at 17:03
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - advice requested

Kenn,

As someone who grew up, went to school, and continue to do research in that part of the country, this is my advice for your friends.

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 7:31 PM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:

It is safer to fly than to go by road. But to go by air, generally speaking, at this time may cause several hours of delay because of haze and dusty weather right now.
SO

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:44 PM, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
Dear friends
I have two good friends traveling to give presentations in Nigeria next month. Their itinerary is abuja, kano, and zaria
I am concerned about the safety of their travel between these cities. Specifically, would they be better advised to fly between the three cities, or is the safety of the roads good enough. when I say safety I am not referring to accidents, but the risks of kidnapping and robbery.
If you can advise me, I will pass on the advice
thanks
ken

Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
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