Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The End of An Assignment In Nigeria
The piece is sweeping in its know-it-all pseudo-ethnographic claims. There is hyperbole and self-righteousness in it despite the author's best effort to strategically erect caveats and qualifiers at...
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The immigrant experience, which this novel is obviously engaged with, is a fraught topic in South Africa, and a very difficult thing to represent. It's also quite a popular topic, especially this year,...
View ArticleRE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Do African (Women) Political Theorist Exist?
Mobujaoulu Okome is in pol.sc.(Nigeria/US)Professor Gloria EmeagwaliProf. of History & African StudiesHistory DepartmentCentral Connecticut State UniversityNew BritainCT...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Do African (Women) Political Theorists Exist?
Thanks Prof., by the way I have just stumbled on your chapter based on a paper you presented in Dar es Salaam among other places way back in 1989 - its title is: "Perspectives on Women and the...
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Things either work or do not work. When something works, it does because actual results are for the most part consistent and in consonance with expected results. The question to ask it seems to me is a...
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Ogugua,So we're back to the dead-end debate about structure vs. leadership, a debate that was inaugurated in the Nigerian context by Achebe's book, the The Trouble with Nigeria, in which he makes the...
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i don't think the issue is whether his report is factual, it is what is the range of his experience, the parameters within which he constructs this very broad picture of nigeria. let's say all his...
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strongly agree!On 9/11/13 3:37 PM, Moses Ebe Ochonu wrote:It makes sense to me that, if a powerful, de facto centralized state exists solely as an avenue for sharing revenue derived from one lucrative...
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Folks: I would not dignify the facticity of Tim Newman's account. And paradoxically, I would not dismiss, counter, and retune his narrative bent. For my part, I thought he was writing about my...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: Jonathan sacks nine Ministers
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: Emailing: I will return to Bayero University...
Indeed! ----- Forwarded Message -----Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:30 PMSubject: Emailing: I will return to Bayero University as lecturer, says Ex- Education Minister The Nation.htmI will...
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“It makes sense to me that, if a powerful, de facto centralized state exists solely as an avenue for sharing revenue derived from one lucrative national product, corruption is a logical outcome. That...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Is Nigeria multi-religious or a secular state?
Is Nigeria multi-religious or a secular state? KAYODE KETEFE This writer has often heard it said by some starry-eyed political theorists and religion enthusiasts that Nigeria is not a secular state but...
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hi ogugua (et al) i have always wondered about this. i agree that it is people who are responsible, not systems. but people function within systems, so their responsibility is relative. this is my...
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You may want to emphasize that Nigeria when it comes to religion is liberal. The 1999 constitution of Nigeria tolerates all sorts of religions insofar there are no infractions on the rights of the...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nine Federal Ministers Relieved Of their Duties...
September 11, 2013From Top Left to Bottom Right: Rufai, Ashiru, Obada, Usman, Pepple, Tijani, Kachi, Ewa and MailafaMinisters of the Federal Republic of Nigeria: Current, Immediate Past and...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Quote of the Day
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Remember: 'When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.' -...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: Comrade Per Excellence; Kayode Opeifa...
By Nelson EkujumiRecently comrade Kayode Opeifa, the honourable commissioner for public transportation in Lagos state was in the eye of the storm as a result of the unruly behavior of some miscreants...
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View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Waziri to Obasanjo: Respect your age or I’ll...
Waziri to Obasanjo: Respect your age or I'll expose you - The Punch Newspaper 12 September 2013 A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Wednesday...
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