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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Institute Of Management Consultants Fellowship Nomination

June 20, 2019, 3:15 pm
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Dede Chidi,
I have received this many times. If you do not accept this, expect more from them in the coming months. It begins with what looks like a neutral offer but it is a ploy to get you to pay and financially support their work - this is what I observed. I did not investigate if it was a scam but I noticed the trap and escaped.
Chidi

On Thursday, 20 June 2019, 22:53:30 GMT+1, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:


Oga Chidi,
I no go say congratulations o. I suspect a great scam here. I have been receiving this type of mail since last year. I have received the same mail thrice in the last three weeks. One of the mails was even addressed MRS ADESHINA AFOLAYAN, PhD. Notice that the payment fee of 150'000 naira is written in bold type. There's a way these scammers harvest names and addresses. 

Beware sir! 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429


On Thursday, June 20, 2019, 3:49:29 PM GMT+1, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:


Got this via e-mail yesterday!

"Dear Chidi Anthony Opara,

 I am pleased to inform you that the Council of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC-Nigeria) has nominated you for the Fellowship of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC). This is the highest grade of the Institute's Membership and is reserved for accomplished professionals of your level and status in the profession. This is not an invitation to receive an Honorary Fellowship. You are well and appropriately educated in your field of professional calling. You have ample experience that makes you suitable to add Management Consultancy as a platform to offer your knowledge and expertise as a commodity in the knowledge economy. So, the Institute of Management Consultants is extending this humble invitation to you to consider the possibility of becoming a full professional member of the Institute. We believe your knowledge and experience can add value to what we have been doing over the years. We also believe that we can contribute to making your professional knowledge available to society through the platform of Management Consultancy."


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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe

June 20, 2019, 4:18 pm
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Sad, sad loss! She inspired a whole tribe of African feminists.  A truly first class scholar... A loss that is a deep wound in the heart....


OAA



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Date: 20/06/2019 15:59 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe


SIR Toyin:

Please, please, what do you mean by "We lost her"? That dynamic scholar?
Many are wondering: Has wicked death laid its icy hands on her, just as James
Shirley penned in his poem, "Death the Leveller." But what actually happened?

Sadly, it has been confirmed that Professor Omolara Leslie Ogundipe (1940-2019)
has passed away, aged 78. Again, what was the cause? As my spouse and I
still recall, at an International P.E.N. writer's Annual Congress in Mexico in 1996,
our Sister Molara made us -- as Black members and participants--  really proud: very
articulate, no nonsense and simply brilliant!

It was, in fact, at the Mexico writers' conclave  that we also heard from a major British
writer that while many Africans earned their degrees from University of London (often
through their local or indigenous constituent university affiliations, that Dr. Ogundipe was
the first one to earn a First Class degree! She later earned a doctorate in Narratology
(the theory of narrative). 

 A.B. Assensoh.




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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe

We lost her.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 20, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> TF,
> What happens to Prof. Molara Ogundipe? We were together at Ogun State University in the 80s.
> Segun Ogungbemi.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 19, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> ???????
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - "Postproverbials" as a Linguistic Affair

June 20, 2019, 4:29 pm
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University of Ibadan is always alive with international,conferences!
Recall the forthcoming Ibadan conference on Ade-Ajayi that I blogged
about. This week, there is a conference on "postproverbials right
under my nose and office. So, I am blogging about it partially.

To read my blog article on "Postproverbials" as a Linguistic Affair,"
click on this link:

https://obododimma.livejournal.com/13314.html

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Obododimma.

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Ogbu Kalu Moment

June 20, 2019, 5:25 pm
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Happy for you, Mwalimu Kubwa, TF! Until every African intellectual knows how to celebrate across ethnicities unharnessed, Africanism and Pan-Africanism will continue to elude us as the proverbial dream of a dog - conceived of, and dies in the mind of the dreamer. May the legacy of Professor Ogbu live long, and may your global embrace of humanity outlive you!

MOA







On Thursday, June 20, 2019, 10:01:57 PM GMT+1, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


Today at Abia State University, we celebrated the contributions and legacies of our brother and distinguished professor, Ogbu, the great man with smile and laughter ever implanted in his face. The glue to our relationship was our difference! I am attracted to those who disagree with me.

Until the rise of the irrepressible Nimi Wariboko, Ogbu Kalu and Sanneh were the most preeminent scholars of African Christianity.

The inauguration of the Center was an event that came alive with the presence of Ogbu Kalu among the living.  Truly, his legacies can never die. Professor Chima Korieh, an historian far more talented than me in the architecture of his imagination and arresting topics, introduced the vision and mission of the Ogbu Kalu Center.

The Vice-Chancellor was gracious, respectful, cordial and happy.

Ten years ago we lost Ogbu. His wife, Mummy Willy, called me from the hospital that my friend was gone.

Today we woke him up. And I did so by presenting the longest book on an African scholar, 600 pages, that puts his work in context. I poured my agonies and memory into narratology.

Years ago, at his village house in Ohafia, when the future was unknown, he told me that he wanted to locate his library in Imo State University which was then a year hold. My humble self was part of shaping the program of the new university with my "boss", the brilliant Professor Geoffrey Uzoigwe.

The Kalu Center is now with us, the mustard seed that will become the big tree. Against all forces and odds, this seed will be nurtured and watered to become the Iroko tree we want.

It has been an eventful and fruitful day, back in the city of Enugu which is also called the Coal City, the darling on 042. Beautiful scene at night to behold, I am happy to be here.
TF

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe

June 20, 2019, 5:50 pm
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Don't think Ms. Leslie ever did graduate work anywhere. I stand to be corrected.
On Jun 20, 2019, at 11:18 PM, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

Sad, sad loss! She inspired a whole tribe of African feminists.  A truly first class scholar... A loss that is a deep wound in the heart....


OAA



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Date: 20/06/2019 15:59 (GMT+00:00) 
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe 


SIR Toyin:

Please, please, what do you mean by "We lost her"? That dynamic scholar?
Many are wondering: Has wicked death laid its icy hands on her, just as James 
Shirley penned in his poem, "Death the Leveller." But what actually happened?

Sadly, it has been confirmed that Professor Omolara Leslie Ogundipe (1940-2019)
has passed away, aged 78. Again, what was the cause? As my spouse and I
still recall, at an International P.E.N. writer's Annual Congress in Mexico in 1996,
our Sister Molara made us -- as Black members and participants--  really proud: very 
articulate, no nonsense and simply brilliant!

It was, in fact, at the Mexico writers' conclave  that we also heard from a major British
writer that while many Africans earned their degrees from University of London (often 
through their local or indigenous constituent university affiliations, that Dr. Ogundipe was 
the first one to earn a First Class degree! She later earned a doctorate in Narratology 
(the theory of narrative).  

 A.B. Assensoh.




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To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe

We lost her.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 20, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> TF,
> What happens to Prof. Molara Ogundipe? We were together at Ogun State University in the 80s.
> Segun Ogungbemi.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 19, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> ???????
>
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe

June 20, 2019, 5:51 pm
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What a sad day for African scholars and feminists worldwide!  May her soul rest in Perfect peace.


Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone.


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Oh my goodness. When was that? Where did she pass away?
May her soul Rest In Peace.


Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 20, 2019, at 2:17 AM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

We lost her.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 20, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> TF,
> What happens to Prof. Molara Ogundipe? We were together at Ogun State University in the 80s.
> Segun Ogungbemi.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 19, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> ???????
>
>
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Is Nigeria now an African immigration hub?

June 20, 2019, 10:20 pm
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I also welcome this development, provided it is reciprocal. While Nigeria is becoming a hub for these nationals, I hope Nigerians are also finding welcome in those nations as well. And, even more importantly, the said visitors do not constitute those who are suspected in some quarters to be foreign nationals (infiltrators) planted as secret mercenaries awaiting a day of pouncing on the unsuspecting Nigerians. The Pan-Africanist mood would be the dream of the likes of Nkrumah coming true, and we can only hope it is real.

MOA



On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 1:51:25 AM GMT+1, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


There are now large clusters of immigrants from Egypt, Gambia, Senegal, and Mali in Nigeria.

 

I have someone collecting preliminary data on some of these clusters. If you live in Ibadan, you find many opposite the UI campus.

 

As a Pan-Africanist, I welcome this development as long as the government does not scapegoat innocent citizens seeking legitimate means of livelihood.

 

Hope the relevant agencies of government are collecting data for us to understand the effectiveness of regionalism.

 

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Institute Of Management Consultants Fellowship Nomination

June 20, 2019, 11:10 pm
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 12:19 AM 'Chidi Ezegwu' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Dede Chidi,
I have received this many times. If you do not accept this, expect more from them in the coming months. It begins with what looks like a neutral offer but it is a ploy to get you to pay and financially support their work - this is what I observed. I did not investigate if it was a scam but I noticed the trap and escaped.
Chidi

On Thursday, 20 June 2019, 22:53:30 GMT+1, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:


Oga Chidi,
I no go say congratulations o. I suspect a great scam here. I have been receiving this type of mail since last year. I have received the same mail thrice in the last three weeks. One of the mails was even addressed MRS ADESHINA AFOLAYAN, PhD. Notice that the payment fee of 150'000 naira is written in bold type. There's a way these scammers harvest names and addresses. 

Beware sir! 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429


On Thursday, June 20, 2019, 3:49:29 PM GMT+1, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:


Got this via e-mail yesterday!

"Dear Chidi Anthony Opara,

 I am pleased to inform you that the Council of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC-Nigeria) has nominated you for the Fellowship of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC). This is the highest grade of the Institute's Membership and is reserved for accomplished professionals of your level and status in the profession. This is not an invitation to receive an Honorary Fellowship. You are well and appropriately educated in your field of professional calling. You have ample experience that makes you suitable to add Management Consultancy as a platform to offer your knowledge and expertise as a commodity in the knowledge economy. So, the Institute of Management Consultants is extending this humble invitation to you to consider the possibility of becoming a full professional member of the Institute. We believe your knowledge and experience can add value to what we have been doing over the years. We also believe that we can contribute to making your professional knowledge available to society through the platform of Management Consultancy."


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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Ogbu Kalu Moment

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fantastic.

could you give a link to this book and perhaps to the web site of the centre?

what is Sanneh's full name?

thanks

toyin


On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 04:51, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Happy for you, Mwalimu Kubwa, TF! Until every African intellectual knows how to celebrate across ethnicities unharnessed, Africanism and Pan-Africanism will continue to elude us as the proverbial dream of a dog - conceived of, and dies in the mind of the dreamer. May the legacy of Professor Ogbu live long, and may your global embrace of humanity outlive you!

MOA







On Thursday, June 20, 2019, 10:01:57 PM GMT+1, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


Today at Abia State University, we celebrated the contributions and legacies of our brother and distinguished professor, Ogbu, the great man with smile and laughter ever implanted in his face. The glue to our relationship was our difference! I am attracted to those who disagree with me.

Until the rise of the irrepressible Nimi Wariboko, Ogbu Kalu and Sanneh were the most preeminent scholars of African Christianity.

The inauguration of the Center was an event that came alive with the presence of Ogbu Kalu among the living.  Truly, his legacies can never die. Professor Chima Korieh, an historian far more talented than me in the architecture of his imagination and arresting topics, introduced the vision and mission of the Ogbu Kalu Center.

The Vice-Chancellor was gracious, respectful, cordial and happy.

Ten years ago we lost Ogbu. His wife, Mummy Willy, called me from the hospital that my friend was gone.

Today we woke him up. And I did so by presenting the longest book on an African scholar, 600 pages, that puts his work in context. I poured my agonies and memory into narratology.

Years ago, at his village house in Ohafia, when the future was unknown, he told me that he wanted to locate his library in Imo State University which was then a year hold. My humble self was part of shaping the program of the new university with my "boss", the brilliant Professor Geoffrey Uzoigwe.

The Kalu Center is now with us, the mustard seed that will become the big tree. Against all forces and odds, this seed will be nurtured and watered to become the Iroko tree we want.

It has been an eventful and fruitful day, back in the city of Enugu which is also called the Coal City, the darling on 042. Beautiful scene at night to behold, I am happy to be here.
TF

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Institute Of Management Consultants Fellowship Nomination

June 20, 2019, 11:14 pm
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Thanks for your concerns. It is not a scam, but they desperately need funds.

I however, do not intend to take the offer, for the major reason that I do not intend to be a Management Consultant.

Moreover, I am already a Fellow of the very credible Institute of Information Management, Africa, Information management being my core area of competence.

I do not think that I need another Fellowship.

Thanks again for your concerns, I appreciate them.

CAO.

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe

June 20, 2019, 11:20 pm
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how true?

'After Queen's School, she attended University College, Ibadan, then a college of the University of London, where she made a first class in the Department of English. She was the first woman to do so. For a long time, she taught English and Comparative Literature in several universities in Nigeria, Africa and America with only her first degree. She only got a PhD much later at Leiden University.'

from Molara Ogundipe, frontline Nigerian Feminist dies





On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 04:51, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:
Don't think Ms. Leslie ever did graduate work anywhere. I stand to be corrected.
On Jun 20, 2019, at 11:18 PM, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

Sad, sad loss! She inspired a whole tribe of African feminists.  A truly first class scholar... A loss that is a deep wound in the heart....


OAA



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-------- Original message --------
From: "Assensoh, Akwasi B." <aassenso@indiana.edu> 
Date: 20/06/2019 15:59 (GMT+00:00) 
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Omolara Leslie Ogundipe 


SIR Toyin:

Please, please, what do you mean by "We lost her"? That dynamic scholar?
Many are wondering: Has wicked death laid its icy hands on her, just as James 
Shirley penned in his poem, "Death the Leveller." But what actually happened?

Sadly, it has been confirmed that Professor Omolara Leslie Ogundipe (1940-2019)
has passed away, aged 78. Again, what was the cause? As my spouse and I
still recall, at an International P.E.N. writer's Annual Congress in Mexico in 1996,
our Sister Molara made us -- as Black members and participants--  really proud: very 
articulate, no nonsense and simply brilliant!

It was, in fact, at the Mexico writers' conclave  that we also heard from a major British
writer that while many Africans earned their degrees from University of London (often 
through their local or indigenous constituent university affiliations, that Dr. Ogundipe was 
the first one to earn a First Class degree! She later earned a doctorate in Narratology 
(the theory of narrative).  

 A.B. Assensoh.




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We lost her.

Sent from my iPhone

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> TF,
> What happens to Prof. Molara Ogundipe? We were together at Ogun State University in the 80s.
> Segun Ogungbemi.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> ???????
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Will the Issue of Reparation for Slavery hurt the Democratic Party in the Next Presidential Election? [ A Historic Development in US/Africa History? A Debate]

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Raji:
You are comparing discriminatory treatment of women to slavery? Wow! Please withdraw such because while I have some agreement with your statement regarding how pushing this separation at this point, may lead to a win for Trump, I am disappointed that you would make such comparison between slavery and treatment of women. Yes, treatment of women was horrible and it still is but nothing in this world, nothing, can be compared with slavery. Slavery remains and will remain the worst injustice done to a people on this earth. Nothing is remotely close, not even holocaust! There really is no comparison.

Please allow me to expand on this horrible event in human history. Many often think of slavery as just taking some people and making them work or something that happened and stopped without understanding that slavery dehumanized the entire continent of Africa, the entire black race then and to date! It deprived Africans of humanness. It remains a major reason why Africa remains at the bottom of bottoms! Over 10 million Africans were sold or captured,  dehumanized, packed like sardines and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. A journey of over 5000 miles! Many thrown alive to the Atlantic Ocean. Many raped and children born either sold or murdered! (Some often wonder why the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico are so active and deadly...compare with the generally calm and tranquil Pacific Ocean with beautiful scenery throughout its course. I wonder about that too, notwithstanding the explanations from geography, meteorology, etc) Anyways. 
Yes, slavery is a major reason why Africans and Haitians mistrust, fear and do not feel comfortable helping each other to succeed. They will rather take from them and give to others than build for them! (Of note: such mistrust and self-defeatism behaviors existed within blacks in America but they worked very hard, with psychologists, social scientists and black activists, a few white too, all helping to remove and somewhat free Blacks from the "chain of internal woes" that hitherto derailed their progress). We Africans must do same! 

Slavery is why in Nigeria, the regions (mainly southern states- mostly Edos, Igbos, Yorubas, etc) that captured, dehumanized, sold their children or refused to protect their children...find it hard to enjoy cohesion. Same regions where the people easily pack and go! Same regions that despite their high percentage of degree acquisition, find it extremely hard to work together and use those degrees to make their regions and rest of the nation, better. A vacuum being daily filled by the "less educated" and not heavily populated northern regions, which dominate in key areas that control most of what happens in the nation. Many southerners blame it all on the effect of the war but that is not true! Go back to colonial days and find out why blaming it all on the civil war is nothing but a cop out. Yes, civil war contributed and/or exacerbated it but did not create the situation. Fact is that the north has a very high trust level of each other and thus very high cohesion, all borne out of the fact that their forebears, not angelic by any standards, protected them and still do. Their children in turn trust them, even as they also hold them accountable! Southerners did not and still do not protect their children. Thus, no such trust exists because no such protection was provided and even today, such is not strong!  And no one is working to instill such. We must! 

Going further, sorry, in USA, slavery and its cousins Jim Crow and other evil laws and policies, put in all slave states in USA (mostly the southern states) is why blacks continue to struggle. How would they not? You put a generation of people into over 400 years of evil slave treatment, "freed them", and for another 100 plus years, put in place and endure the evil Jim Crow that further deprived them of humanness, deprived them access to everything: education, housing, use of restroom, patenting their inventions, use of parks, freedom to move around, etc. Today, many expect them to compete with others who never suffered any of these. Common! These need to talk to psychologists who will explain to them that it takes double the time to destroy to re-build and that is if the "builders" know what they are doing, dedicated and honest! (I am struggling to put back a faucet that I carelessly dismantled! It took me a few minutes to dismantle it but so far, I have put in more than three hours and yet, the result is awful!) In essence, expecting blacks to be at some level as whites just because they now can go to school, drink from he same fountain, etc, is silly and in fact wicked! Yet, they, the blacks in USA, are moving pretty fast, at least faster than most African countries that retained some of their core. 

Raji: sorry for my long "lecture", but my point is that, yes, women suffered and still do but their treatment is not remotely similar and cannot be compared with slavery. Not even with Jim Crow, unless one means "black women" who were in a double jeopardy situation!  White women did not go through a tenth of what black women did. In fact, white women participated in propagating slavery, Jim Crow, etc. So when you talk of women which do you really mean? 

Now, with regard to reparations, if I were Democrats, I would hold on this reparation thing until after they have gotten this psychopath and racist out of the White House and have control of the house and possibly senate. Pushing this now may send the votes of many whites and some blacks to Trump and that would be a disaster.  

Reparation will help blacks to heal just as it will help whites to remove some pressure of guilt of the sin of slavery, Jim Crow and others that were endowed to them and nurtured by them. If I were speaking for the whites, I would encourage them to pay some reparation because once done, Blacks would lose some emotional leverage they have over whites for the sins of their forebears and fathers! Unfortunately, it will be hard for Africans to fight for reparation since they were complicit in slavery and also because they are so brainwashed by Europeans that many, regardless of their education, see slavery as having some good to it! It does not! Confounding the already ugly picture is this: Africans do not fight for the rights of their people: they instead pray to God to send his or her angels! When we fight, it is usually killing each other for selfish reasons. We love the stories put together for us by same people who dehumanized us. Such as the story about Joseph being enslaved by Egyptians and all the glamour attached to that just to deceive a generation! Today, many Africans are still waiting for a "Moses" to come take them to the promised land where they will sing alleluia, live with God/god and their angels and party forever! Yea! Park your bags! Anyways! 

Take care. 
Joe


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IMO - the Democratic Party will once again lose to Trump in the next presidential election if they make the issue of reparation for slavery as one of their agendas and push it in convincing voters to vote for them. It is backward thinking and will result in a low turn out of the important black votes while energizing the other side. We saw how the turn out of the black votes for Obama got him the job, twice.

The issue of reparation for slavery is divisive and unaffordable.  Considering that other groups where also discriminated against e.g. women were not allowed to vote, open a bank account, own properties. Yes, women were also at some time treated like slaves.

If one vote yes on reparation for black people, one must vote yes on reparation for women and other oppressed and enslaved groups. Where will it stop? Reparation is a divisive and unaffordable agenda and the Democratic Party should put a lid on that agenda before the general election of 2020.

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Faith, technology and sciences as vehicles of development

By Toyin Falola
21 June 2019   |   4:16 am
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My address has underscored the relevance of faith in the context of the related ideas of fact and fiction. In the process, it accepts faith as given. After all, faith and society have always been linked since the birth of human civilisation. Religion has made enormous contributions to the growth of civilisation. In Nigeria, we should tap into the advantages of faith and avoid inter-religious conflicts. As a measure of historicity, in earlier times, religion supplied many ideas to trigger innovations in architecture, philosophy, politics, and organisation of communities and nations.

Religion, for a very long time, precipitated the popularity of science and scientific engagements because of the unending promise that the latter was projected to hold in human activities. Each of these two synergies, religion and science which were born from the continuous probing of the environment, answered different questions raised by human curiosity. For the unseen life of humankind, religion provided a solace and succour that prompted continued hope with which people navigated the puzzling environment.

As we have seen in the success of Babcock, their faith energised the community to promote science and technology so that Nigeria can grow to become modern. Babcock is not afraid of the pursuit of science and technology. The Babcock ideas do not wage wars against science, technology, and medicine. The Bible supports faith, technology and science. It is, for example, in the Book of Proverbs, chapter 12 verse 11, that we gather that, "those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense".

Babcock believes that its students must work hard and acquire knowledge. We now use cars as opposed to donkeys, we use phones to break the sturdy wall of communication, we use washing machines as an alternative to manual washings; all these technologies being the products of scientific discovery. The interdependency of science, religion and survival is coded into the counsel of Paul in his letter to the religious folks in Thessalonica that "He that does not work does not deserve to eat" (2 Thess. 3:10). Babcock continues to unleash our capacities for modernity. This modernity is not negotiable, but it can be achieved through a combined effort of faith, fact, and fiction. Nigeria must become successful by every contemporary definition: humanly, materially, economically, technologically, intellectually and morally.

Babcock is an open society, welcoming to people of different religions, ethnicity, class and gender. This shows that the University is not afraid of bringing down our wall of intolerance in order to accommodate people and ideas that bring progress and advance the purpose of the general importance of humanity, preservation of African culture, economic and political development. In the alternative, in what ways do we project that our society will ever grow up to the level of contending honourably with emerging civilisations if we shut out a level ground for science? Candidly, are we happy with the way we are progressing in the community of nations? Nigeria still uses Julius Berger for their infrastructural assignment, the Africa Union structure was erected by China, rail lines are built by international companies, amidst the number of African talents that are already numbed by parochial engineering. It is, indeed, my unyielding suggestion that the great nation of Nigeria must combine faith with science and technology.

The three would make a combinatorial force capable of catapulting our society to an enviable position. When our scientific engagements begin to unearth curious discoveries that may strain our commonsense, there and then faith is usually needed to drive us back into a normalcy which follows the moral compass of our society. Looking at the envious records that faith-based institutions are making especially, we cannot but concede to the fact that, rather than weaken our zeal to move forward, faith can in fact anchor our journey towards scientific inquiry. A school, which is committed to making holistic education, both academic and spiritual, proves itself worthy of its salt when we consider the crop of academic products that the country and the world harvest from it annually.

Youth behaviour must undergo a revolution to embrace faith and fiction because it engenders creativity. Every developed society has forever been known to stand on the shoulder of its youth. The vibrancy, the zeal, and the commitment shown by this demography is directly proportional to the stage of the growth of such society. If it is understood that many ideas are deposited into the brains of every thinking mind which requires youthfulness to achieve however, we would not be making a wrong conclusion that Babcock is building a new generation of graduates that will lead us to progress. I urge Babcock students to be part of the solution to the country's problems. The world is fraught with unending puzzles waiting to be unraveled and solved. Thus, as I challenge every one of you to make use of the materials available, such as a willing school environment like this, to arm yourself and make drastic changes in our narratives, not only to shame the leaders with lame contributions to the betterment of the society, but also to assert our presence in the right position we deserve.

We should, as a matter of fact, not be carried away by the frenzy of the media society, where curious attention is given to materialism without minding the process.

We should, as a matter of fact, not be carried away by the frenzy of the media society, where curious attention is given to materialism without minding the process. The African media is promoting the values of consumption. Sadly, the youth are falling for this by trying to indulge themselves in the morally bankrupt activities of cybercrime, constituting nuisance, and brewing violence amidst other moral delinquencies. With the fact that no worldly known influential being has made their name through cybercrimes staring at us in the face, the African mind should understand that embracing name-denting activities would do more harm than good. Thus, it should be seen as a model of emulation to intending tertiary institutions and its founders that we must strive to achieve a combination of sound spiritual youths and an academically eclectic demographic, who we believe would go on to preserve our rich cultural legacy, and would not stray in their journey towards contemporary development.

Keep to your faith: it is the source of your strength, keep to your fact: it is the source of your understanding, keep to your fiction: it is the source of your imagination and creativity, keep to your Babcock culture: it provides you with the knowledge to progress. Cherish that Babcock knowledge: it holds the key to unlocking your greatness.

An excerpt of the convocation lecture of Babcock University, by Prof. Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The fundamental issue is why should a supposedly major organization attempt to raise fund by harvesting email addresses and sending fellowship offer to uncountable number of people who are not even in the field of management? What kind of funding drive is that? What moral basis does it have? A fellowship for all comers? Haba!

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Disband the State

June 21, 2019, 2:49 am
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Let's Disband the State and Create Another One

 

Jibrin Ibrahim, Friday Column, Daily Trust, 21stJune 2019

The title of my column today draws the idea offered by a great writer. In his most famous poem, "The Solution", Bertolt Brecht referring to how Germany could move forward in a context of the people being a huge disappointment gave us the following words.

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another? 

I begin by making three preliminary points that struck me this week. The first one is that only God, (not the State), can solve our problems. On Monday, at least thirty people were killed by suicide bombers in Konduga Local Government. Part of the reason the death toll was very high was the lack of immediate medical attention. First responders could not reach the spot of the incident as the military had closed the road to traffic and the hospital in Konduga did not have enough facilities to handle the situation. President Muhammadu Buhari commiserated with families of the victims according to his special adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. He said that the president sent a message of condolence to the government and people of the state over the suicide attacks stating that "judgment awaited perpetrators of evil acts, not only from man, through the long arms of the law, but also from God Almighty" (Thisday, 18thJune 2019). Adesina said President Buhari also urged security agents to sustain surveillance in all flash points in the country, bearing in mind the unconventional methods deployed by terrorists to harm innocent and unsuspecting victims. Yes, we know that God will deal with our killers but before then, the "long arm of the law" seems to be completely impotent.

My second observation this week is that while the President is relying on God, the boss of our army is telling us he cannot rely on his troops. This week, the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, again lampooned Nigerian soldiers for allegedly failing to curb Boko Haram and other security challenges that have dogged the country for so many years. He directly accused his troops of displaying a poor commitment to defend the country in almost every task they had been assigned, a situation he described as "unfortunate" and responsible for sparse promotion in the military rank-and-file. He castigated them for insufficient willingness to perform assigned tasks. The alleged laziness of soldiers could also be traced to "simply insufficient commitment to a common national/military course by those at the frontlines," General Buratai was quoted as saying. It is indeed true that in recent months, so many officers and men of our armed forces have been killed by Boko Haram terrorists, sundry bandits and kidnappers. The Islamic State combatants in Borno in particular have been attacking military formations in the State, killing soldiers and taking their arms. It would be recalled that in August last year, the same General Buratai has blamed soldiers on the frontlines for the Boko Haram scourge. He accused military commanders and soldiers of cowardice according to a report by PREMIUM TIMES. The army chief said soldiers were abandoning their positions in the face of Boko Haram firepower, an act he said should ordinarily demand court-martial of suspected personnel.

My third observation from the news this week is that if you are really important, the security agencies can do something. Just two days ago, the police announced that they have arrested the kidnappers of  Mahmoud Abubakar, Chairman  of the Universal Basic Education Council (UBEC) whowas abducted alongside his daughter on April 29, 2019, on Kaduna-Abuja expressway, while his driver was shot dead. We recall that immediately after the kidnapping, a ransom of sixty million Naira was paid and they were released. Two months after the kidnap, the intelligence response team of the inspector-general of police said it had arrested one Abubakar Ahmadu who led a five-man gang for the operation. We are all very happy for the release of Mahmoud Abubakar and his daughter and for the dogged determination of the "long arm of the law" to seek for and deal with the criminals. If only this diligence could be applied to all Nigerian citizens, poor and rich, nonentities and important people – wouldn't Nigeria be a great country.

 

These observations lead me to my concern this week, which is about two trends. The first very bad trend is that criminals are beginning to avoid brutalizing the high and mighty. Consistently, when very important people have been killed, kidnapped or brutalized the security agencies have devoted themselves to a thorough, painstaking and efficient effort to trace the criminals. When Major General I. M. Alkali disappeared near Jos, Nigeria witnessed one of its most thorough intelligence-led investigations leading to the discovery of the car, then the corpse and finally to the criminals who did it in Du, Plateau State. I did not know that we had such skills and was very impressed and proud that we could do it. Now to my concern. Why do we do it only for those some consider important. Why not for all citizens. Even more important is the stories we are now hearing that the criminals who are not stupid are now focused mainly on ordinary people. Concordant reports from our villages are filtering through that maybe as many as tens of thousands of ordinary people are being kidnapped daily with the limited objective of getting small ransoms of as low as 50,000 Naira. Such "petty" kidnappings never get reported in the media and relations simply tax themselves, pay the ransom and wait for the next kidnapping. If the only safe Nigerians will be the rich and powerful, you can be sure that neither they nor the country can survive.    

The second trend that concerns me is that the ordinary people too are not stupid. If they know that they are not safe in their homes and villages, they too will procure arms to protect themselves. The reality in Nigeria today is that we are already in an arms race and all segments of the community are arming themselves in our regime of self-help and self-protection. The problem is that as more people purchase arms to defend themselves or commit atrocities against the other, the real coming crisis is Thomas Hobbes scenario of all of our lives being: "nasty, brutish and short". There will be no winners in this war. It is precisely because of this fear that we have the armed forces and the police. If our new reality however is that they are not ready to face the bad guys; and indeed, some of them are part of the bad guys, the future could be, or maybe is already very bleak for us ordinary citizens.

We live in a constitutional regime where our Grand Norm says that the State will guarantee the security and welfare of all Nigerians. When those who run the State tell us to rely on God, we have a problem. When in addition the army commander tells is his troops are refusing to protect us, then we have an even greater problem. It is for this reason that I have always argued that our core problem is that we have not really reflected on the type of State we want and how to improve it. When the culture of self-help moves from the mundane, providing water and electricity for our households to the highest level of protecting ourselves from armed criminals and terrorists, then we cannot say that we have a State. That thing that we have, whatever it is, let's disband it and create a good one that can provide for our security and welfare.

 

 

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Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Institute Of Management Consultants Fellowship Nomination

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Adeshina,
In fairness to them, I do not think that they send the invitation to "all and sundry", or that they give "Fellowship to all comers", maybe, honorary fellowship. Moreover, anyone in the humanities can be trained to be a Management Consultant, I think that that is what they do.

Well, just my opinion, I do not work or associated with them. I may be wrong.

I prefer to leave this matter here.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Strange Convergence of Christian Escapism and Muslim Fatalism

June 21, 2019, 8:05 am
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The Strange Convergence 


by Moses E. Ochonu


Nigerians are held captive by two mutually complementary forces: the new age industry of self-help positivity and motivational thought on one side and Pentecostal Christianity on the other. The line between them is of course quite blurry.

Instead of engaging with the world as it exists and tackling the practical, everyday problems that they encounter, Nigerians have been socialized and rewired to completely deny and set aside the realities of the tangible, physical world through the power of what is called positive confession and through self-motivational escapism.

They are told by self-help gurus who write sophomoric platitudes about taking control of one's life and determining one's destiny that they should not acknowledge their conditions and problems but to rather reject them by pretending and confessing that such problems don't exist. To acknowledge reality is to engage in the abomination of "negative confession."

The next step is to refuse to do anything about such problems while trying to change the situation through the power of positive thought.

Self-help books, widely sold in Nigeria, blur the boundary between faith and secular New Age ideology, encouraging people to thrive on self-motivational claptrap rather than take practical, realistic action to ameliorate their conditions or, in some cases, to make pragmatic peace with such conditions if they're outside their capacity to solve.

The result is a curious, deadly cocktail of fatalism, unrealistic optimism, and escapism.

In Nigerian Christianity, many faithfuls interprets faith to mean that one should not acknowledge what really exists and that one could confess one's way positively out of a bad situation. The one who acknowledges his unsavory conditions is considered of weak faith. Instead of conditioning and preparing themselves to anticipate and deal with life's inevitable challenges, they shout "it's not my portion," as if to say calamity is the portion of the people who were afflicted and hobbled by adversity.

The next logical step is that people pray about even the most mundane problem that requires specific, demonstrably efficacious actions. They spiritualize quotidian, practical problems that God has given them the instruments to solve. One crude example: a child that wets the bed is taken to a deliverance home to be rid of the "bed wetting spirit."

Escapism authorizes laziness, inaction, and lethargy. Unrealistic optimism, which is underwritten by the New Age cult of positive thinking and confession, causes many Nigerians to neglect the realm of goal-setting, hard work, and focused, determined pursuit of set goals. 

Fatalism rounds out this complex psyche, convincing many Nigerians that what they are facing is divinely ordained, a natural or divine order of things (to paraphrase French theorist, Foucault).

Speaking of religion-infused fatalism, it used to be the exclusive province of Nigerian Muslims, at least that was the way it was popularly understood. This thinking is encapsulated by the Northern Nigerian Muslim attitude to death and adversity, which they casually ascribe to God or Allah and calmly accept as His will. 

"It is Allah's will," goes the refrain. In the past, people who were uncomfortable with the Nigerian Christian Pentecostal refusal to acknowledge, let alone accept the inevitability of adversity, would recommend the Muslim attitude as a preferred engagement with the world and its troubles. In truth, Muslim fatalism is only a complementary opposite of Nigerian Christian escapism and irrational hope. 

The two attitudes are opposite ends of a spectrum rooted in the same cultural refusal to acknowledge and engage critically with reality, for Muslim fatalism, like Pentecostal escapism, eschews and discourages ameliorative and remedial action by explaining every predicament as God's will.

Today, there seems to be a convergence of Nigerian Pentecostal escapism and unmoored, unrealistic optimism on one hand and Muslim fatalism on the other. For one thing, many Pentecostal Christians are now fatalists, routinely taking to God or ascribing to Him what they need to rigorously and rationally solve, or surrendering to "His will" in matters that require scientific, intellectual, or biomedical solutions.

And Muslims, for their part, have since adopted Christian positive thinking, positive confession, and escapist refusal to acknowledge reality. It is now fairly common to hear Muslims use Pentecostal Christianese to express their rejection of the bad and embrace of the good. 

Nowadays, it is not unusual to hear Muslims, especially Southwestern ones, say the words "that's not my portion" to reject (or refuse to acknowledge) what they consider adversity, even if such adversity is inevitable, inescapable, or solvable, or to reject bad fortune because "words are powerful."

Scholars (notably, Ebenezer Obadare) have already written about how Muslims in the Southwest are adopting the evangelistic methods and the language of Nigerian Pentecostal Christianity. I would go further to argue that they have also adopted the positive confession, escapism, and irrational optimism of Pentecostal Christians. 

In other words, this psychological orientation now enjoys pan-Nigerian currency and has subscribers across Nigeria's main religious divide.


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Understanding Ogbu Kalu: Christianity and Culture in Africa

Esteemed Scholars and Friends:

I trust this email finds you well, as i am pleased to announce the release of  a massive 616 page book by Professor Toyin Falola. The book is divided into 15 Chapters, longest book on an African scholar, and creatively published by Pan-African University Press (PAUP). Do please read below, a glimpse of the Preface and the TOC.

For Order and Inquiries, kindly reach out to Pan-African University Press on panafricanuniversitypress@gmail.com or +234 703 106 1749 (PAUP Nigeria Hub)

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This, indeed, is not the book I set out to write! Instead, my original plan included a full-blown biography, which was to be located as well as limited in time and place. Toward that end, I had already collected the requisite data to relate the past of Professor Ogbu Kalu's place of origin, his experiences, and education, coupled with his unfolding scholarship that Africa and the world came to know. It was equally framed as a project on place and identity —thus, how the spaces we inhabit influence what we write — and how what we write reshapes our geographic spaces.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: Professor A. B. Assensoh—xiii

Acknowledgments – xvii

Preface—xxi

Chapter 1

Ogbu Kalu: The Scholar and his Scholarship—1

Chapter 2

Christianity Across Space and Time—25

Chapter 3

Historical and Cultural Foundations of Christianity—59

Chapter 4

Christianity and Culture—99

Chapter 5

Christianity and Culture in Africa—129

Chapter 6

Christianity and Indigenous Religions—155

Chapter 7

Christianity and Igbo Culture—197

Chapter 8

Changing Face Of Christian Missions In Africa—225

Chapter 9

African Pentecostalism: From the Lens of a Sensei—273

Chapter 10

Ogbu Kalu and the Pentecostalist Movement—295

Chapter 11

The Africanization of Christianity—333

Chapter 12

Survivability and Fermentative Transposition—367

Chapter 13

Faith, Fact and Fiction—405

Chapter 14

Conclusion: Ogbu Kalu: The Future of Legacy—465

Chapter 15

Epilogue: The Ogbu Kalu Center: Let the Future Begin!—513

Bibliography—529

Index—575





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