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Film and Politics in Africa: Call for Abstracts and Papers

 

Concept Note

Film is a significant tool due to its deployment of sounds, images, text and actualities that mirror people and societies everywhere. It reflects human society, in terms of its past, present, and future. Also, film evolved from African cultural expressions in the form of festivals, rituals, and dance performances and drama. The pioneering African dramatists, playwrights, filmmakers and cultural practitioners are testaments to this evolution process of and transformation into what is regarded as film today in African contexts. Harrow (2023) claims that the developments in African films, including the late 1980s and 1990s video revolution that birthed Nollywood and the streaming platforms occasioned by digital technologies in producing and distributing films in the 2010s and 2020s have inserted African film into the World Cinema as a commercial success.

He argues that the transformations have liberated African filmmakers and resulted in an incredible, enduring flow of creative, inventive, and thoughtful filmmaking (Harrow, 2023). Therefore, Harrow (2023) strongly believes that Nollywood has shifted the focus from engaging films, with social or political messages, to entertainment movies. While this may be true, several film cultures have emerged in the evolutionary intersections of cinematic expressions across the continent of Africa. We now have what is called Collywood (African films made in Cameroun or Camerounian languages), Ghallywood (African films made in Ghana or Ghanaian languages), Riverwood (African films made in Kenya or Kenyan languages),   Kannywood (Hausa films or films made in the Hausa language), among others, that dot and interject not only commerce but political issues across the African continent.

The idea of African film today is intertwined with the pre- and post-colonial history of every African being and nation. Though the central goal of film is entertainment, evidence has shown that film has been deployed for other different purposes. Thus, film has been used to play diverse roles in society like any communication medium such as information, education and entertainment. Politics is human and thus has found use for films to achieve some ends. Like any art form, film has been utilized to propagate culture and activism in the course of human history (Cantrell, 2020). On people’s political perceptions and attitudes, evidence reveals that films have proved effective (Eilders & Nitsch, 2015; Singh, 2018). Seeing films as politics of representation, Somwya (2022) believed that they can be used to reinforce societal stereotypical narratives instead of being liberating avenues for new thinking. The advent of technological transformation, the Internet, streaming platforms and social networking sites has changed the development of the African film industry. As a matter of fact, the rate at which African films have engaged in political events and themes is far ahead of the focus African scholars have devoted to African film industries. With the rate films are being churned out in Africa, there is a need for constant scholarly engagement with this momentum, considering the influence of films on Africans’ perceptions of themselves and their respective African societies.

Salami-Agunloye (2023) asserts that world leaders have exploited the power of films, politically, socially and economically. Leaders like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, for example, successfully used films as propaganda tools during World War II (Belton, 1996). This shows the power of film in influencing, transforming and changing attitudes, behaviour and perception.  In addition, over a century ago, D. W. Griffith utilized the enormous power of film in his highly successful film The Birth of a Nation (Darity, 2008), as a medium to influence public opinion. It was largely successful because it captured the social and cultural tensions of the era. More recently, films like Hotel Rwanda (2004), about the 1994 Rwandan genocide were successful for the same reason. Similarly, during the 1890s until 1920, with the growth of industrialization in American culture, there was a big shift in the urban areas; American culture experienced a period of rapid industrialization. Films were creatively employed to convey stories embedded with American tastes, desires, customs, speech, and behaviour which were screened in these urban areas. The aim was to erode regional differences and create a more homogenized and standardized culture.

In Africa in particular, film has, since colonial times facilitated various forms of political schemes. History has it that the colonial master deployed film-based propaganda as one of their strategic tools to naturalize the myth of the white man’s burden on the continent. In French colonies in particular, this colonial master also used various film-related policies to entrench the Whiteman’s domination and to even sacralize Africa’s continuous dependence on the West – particularly France – for funds, technical support and even artistic creativity (Haynes & Okome, 1997; Ihidero, 2020; Tomaselli, 2021). Similarly, many post-independence African filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembene, Tunde Kelani, Paulin SoumanouVieyra, Peddie Okao and Jean Marie Teno, among other proponents of the Third Cinema movement, sought to mobilize cinema and film-related activities to militate against issues such as neo-colonialism, cultural genocide and bad governance in Africa (Tomaselli & Eke, 1995; Haynes, 1997; Omoera & Anyanwu, 2020). To these multiple examples of film-based activism, one may add the plethora of politically committed filmmakers who today express or represent the voice of Africa, and sometimes rebrand the continent on the international stage. Thus, cinema has since its coming to the African continent, been a political or politicized tool.   

In Africa, film has been involved in deepening political consciousness, political mobilization, peacebuilding, conflict communication, advocacy, and political communication for development for over a century.  Today, film's influence has grown exponentially, ostensibly because of the emergence of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). In this book collection, we seek contributions from established and growing scholars, researchers, and practitioners of African film on the variegated involvement and intersections between film and politics in various regions of Africa, with a view to improving the parlous state of affairs. Their contributions can emanate from the following sub-themes or anyone related to the main theme:

 

Sub-Themes

African films, politics and African historical developments

African films, politics and popular cultural movements

African films, politics and peacebuilding

African films, politics and digital technologies

African films, politics and artificial intelligence (AI)

African films, politics and Cultural Revolution

African films, politics and aesthetics

African films, politics and filmmakers

African films, politics and migration

African films, politics and governance

African films, politics and corruption

African films, politics and terrorism

African films, politics and education

African films, politics and gender

African films, politics and the creative economy

African films, politics and Generation Z

African films, politics, militarism and military governments

African films, politics and democracy

African films, politics and human rights

African films, politics and religion

African films, politics and AIKS

African films, politics and language

African film, politics and ethnic consciousness

African film, politics and futurism

African films and the (neo)colonial propaganda

African film festivals, politics and identity

Politics and film policymaking in Africa

African films and environmental politics

African films and international geopolitics

African films and political propaganda

African films and cultural diplomacy

African films, globalization and national branding

 

Submission Procedure

Abstracts of not more than 400 words and brief authors’ bios can be submitted to the following email addresses on or before December 15, 2023: ia.f...@acu.edu.ng, osak...@fuotuoke.edu.ng, floribert...@gmail.com Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be given by January 15, 2024.  Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit their full chapters by May 30, 2024. The 7th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style should be used. The font should be Times New Roman 12 and the word count should be a maximum of 6000. The book will be published by Routledge.

 

References

Cantrell, J. (2020). The relationship between implicitly political films and political

polarization. Journal of Student Research, 9(1), 1-10.

Belton, J. (Ed). (1996). Introduction to movies and mass culture. Rutgers University Press.

Darity, W. (2008). A “birth of a nation.” Encyclopaedia of the social sciences, 2nd ed. Gale

Virtual Reference Library, 1, 305-306.

Eilders, C. & Nitsch, C. (2015). Politics in fictional entertainment: An empirical classification

of movies and TV series. International Journal of Communication 9, 1563–1587

Harrow, K. W. (2023).  African cinema in a global age. 1st edition. Routledge.

Haynes, J. (1997). Nigerian cinema: Structural adjustments. In J. Haynes & O. Okome (Eds.),

Cinema and social change in West Africa (pp.1-25). Nigerian Film Corporation.

Haynes, J. & Okome, O. (1997). Evolving popular media: Nigerian video films. In J. Haynes

& O. Okome (Eds.), Nigerian video films (pp.21-44).Nigerian Film Corporation.

Ihidero, V.O. (2020). Postcolonial anxieties and the politics of identities in Genevieve Nnaji’s

Lionheart: A contrapuntal analysis.Nigerian Theatre Journal: A Journal of the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists, 20(1), 1-15.

Omoera, O.S.  & Anyanwu, C. (2020). Politics of succession in Nollywood films, Saworoide

and Ikoka. CINEJ Cinema Journal, 8(1), 185-217.  https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2020.266

Salami-Agunloye, I (2023). Women in Nollywood industry: Reconstructing the cultural

environment. In O. S. Omoera, B. Ojoniyi, & V. O. Ihidero (Eds.), One tree a forest: studies in Nigerian theatre poetics, technology and cultural aesthetics. National Theatre.

Singh, V. (2018). Role of media and usage of films and documentaries as political tool. Journal

of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, 5(6), 210-218.

Somwya, A. (2022). Politics of representations in cinema and recent interventions.

International Journal of Innovation Research in Technology, 9(1), 1205-1211.

Tomaselli, K. G. (2021). Africa, film theory and globalization: Reflections on the first ten years of the

Journal of African Cinemas. Journal of African Cinemas, 13(1), 3-28.

Tomaselli, K. & Eke M. (1995). Perspectives on orality in African cinema. Oral Tradition, 10 (1),

111-128.

Osakue S. Omoera, Ph.D., FIMIM, M.Sonta
Department of English and Communication Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Founding Editor, Otukpa: A Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Federal University Otuoke



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"Harrow, Kenneth" <har...@msu.edu>: Sep 20 11:33PM

Dear ike,
If “assimilation” was more officially french than english policy, the reality was that there wasn’t much difference; not much difference at all, in my opinion.
I could rally my arguments to try to make my case; right now, this is an expression of my opinion.
The french offered entries into french society for the elite who followed the route of education, as you can read in so many novels, or testimonies.
So did the brits.
They both took high school grads in their university systems and returned them to elite positions at home.
The question of language, pretty identical, and the question of culture, of values, etc, pretty identical.
Maybe cornelius, who lived through much of the period where these values were taught and expressed could comment on his youth and experiences.
Or any of the other greybeards old enough to have experienced that side of colonialism
Ken
 
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Beautiful piece. I now understand why Nigeria once banned the teaching of history in Nigeria; it’s too revealing.
 
 
While reflecting on the centrality of this essay and Nigeria, my question is: why is it that many Nigerian leaders love London so much? We witnessed this phenomenon during the last elections period. Indeed, President Buhari went to London for a week’s medical checkup. These trips left me scratching my head, and wondering about these politicians’ unpatriotic character.
 
 
Recall, if you will, that Britain, unlike France and Portugal, never practiced the policy of assimilation in Anglophone Africa. Yet, some of our political actors seem to love the UK more than Nigeria. Why?
 
 
Ike Udogu
 
 
 
Ike Udogu
 
 
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Indeed a great piece.I hope I can
get the permission to include it
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Africa Update.
 
 
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Re - “Maybe cornelius” etc ,
 
the old Kabbalistic formula
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kabbalistic+%3A+The+Lord%27s+Prayer>,
 
“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=And+lead+us+not+into+temptation%2C+but+deliver+us+from+evil&>
”
 
I’d just like to say, and entirely without guile, that in the realm of
human affairs, much is possible. For example, after the Nakba
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nakba>, in the midst of the continuous
decimation of Palestinians, this kind of heart-breaking, breaking news:
 
Saudi Arabia moving closer to "normalising" relations with Israel
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Saudi+Arabia+moving+closer+to+%22normalising%22+relations+with+Israel&>
 
Maybe, the normalisation will either put a stop to the decimation or will
contribute to the normalisation of the systematic genocidal decimation.
 
My friend Shalom told me that at Stockholm University he was in a maths
class with a fellow student who ( apparently Palestinian) on getting to
know that his name was Shalom and that he was Jewish, got up to give this
sordid example of subtraction to which he Shalom objected vehemently : “You
have 10 Israeli settlers and you shoot 9 of them, how many remain?”
 
Gladly, for the colonial imperialists and missionaries, such was not the
case in much of British and French Colonial Africa, give and take a few
exceptions such as Bai Bureh vs the British
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bai+Bureh++vs+the+British> in Sierra
Leone (1898), The Algerian War of Independence
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The+Algerian+War+of+Independence>(1954
-1962), the Mau-Mau in Kenya
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kenya+%3A+the+Mau-Mau>(1952 -1960)
 
In reminiscing briefly at the request of Don Harrow, I’d like to start off
with the historical fact that Sierra Leone was the first British colony in
Africa
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sierra+Leone+was+the+first+British+colony+in+Africa>,
and for the longest period, 150 years. When Sierra Leone attained
Independence on 27th April, 1961, English remained the official language
(my grandparents generation spoke Victorian English, quoted passages from the
King James Version of the Bible
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+King+James+Version+of+the+Bible> -
and there’s hardly anything that a bloke like Kperogi could have “ taught”
any of them <https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Jante+Law>). Indeed, the
Brits left behind them legacies such as institutions of Western Education,
a functioning judiciary comprising learned judges , a Westminster model of
parliamentary government, a civil service run mostly as a meritocracy,
salaries paid on time, back then 2 Leones was = £1 Sterling (the current
rate of exchange is £1 = 25, 760 Leones), there was an efficient and
effective police constabulary ,it was very much a law and order society,
and in the capital City and the rest of the Western Area, there was an
uninterrupted flow of electricity and pipe-borne water supply - in my mind
how I yearn for the spirit’s return, and I cry, as time flies
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Leon+Thomas+%3A+The+Creator+has+a+Master+Plan+%28+with+lyrics>
…
 
Another milestone, another first :
 
King Charles III addresses the French Senate
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=King+Charles+III+addresses+French+Senate>
-partly in French !
 
Colonialism produced the phenomenon known as Anglo-Sierra Leone
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Anglo-Sierra+Leone> and the distinct
category known as Anglo-Sierra Leonean
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Anglo-Sierra+Leonean>, with
characteristics that would take several chapters to illustrate ( the
Anglo-Sierra Leonean in action in various stressful situations (smile. I
think that the closest equivalent that I can think of is various “been-to”
Nigerians and Ghanaians that I have encountered (There’s Soyinka’s The
Interpreters
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Soyinka+%3A+The+Interpreters> etc and
Ayi Kwei Armah's Semi Autobiographical Fragments
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ayi+Kwei+Armah%3A+Fragments>and Why Are
We So Blest ?
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ayi+Kwei+Armah%3A+Why+Are+We+So+Blest+%3F&sca>
which testify to a certain type of alienation
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Frantz+Fanon+%3A+Alienation> ,variously
diagnosed by Franz Fanon
 
In 1958 when I started secondary school in Sierra Leone, at the Prince of
Wales School,
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sierra+Leone+%3A++Prince+of+Wales+School>
we took first Latin, and then French as a second language, but unlike our
counterparts in Dakar in Senegal and Guinea Conakry, we did not begin - in
the name of some Frenchy assimilation policy, learning by rote that “Our
ancestors were Gauls”; nor did we begin where I had started in Merry
England, with William the Conqueror
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British+History+%3A+William+the+Conqueror>
and 1066 <https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British+History+%3A+1066&> -
along with classmates Sylvester Abimbola Young, Akintola Wyse (who later on
became a historian) we started at 1485
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British+History+%3A+1485>, and “The War
of the Roses
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British+History+%3A+The+War+of+the+Roses>”
- our first official taste of African history was in lower six, when we
studied “ The British Empire Under Queen Victoria”
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+The+British+Empire+Under+Queen+Victoria>-
which along with all the literature and philosophy that had already gone
down, contributed more than slightly in altering our worldview.
 
From that point of view, I must say that Senegal for example had a few
distinct advantages, not exactly in the person and persona of Léopold Sédar
Senghor rapturously singing the praises of the Black Woman whilst busily
married to a White one, although to his credit he did produce poems
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=L%C3%A9opold+s%C3%A9dar+Senghor+%3A+Poems>
such as New York
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=L%C3%A9opold+s%C3%A9dar+Senghor+%3A++New+York>,
as indeed, in similar spirit some of the David Diop
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=David+Diop+%3A+Poems> and Birago Diop
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Birago+Diop+%3A+Poems> poems not to
mention Grand Maître Aimé Césaire
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Aim%C3%A9+C%C3%A9saire> who must have
impacted and is still impacting Senegal, Francophone Africa and the rest of
the African Diaspora, everywhere, in a big way. In addition to with regard
to Senegal in particular, the persons of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ahmadou+Bamba&> and Cheikh Anta Diop
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Cheikh+Anta+Diop&> impinging on our
consciousness forever.
 
It’s time to ask Ken what it was like for him to be teaching at the Cheikh
Anta Diop University of Dakar
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Cheikh+Anta+Diop+University+of+Dakar>,
Senegal…and in your other place of learning some other kinds of
consciousness-raising in the output of e.g. Ferdinand Oyono
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ferdinand+Oyono>
 
To be continued, but at this point, duty calls and garçon cornelius ( in
Swedish, “springpojke”) has to go and get some groceries, s'il vous plaît
 
 
 
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 11:53:42 UTC+2 Harrow, Kenneth wrote:
 
"Harrow, Kenneth" <har...@msu.edu>: Sep 21 08:47PM

i find this memory of times past, recounted first person close to the bone cornelius, really terrific. it gives us a sense, for those not having been there, what it meant to be part of that system of late colonialism, and what the encounter with britain really meant.
 
i came to cameroon in 1977 to teach at the university of yaounde. i was a fulbright teacher in the english dept and taught my students texts of english and american literature. i loved the experience requested to stay on teaching a second year, and became a fervid lover of african literature and culture—for the rest of my life.
i did not begin to teach african literature until i came to the universite cheikh anta diop in dakar in the 1980s. that experience brought me close to many students who had been exposed to a relatively fixed curriculum, to which my texts added many new ones. i remember so much; teaching birago diop, as he was in the last years of his life, and celebrating his writings with my students, was an unforgettable experience. after that i returned to teach more Black literature at the universite, including Caribbean literature for the grad students. and i tried to bring african cinema to the university, and to dakar locales, as well.
 
i have been close to students from the first classes in cameroon and the later ones in dakar ever since. now it 50 years since i first crossed the waters south of the mediterranean to algeria and morocco; 46 years since cameroon.
the exchanges on this list enable to continue, from my chair here at home in east lansing, to be in touch with the voices of a world that became the only intellectual home for me. for which i am always grateful.
ken
 
 
kenneth harrow
 
professor emeritus
 
dept of english
 
michigan state university
 
517 803-8839
 
har...@msu.edu
 
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Re - “Maybe cornelius” etc ,
 
 
the old Kabbalistic formula <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kabbalistic**A3A*The*Lord*27s*Prayer__;KyUrKyUr!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboQh_r0hE$> ,
 
 
“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=And*lead*us*not*into*temptation*2C*but*deliver*us*from*evil&__;KysrKyslKysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbodszTOFl$>”
 
 
I’d just like to say, and entirely without guile, that in the realm of human affairs, much is possible. For example, after the Nakba<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nakba__;!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboQIBQAb5$>, in the midst of the continuous decimation of Palestinians, this kind of heart-breaking, breaking news:
 
 
Saudi Arabia moving closer to "normalising" relations with Israel<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Saudi*Arabia*moving*closer*to**A22normalising*22*relations*with*Israel&__;KysrKyslJSsrKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbobP6dDfp$>
 
 
Maybe, the normalisation will either put a stop to the decimation or will contribute to the normalisation of the systematic genocidal decimation.
 
 
My friend Shalom told me that at Stockholm University he was in a maths class with a fellow student who ( apparently Palestinian) on getting to know that his name was Shalom and that he was Jewish, got up to give this sordid example of subtraction to which he Shalom objected vehemently : “You have 10 Israeli settlers and you shoot 9 of them, how many remain?”
 
 
Gladly, for the colonial imperialists and missionaries, such was not the case in much of British and French Colonial Africa, give and take a few exceptions such as Bai Bureh vs the British<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bai*Bureh**Avs*the*British__;KysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboY6ofOar$> in Sierra Leone (1898), The Algerian War of Independence <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The*Algerian*War*of*Independence__;KysrKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboSKWoO9w$> (1954 -1962), the Mau-Mau in Kenya <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kenya**A3A*the*Mau-Mau__;KyUrKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboR5SJSgz$> (1952 -1960)
 
 
In reminiscing briefly at the request of Don Harrow, I’d like to start off with the historical fact that Sierra Leone was the first British colony in Africa<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sierra*Leone*was*the*first*British*colony*in*Africa__;KysrKysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboRbwIP_l$>, and for the longest period, 150 years. When Sierra Leone attained Independence on 27th April, 1961, English remained the official language (my grandparents generation spoke Victorian English, quoted passages from the King James Version of the Bible<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the*King*James*Version*of*the*Bible__;KysrKysr!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbocL77ILB$> - and there’s hardly anything that a bloke like Kperogi could have “ taught” any of them<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Jante*Law__;Kw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboQDAI-tb$>). Indeed, the Brits left behind them legacies such as institutions of Western Education, a functioning judiciary comprising learned judges , a Westminster model of parliamentary government, a civil service run mostly as a meritocracy, salaries paid on time, back then 2 Leones was = £1 Sterling (the current rate of exchange is £1 = 25, 760 Leones), there was an efficient and effective police constabulary ,it was very much a law and order society, and in the capital City and the rest of the Western Area, there was an uninterrupted flow of electricity and pipe-borne water supply - in my mind how I yearn for the spirit’s return, and I cry, as time flies<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Leon*Thomas**A3A*The*Creator*has*a*Master*Plan**A28*with*lyrics__;KyslKysrKysrKyUrKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboR0yFGMj$>…
 
 
Another milestone, another first :
 
 
King Charles III addresses the French Senate<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=King*Charles*III*addresses*French*Senate__;KysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboUudGKCu$> -partly in French !
 
 
Colonialism produced the phenomenon known as Anglo-Sierra Leone<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Anglo-Sierra*Leone__;Kw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3Abobo6N8yE$> and the distinct category known as Anglo-Sierra Leonean<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Anglo-Sierra*Leonean__;Kw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3Abof5HT7OS$>, with characteristics that would take several chapters to illustrate ( the Anglo-Sierra Leonean in action in various stressful situations (smile. I think that the closest equivalent that I can think of is various “been-to” Nigerians and Ghanaians that I have encountered (There’s Soyinka’s The Interpreters<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Soyinka**A3A*The*Interpreters__;KyUrKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbocAdEvSI$> etc and Ayi Kwei Armah's Semi Autobiographical Fragments <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ayi*Kwei*Armah*3A*Fragments__;KyslKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboZhJeJHA$> and Why Are We So Blest ?<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ayi*Kwei*Armah*3A*Why*Are*We*So*Blest**A3F&sca__;KyslKysrKysrJQ!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboQM1_JGf$> which testify to a certain type of alienation<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Frantz*Fanon**A3A*Alienation__;KyslKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbofIdRsj0$> ,variously diagnosed by Franz Fanon
 
 
In 1958 when I started secondary school in Sierra Leone, at the Prince of Wales School,<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sierra*Leone**A3A**APrince*of*Wales*School__;KyslKysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3Aboe3AuT84$> we took first Latin, and then French as a second language, but unlike our counterparts in Dakar in Senegal and Guinea Conakry, we did not begin - in the name of some Frenchy assimilation policy, learning by rote that “Our ancestors were Gauls”; nor did we begin where I had started in Merry England, with William the Conqueror<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British*History**A3A*William*the*Conqueror__;KyslKysr!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboeN2Bte4$> and 1066 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British*History**A3A*1066&__;KyslKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbofEdfLTt$> - along with classmates Sylvester Abimbola Young, Akintola Wyse (who later on became a historian) we started at 1485<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British*History**A3A*1485__;KyslKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboePNZIM_$>, and “The War of the Roses<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=British*History**A3A*The*War*of*the*Roses__;KyslKysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboZi_SABP$>” - our first official taste of African history was in lower six, when we studied “ The British Empire Under Queen Victoria” <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=*The*British*Empire*Under*Queen*Victoria__;KysrKysr!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3Abof3JcqXk$> - which along with all the literature and philosophy that had already gone down, contributed more than slightly in altering our worldview.
 
 
From that point of view, I must say that Senegal for example had a few distinct advantages, not exactly in the person and persona of Léopold Sédar Senghor rapturously singing the praises of the Black Woman whilst busily married to a White one, although to his credit he did produce poems<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=L**Aopold*s**Adar*Senghor**A3A*Poems__;w6krw6krKyUr!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboT7308x6$> such as New York <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=L**Aopold*s**Adar*Senghor**A3A**ANew*York__;w6krw6krKyUrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboUesGwa8$> , as indeed, in similar spirit some of the David Diop<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=David*Diop**A3A*Poems__;KyslKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboetZ7RqL$> and Birago Diop<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Birago*Diop**A3A*Poems__;KyslKw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbocXdvgv6$> poems not to mention Grand Maître Aimé Césaire<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Aim**BC**Asaire__;w6krw6k!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AbofwXFFAE$> who must have impacted and is still impacting Senegal, Francophone Africa and the rest of the African Diaspora, everywhere, in a big way. In addition to with regard to Senegal in particular, the persons of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ahmadou*Bamba&__;Kw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboatEkhfN$> and Cheikh Anta Diop<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Cheikh*Anta*Diop&__;Kys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3Abocv5m_t5$> impinging on our consciousness forever.
 
 
It’s time to ask Ken what it was like for him to be teaching at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Cheikh*Anta*Diop*University*of*Dakar__;KysrKys!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboVBJdSsQ$>, Senegal…and in your other place of learning some other kinds of consciousness-raising in the output of e.g. Ferdinand Oyono<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ferdinand*Oyono__;Kw!!HXCxUKc!zcHMbDh2WzTnWohDwbnFQvOUWjkLXtgUGNYX6NzYDtjq1AcqYa2QnPG74mwsdkfGYaHFyCIKJJ7kp3AboZYRhVSh$>
 
 
To be continued, but at this point, duty calls and garçon cornelius ( in Swedish, “springpojke”) has to go and get some groceries, s'il vous plaît
 
 
 
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 11:53:42 UTC+2 Harrow, Kenneth wrote:
Dear ike,
If “assimilation” was more officially french than english policy, the reality was that there wasn’t much difference; not much difference at all, in my opinion.
I could rally my arguments to try to make my case; right now, this is an expression of my opinion.
The french offered entries into french society for the elite who followed the route of education, as you can read in so many novels, or testimonies.
So did the brits.
They both took high school grads in their university systems and returned them to elite positions at home.
The question of language, pretty identical, and the question of culture, of values, etc, pretty identical.
Maybe cornelius, who lived through much of the period where these values were taught and expressed could comment on his youth and experiences.
Or any of the other greybeards old enough to have experienced that side of colonialism
Ken
 
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Beautiful piece. I now understand why Nigeria once banned the teaching of history in Nigeria; it’s too revealing.
 
 
While reflecting on the centrality of this essay and Nigeria, my question is: why is it that
Olusegun Olopade <bcma...@toyinfalolanetwork.org>: Sep 21 09:25PM +0100

Falola, The West and the Hypocrisy of Democracy https://heartofarts.org/the-west-and-the-hypocrisy-of-democracy/
 
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abicke...@googlemail.com>: Sep 21 07:05PM +0100

Dear students of OAu Ife
If you want to fund education in nigeria Try Texas
 
The USA headquarters of the Great ife Alumni is in Houston Texas where a
sum of 60 billion dollars was transferred to from the nnpc so reports the
premium times of May 27 2021.
The students of OAU can approach OAU alumni in Texas to seek audience with
both the mayor of Houston and the Governor of Texas in respect of
returning this money or at least some of the interest accrued to the date
to Texas.
 
 
 
Tomorrow happens to be the 45 anniversary of the founding of the Unity
Party of Nigeria by Obafemi Awolowo famous for its programmes on freee
education and free health. Obafemi awolowoa also had a vision of 100 per
cent employment because he had seen it happen in isreal Texas has the
world's largest medical centre and it is the energy capital of the world.
Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Sep 21 08:51PM +0200

https://www.globalresearch.ca/brics-window-light-latest-make-believe-deception/5833093
"cornelius...@gmail.com" <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Sep 21 04:24AM -0700

Without a doubt, this is the most stellar essay that has yet been published
on this site
<https://heartofarts.org/obasanjo-obadide-and-obajoko-a-tale-of-tradition-attrition-and-perdition/>,
in celebration of beauty - including “age before beauty”, a marvellously
frank, heart-warming celebration of our traditional values, ethics, high
culture, dignity.
 
It’s an apt apologia now in place to meet the miscreants who want to get
away with disrespect and neo-colonialism in the name of some purported “
clash of civilisations”
 
It’s surprising that up to now, the essay seems to have elicited no
response/s here.
 
It was with great joy (special pleasure) that I read Ojogbon taking the
ever evanescent, often deluded and delusional Brer Obasanjo off his high
horse, and it was about time that somebody did so.
 
In the all too rapid modernisation process still sweeping across the nation
like a tsunami or a burst dam, uprooting and swapping away everything in
its way, in my view there's too much of “the old order changeth yielding
place to new
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+old+order+changeth+yielding+place+to+new+%28+Heraclitus>”
- often , in the name of a ”democracy” or a something else, too gladly
embraced.
 
What's this
<https://www.pulse.com.gh/entertainment/celebrities/bobrisky-flaunts-recently-acquired-curves/n55sqfm>,
for example?
 
To this day I lament / grieve / mourn the dethronement of the Emir of Kano
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+dethronement+of+the+Emir+of+Kano>
 
I have discussed some of the contents of the essay at length, with Baba
Kadiri, and some of what he had to say, alternately incensed me, the rest
almost brought me to tears. Once more, I got an education. It would be
unfair to try to reproduce all that Baba Kadiri said, because apart from
his encyclopaedic reach into the depths of Yoruba culture, language,
political and military history ( some of which you cannot find in the
Encyclopaedia Britannica) as you all know, no one can say it as it is, and
say it like him, or as he says it, in his own inimitable way
 
 
On Monday, 18 September 2023 at 12:26:27 UTC+2 Olusegun Olopade wrote:
 
"Harrow, Kenneth" <har...@msu.edu>: Sep 21 04:40PM

the chinese so far refuse to restructure their loans.
this is one report on their contract work that came up. it reminds me of the old days when corrupt contractors built roads not to last, skimming off the top so as to get more illegal profits. the results? check out the road from ibadan to lagos; or those in northern cameroon, once smooth as silk.
https://regionweek.com/burundi-bbn-suspends-cement-orders-placed-with-chinese-firm-great-lakes-company/
[https://i0.wp.com/regionweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-18-at-15.15.38.jpeg?fit=1600%2C1066&ssl=1]<https://regionweek.com/burundi-bbn-suspends-cement-orders-placed-with-chinese-firm-great-lakes-company/>
Burundi: BBN Suspends Cement Orders Placed With Chinese Firm Great Lakes Company<https://regionweek.com/burundi-bbn-suspends-cement-orders-placed-with-chinese-firm-great-lakes-company/>
All cement Orders placed with a Chinese manufacturer, Great Lakes Company (GLC), operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
regionweek.com
 
 
 
 
kenneth harrow
 
professor emeritus
 
dept of english
 
michigan state university
 
517 803-8839
 
har...@msu.edu
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I would want to see how our scholars and film practitioners can use film in change of perception  or behavioural change in nigeria with regards  to the following
 1 Armed forces of nigeria such that she is feared by the enemy,respected  by the allies  and lived bythe  ngerian people 
2 nigerian police same as above
3custom officers and civil servants in genneral
4  drastic reduction in noncomunicable diseases like  heart failure
Stemming the tide of open defecation and urinating in  openspaces.
5 drastic reduction in materialism 

6 reckless driving
7 getting nigerians to go on holiday
8 healthy eating and adequate exercise
9 to change the perception as held of  some important  trades and professions
Environmental sanitation
Etiquette of talking in low and measured tones.
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"Harrow, Kenneth" <har...@msu.edu>: Sep 20 11:33PM

Dear ike,
If “assimilation” was more officially french than english policy, the reality was that there wasn’t much difference; not much difference at all, in my opinion.
I could rally my arguments to try to make my case; right now, this is an expression of my opinion.
The french offered entries into french society for the elite who followed the route of education, as you can read in so many novels, or testimonies.
So did the brits.
They both took high school grads in their university systems and returned them to elite positions at home.
The question of language, pretty identical, and the question of culture, of values, etc, pretty identical.
Maybe cornelius, who lived through much of the period where these values were taught and expressed could comment on his youth and experiences.
Or any of the other greybeards old enough to have experienced that side of colonialism
Ken
 
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Beautiful piece. I now understand why Nigeria once banned the teaching of history in Nigeria; it’s too revealing.
 
 
While reflecting on the centrality of this essay and Nigeria, my question is: why is it that many Nigerian leaders love London so much? We witnessed this phenomenon during the last elections period. Indeed, President Buhari went to London for a week’s medical checkup. These trips left me scratching my head, and wondering about these politicians’ unpatriotic character.
 
 
Recall, if you will, that Britain, unlike France and Portugal, never practiced the policy of assimilation in Anglophone Africa. Yet, some of our political actors seem to love the UK more than Nigeria. Why?
 
 
Ike Udogu
 
 
 
Ike Udogu
 
 
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Indeed a great piece.I hope I can
get the permission to include it
in a forthcoming issue of
Africa Update.
 
 
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
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powerfully written, deeply disturbing
 
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Re - “Maybe cornelius” etc ,
 
the old Kabbalistic formula
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Kabbalistic+%3A+The+Lord%27s+Prayer>,
 
“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=And+lead+us+not+into+temptation%2C+but+deliver+us+from+evil&>
”
 
I’d just like to say, and entirely without guile, that in the realm of
human affairs, much is possible. For example, after the Nakba
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nakba>, in the midst of the continuous
decimation of Palestinians, this kind of heart-breaking, breaking news:
 
Saudi Arabia moving closer to "normalising" relations with Israel
<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Saudi+Arabia+moving+closer+to+%22normalising%22+relations+with+Israel&>
 
Maybe, the normalisation will either put a stop to the decimation or will
contribute to the normalisation of the systematic genocidal decimation.
 
My friend Shalom told me that at Stockholm University he was in a maths
class with a fellow student who ( apparently Palestinian) on getting to
know that h
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