Claudine Gay is out

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Toyin Falola

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Jan 2, 2024, 1:23:24 PM1/2/24
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Jan 4, 2024, 6:20:52 AM1/4/24
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Ah!

I feel it as a personal blow.

She did all she could to accommodate her critics, until the plagiarism allegations did irreparable damage.

What are the implications of this development for her, for Harvard, for US academia?

The pro-Israel, right wing hero here is Ackman, whose campaign has at last borne desired fruit, even as Israel proceeds on Palestinian genocide with the help of the US.

The dead and dying in Gaza most likely do not know about Gay.

Whether Hamas knows about her is questionable.

But the Israeli pro-govt media will celebrate.

She was unlucky to become Harvard President during this crisis.

One must strive to do ones best at all times, and yet pray to avoid unlucky situations. 

Learning to drive, I ran into a wall in front of which a woman had just been farming.

If she had not left there before my car ran into the wall, I am likely today to be a man who once killed someone, and perhaps a former convict who had spent time in prison, an experience the influence of which is unpredictable.

Travelling from Benin to Lagos, I survived an accident in which two people died and I was the only uninjured person, having not even experienced the accident, only closed my eyes to meditate and opened them again to find myself in hospital, having been taken there by villagers on the accident routes who pulled us from the wreckage.

Plagiarism is a primary sin in academia.it can at times be a struggle to do proper attribution, given the various ways in which one may use others work

I also wonder why her output was so slim, in a world and system with the likes of Falola and Nimi Wariboko.

Were those epochal papers?

Does Wole Soyinka need.more than his essay collection Myth, Literature and the African World to become a professor?

I would not think so, it being a great book.

Were her papers like that?

Einstein got his Nobel Prize for one or two papers but that's in physics, not humanities and social sciences.

Rowland Abiodun became prof at then Ife and later Armherst with the same scope of papers as Gay, papers all of which I have read, his book coming many years after the professorship.

Those papers, however, were strategic in defining Yoruba art studies and are central to African art studies, on account of their combination of uneclipsed field research, analytical rigour, creative sensitivity, imaginative range and splendid English even as he wonderfully explicates sublime Yoruba literature.

Alexis Sanderson was long an Oxford professor who never published a book, but even a layman in his recondite field in Hindu Studies can attest to the absolute richness of those numerous papers, their forest like amassing of references from grounding in recondite Sanskrit texts which Sanderson explicates in luminous English.

Every scholar must identify their zones of action and make the most of them.

Toyin Falola is an awesomely prolific book writing scholar, but if one wants to experience Falola's best writing in a manner enabling entry into this glorious forest, one could begin with his poetry and the best I know so far of these being "For Clara Adeyemi" published only in his USAAfrica Dialogues Series Google group, his essay and poetry on Ade Ajayi in In Praise of Greatness, his essays "From Stroke to Stone", 'Ritual Archives" and his autobiographies and his chapter on symbolism of hair in Decolonizing African Knowledge, these being my favourites among his texts I have read so far.


My immediate thoughts.

Thanks

Toyin

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Speaking about Gaza!
Crossposted from N. Sadanand.


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Israel in Secret Talks to ‘Resettle’ Palestinians in Congo, Report Says
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Wed, January 3, 2024 
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Israeli authorities have reportedly been engaged in secret talks with Congo to “resettle” Palestinians from Gaza in the Central African country. That’s according to The Times of Israel, which cites its Hebrew-language sister site Zman Israel to report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is looking at the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as other countries for the “voluntary” resettlement plan. “Congo will be willing to take in migrants, and we’re in talks with others,” an unnamed source in the security cabinet is quoted as saying. Saudi Arabia has also reportedly been floated as an option. The news comes after the U.S. State Department on Tuesday singled out two far-right Israeli ministers who’ve been pushing to resettle Palestinians outside Gaza, blasting their “inflammatory and irresponsible” rhetoric. While Netanyahu’s office has not officially said it had plans to “resettle” Palestinians, the prime minister reportedly told a meeting last Monday that work is underway to facilitate “voluntary migration” of Palestinians to other countries.

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Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
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They want to create new apart-heid for the coming centuries in Africa

Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY
Maître de conférences en Histoire de l'Art
Chef, Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg,(2014-2016) 
 


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Al Jazeera 


Tehran Times


What's happening in Gaza and the West Bank, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Iran is showing the true face of Zionism for the whole world, including the hypocrites to see. For sure, a hard rain's going to fall, and maybe the so-called aliens that are being sighted among us will have something to do with God’s plan about the qadr, the que sera, sera


A good starting point for any discussion or debate on this matter would be the introduction in the 1983 English Edition of Roger Garaudy’s seminal study The Case of Israel : A study of Political Zionism  - especially the chapters on The Historical Myth ( The Myth of “historic rights” pages 29 - 69, and The “Biblical” Myth - pages 69 - 87  - which I read ( re-read) last night, and  Part 2 , “From the Zionist Mythology to the Politics of Israel” with chapters on 


1. Internal Policy: Racism , Israel as a Colonial Entity

II . Israel’sForeign Policy: Expansionism 

III. The Methods of Israel’s Policy: State Terrorism 


If Garaudy’s  book is difficult to obtain these days then you'll find much of the same material already downloaded and readily accessible for you to read here : 


 “The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics”


The miscreants are very experienced and have been long at the game. They are currently, probably being influenced not by the new tidal waves of antisemitism but by the xenophobic winds blowing across Europe and they ( the miscreants) are most probably being inspired by the likes of Suella Braverman, one of the chief  architects of the UK’s  immigration policy, and the latest chapter of that policy, whereby illegal refugees and those (from anywhere and everywhere) who are denied refugee status in Merry England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales will be deported to Rwanda 


Improbable coming from even Netanyahu, as it would enrage the Arab World to begin with, but any such proposal from Netanyahu and his illegal settlers that they intend to “resettle” Palestinians in the Congo which is in the heart of faraway Africa, sounds like very strange and very un-Zionist kind of thinking, considering that the early Zionist dreamers were once offered some part of Uganda ( which does not belong to them either) as a “homeland” and rejected the offer, because they had no ancestral connection to Uganda. As things are today, the Palestinians are more entitled to Palestine than the Jews who have immigrated from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and other former Soviet Republics.


I use the expression “ the early Zionist dreamers” conscious of Tehillim 126 // Psalm 126 which begins 


“When the Lord returns the returnees to Zion, we shall be like dreamers. Then our mouths will be filled with laughter and our tongues with songs of praise; then they will say among the nations, "The Lord has done great things with these.”


There’s this incident reported before the Balfour Declaration, as Chaim Weizman quipped when Lord Balfour offered him a spot in the sun in Uganda : 


"Suppose," asked Chaim Weizmann, "I were to offer you Paris instead of London?" 


"But, Dr Weizmann, we have London," Balfour replied. "That is true," Weizmann said, "but we had Jerusalem when London was a marsh."


And of course long before there was any Jerusalem the Canaanite nations ruled over all of what’s known as ”Palestine “ and continued to have an uninterrupted connection to the ancestral lands of their birth 

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Corrected : 

If there’s any truth to this rumour that “Israel is in Secret Talks to 'Resettle' Palestinians in Congo” then I suspect that they are not really contemplating such a counter-productive move, but would like to draw attention to the plight of millions of Palestinians who are living in refugee camps in various Arab countries where they are not being granted citizenship  - and perhaps also even at this critical humanitarian state of affairs, Arab countries that for reasons best known to themselves, are unwilling to absorb Palestinian refugees.

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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I recall that Uganda and Guyana
were on the list for settling holocaust 
refugees,  before Palestine was
chosen.

Now the Palestinians are to become 
the refugees - from Gaza!

I hope the old fable about the camel
and the tent is remembered:

“Please, Sir, have pity on
me,” said the camel.

“What’s your problem, Mr Camel?”

“I have no place to rest my leg.I
only need a very small space 
for that part of my body.My head
 and trunk will remain outside the 
tent,” he pleaded.

“Ok. Occupy this small space,”
said the humanitarian tent
landlord. “Make sure you
don’t cross the boundary.”

Things went well for the first
month. The second month the
landlord was out on his butt,
and the camel 🐪 in full
charge of the tent.

Happened in 1948.
Could happen again.



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Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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what makes such a move counter productive?

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Negotiations for Palestinians to leave 
Gaza means caving in to settler colonists and
land grab. 

Incidentally there is a lot
of gas in Gaza.


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Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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Cornelius Hamelberg

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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju


has so far been doing a good job of keeping us updated about the carnage: 


the ongoing Israeli Genocide In Gaza  


the settler violence in the West Bank 


the unlawful detention, imprisonment,  torture and murder of Palestinians in the West Bank


Here’s the latest from Information Clearing House  


Israpundit (right wing) 


Israel News Media  


And now, with typical Satanic arrogance to add gasoline to the fires as if they have forgotten their Biblical records  - according to their national epic: First they put the Prophet Jeremiah in stocks ( because those responsible didn’t like the prophet's warnings, so they beat him up “and placed him in the prison that is in the upper gate of Benjamin, which is in the House of the Lord” shortly after which Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon ( “God’s instrument of Judgment”) invaded, and took as captives ten of the Israelite tribes to Babylon 


They are now adding more gasoline to the fire with this very reprehensible idea: Israel wants to deport Palestinians from Gaza - part of the future Palestinian state and when you think of the blowback then you know - you don’t even have to imagine that would be very counterproductive indeed. I’m not trying to conflate issues, but can you imagine some Nigerian leader back then proposing that the Biafrans should be deported to Namibia or Madagascar?


 Deplorable as it is, even if it could be done, deporting Palestinians to the Congo would not signal the end of what Israel believes to be their “Palestinian problem” which everybody else knows is THE OCCUPATION - the unlawful occupation of Arab Land. The reprehensibility of everything that Israel is doing right now will only increase and sustain antisemitism in the world and that alone is enough to earn that reprehensibility the title “ counterproductive”


As things are in this world today, Uncle Sam is Israel’s only  diamond 



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The correct link:


Israel wants to deport Palestinians from Gaza - part of the future Palestinian state



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