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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Ibukunolu A Babajide
AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose
The law demands that we atone
When we take things that we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
- Anonymous (circa 1764)
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"how deep(or fruitful or meaningful or impactful)" is subject to varied definitions.
CAO.
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Would you say for example, that "Okoko Ndem", the Radio Biafra broadcaster who was detained by the Gowon regime after the civil war, did not participate in the war because he did not shoot bullets at the war fronts? What about the more lethal "bullets" he shot from the radio that unsettled the Federal side?
Would you consider Achebe and JP Clark for example, less of activists because they do not usually appear at the scene of protests.
A writer may choose to be a soldier, that is a personal choice, however, writing to inspire revolutions or protests against bad governance also makes the writer a participant.
Protest writing is even more dangerous than appearing physically at protest points. Protest writing is as dangerous as soldiering.
CAO.
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We live to learn; we learn to live. A lutta continua!
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Since I have the pen, what do I need the sword for?
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Ligali Mukaiba was wrong in this generalization.
It should be a personal choice.
In struggles as in many other things, duties/assignments are compartmentalized. There are fighters and there are writers. The writers inspire the fighters.
CAO.
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The pen moulds the mind, the mind then makes the gun and the drone.
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I need answer to my question.
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Chidi,
Have you ever tried your hand at “War Poetry “? Have you ever experienced War at a close range or only on TV? Shouldn't the poet work for peace? ( Just asking )
You ask, “If a talented writer would abandon his/her craft in the heat of crisis and go to the trenches, why did he/she become a writer in the first place?"
You
have also explained previously, “ I am a public poet, I
have been writing for more than ten years now on the internet to
inspire revolutions, yet some persons expect me to participate in the
physical aspect of revolution!” and in a reply to Ibrahim
Abdullah, you thus defined yourself :
“Protest writing is even more dangerous than appearing physically at protest points. Protest writing is as dangerous as soldiering, “culminating in your asserting your own personal truth; “The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Since I have the pen, what do I need the sword for? “
To date, how many revolutions have you inspired?
I understand that you are of course speaking very personally and not legislating action/ inaction on behalf of others. I suppose that it all depends on the Chi in Chidi.
Well, first of all, as a writer you could be reporting live and direct from the trenches.
About the grimness of war , this was George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army(in 1944
Who was it that said, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”?
I know a Moroccan Jew who took part in the Six-Day War in 1967. He was nineteen years old at the time and ready to roll at a moment’s notice. I know another, born in Libya, but before he could get to Paris to register, the war was already over. Indeed, thousands of people volunteered and were ready to put their lives on the front line for a cause close to their heart. And who was it that said of the Six-Day War, “never have the asses of so many been kicked by so few.”?
You were probably still in your nappies or short trousers when the Biafra War for Independence broke out. If you had been a writer back then I suppose that as a non-fighting combatant you could have been very useful in the propaganda department of the Biafra War effort?
What do you have to say about these here below?
Poets who fought in the trenches
Writers who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War
What do you say about
As to your other claim that “ The pen moulds the mind, the mind then makes the gun and the drone.”, there are those who say that it’s the mind that moulds the pen and that it must have been the mind plus something else that moulded the one usually referred to as “The Father Of The Atomic Bomb”
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Sir, you're talking about journalism, not creative writing.
CAO.
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Yes, both can be chosen, but when that happens, one is done at the expense of the other.
For me, (protest) writing is an instrument to bring about positive change, there are other instruments. I would rather concentrate on one, the one I have skill in, the one I do better!
CAO.
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Chidi.
Chidi interrupts his writing to have a cup of tea.
Chidi had a cup of tea. Chidi had another cup of tea.
Chidi had a cup of tea before the White Man came and mucked up everything...
I heard Aminatta Forna say in a TV interview that when it’s in her mind to write a book, then she can lock herself up in a room for months, away from it all, until the book is through. Done.
There’s no gainsaying the fact that some talented writers could be committed to writing non-stop round the clock and not do anything else, however, Cornelius Ignoramus imagines that even
if it’s not your motto to “make love, not war” there’s this occasional line from the immortal John Donne swearing, in every man’s repertoire, as the occasion may demand : “For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love”. Isn’t it true that from time to time, lover boy Johnny wants to do some locomotion too, some “Poetry in motion”, just like Chidi did a little while ago? To lay. Abi I lie ?
It’s your word abandon that’s is a bit of a hyperbole here, it’s a wee exaggerated Sir.
Did Léopold Sédar Senghor abandon poetry for politics?
What says Chidi about Amilcar Cabral?
There are many other good examples…
It may be tea time Chidi, but remember that right now we are in the trenches...
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I do not fear death, I rather fear old age with serious infirmities, especially, the infirmities of the mind, in which the muse deserts and the poet becomes incoherent!
Mazi,(Protest)writing kills faster than wars, revolutions and protests.
Dele Giwa, Walter Rodney and others are examples.
I chose (protest)writing fully conscious of that fact.
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“I do not fear death”, says Chidi.
“Brave man”, says grave man.
So boasted John Donne:
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so...”
But when death the equaliser finally came, didn’t he call for the priest?
There are various stories about Tolstoy coming to a similar end
That’s how it is; when you are young, you feel immortal.1967 - War in the Middle East, he was only nineteen years old and ready to enlist and to fight for eternity if need be; fifty years later, a pain in the neck and in the back , no longer ready to roll, you hear him apologising with one excuse after another, “But my dear wife, my family, my children, my grandchildren, my business!!!!”
I must say that with death so far away – and you yourself so far from any theatre of war, far from the epicentre of Boko Haram mayhem, Inshallah, far from the imminence of death at the hands of some Fulani herdsmen terror lurking in your backyard (I’m sure that they would meet some stout Biafra-like resistance at the Owerri Motor Park) nevertheless, I admire your dignified, philosophical calm, even if death is so far away, because some of the Faithful are made to feel constantly aware of its presence as they pray daily, “Hail Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death – Amen”
As you know, the elders demand a lot of respect but they don't like to hear any talk about “old bones”: When an elder is in hospital and his family and friends come along and start reading portions of Bible or Quran, he then knows that the end is probably very near – but it’s not a fear of death per se as per Oga Falola’s teenager spontaneous reflection when he saw himself staring at it (death) at close range on page one of “Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story”:
“I was worried, nervous in that moment that the end of history was in sight, that the end of the world was near. I would be gone to join my father in heaven, a place of no return. Soon we would all be dead. Our struggles were for a better life, but the end was death. If the dog was dead, we all would follow, slaughtered like him, to be decapitated, brutalised, violently killed. Only, unlike the dog, we had notice, and we prepared for the fatal and violent end. Let it come. We were eager to invite death.”
“The dog and the baboon would be soaked in blood!”
Indeed, I and I “would be gone to join my father in heaven, a place of no return” - Hamlet’s problematic but:
“But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns...”
Not so the suicide bomber, confidently detonating himself to instant post-mortem sexual gratification: 72 virgins waiting to attend him and to fulfil all his earthly desires - and if the suicide bomber is a she – how many virgins will she have?
Absolutely Chidi, the greatest fear, “fear old age with serious infirmities, especially, the infirmities of the mind” - fear of alzheimer's – which means that right now we must take every step to prevent it Some religions talk out eternal life after death, that the soul never dies etc.
Ah, Chidi, the muse, the muse – I'm already incoherent - it's the incoherence of the incoherent and yes – John Coltrane and the meaning of life
Oh , Chidi, life after poetry: I ‘ve been listening in about what happens when we die
My Better half just got back from Berlin; I’m going to tell her one more time, that we’re going to be side my side, even in the cemetery….
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Silence denotes nothingness, void. There would be nothing to record.
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Not to record is to record! Absence is presence!
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
What was recorded in the situation you referenced was not silence. What was recorded was the act of opening the 6th seal.
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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Not to record creates a void! Absence creates nothingness!
CAO.
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Chidi the poet
writes, because “All that's needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent.”
There’s “The Sounds of Silence”
There’sThe sound of one hand clapping ( Zen Koan)
There’s the question: When a tree falls in a forest and nobody's there to hear it - does it actually make a sound?
In some of our African societies, when a big man passes away they say, “A mighty tree has fallen”
John does not begin his Gospel with “ In the beginning there as nothing“ or “ In the beginning there was silence” or “BERESHIT” he begins it with “In the beginning was the Word “ which some schools of Hinduism and Sikhism have equated with shabda
I like The Last Poets: Bird's Word which begins, “Everything was silent”
Then
there is the gate
gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
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Chidi,
I understand that some poets tend to think associatively...
Re- Your ambiguous, enigmatic, profound, provocative “History does not record silence”
A popular recurring phrase that we encounter regularly in journalese is “the gaping silence” which is critical and is usually meant to express outrage or surprise about non-reaction about an event / an occurrence that’s crying out for at least a verbal reaction. (To take a local example from here in Sweden, one of our Congolese Brethren, Faustin, popularly known as “Mr Lova Lova” was murdered, dismembered, chopped up into pieces – and this was hardly reported in the Swedish media. Till today’ it’s the gaping silence.
There is the ominous silence, ominous, when “Silence means consent” In some such awful cases, silence means connivance
In all such cases in which we encounter “a gaping silence”, somebody or somebodies missing in action, as in this case of Mr Lova Lova, ironically, history is here presently recording this silence, as history frequently records other silences – such as the hushed silence in mosques and churches over so many atrocities that one would expect to hear being condemned from pulpit and minbar
Nigeria can always boast of moral voices, men of conscience such as Chief Obafemi Awolowo ; Wole Soyinka, Gani Fawehinmi , Fela Kuti, Tai Solarin, to name just five. Maybe I should add Bishop Hassan Kukah, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani)...I could extend the list. I am no expert.
There was no dearth of silence and there was certainly no connivance in many quartets, especially in the music industry during the Vietnam War or about Apartheid South Africa. South African Jazz and the Rastaman were not silent.
In situations where patience is running thin, can any such silence be regarded as “ revolutionary silence”? I ask, because from experience I note that sometimes a long silence is followed by a loud explosion...the Krio proverb is,” foll ( a chicken, fowl) wae noh dae yeri ( hear) sheee, go yeri stone” ( Which I translate as “My gun will be heard the next time!”) Maybe some Krio expert among us could improve on the poetic transliteration.
Fact is that even guns eventually fall silent
It’s amazing how much of the vocabulary in this thread (for me) borders on the metaphysical, _ words like “Silence” (mauna), “void”, “nothingness” “emptiness” in my own little mind (if indeed it exists) only triggers Buddhism‘s sunyata / the void
No laughing matter Chidi that on the pragmatic plane ( in alphabetical order, Adeshina Afoloyan and Ibrahim Abdullah are closer to your purpose ( mundane reality)
On a lighter note:
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Not to record is to record! Absence references its opposite: presence!
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Not to record is to record! Absence references its opposite: presence!
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So, what does the recorded "silence" say? Nothing! What does it represent? Void!
What message does it convey to the recipients of history? Zero message! How then is it "a historical document" in the strict sense of the phrase?
It is a mere exercise of artistic license.
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"This is particularly true of music in which the structured pauses i.e. silences (Okigbo used silences in this special music idiom as heading of his poetry) are deliberately recorded into the music.
So, what does the recorded "silence" say? Nothing! What does it represent? Void!
What message does it convey to the recipients of history? Zero message! How then is it "a historical document" in the strict sense of the phrase?
It is a mere exercise of artistic license.
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Okigbo was merely exercising artistic licence.
The exclamation marks, etc, in sentences, which you mentioned are parts of the communication endeavours, some things are being communicated.
Silence communicates nothing.
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"The man dies who keeps silence in the face of tyranny"--Wole Soyinka.
"death" here means sliding into a state of nothingness, into the void!
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In the genre of prison diaries, we can add Ngugi Wa Thiong'o‘s Detained, there’s also
Molefe Pheto’s nerve-wracking “And Night Fell: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in South Africa” (I met him in Stockholm in the later 1970s was in correspondence with him briefly and met him later in London, where he worked at the Commonwealth Institute). Common to all of them: civil courage extraordinaire. Those political prisoner diaries and many others of that genre say the very same thing that’s encapsulated in that famous Soyinka quote “The man dies who keeps silence in the face of tyranny” .
I daresay that apart from the author of that line arrogating to himself a monopoly of its interpretation (nice expression to arrogate to oneself) and thank goodness, Mr Soyinka is not likely to do that, he is not that arrogant (arrogant a word closely related to arrogating to oneself) – so how can anyone else be as dogmatic as to say that this could be the one and only meaning : "death" here means sliding into a state of nothingness, into the void! ?
Is Chidi willing to start interpreting his own poetry, for posterity? With the Bible, they’re still doing it. Hopefully, that should not diminish the particularities or the universality of the divine poetry - although in some cases, as in the case of e.g. the posthumous Jesus, there’s the inevitability in committing the biographical heresy ( “ God’s only begotten son” etc. poetically ascended to heaven. Amen. Will soon be coming back again.)
Of course, outside of the theological theatre of make-belief, death is pretty final. Full stop. Whilst you live, like e e you may write to your heart’s content about “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, maybe, later and a big maybe depending on if you’ve been a good boy – maybe later the 72 Virgins somewhere up there but down here/ over here in this dimension, once you’re dead and done, you ought to know in advance that you’re not going to be able to get it up again when your six feet down - but in life after death may be, or as Prince hamlet put it
“ what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause -”
or as Prince Chidi Anthony Opara gallantly puts it ,
“ "death" here means sliding into a state of nothingness, into the void!
By which he does not mean sliding into a state of somethingness, into the earth’s vagina, into that terminal null and void., until the resurrection of the dead….
Just kidding. Retard.
Well what Mr Soyinka really means – and this is fundamental – he means that something inside a man dies when he keeps silence in the face of tyranny. Now, who wants to wax poetic about the thing that dies inside a man – inside of a man when he countenances evil, is violently opposed to it in his heart but is afraid - too cowardly to speak out?
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History does not record silence.
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(Genesis 1:3).
CAO.
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lashon hakodesh - the holy tongue
Hashem created everything with the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Whilst you lament power outages in Naija and “professors of electricity who produce darkness only”,bear in mind that in order to celebrate constant electricity you must adhere to the remedy about which Pope quipped
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
And, by the way, Chidi, who knows the language of mathematics better than The Almighty?
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Boycott is not silence/absence! You would make a statement that you are boycotting so, so and so, for so, so and so reason.
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Re- this boycott, silence, absence, nonsense:
“boycotting so, so and so,
for so, so and so reason” etc.
I suppose that not talking to someone, or talking very minimally with someone sometimes referred to as “avoidance” in psychology; in Britain and the EU – it’s also sometimes antiballistic: a strategic racist/ tribalistic, anti-Semitic behavioural tactic, known as giving someone “the cold treatment” and fits into the same category as deleting his mails and his postings to this forum, fixing your filter to delete or send any of his messages directly to hell or to the trash box. All that is a form of boycotting, silencing the opponent, depriving him of his freedom of speech, his right of reply, his right to reply so that at least he does not disturb your peace of mind, pollute your eyes, your ears, your thoughts, God’s oxygen.
Well, consider this stanza 14 from a long piece that I’ve set to some original type of music
“Don’t you talk to them ?”
asked David, just up
from London, very “ holy”
“No” I snapped. He went
off to talk to them, and returned
the next morning, terrified
from a night of screaming
on the mountain...barefoot.
“The mountain took my shoes.
Didn’t see ANY deer. Thought
I’d die. Shouted
all night for help. Repeated
all the names I knew
for God.”
( From Neil Oram’s “The Balustrade Paradox” somewhere up the road I’ll have to write to his publishers for copyrights since back in 1986 I made music out of all his scraps of poetry in that novel, so that we can now make some good money together)
Just one word: Barefoot – how many oral autobiographies haven’t I listened to directly from the mouths of great Sierra Leonean men who rose from nothing to something? It makes you humble to hear that once upon a time they walked for miles, barefoot, to school…
It figures when you take a look at any of the short scientific articles down below:
Being barefoot benefits brain development and more!
Herbie Hancock : “Feets don’t fail me now”
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You are responding to "nonsense"?
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The Department of History, Political Science, Geography, & Africana Studies at Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, invites academics, independent scholars, policymakers, and graduate students to present papers at its eighth annual conference on the theme: Towards the African Renaissance: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospects
The idea of African Renaissance is a recurrent concept in African history. Its origins date, at least, to late colonial Africa, emerging as a response to the European colonial project. The concept envisioned an economically prosperous and politically stable, progressive Africa, rising from the ashes of colonialism. The Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop, first articulated the concept in the 1940s to express a rather ambitious vision of rapid social, economic, and political development in postcolonial Africa. In recent years, the ideal of African Renaissance has gained traction in African political discourse. In the early part of this century, post-apartheid South African president, Thabo Mbeki, forcefully articulated a set of developmental goals envisioned to bring about an African renaissance. In addition, the African Union (AU) has called for an African renaissance as it charts pathways towards the overall development of the continent.
Following the attainment of political independence and the recent wave of democratization that swept across the continent, African Renaissance is considered the next major agenda for Africa, which will involve economic, political, and social renewal. The AU in its continental 50-year agenda, called Agenda 2063, envisions a prosperous, peaceful, and integrated Africa, based on the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the vision of African Renaissance, which would usher in a new Africa with global influence, and its states imbued with good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice, and the rule of law.
The window of opportunity for African renaissance is wide open since the continent has made considerable progress in both economic development and governance in recent years. Indeed, economic growth in Africa has expanded sharply since the turn of the millennium. At least half of the fastest growing economies in the world are from Africa, and many countries have transitioned from one-party dictatorship and military regimes to multi-party systems since the 1990s. Even though one can employ the “Africa rising” narrative to describe recent successes, a more nuanced, balanced, and cautionary approach is needed to examine the dynamics of African Renaissance and its prospects. This year’s conference will provide a platform for scholars, policy makers, and other participants to examine critically within a multidisciplinary framework, Africa’s economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations and renewal, with specific focus on undercurrent issues including achievements, opportunities, challenges, and prospects.
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Defining the African Renaissance: Diop, Mbeki, and AU
Colonialism and its Legacy
Neocolonialism and Postcolonial Africa
African Renaissance: Make Africa Great
The African Renaissance: Myth or Reality
Pan Africanism and the African Renaissance
African Renaissance and the Diaspora
Economic and Political Integration in Africa
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Africa’s Place in the Global Economy and Politics
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Climate change: Impacts, Risks, and Vulnerabilities
Pan-Africanism, Cultural Identity and Heritage
Development of Indigenous Languages and African Renaissance
China, Africa, and the West
Agriculture, Agro-processing and Industrialization
Economic Policies—Structural Adjustment, Liberal reforms
Health, Education, and Infrastructural Development
Human Capital Development
Africa's Population Boom, Migration, Brain Drain, and Brain Gain
Toward an Integrated, Prosperous, and Peaceful Africa: Challenges and Prospects
Africa’s Renaissance, Transformation, and Development Prospects in the 21st Century
Africa's Socioeconomic Development Challenges and Prospects
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Dr. Moses Ochonu
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History
Vanderbilt University
Plenary Speaker
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Murray State University
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Professor of History
Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN 37209
Dr. Gashawbeza Bekele
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Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN 37209
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Your Majesty, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM,
I’m upset. Am I responding to “nonsense”? Again?
You could skip Part 1 (if it pleaseth thee)
And go straight to Part 2 (immediately!)
In a world in which all things are connected, say, “Pope” in some circles and you generate thoughts of Benedictus Erectus and paedophile priests; a mere mention of “the European Union” to 666 eschatologists and the happy hours end-time priests conjures lurid images of what is identified in the Book of Revelations as “The Whore Of Babylon”, another probable reason why Boris Johnson after re-reading Milton’s Paradise Lost, desperately wants his UK to leave the scene latest 31st October this year, deal or deal. Full stop. Phew – that was a close shave. Thank God, we made it Amen.
One thing about Pope an autodidact is that he never decked himself with a BA, MA, D. Litt, unlike Sierra Leone’s Maada Bio whose head has just been anointed with an Honorary PhD .
Since Brother Buhari is no honorary exception to that syndrome, we should be expecting Don Kperogi to be expressing some displeasure about that propensity – in the case of Atiku, whose case just got thrown out of the door, from rags to riches and in the case of Mr President, a more impressive trajectory from disputed leaving school certificate to a well earned and deserved Honorary PhD.
Your Majesty, you remember all the things you penned in another thread, your self-definition and it made absolute sense to me when you said of yourself,
“I am a public poet, I have been writing for more than ten years now on the internet to inspire revolutions, yet some persons expect me to participate in the physical aspect of revolution! “
At this point, as people weep over the departure of Comrade Mugabe, I’d like to know (and no beating about the bush please – and strictly no-nonsense) to date, how many revolutions have you inspired?
Remember this line, “Poet is Priest” - so continue to speak the truth please (and shame the devil)
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I hail you.
Your understanding of the quote is way off the context.
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"Complete" is defined within the contextual provisions of word.
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Chidi,
Is half of the truth equal to a complete lie?
In Alagba Falola’s forum, epistemology is a very important word, a strong word that poets and associative thinkers don’t have to mess around with, even if, when we divest such a word of its forbidding aura which says “for experts only” it is after all just another unholy word that we can play around with, dissect, disembowel, bonce around, even reduce to its composite phoneme-i-cal constituents and reassemble in this and that poetic formation. Words begin to lose their respect for meaning or precision when for example we start – in some exaggerated praise-singer mode, comparing some dwarf with Kwame Anthony Appiah with regard to both quality and quantity of significant output.
As a storyteller, you know how anecdotal I like to be: 54 years ago day one of our introduction to philosophy started with Hugh Kenner asking us to write an essay on the ridiculous topic, “Can a dead man feel?” followed by a short reading list consisting of Bertrand Russell’s “The Problems of Philosophy” and some chapters on Happiness, the virtuous life etc from Aristotle’s Ethics, which figures eminently in Anglican theology...
From which point on, as far as knowledge output was concerned, the parameters of what we know, what we can know (and of course what we ignoramuses ought to know) has been severely limited, from a purely philosophical point of view.
My view of “history as gossip” continues and from that point of view it is easily maintained that “half a loaf is better than no bread” and in many cases we don’t get an all-round picture and have to satisfy ourselves with the less than satisfactory “Half a loaf is better than no bread”. I have read quite a bit about The Second World War, know an awful lot which is more than enough, about the Holocaust , all exclusively from Western, Israeli/ Jewish and pro-Israeli sources ( I thank GOD that our reception committee once chased Robert Faurisson out of town when he arrived at some Stockholm venue to deliver his criminal holocaust denial diatribe) and up to today I have still not heard or listened to Mister Hitler or Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini’s apology or their “the other side of the story” - also, unlike the Israel and the Palestinian issue in which I am well acquainted with both sides of the reported histories, there are still outstanding matters when it comes to the Biafra War, even after several rounds of ping-pong back and forth between our Baba Salimonu Kadiri and one Obi Nwakanma ; maybe about that too you can summarise the residue in terms of “Complete" is defined within the contextual provisions of word.”
I have spent quite some time unravelling intentional meaning in this one sentence which occurs in the Holy Quran and which has been a moot point of debate between the Shia and the Sunni - the emphasis being at which point in time was this revelation made (Surat Al-Ma'idah :3) // Quran 5:3 :
“Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swineflesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death-stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And (forbidden is it) that ye swear by the divining arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who disbelieve in despair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion al-Islam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”
The polemical discussion has usually been about the meaning of " completed" - which some argue means that nothing more can be added to that which has been completed...
Na Wah O!
I leave you with this quote to ponder over: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=378114033127484&set=gm.462806261243088&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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