Congratulations to Farooq Kperogi
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Before Cornelius goes after me, Farooq is not my friend, but I am a great admirer of his work and courage. I can match him in work but not in courage.
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Before Cornelius goes after me, Farooq is not my friend, but I am a great admirer of his work and courage. I can match him in work but not in courage.
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Nimi Wariboko
Congratulations, Oga Farooq. May Allah continue to expand your coast.
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Mighty Congratulations to Don Kperogi.
From over here in Stockholm, I send him confetti.
Without his in-put, out-put, lilliput interventions, the Naija world and the Naija word made flesh would be less heavy, perhaps infinitely less interesting and less controversial too. Nigerian-English as a global phenomenon ( there being so many Nigerians on the planet) and Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora which a word that Kperogi would use, “ transcends” censorship , are two prototype studies that I guess herald similar investigations about other country Englishes occupying more global space - Jamaica - for example, through reggae - Fela & Co through Afro-beat - and similar discourses to be made about the highly vocal Ghanaian Digital Diaspora, the Kenyan Digital Diaspora – here’s a one-man example “Kenya Stockholm Blog”, and what was once a truly awesome consciousness-raising South African Diaspora including many exile jazz musicians in the struggle against apart-heid. How all these digital diasporas impact policy , turn darkness into light.
Speaking in the majestic plural , I did say of Kperogi just four days ago – in this forum, “ we ( Baba Kadiri and I) wish Kperogi well, wish him more grease, yeah, more anointed oil to his elbow. May he and his Bariba tribe prosper. I echo Prof Bolaji Aluko’s usual best fraternal greetings, no hard feelings, “May your tribe increase...”
Therefore, Heaven forbid that Cornelius Adebayo should go after thee (my own dearest Professor Toyin Falola) for any reason whatsoever, least of all because Boydell Publishers made Kperogi their “2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner” and are promoting him, hoping to make some money out of him by distributing him widely (to, no conservative estimate, a large number of people) and that’s why they are hustling every potentially literate reader and buyer, exhorting everybody to order a copy today with their “winter sale discount ( use BB050 at checkout point for 50% off”.
As for me, I’ll do just that , since I don’t want to judge a book by its cover or a woman by the perfume she wears, so, I’ll ask the Santa Claus at our library to order a copy for us for Christmas and will hang my own personal copy ( a present to somebody else - maybe Baba Kadiri) hang it on his Christmas tree, because, BTW , the title is intriguing although , since it’s all of 312 pages it might be a struggle ( a jihad) to traverse the length of the kind of verbiage we may be in for, even when the subject matter which is so full of promise, since we are the interested Diaspora, far away but constantly updated about latest developments and even sometimes at loggerheads, not about what has gone and is going wrong, but about what is to be done, not later, but from this very moment onwards
With backers like Oga Falola & Oga Falola’s friend Kenneth Harrow , such a man is destined to go places - like our dearly departed Pius Adesanmi who bagged the Penguin Africa Prize for “You're not a Country, Africa “
Ordinarily, I shouldn’t have any problem with the subject matter of whatever books Kperogi chooses to write , but should he if he do so in the same vein as in some of his other places , the problem could be the wording as with most of his journalistic pieces and blog entries, some of the disdain he expresses and the way that he goes about doing so invites the kind of criticism that would inevitably come from my kind of person ( “criticism is as inevitable as breathing “ penned Mister Eliot, which means that we ( all of us) don’t have to agree with all that’s written in e.g. “ Tradition and the Individual Talent” , as if it’s some kind of “New Testament” and as gloriously defined by my dear Pastor Samuel Oloruntoba :
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
What Kperogi says and has said so far is not that; in that regard our doyen Ayo Olukotun is a million light years closer to the mark, and certainly he is certainly closer without any special holy oil greasing his elbows…
With regard to Kperogi’s alleged “courage” - well there’s the idea and praxis of civil courage but he doesn’t quite fit into that either , safely sitting over there in his armchair in the United States out of harm’s way, far from ransom kidnappers, far from Boko Haram, far from the man he says is suffering from an “inferiority complex”, namely the revered ex-Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and his blueprint for Nigeria’s development , far away from the first citizen of Nigeria who he does not spare, namely , Nigeria's likeable, cool, calm and collected President Muhammadu Buhari who he says is suffering from “dementia “ ( like his uncle, sleepy Joe Biden..
An exaggerated sense of self-esteem, a so-called superiority complex. low-brow, gutter-sniper rudeness, without class or finesse throwing vile epithets at the lion king of the jungle while sitting a few thousand miles away over the Atlantic Ocean, is no measure of bravery…
Thanks to Samuel under whose tutelage I have been the past eighteen months of so I have been chewing on this for some time now – it’s a consideration that confronts diaspora and home:
“ The paradox of our humanness has a number of practical consequences – especially political, psychological and personal.
Politically, the human paradox of ambiguity makes democracy the best form of government yet developed. For ideally democracy recognizes both the dignity and the depravity of our human being. On the one hand, it recognizes our human dignity , because it refuses to push people around or to govern us without our consent. Instead, it gives us a share in the decision-making process. It treats us with respect as responsible adults.
On the other hand, democracy also recognizes our human depravity. For it refuses to concentrate power in the hands of a few, , knowing that it is not safe to do so. So it is of the essence of democracy to disperse power and so protect the rulers from themselves. As Reinhold Niebuhr put it, “ man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
I come secondly to the psychological consequences of the human paradox. We all know the importance for our mental health of having a balance self-image. Some people have crippling inferiority feelings and a very poor self-image. Others go to the opposite extreme. Carl Rogers , for example, the American founder of “client-centred psychotherapy” , came to believe that the core of our human personality is positive, and that we need therefore to develop an “ unconditional positive self-regard” ( the next two crucial paragraphs can be read here ( pages 79 – 81 of “Why I am a Christian” by John Stott
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More than three decades ago, in the darker ages of the tape recorder and long before the advent of the CD , Baba Kadiri gave me a couple of music cassettes (3) that he had recorded specially for yours truly , featuring (1) King Sunny Ade, (2) Fela Kuti and last but not least Jimmy Cliff and some songs by The Staples Singers ; so you can imagine the excitement that I felt when I read Baba Kadiri’s message of congratulations to the proud as punch Don Kperogi , “ My dear Professor Farooq Kperogi, this one is a very big achievement and I rejoice with you with Jimmy Cliff's songs.” I was almost certain that the songs in question would be songs from “The Harder They Come”, but I was wrong, just like you, I clicked on the link for the 2nd song and got the message “This video isn't available any more” , so I phoned Baba Kadiri on the spot and he gave me the title of the 2nd song. Here it is : Foolish Pride .
The intended message to all of us is quite clear, leading me to acknowledge that the didactic Yoruba moralist in him is assiduously at work here and all that Baba Kadiri needs to do is to top or pepper the message up with some supportive Yoruba or Biblical proverbs/s about pride , good advice from which we all stand to benefit…
I have just watched this polite, humble discussion about us, about our humble origins “The nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin"
May the Almighty have mercy on us all...
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Congratulations on your award. May the ink your pen never run dry as you saturate the intellectual world with more reading assignments.
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His book won the Choice best book award.
Before Cornelius goes after me, Farooq is not my friend, but I am a great admirer of his work and courage. I can match him in work but not in courage.
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