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Biko Agozino

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May 13, 2021, 3:01:38 PM5/13/21
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Rich and thought provoking

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Dr BioDun J Ogundayo

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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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May 13, 2021, 7:42:08 PM5/13/21
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Afrigogy, Africology, Afrocentrism, Afro-?
are about identity politics and you can be
thrown in the doghouse for that.

I suppose that advocacy for Black Lives Matter
is also a prohibited area.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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Biko Agozino

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May 14, 2021, 4:52:29 AM5/14/21
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Sista Glo,

Afrogogy, like pedagogy, is not an identity. It is a teaching method that can be adopted by anyone irrespective of identity. People of African descent, Marxists and feminists, have been applying the term pedagogy rather uncritically despite its Eurocentric patriarchal bourgeois implications. People of European descent can also adopt Afrogogy especially when they are teaching people of African descent.

Afrocentrism is not the same as Afrocentricity. The paradigm of Afrocentricity simply means that anyone studying Africa and people of African descent should have Africans at the center of the epistemological interest just like anyone studying music will have to be musicentric. Afrocentrism is similar to Eurocentrism or ethnocentrism, quite different from the scholarly principle of centricity that can be adopted by anyone studying anything that is at the center of the scholarship but without assuming that the way you study is the only valid universal methodology for studying anything or that you are always the best expert on the subject. Many scholars in Africology are not people of African descent just as Africans major in European Classics.

If being excluded from honors is the only measurement for poor scholarship, then some of our greatest scholars would not qualify. Today we honor them despite the fact that they were the stones that the builders refused but turned out to be the head corner stones. Instead of raising the fear of censure for innovation, let us know if you prefer the flawed term, pedagogy, as a description of your teaching practice at the university level. Are you still engaged in the pediatric practice of child-rearing? Are your university students the oppressed peasants of Freire or are they privileged along race-class-gender axes?

Biko

Gloria Emeagwali

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May 14, 2021, 8:54:35 AM5/14/21
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Remember when the US political elite cast itself as a homogenous  melting pot- a veritable ploy to suppress 
the struggle for dignity, human rights
and  “reparative justice” among oppressed groups within its borders?

Remember when critics of racism were told that they were simply overacting  and hallucinating, and that the problems were solved eons ago?

Remember when great scholars like Cheikh Anta Diop, Molefi Asante  and others were  simply dismissed, and their monumental works thrown
into the trash bin?

The audacity of audacity!

Thank you for your clarification. Forward ever, backward NEVER!

$)&@?&@

Gloria Emeagwali 




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Biko Agozino

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May 14, 2021, 9:38:48 PM5/14/21
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The melting pot ent melting. Exclusion was and remains the method of choice by the elites than integration. But the opposition is not reserved only for people of African descent. Mr Eiffel originally offered his tower to Barcelona but they poo-poohed it, he offered it to the US and they laughed him out of there, before he offered it to Paris where it was built against stiff opposition from the arts elites. 

Einstein never got a penny in funding from the Nazis who reserved grants for real science to only those with German blood and Stuart Hall was practically chased out of Birmingham by feminist activists who saw him as just another bloke. Derrida was never offered a tenured position and when he got an honorary doctorate from Cambridge, dozens of philosophers around the world wrote an open letter denouncing the award on the ground that he was not a philosopher. 

The great Du Bois was never tenured and neither was CLR James. Fela Kuti was nearly beaten to death and his mother was killed for his truth to power, Walter Rodney was expelled from Jamaica and assassinated in his own country; Marx was expelled from country to country and nobody would hire him to teach anyone. 

Azikiwe could not get a job anywhere and so was forced to start his chain of newspapers and his own bank; Mandela was on the terrorist watch list until 2007; Steve Biko was tortured to death; Peter Tosh was executed; Tupac and Biggie were wasted; Eric Williams was not loved much; Malcolm and Martin paid the ultimate price; Winnie Mandela was demonized; Angela Davis was fired before she could start; Ida B Wells was ran out of town; Claudia Jones was thrown into detention and then deported. But we know them and not the nobodies who sold their souls to the devil.

If you receive nothing but praise from the establishment, then you must be selling out. If I have a reputation that conflicts with my commitment to the people, then the reputation will have to be dumped in favor of the people without apology because I adhere to the principle of committed objectivity.

Biko 

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