‘This is like a crucible’: spectre of 1968 looms over US campus protests( Deeply Moving)

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Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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May 10, 2024, 3:33:56 AM5/10/24
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Abidogun, Jamaine M

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May 11, 2024, 5:35:37 AM5/11/24
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Frankly Why are we talking about this when human crisis and conflict in Africa remains so marginalized in the public eye?? This forum is for Africa and the diaspora. 

Most of the time I scroll through all the discussion on US dispositions in the forum...and assume big people are sitting on big chairs watching the world go by thinking big thoughts.  

Just an observation.. 

Thank you,
Jamaine





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Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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May 12, 2024, 4:04:29 AM5/12/24
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Everyone can post  what they consider relevant to the group.

A good no of those on the group work on US campuses, the subject of the article.

Even then, the group also discusses the Israeli/Palestinian crisis.

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Michael Afolayan

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May 12, 2024, 4:04:29 AM5/12/24
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Thank you, Ma'am. I cannot agree more. I think we have been fixated of late (in a protracted intensity) with issues from the Middle-East while equally terrible situations are ongoing in Africa and nobody is engaging folks in serious discourses on them. South Sudan, Libya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Burundi, Zambia, Senegal, Nigeria, Chad, and more are experiencing humanitarian crises in different proportions. Food crises, wars, extra-judicial executions, religious violence, political imbroglios, and more are all over the continent. They too need and deserve due attention. 

Just my observation, too!

MOA




Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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This issue is of utmost importance for Africa. 
It reveals US Foreign Policy and what this implies for Africa.

Lies about free speech, human rights concerns,  anti- genocide  and so on
 are now exposed for all to see.  Remembrance about  the atrocious era of
settler colonialism  and its killing fields, triggered by 
domicide, infanticide and so on,  should  bother no one but
the  perpetrators.

South Africa also has a stake in the game by its challenge to
the ICJ, and Africa has a stake in the outcome.

Disinvestment programs contributed to the end of apartheid
in South Africa and the hope is that such disinvestment 
campaigns would help to put an end to apartheid in Israel.


Here is what Nelson Mandela said about Palestine
1990 Town Hall Meeting with Nelson Mandela on Palestine, Cuba and other issues The above video is a collection of extracts from a 1990 town hall meeting, held in New York City and chaired by Ted Koppel of ABC Networks. The meeting formed part Nelson Mandela's first visit to the USA immediately following his release from prison. A significant ...




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Abidogun, Jamaine M

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May 12, 2024, 11:59:46 PM5/12/24
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Hi Gloria,

Agreed on all counts having to do with American policy. It plays out all over the world. As it's proactive support in Africa is historically and to today marginal to non-existent. 

We don't have to look at Gaza to know that, although my heart and mind bleed for the suffering there. Sudan is and has been suffering on a large scale, not to mention the ongoing crisis in Central Africa, and the list goes on.  I do not dismiss the crisis in Gaza or its relevance to Africa. I really think writing like your point by point post is what we benefit from the most. 

I may not have the stamina or flare for writing comparable to your posts, but I can appreciate what is Africa centered.  

With great appreciation.

-Jamaine
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