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On 3/9/14, John Maunu <john.maunu@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/courses/465_11/readings/Race_and_Racism.pdf
>
> Perhaps this can help in this discussion. And thank you for this list
> serve. American history curriculum has long been a continuity over time of
> inadequate "African" history.
>
>
> John Maunu
> AP College Board World history consultant
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Segun Ogungbemi
> <seguno2013@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> "Indeed Immanuel kant the giant of western thought and morality is
>> believed to have held that some forms of criminality are genetical."
>> Kindly show a reference in Kant's work where the above statement has its
>> legitimacy.
>> Segun Ogungbemi.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:37, ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Some people are just thieves by the genes they may have inherited from
>> their parents,grand parents or great grand parents,etc.Shall we then
>> tolerate stealing and madness for this reason?
>>
>> Indeed Immanuel kant the giant of western thought and morality is
>> believed
>> to have held that some forms of criminality are genetical.
>>
>> Shall we because of this tolerate or endorse criminals and refuse to
>> criminalize those who are established to have committed them for this
>> reason
>>
>> A society promulgates law to establish order and focus.Those who are
>> abnormal are helped by the society to key into the moral and legal order
>> even by and through the law.
>>
>> In matters of morality and law a community can be corporate agent that
>> can
>> offend and be offended.
>>
>> Assuming that I urinate on American flag,I have not offended any one
>> person in particular but I have offended the American communal pride and
>> sensibility.
>>
>> I deserve to be punished.
>>
>> Here in Zim to be caught with a pornographic material is against the law
>> and it could lead to prosecution.
>>
>> Shall we because of the some democratic/reform challenges of the country
>> write or campaign against this law.
>>
>> What if any, is the link between corruption or misgovernance and the
>> criminalization of same-sex marriage in Nigeria.Is the inference not
>> fallacious?
>>
>> Some years at Asia a high school student informed me that their phones
>> were given to them at school and were programmed in such a way that it
>> could only make some communications that are not perceived to be morally
>> harmful.
>>
>> Freedom is a legal/moral capital which could and should be managed
>> prudently or it consumes the individual or society.
>>
>> Every law serves an end so the question should be to what end does this
>> law serve?-The answers are too many for this short reaction.
>>
>> However the position of this eminent story teller,even more the immediate
>> implication serves to interrogate the western academy/intellectual
>> industry and whether it is the best place for an African
>> intellectual;how
>> African he or she can be operating from there and which or what Africa
>> would dominate his or her imagination operating from there and why.
>>
>> Indeed from an African perspective,it is almost as if the young emergent
>> literary star is already heading towards darkness too soon .
>>
>> Time will tell!
>>
>> Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
>> Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
>> Department of Philosophy and Religions
>> Great Zimbabwe University
>> Masvingo/
>> UNIABUJA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 1, 2014 1:11 PM, Prof. Alfred Zack-Williams <
>> abzw@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> I wonder if folks have seen Adichie's rebuttal to the wave of homophobia
>> sweeping through our continent.
>> Apologise for cross posting if you have seen it already.
>> Tunde Zack-Williams
>>
>>
>> Anti-Gay Law: Chimamanda Adichie Writes, 'Why can't he just be like
>> everyone
>> else?'
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>> By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
>> I will call him Sochukwuma. A thin, smiling boy who liked to play with us
>> girls at the university primary school in Nsukka. We were young. We knew
>> he
>> was different, we said, 'he's not like the other boys.' But his was a
>> benign
>> and unquestioned difference; it was simply what it was. We did not have a
>> name for him. We did not know the word 'gay.' He was Sochukwuma and he
>> was
>> friendly and he played oga so well that his side always won.
>> In secondary school, some boys in his class tried to throw Sochukwuma off
>> a
>> second floor balcony. They were strapping teenagers who had learned to
>> notice, and fear, difference. They had a name for him. Homo. They mocked
>> him
>> because his hips swayed when he walked and his hands fluttered when he
>> spoke. He brushed away their taunts, silently, sometimes grinning an
>> uncomfortable grin. He must have wished that he could be what they wanted
>> him to be. I imagine now how helplessly lonely he must have felt. The
>> boys
>> often asked, "Why can't he just be like everyone else?"
>> Possible answers to that question include 'because he is abnormal,'
>> 'because
>> he is a sinner, 'because he chose the lifestyle.' But the truest answer
>> is
>> 'We don't know.' There is humility and humanity in accepting that there
>> are
>> things we simply don't know. At the age of 8, Sochukwuma was obviously
>> different. It was not about sex, because it could not possibly have been
>> -
>> his hormones were of course not yet fully formed - but it was an
>> awareness
>> of himself, and other children's awareness of him, as different. He could
>> not have 'chosen the lifestyle' because he was too young to do so. And
>> why
>> would he - or anybody - choose to be homosexual in a world that makes
>> life
>> so difficult for homosexuals?
>> The new law that criminalizes homosexuality is popular among Nigerians.
>> But
>> it shows a failure of our democracy, because the mark of a true democracy
>> is
>> not in the rule of its majority but in the protection of its minority -
>> otherwise mob justice would be considered democratic. The law is also
>> unconstitutional, ambiguous, and a strange priority in a country with so
>> many real problems. Above all else, however, it is unjust. Even if this
>> was
>> not a country of abysmal electricity supply where university graduates
>> are
>> barely literate and people die of easily-treatable causes and Boko Haram
>> commits casual mass murders, this law would still be unjust. We cannot be
>> a
>> just society unless we are able to accommodate benign difference, accept
>> benign difference, live and let live. We may not understand
>> homosexuality,
>> we may find it personally abhorrent but our response cannot be to
>> criminalize it.
>> A crime is a crime for a reason. A crime has victims. A crime harms
>> society.
>> On what basis is homosexuality a crime? Adults do no harm to society in
>> how
>> they love and whom they love. This is a law that will not prevent crime,
>> but
>> will, instead, lead to crimes of violence: there are already, in
>> different
>> parts of Nigeria, attacks on people 'suspected' of being gay. Ours is a
>> society where men are openly affectionate with one another. Men hold
>> hands.
>> Men hug each other. Shall we now arrest friends who share a hotel room,
>> or
>> who walk side by side? How do we determine the clunky expressions in the
>> law
>> - 'mutually beneficial,' 'directly or indirectly?'
>> Many Nigerians support the law because they believe the Bible condemns
>> homosexuality. The Bible can be a basis for how we choose to live our
>> personal lives, but it cannot be a basis for the laws we pass, not only
>> because the holy books of different religions do not have equal
>> significance
>> for all Nigerians but also because the holy books are read differently by
>> different people. The Bible, for example, also condemns fornication and
>> adultery and divorce, but they are not crimes.
>> For supporters of the law, there seems to be something about
>> homosexuality
>> that sets it apart. A sense that it is not 'normal.' If we are part of a
>> majority group, we tend to think others in minority groups are abnormal,
>> not
>> because they have done anything wrong, but because we have defined normal
>> to
>> be what we are and since they are not like us, then they are abnormal.
>> Supporters of the law want a certain semblance of human homogeneity. But
>> we
>> cannot legislate into existence a world that does not exist: the truth of
>> our human condition is that we are a diverse, multi-faceted species. The
>> measure of our humanity lies, in part, in how we think of those different
>> from us. We cannot - should not - have empathy only for people who are
>> like
>> us.
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>> Some supporters of the law have asked - what is next, a marriage between
>> a
>> man and a dog?' Or 'have you seen animals being gay?' (Actually, studies
>> show that there is homosexual behavior in many species of animals.) But,
>> quite simply, people are not dogs, and to accept the premise - that a
>> homosexual is comparable to an animal - is inhumane. We cannot reduce the
>> humanity of our fellow men and women because of how and who they love.
>> Some
>> animals eat their own kind, others desert their young. Shall we follow
>> those
>> examples, too?
>> Other supporters suggest that gay men sexually abuse little boys. But
>> pedophilia and homosexuality are two very different things. There are men
>> who abuse little girls, and women who abuse little boys, and we do not
>> presume that they do it because they are heterosexuals. Child molestation
>> is
>> an ugly crime that is committed by both straight and gay adults (this is
>> why
>> it is a crime: children, by virtue of being non-adults, require
>> protection
>> and are unable to give sexual consent).
>> There has also been some nationalist posturing among supporters of the
>> law.
>> Homosexuality is 'unafrican,' they say, and we will not become like the
>> west. The west is not exactly a homosexual haven; acts of discrimination
>> against homosexuals are not uncommon in the US and Europe. But it is the
>> idea of 'unafricanness' that is truly insidious. Sochukwuma was born of
>> Igbo
>> parents and had Igbo grandparents and Igbo great-grandparents. He was
>> born
>> a
>> person who would romantically love other men. Many Nigerians know
>> somebody
>> like him. The boy who behaved like a girl. The girl who behaved like a
>> boy.
>> The effeminate man. The unusual woman. These were people we knew, people
>> like us, born and raised on African soil. How then are they 'unafrican?'
>> If anything, it is the passage of the law itself that is 'unafrican.' It
>> goes against the values of tolerance and 'live and let live' that are
>> part
>> of many African cultures. (In 1970s Igboland, Area Scatter was a popular
>> musician, a man who dressed like a woman, wore makeup, plaited his hair.
>> We
>> don't know if he was gay - I think he was - but if he performed today, he
>> could conceivably be sentenced to fourteen years in prison. For being who
>> he
>> is.) And it is informed not by a home-grown debate but by a cynically
>> borrowed one: we turned on CNN and heard western countries debating 'same
>> sex marriage' and we decided that we, too, would pass a law banning same
>> sex
>> marriage. Where, in Nigeria, whose constitution defines marriage as being
>> between a man and a woman, has any homosexual asked for same-sex
>> marriage?
>> This is an unjust law. It should be repealed. Throughout history, many
>> inhumane laws have been passed, and have subsequently been repealed.
>> Barack
>> Obama, for example, would not be here today had his parents obeyed
>> American
>> laws that criminalized marriage between blacks and whites.
>> An acquaintance recently asked me, 'if you support gays, how would you
>> have
>> been born?' Of course, there were gay Nigerians when I was conceived. Gay
>> people have existed as long as humans have existed. They have always been
>> a
>> small percentage of the human population. We don't know why. What matters
>> is
>> this: Sochukwuma is a Nigerian and his existence is not a crime.
>>
>>
>> Read more
>>
>> http://newswirengr.com/2014/02/19/anti-gay-law-chimamanda-adichie-writes-why
>> -cant-he-just-be-like-everyone-else/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Emeagwali,
>> Gloria
>> (History)
>> Sent: 28 February 2014 12:25
>> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - I Died Today
>>
>> I love this poem - minus line 31.
>>
>> What made me cringe was not the f- word but
>> the v- word , surprisingly.
>>
>> But who am I to query a poet?
>>
>>
>> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of franklyne ogbunwezeh
>> [ogbunwezeh@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:59 PM
>> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - I Died Today
>>
>> I Died Today!!!
>>
>> By
>>
>> Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh
>>
>> I died today.
>>
>> I died today in shame and anger and annoyance.
>>
>> I died today in those lifeless bodies of innocent school children of Yobe
>> State, whose only "crimes" were going to school to conquer ignorance.
>>
>> Ignorance proved too strong and fatal.
>> She proved murderous and self-righteous.
>>
>> Ignorance not only slaughters the mind enslaved to it; It battles to
>> waste
>> the lives of those who are massed against it.
>>
>> The schizophrenic ignorance packaged as religious fanaticism invaded the
>> citadels of knowledge and exacted vengeance.
>> The price was the body and blood of over 43 innocent young Nigerians.
>>
>> I died today!
>> Nigeria killed me.
>>
>> The country of my birth, took its posterity to the Golgotha of hate.
>> She had her crucified in between a troop of thieves.
>>
>> I am busy dying over and over again in my brothers and sisters massacred
>> by
>> the fiery hate of a fanatical horde of thieves;
>>
>> And the thieves of Abuja are busy DISAPPEARING billions of dollars that
>> would have made my poor life here a bit livable.
>>
>> I died today.
>> Nigeria killed me.
>>
>> I died today in those men and women lynched by the hateful ignorance of
>> homophobes; who instead of pursuing solutions to Nigeria's problems, are
>> taking out their angst on minorities that do not fit into the conceptual
>> schemes of their morbid faiths.
>>
>> I died today.
>> Nigeria killed me.
>>
>> I died in all who would lose their lives today on Nigerian deathtraps of
>> roads.
>> Roads constructed with corruption and embezzlement, to the furthest
>> reaches
>> of dysfunction and non-existence.
>>
>> I died today in all whom Nigeria has fucked over, and sodomized without
>> Vaseline for so long.
>>
>> I died today in Nigerians, in whom hate, ignorance and atavism have built
>> up
>> a cocooned vision of the world that was sired in hate and lives by
>> peddling
>> hate.
>>
>> I died because our education degenerated into dsyfunctionality as to
>> teach
>> them anything.
>>
>> I died.
>> Nigeria killed me
>>
>> Emmanuel F. Ogbunwezeh
>> 25.02.2014
>>
>> * ************** *************** ****************** ***************
>> *********** What constitutes a disservice to our faculty of judgment,
>> however, is to place obstacles in the way of assembling truth's
>> fragments,
>> remaining content with a mere one- or two-dimensional projection where a
>> multidimensional and multifaceted apprehension remains open, accessible
>> and
>> instructive.
>>
>>
>> Wole Soyinka, Between Truth and Indulgences
>>
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<br/>Harry Mordi, 28, whos is known to be Popular Nigerian Hiphop
producer, who was well known as Hcode is dead . H-code was the
producer of 2face Idibia and Vector's- "Get Down", Saucekid hit single
Na Me Be Fine Boy, Pype, Vector, Waje and many more </span>
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style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size:
23.636363983154297px;">Popular Nigerian HipHop Producer H-code is
dead</span></strong></a>
On 3/9/14, John Maunu <john.maunu@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/courses/465_11/readings/Race_and_Racism.pdf
>
> Perhaps this can help in this discussion. And thank you for this list
> serve. American history curriculum has long been a continuity over time of
> inadequate "African" history.
>
>
> John Maunu
> AP College Board World history consultant
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Segun Ogungbemi
> <seguno2013@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> "Indeed Immanuel kant the giant of western thought and morality is
>> believed to have held that some forms of criminality are genetical."
>> Kindly show a reference in Kant's work where the above statement has its
>> legitimacy.
>> Segun Ogungbemi.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:37, ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Some people are just thieves by the genes they may have inherited from
>> their parents,grand parents or great grand parents,etc.Shall we then
>> tolerate stealing and madness for this reason?
>>
>> Indeed Immanuel kant the giant of western thought and morality is
>> believed
>> to have held that some forms of criminality are genetical.
>>
>> Shall we because of this tolerate or endorse criminals and refuse to
>> criminalize those who are established to have committed them for this
>> reason
>>
>> A society promulgates law to establish order and focus.Those who are
>> abnormal are helped by the society to key into the moral and legal order
>> even by and through the law.
>>
>> In matters of morality and law a community can be corporate agent that
>> can
>> offend and be offended.
>>
>> Assuming that I urinate on American flag,I have not offended any one
>> person in particular but I have offended the American communal pride and
>> sensibility.
>>
>> I deserve to be punished.
>>
>> Here in Zim to be caught with a pornographic material is against the law
>> and it could lead to prosecution.
>>
>> Shall we because of the some democratic/reform challenges of the country
>> write or campaign against this law.
>>
>> What if any, is the link between corruption or misgovernance and the
>> criminalization of same-sex marriage in Nigeria.Is the inference not
>> fallacious?
>>
>> Some years at Asia a high school student informed me that their phones
>> were given to them at school and were programmed in such a way that it
>> could only make some communications that are not perceived to be morally
>> harmful.
>>
>> Freedom is a legal/moral capital which could and should be managed
>> prudently or it consumes the individual or society.
>>
>> Every law serves an end so the question should be to what end does this
>> law serve?-The answers are too many for this short reaction.
>>
>> However the position of this eminent story teller,even more the immediate
>> implication serves to interrogate the western academy/intellectual
>> industry and whether it is the best place for an African
>> intellectual;how
>> African he or she can be operating from there and which or what Africa
>> would dominate his or her imagination operating from there and why.
>>
>> Indeed from an African perspective,it is almost as if the young emergent
>> literary star is already heading towards darkness too soon .
>>
>> Time will tell!
>>
>> Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
>> Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
>> Department of Philosophy and Religions
>> Great Zimbabwe University
>> Masvingo/
>> UNIABUJA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 1, 2014 1:11 PM, Prof. Alfred Zack-Williams <
>> abzw@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> I wonder if folks have seen Adichie's rebuttal to the wave of homophobia
>> sweeping through our continent.
>> Apologise for cross posting if you have seen it already.
>> Tunde Zack-Williams
>>
>>
>> Anti-Gay Law: Chimamanda Adichie Writes, 'Why can't he just be like
>> everyone
>> else?'
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>> By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
>> I will call him Sochukwuma. A thin, smiling boy who liked to play with us
>> girls at the university primary school in Nsukka. We were young. We knew
>> he
>> was different, we said, 'he's not like the other boys.' But his was a
>> benign
>> and unquestioned difference; it was simply what it was. We did not have a
>> name for him. We did not know the word 'gay.' He was Sochukwuma and he
>> was
>> friendly and he played oga so well that his side always won.
>> In secondary school, some boys in his class tried to throw Sochukwuma off
>> a
>> second floor balcony. They were strapping teenagers who had learned to
>> notice, and fear, difference. They had a name for him. Homo. They mocked
>> him
>> because his hips swayed when he walked and his hands fluttered when he
>> spoke. He brushed away their taunts, silently, sometimes grinning an
>> uncomfortable grin. He must have wished that he could be what they wanted
>> him to be. I imagine now how helplessly lonely he must have felt. The
>> boys
>> often asked, "Why can't he just be like everyone else?"
>> Possible answers to that question include 'because he is abnormal,'
>> 'because
>> he is a sinner, 'because he chose the lifestyle.' But the truest answer
>> is
>> 'We don't know.' There is humility and humanity in accepting that there
>> are
>> things we simply don't know. At the age of 8, Sochukwuma was obviously
>> different. It was not about sex, because it could not possibly have been
>> -
>> his hormones were of course not yet fully formed - but it was an
>> awareness
>> of himself, and other children's awareness of him, as different. He could
>> not have 'chosen the lifestyle' because he was too young to do so. And
>> why
>> would he - or anybody - choose to be homosexual in a world that makes
>> life
>> so difficult for homosexuals?
>> The new law that criminalizes homosexuality is popular among Nigerians.
>> But
>> it shows a failure of our democracy, because the mark of a true democracy
>> is
>> not in the rule of its majority but in the protection of its minority -
>> otherwise mob justice would be considered democratic. The law is also
>> unconstitutional, ambiguous, and a strange priority in a country with so
>> many real problems. Above all else, however, it is unjust. Even if this
>> was
>> not a country of abysmal electricity supply where university graduates
>> are
>> barely literate and people die of easily-treatable causes and Boko Haram
>> commits casual mass murders, this law would still be unjust. We cannot be
>> a
>> just society unless we are able to accommodate benign difference, accept
>> benign difference, live and let live. We may not understand
>> homosexuality,
>> we may find it personally abhorrent but our response cannot be to
>> criminalize it.
>> A crime is a crime for a reason. A crime has victims. A crime harms
>> society.
>> On what basis is homosexuality a crime? Adults do no harm to society in
>> how
>> they love and whom they love. This is a law that will not prevent crime,
>> but
>> will, instead, lead to crimes of violence: there are already, in
>> different
>> parts of Nigeria, attacks on people 'suspected' of being gay. Ours is a
>> society where men are openly affectionate with one another. Men hold
>> hands.
>> Men hug each other. Shall we now arrest friends who share a hotel room,
>> or
>> who walk side by side? How do we determine the clunky expressions in the
>> law
>> - 'mutually beneficial,' 'directly or indirectly?'
>> Many Nigerians support the law because they believe the Bible condemns
>> homosexuality. The Bible can be a basis for how we choose to live our
>> personal lives, but it cannot be a basis for the laws we pass, not only
>> because the holy books of different religions do not have equal
>> significance
>> for all Nigerians but also because the holy books are read differently by
>> different people. The Bible, for example, also condemns fornication and
>> adultery and divorce, but they are not crimes.
>> For supporters of the law, there seems to be something about
>> homosexuality
>> that sets it apart. A sense that it is not 'normal.' If we are part of a
>> majority group, we tend to think others in minority groups are abnormal,
>> not
>> because they have done anything wrong, but because we have defined normal
>> to
>> be what we are and since they are not like us, then they are abnormal.
>> Supporters of the law want a certain semblance of human homogeneity. But
>> we
>> cannot legislate into existence a world that does not exist: the truth of
>> our human condition is that we are a diverse, multi-faceted species. The
>> measure of our humanity lies, in part, in how we think of those different
>> from us. We cannot - should not - have empathy only for people who are
>> like
>> us.
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>> Some supporters of the law have asked - what is next, a marriage between
>> a
>> man and a dog?' Or 'have you seen animals being gay?' (Actually, studies
>> show that there is homosexual behavior in many species of animals.) But,
>> quite simply, people are not dogs, and to accept the premise - that a
>> homosexual is comparable to an animal - is inhumane. We cannot reduce the
>> humanity of our fellow men and women because of how and who they love.
>> Some
>> animals eat their own kind, others desert their young. Shall we follow
>> those
>> examples, too?
>> Other supporters suggest that gay men sexually abuse little boys. But
>> pedophilia and homosexuality are two very different things. There are men
>> who abuse little girls, and women who abuse little boys, and we do not
>> presume that they do it because they are heterosexuals. Child molestation
>> is
>> an ugly crime that is committed by both straight and gay adults (this is
>> why
>> it is a crime: children, by virtue of being non-adults, require
>> protection
>> and are unable to give sexual consent).
>> There has also been some nationalist posturing among supporters of the
>> law.
>> Homosexuality is 'unafrican,' they say, and we will not become like the
>> west. The west is not exactly a homosexual haven; acts of discrimination
>> against homosexuals are not uncommon in the US and Europe. But it is the
>> idea of 'unafricanness' that is truly insidious. Sochukwuma was born of
>> Igbo
>> parents and had Igbo grandparents and Igbo great-grandparents. He was
>> born
>> a
>> person who would romantically love other men. Many Nigerians know
>> somebody
>> like him. The boy who behaved like a girl. The girl who behaved like a
>> boy.
>> The effeminate man. The unusual woman. These were people we knew, people
>> like us, born and raised on African soil. How then are they 'unafrican?'
>> If anything, it is the passage of the law itself that is 'unafrican.' It
>> goes against the values of tolerance and 'live and let live' that are
>> part
>> of many African cultures. (In 1970s Igboland, Area Scatter was a popular
>> musician, a man who dressed like a woman, wore makeup, plaited his hair.
>> We
>> don't know if he was gay - I think he was - but if he performed today, he
>> could conceivably be sentenced to fourteen years in prison. For being who
>> he
>> is.) And it is informed not by a home-grown debate but by a cynically
>> borrowed one: we turned on CNN and heard western countries debating 'same
>> sex marriage' and we decided that we, too, would pass a law banning same
>> sex
>> marriage. Where, in Nigeria, whose constitution defines marriage as being
>> between a man and a woman, has any homosexual asked for same-sex
>> marriage?
>> This is an unjust law. It should be repealed. Throughout history, many
>> inhumane laws have been passed, and have subsequently been repealed.
>> Barack
>> Obama, for example, would not be here today had his parents obeyed
>> American
>> laws that criminalized marriage between blacks and whites.
>> An acquaintance recently asked me, 'if you support gays, how would you
>> have
>> been born?' Of course, there were gay Nigerians when I was conceived. Gay
>> people have existed as long as humans have existed. They have always been
>> a
>> small percentage of the human population. We don't know why. What matters
>> is
>> this: Sochukwuma is a Nigerian and his existence is not a crime.
>>
>>
>> Read more
>>
>> http://newswirengr.com/2014/02/19/anti-gay-law-chimamanda-adichie-writes-why
>> -cant-he-just-be-like-everyone-else/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Emeagwali,
>> Gloria
>> (History)
>> Sent: 28 February 2014 12:25
>> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - I Died Today
>>
>> I love this poem - minus line 31.
>>
>> What made me cringe was not the f- word but
>> the v- word , surprisingly.
>>
>> But who am I to query a poet?
>>
>>
>> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of franklyne ogbunwezeh
>> [ogbunwezeh@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:59 PM
>> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - I Died Today
>>
>> I Died Today!!!
>>
>> By
>>
>> Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh
>>
>> I died today.
>>
>> I died today in shame and anger and annoyance.
>>
>> I died today in those lifeless bodies of innocent school children of Yobe
>> State, whose only "crimes" were going to school to conquer ignorance.
>>
>> Ignorance proved too strong and fatal.
>> She proved murderous and self-righteous.
>>
>> Ignorance not only slaughters the mind enslaved to it; It battles to
>> waste
>> the lives of those who are massed against it.
>>
>> The schizophrenic ignorance packaged as religious fanaticism invaded the
>> citadels of knowledge and exacted vengeance.
>> The price was the body and blood of over 43 innocent young Nigerians.
>>
>> I died today!
>> Nigeria killed me.
>>
>> The country of my birth, took its posterity to the Golgotha of hate.
>> She had her crucified in between a troop of thieves.
>>
>> I am busy dying over and over again in my brothers and sisters massacred
>> by
>> the fiery hate of a fanatical horde of thieves;
>>
>> And the thieves of Abuja are busy DISAPPEARING billions of dollars that
>> would have made my poor life here a bit livable.
>>
>> I died today.
>> Nigeria killed me.
>>
>> I died today in those men and women lynched by the hateful ignorance of
>> homophobes; who instead of pursuing solutions to Nigeria's problems, are
>> taking out their angst on minorities that do not fit into the conceptual
>> schemes of their morbid faiths.
>>
>> I died today.
>> Nigeria killed me.
>>
>> I died in all who would lose their lives today on Nigerian deathtraps of
>> roads.
>> Roads constructed with corruption and embezzlement, to the furthest
>> reaches
>> of dysfunction and non-existence.
>>
>> I died today in all whom Nigeria has fucked over, and sodomized without
>> Vaseline for so long.
>>
>> I died today in Nigerians, in whom hate, ignorance and atavism have built
>> up
>> a cocooned vision of the world that was sired in hate and lives by
>> peddling
>> hate.
>>
>> I died because our education degenerated into dsyfunctionality as to
>> teach
>> them anything.
>>
>> I died.
>> Nigeria killed me
>>
>> Emmanuel F. Ogbunwezeh
>> 25.02.2014
>>
>> * ************** *************** ****************** ***************
>> *********** What constitutes a disservice to our faculty of judgment,
>> however, is to place obstacles in the way of assembling truth's
>> fragments,
>> remaining content with a mere one- or two-dimensional projection where a
>> multidimensional and multifaceted apprehension remains open, accessible
>> and
>> instructive.
>>
>>
>> Wole Soyinka, Between Truth and Indulgences
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