USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obituary: Professor Kunle Lawal
Professor Kunle Lawal died yesterday. As a younger friend and colleague, he should be the one to announce my demise; that I am doing so compounds the tragedy and trauma. I have known him since the...
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An Irele sentence'For if, as Karl Marx has observed (in The Holy Family), human beings are the real source of history and not an impersonal principle, it is the myriad forms of exchange and...
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Do u really need to evoke Marx re the centrality of human agency in history? This is high school stuff not even HS 101. ---On Dec 26, 2013 2:12 PM, "Oluwatoyin Adepoju" <tovadepoju@gmail.com>...
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Thank you Prof. I have lost a friend, Teacher, Mentor and Father. We started my Ph.D thesis together but departed before its completion.On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Toyin Falola...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: ] Fwd: Africa: Africa in 2014: African...
Hello Binta and all: I believe the African community in the Diaspora has more going than has been formally documented and sensitized. The vacuum in indigenous organizational leadership is being...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: ABIOLA IRELE FACEBOOK GROUP
Please clarify, IbrahimI would like to understand you betterOn Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:Do u really need to evoke Marx re the centrality of human...
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If i might comment while awaiting your explanation, to the best of my knowledge, the question of the central forces behind history has been contentious in philosophy and various world views. One may...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - nigerian refugees
my wife and i are into our 5th day without electricity, with the temperatures outside below freezing and the house now 41 degrees. we feel sorry for ourselves. then we read about real refugees, and...
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hi ibrahim i don't agree with your reaction. maybe it's because i have such respect for marx as a thinker, for derrida in inevoking the spirit of marx as core for progressive historical and...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: ABIOLA IRELE FACEBOOK GROUP
Toyin,Don't you think that if we continue to establish groups like the "Wole Soyinka Society" yahoo group and this, we will just end up building personality cults? Do we have to establish these groups...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Is APC the New PDP? By Chido Onumah
The inimitable Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, captured the popular sentiment in his terse statement on the APC visit to Chief Obasanjo when he noted, in reference to Chief Obasanjo's new role as...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Invitation:New Year's Eve Party:Southern African...
You Go Southern Africa!!! Join the blazing and pioneering Regional Bloc of SADC in the Diaspora http://www.southernafricancommunity.org/ http://www.sadc.int/Join us and stay connected to Southern...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Re – the piece entitled The Obasanjo- Jonathan...
I am still angry. Maybe, feeling incensed is a better word. I have read both letters and the editorial in question several times now and will soon be taking them in more fully in my next survey – I...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: THE OBASANJO, JONATHAN LETTERS
Amended:I am still angry. Maybe, feeling incensed is a better word. I have read both letters and the editorial in question several times now and will soon be taking them in more fully in my next survey...
View ArticleRE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - BLAME OBAMA FOR S. SUDAN
"The Stockholm syndrome refers to a situation when hostages begin to develop positive feelings toward their captors, an effect thought to occur when victims' initially frightening experiences with...
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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - On the Matter of Obj-Gej-Iyabo Exchange of...
One understands the persuasion to support President Jonathan’s reply to Obasanjo’s letter. Jonathan should not have. I was actually surprised and kind of disappointed that he did. Jonathan should know...
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"Mandela family rakes in millions"http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/Mandela-family-rakes-in-millions-report-20130429On Dec 26, 2013 7:00 PM, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"...
View ArticleRE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Is APC the New PDP? By Chido Onumah
Thank you for the Tinubu quote. It is confirmation that politics is a business for the man. Has anyone noticed that like Buhari, he has no administrative position in the APC. He may be positioning...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - On the Matter of Obj-Gej-Iyabo Exchange of L...
Evelyn:Neither of them for example needed to feel compelled to give us ten long or short reasons each why to write or respond. Those should have been left to our fertile imagination.Season's...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - The New Widowers Who Loved the Same Man
My People:I just finished watching "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom" with my family. It was lovely: Mandela portrayed magisterially, and Winnie quite powerfully.The movie was all pre-Graca (Machel):...
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