Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PEN Ten with Chris Abani
hi kwabena the notion that westerners in general salivate at stories about african dysfunctionality, sure. that is absolutely true, and has been true as long as i can remember. it is less the case, i...
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“Ogugua Anunoby says that “Awolowo’s greatness is actually diminished by it” (the comparison). Pray Sir, how so? Very personally speaking, I would say that it is not an odious comparison, …” ch...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: On Odia Ofeimun's "Awolowo was greater...
Sir, The presumption of course is that All men are created equal– irrespective of whether you are Yoruba, Igbo, Luo, Ibibio, Fulani, Zulu, Xhosa, Mandinka, Wolof or Hausa...The judgement is yours, that...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - nytime editorial
maybe another example of where the mass media puts in its headlines how terrible things are in africa, here is the latest editorial and first few lines in the ny times today. in light of our previous...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: On Odia Ofeimun's "Awolowo was greater...
Sir, The presumption of course is that All men are created equal– irrespective of whether you are Yoruba, Igbo, Luo, Ibibio, Fulani, Zulu, Xhosa, Mandinka, Wolof or Hausa...The judgement is yours, that...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re - The Battered Husbands Syndrome
Professor ZalangaThanks for alerting us to the various vistas opened up by the term feminism– not to mention the impact of the teachings of a Hell-enised Paul, on African cultures. I wonder if the...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - POINT-COUNTERPOINT: Bayelsa State vs. Rivers...
Oil and Gas Assets in the area of the Bayelsa-RIvers States disputed area (ie Soku/Oluasari oilfield, and the Santa Barbara/San Bartholomew Rivers...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PEN Ten with Chris Abani
Ken, thanks for your perspective. If as you say white liberal humanitarian types are not duped by fantastical stories of gore and heroic escapes from hellholes in Africa, why was there no critique,...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PEN Ten with Chris Abani
hi moses i'll have to read this a bit later, to offer a proper response. but in the meanwhile, i wonder if it is possible to identify those who were duped. i don't want to make this an impossible...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PEN Ten with Chris Abani
hi moses i am having trouble with your desire to see liberals as the core of those who celebrate abani's accounts, and who are to be blamed for not checking the facts better. who are the audiences for...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 2014 Fifa World Cup: draw and group-by-group...
Sent from my iPadOn Dec 6, 2013, at 11:09 AM, "Akurang-Parry, Kwabena"<KAParr@ship.edu> wrote:P { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/23144640 Kwabena --...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: JONATHAN AND THE DECISION MAKING BLACK BOX
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.From: maggie anaeto <maganaeto@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 13:10:46 +0000 (GMT)To:...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and Playwright,...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/arts/amiri-baraka-polarizing-poet-and-playwright-dies-at-79.html?hpw&rref=books&_r=0 Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and Playwright, Dies at 79By MARGALIT FOX...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PEN Ten with Chris Abani
I am squirming in my seat and I don't have a penis! My point is, it will be hard to talk about such a torture!!! Aaargh!On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:13 AM, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote: hi...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and...
Sorry to hear his passing. His works and legacy as a founding member of what became known as the Black Arts Movement will continue to inspire generations. Wishing his soul peace and his family...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and...
Labelling our heroes to disarm us; scripting our past to control our thoughts; twisting our collective experiences to subvert our emancipatory agenda: this has been and will continue to be the hallmark...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and...
"Polarizing"? I expect nothing less from the "liberal" Times. He was a great man, a man of uncompromising principle, and yes, for the weak kneed who, as a African American friend of mine reminded me,...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Egypt: Lessons from the Algerian Coup
Does the History of the Algerian Coup Offer Clues to What Egypt May Expect? Friday, 10 January 2014 10:18 By Yasmine Ryan, Truthout | News Analysis font sizeDemonstrators hold up four fingers during a...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Ka'Ba (Poem) By Late Amiri Baraka (formerly...
A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and Black people call across or scream across or walk across defying physics in the stream of their will.Our world is full of sound Our world is more...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and...
Re –"the violent baraka (he just died) "(So cold) De mortuis nil nisi bonumOf course there are some crackers who even now would like to withdraw his poetic license and will never forgive him for...
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