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May the soul of Prof Samir Amin rest in peace. Osakue Omoera.

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Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>: Aug 12 10:15PM

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From: Alinah Segobye <alinah....@gmail.com<mailto:alinah.segobye@gmail.com>>
Date: August 12, 2018 at 10:57:22 PM GMT+1
To: Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>>
Subject: Passing on of Prof Samir Amin
 
Prof, I just received news of the passing on of Prof Samir Amin. I am sure the community in Dakar will send a msg out tomorrow but thought to share the sad news with you. May his soul Rest in peace.
Adeshina Afolayan <shina7...@yahoo.com>: Aug 12 10:24PM

Now, this is one of the truly great ones that stood at the forefront of the ideological battles against all forms of hegemonic hordes against Africa. May his rest in peace.
Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan
 
+23480-3928-8429
 
On Sunday, August 12, 2018, 11:16:58 PM GMT+1, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


 
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From: Alinah Segobye <alinah....@gmail.com>
Date: August 12, 2018 at 10:57:22 PM GMT+1
To: Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Passing on of Prof Samir Amin
 
 
 
Prof, I just received news of the passing on of Prof Samir Amin. I am sure the community in Dakar will send a msg out tomorrow but thought to share the sad news with you. May his soul Rest in peace. 
 
 
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Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Aug 11 04:01PM -0700

Dear Baba Kadiri,
 
I should hope that Cornelius Ignoramus is not trying to be profound or
abstruse again or going in search of any holy grail, fishing in the muddy
waters of the Naija political bureau...
 
I read with some trepidation Anthony Chidi Opara's premonition, his
doomsday prophecy : “*Democracy may die today in Nigeria!” *followed* by *
Professor Adeshina Afolayan's philosophically practical rejoinder ; “*Was
democracy ever born in Nigeria in the first place? There is no death for
something that didn't even taste life*.”, and you Baba Kadiri retroactively
confirming by post mortem, although you don't give an exact date when you
authoritatively declare:
 
“*Democracy died the day those who were elected on the platform of a
political party crossed to another party and retained seats which the
electorates granted to the party from which they defected*” ( And the rest
, as they say, is history)
 
There have been other improbable and absurd propositions such as the
regressus ad infinitum that proposes “God is dead
<https://www.google.de/search?q=God+is+dead&trackid=sp-006>” or postulates “The
end of history
<https://www.google.de/search?q=The+end+of+history&trackid=sp-006>”,
neither postulate needing a poetic license to escape verification since
these statements can be falsified by the converse *God is not dead*, *history
does not end* , just as some of the onward Christian soldiers conclude
their forward-looking prayers with “World without end, Amen”. The latter is
not on a different plain of reality from/ than Auden's “Stop all the
clocks, cut off the telephone
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Stop+all+the+clocks,+cut+off+the+telephone&trackid=sp-006>”.
In Ahoada in Nigeria I often listened to Peter Tosh's Mystic Man
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Peter+Tosh+:+Mystic+Man&trackid=sp-006> but
winced every time it got to “The day the dollar die
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Peter+Tosh+:+The+day+the+dollar+die&trackid=sp-006>”
just thinking of the US and the World economy and that our ass would be all
grass if that were to happen and so I hope and pray that we will never see
such a day...
 
We cannot afford to be too dogmatic or too literalist when speaking about
the birth or even the putative death of democracy( crazy-demo) in Nigeria,
even if there are many of the erudite thinking along the same line in
relation to the past. So, I was and am pleasantly surprised, by the
prologue to Simon Schama's
 
*The American Future: A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama*
<https://books.google.se/books?id=booUYPJfFIAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Simon+Schama+:+The+American+Future&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM4rW4--XcAhUBCZoKHR3zCWAQ6AEILDAB>
 
which begins with these disputable words :
 
“I can tell you exactly, give or take a minute or two, when American
democracy came back from the dead because I was there
<https://www.google.de/search?ei=tltvW8iCK4iQmwXSxr_YCw&q=I+can+tell+you+exactly,+give+or+take+a+minute+or+two,+when+American+democracy+came+back+from+the+dead+because+I+was+there&oq=I+can+tell+you+exactly,+give+or+take+a+minute+or+two,+when+American+democracy+came+back+from+the+dead+because+I+was+there&gs_l=psy-ab.3...33760.33760.0.34622.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.0.0....0._wcE3cJeep0>
: 7:15 p.m. Central Time, 3 January 2008, Precinct 53, Theodore Roosevelt
High. I know this as I was regularly checking my watch, and bedsides you
couldn't miss the schoolroom clock, its old white face the object of
teenage hatred and longing. I suppose a visitor from another world - London
, say – might have thought there was not all that much going on in the west
Des Moines that evening...”
 
By the way Baba Kadiri you are once again in my good books, with your
helping hand outstretched, confirming that irrespective of tribe, “a friend
in need is a friend indeed.” And so let us all wish this : Long live
democracy! ( Crazy demo)
 
With so much talk about death and dying we could listen here :
 
Rabbi Friedman - The Soul and the Afterlife: Where Do We Go From Here?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzFUXKk2B4I>
 
 
On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:32:24 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:
"Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM" <chidi...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 08:40AM +0100

"The only reason former DSS boss Lawal Daura's firing hasn't elicited
negative reactions against VP Yemi Osinbajo from Buhari simpletons is that
some propagandists in the Presidential Villa have managed to scam the news
media into publicizing the patently false narrative that Daura was working
for Bukola Saraki.
 
Feed Buhari idolaters with any staple of fake pro-Buhari news, however
improbable it might be, and they'll follow you right over the edge of the
cliff. Even if you tell them Satan supports Buhari, they will sanctify and
worship Satan. They are that stupid. I have never in my entire life seen a
more idiotic set of people than Buharists." (Professor Farooq Kperogi).
 
CAO.
Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com>: Aug 12 02:32PM

Anti human elements whose expertise is the fertilization of misery in Nigeria are fraternizing with the plunderers of Nigeria's treasury and turning themselves into their bodyguards. It seems to me that Nigeria has the highest number of PhDs and professors per household in the world, yet there is no corner of the globe where excellence and honour are in such huge deficits per household as in Nigeria.
 
 
Where was Professor Farooq Kperogi on June 8, 2015, when the Senate President and his Deputy were elected through a process similar to those described under Article 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which is obtainment by false pretence? On 29 October 2016, Professor Farooq Kperogi proudly posted on this forum thus, "I write my language columns (in the Daily Trust) because I am paid well to do so." Bashing Buhari is what mercenary writers have been doing since he became President because they are well paid to do so. Buhari bashers are like people who Robert Ingersoll claimed are beset with the heart of snake and conscience of hyena.
 
S. Kadiri
 
 
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"The only reason former DSS boss Lawal Daura's firing hasn't elicited negative reactions against VP Yemi Osinbajo from Buhari simpletons is that some propagandists in the Presidential Villa have managed to scam the news media into publicizing the patently false narrative that Daura was working for Bukola Saraki.
 
Feed Buhari idolaters with any staple of fake pro-Buhari news, however improbable it might be, and they'll follow you right over the edge of the cliff. Even if you tell them Satan supports Buhari, they will sanctify and worship Satan. They are that stupid. I have never in my entire life seen a more idiotic set of people than Buharists." (Professor Farooq Kperogi).
 
CAO.
 
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Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 03:34PM -0700

Baba Kadiri
 
I am disappointed. With a sense of impunity, some of the louts attack the
President, the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano in the most vile language!
 
Baba Kadiri : If respect begets respect, then should the opposite not also
be true?
 
Whatever happened to your sense of proportion? Proportionality? That was an
extremely mild , in fact an extremely effete, innocuous and ineffective
rejoinder from you, and in my view, inadequate when measured against
Professor Pepperoni
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Pepperoni&trackid=sp-006>'s extreme insult
to all Buharists and that includes circumcised & bona fide Buharists. You
should kick Pepperoni so hard ( verbally speaking of course) where he is
likely to feel it the most, so that to start with, he actually feels it at
the pit of the stomach or the groin and from there it should spread to the
other region from which such insults are usually conceived .
 
But in your case it is wisdom that is replying to an insult, you intend to
meet him point by point; it's not a case of sinking down to the very low
level of plying the dozens
<https://www.google.de/search?q=the+dozens&trackid=sp-006>
 
If not for the fact that President Buhari was democratically elected by a
majority of sensible Nigerians and that Nigeria is still very much a
democratic country, “in another lifetime, one of toil and blood, when
blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud”, Pepperoni's remarks would
have qualified as treason which means that although “ all is vanity” (a)
Pepperoni would have joined or rejoined the equivalent of Muhammad's Dead
Poets Society
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Muhammad%27s+Dead+Poets+Society&trackid=sp-006> and
secondly, (b) for Peperoni the punishment could have been of the kind
detailed in Quran 5: 33
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Quran%205:%2033&trackid=sp-006>
 
“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and
strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or
crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will
be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world,
and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom.. “
 
Some temperament here : Angelo Debarre
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Angelo+Debarre&trackid=sp-006>
 
 
 
On Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:31:37 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:
Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 07:40AM -0700

Amplifying/ expanding the discussion a little by adding more meat to the
bone : West African drums and dance: methods and perspective
<https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://antro.uu.se/digitalAssets/629/c_629668-l_3-k_20_11pripp.pdf&edit-text=>
s
<https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://antro.uu.se/digitalAssets/629/c_629668-l_3-k_20_11pripp.pdf&edit-text=> by
Oscar Pripp <https://www.google.de/search?q=Oscar+Pripp&trackid=sp-006>
 
 
Of relevance : West African Drumming and Dance in North American
Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective
<https://www.google.de/search?q=West+African+Drumming+and+Dance+in+North+American+Universities:+An+Ethnomusicological+Perspective&trackid=sp-006>
 
 
 
On Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:33:35 UTC+2, Kwabena Parry wrote:
Ebrima Kamara <kabaka...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 02:42PM -0700

Oscar Pripp is an authority in the subject - from the beginning ... I have
partnern with him on many levels... thanks
 
 
 
On Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:31:37 UTC+2, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
Wale Ghazal <waleg...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 10:40PM +0100

Dear colleagues and friends:
 
I am pleased to invite you to yet another intellectual gathering with
Professor Toyin Falola as he delivers the Olubadan's 90th
Birthday/Anniversary Lecture, on Thursday 23rd, August, 2018.
With pleasure, kindly find details in the attached invitation.
*You are cordially invited and most welcome! *
 
 
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Wale Ghazal <waleg...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 10:36PM +0100

Dear colleagues and friends:
 
I am pleased to invite you to yet another intellectual gathering with
Professor Toyin Falola as he delivers the Olubadan's 90th
Birthday/Anniversary Lecture, on Thursday 23rd, August, 2018.
With pleasure, kindly find details in the attached invitation.
*You are cordially invited and most welcome! *
 
 
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Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jum...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 09:22AM +0100

*Blacked Out in Cameroon*
 
I simply share today a new documentary about the complete internet shutdown
in Cameroon, which, by the way, is not completely over yet. This
documentary does an outstanding job of giving the background to the recent
crisis in Cameroon, dissecting the period of total blackout and the
consequences, and more importantly, spectacularly shows how the blackout
relates to the bigger issues plaguing the country, and how it became a
watershed for metastasizing the Anglophone resistance. My only problem with
the documentary was hearing Donald Trump's voice in the first few seconds
of the video.
 
Let us, however, not forget the Anglophone Cameroonian struggle, which
remains vital and urgent.
 
In peace,
Jumoke.
 
https://qz.com/africa/1349108/cameroons-internet-shutdown-in-blacked-out-documentary/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmiSL4rQU
BLACKED OUT
This documentary tells the story of Africa’s longest internet shutdown
By Abdi Latif Dahir <https://qz.com/author/adahirqz/>August 6, 2018
 
The internet, slow and sketchy
<https://qz.com/africa/1221011/the-internet-slow-and-unstable-is-back-in-cameroons-anglophone-regions/>
as
it might be, is back in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions.
 
Yet since Jan. 2017, connection in the two Southwest and Northwest regions
has either been completely off or slowed down for extended periods of time
<https://qz.com/africa/1138529/cameroons-anglophone-ambazonia-region-has-had-internet-restriction-for-150-days-in-2017/>.
Following protests against linguistic, political, and economic
discrimination
<https://qz.com/africa/1097892/cameroons-anglophone-crisis-is-danger-of-becoming-a-full-blown-conflict/>,
the Francophone-dominated government blocked the internet or stopped access
to certain social media platforms in a bid to stifle dissent and even calls
for secession
<https://qz.com/africa/1122225/cameroons-diaspora-back-breakaway-ambazonia-southern-cameroons-region/>
.
 
The country shut down the internet in the region for 230 days between
January 2017 and March 2018 and it has hurt
<https://qz.com/africa/902291/cameroons-silicon-mountain-is-suffering-losses-from-the-countrys-internet-shutdown/>
Cameroon’s
burgeoning tech ecosystem in Buea, known as “Silicon Mountain”. The longest
of those blocks lasted
<https://qz.com/africa/964927/caemroons-internet-shutdown-is-over-after-93-days/>
93
days: stoking regional unrest, brewing frustrations, and crippling a
vibrant digital sector
<https://qz.com/africa/902291/cameroons-silicon-mountain-is-suffering-losses-from-the-countrys-internet-shutdown/>
.
 
The story of those days is now the subject of a new documentary from
Blacked Out Africa, a collective that says it aims to make more
documentaries about shutdowns in Africa. *Blacked Out: The Shutdown*recounts
the details of the longest total internet blackout in Africa. Starting from
Jan. 17 until April 20, officials in Cameroon cut off the internet without
prior notice, while pressuring mobile operators
<https://qz.com/africa/893401/cameroon-pressured-mtn-and-other-operators-to-shut-down-internet-in-bamenda-buea-regions/>
to
flick the switch off on their customers. Through interviews with
journalists, activists, innovators, and government officials, the 43-minute
film also highlights how president Paul Biya’s government came to view the
internet and social media as a “new form of terrorism
<https://qz.com/africa/840118/cameroons-government-is-reacting-to-online-criticism-by-calling-social-media-a-new-form-of-terrorism/>
.”
 
The documentary lays bare both the “humiliation” experienced by Anglophone
Cameroonians as they shuttled back and forth to French-speaking regions to
access the internet and communicate with clients. But it also showcases the
moments of defiance and the counterproductive nature of the policy.
 
As covered by Quartz before, the blackout pushed techies to create an “internet
refugee camp
<https://qz.com/africa/942879/an-internet-shutdown-in-cameroon-has-forced-startups-to-create-an-internet-refugee-camp-in-bonako-village/>,”
inspired an SMS car-tracking app
<https://qz.com/africa/1347834/cameroon-innovator-beats-internet-shutdown-with-sms-app/>,
and didn’t stop 17-year-old Nji Collins Gbah from emerging winner
<https://qz.com/africa/909614/a-cameroonian-17-year-old-won-the-google-code-in-after-the-internet-was-shut-down-in-his-hometown-of-bamenda/>
at
the Google Code-in competition. Local and global digital rights advocates
also came together, launching global campaigns to stop the disruption
besides filing legal cases
<https://qz.com/africa/1192401/access-now-and-internet-sans-frontieres-sue-cameroon-for-shutting-down-the-internet/>
against
the government for violating its citizen’s rights.
 
Throughout the documentary, as authorities profess the threats and harm
posed by the internet, citizens in the two regions reaffirm its importance
not just for economic growth but also helping plug the information void
during turbulent times. “To live without the internet is like no life,”
says Binfon Edwin, an entrepreneur in Kumbo city in the Northwest.
 
 
 
 
*Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, PhD*
*Department of Political Science and Public Administration,*
*Babcock University,*
*Ogun State, Nigeria.*
*...*
*"Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education" -
Martin Luther King, Jr.*
*...*
Biko Agozino <biko...@yahoo.com>: Aug 12 02:20PM

I read somewhere that a Camerounian developed an App that transgresses the shutdown. But why call it a blackout when it is more like a whiteout? They should always acknowledge their 1959 blunder in voting to leave Eastern Nigeria and join French Cameroun due to the fear of Igbo domination planted by the British and fanned by ethnic warlords from other regions in Nigeria.
Biko
 
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 5:20 AM, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso<jum...@gmail.com> wrote: Blacked Out in Cameroon
I simply share today a new documentary about the complete internet shutdown in Cameroon, which, by the way, is not completely over yet. This documentary does an outstanding job of giving the background to the recent crisis in Cameroon, dissecting the period of total blackout and the consequences, and more importantly, spectacularly shows how the blackout relates to the bigger issues plaguing the country, and how it became a watershed for metastasizing the Anglophone resistance. My only problem with the documentary was hearing Donald Trump's voice in the first few seconds of the video.
Let us, however, not forget the Anglophone Cameroonian struggle, which remains vital and urgent.
In peace,Jumoke.
https://qz.com/africa/1349108/cameroons-internet-shutdown-in-blacked-out-documentary/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmiSL4rQU
BLACKED OUT
This documentary tells the story of Africa’s longest internet shutdown
By Abdi Latif DahirAugust 6, 2018
The internet, slow and sketchy as it might be, is back in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions.
 
Yet since Jan. 2017, connection in the two Southwest and Northwest regions has either been completely off or slowed down for extended periods of time. Following protests against linguistic, political, and economic discrimination, the Francophone-dominated government blocked the internet or stopped access to certain social media platforms in a bid to stifle dissent and even calls for secession.
 
The country shut down the internet in the region for 230 days between January 2017 and March 2018 and it has hurt Cameroon’s burgeoning tech ecosystem in Buea, known as “Silicon Mountain”. The longest of those blocks lasted 93 days: stoking regional unrest, brewing frustrations, and crippling a vibrant digital sector.
 
The story of those days is now the subject of a new documentary from Blacked Out Africa, a collective that says it aims to make more documentaries about shutdowns in Africa. Blacked Out: The Shutdownrecounts the details of the longest total internet blackout in Africa. Starting from Jan. 17 until April 20, officials in Cameroon cut off the internet without prior notice, while pressuring mobile operators to flick the switch off on their customers. Through interviews with journalists, activists, innovators, and government officials, the 43-minute film also highlights how president Paul Biya’s government came to view the internet and social media as a “new form of terrorism.”
 
The documentary lays bare both the “humiliation” experienced by Anglophone Cameroonians as they shuttled back and forth to French-speaking regions to access the internet and communicate with clients. But it also showcases the moments of defiance and the counterproductive nature of the policy.
 
As covered by Quartz before, the blackout pushed techies to create an “internet refugee camp,” inspired an SMS car-tracking app, and didn’t stop 17-year-old Nji Collins Gbah from emerging winner at the Google Code-in competition. Local and global digital rights advocates also came together, launching global campaigns to stop the disruption besides filing legal cases against the government for violating its citizen’s rights.
 
Throughout the documentary, as authorities profess the threats and harm posed by the internet, citizens in the two regions reaffirm its importance not just for economic growth but also helping plug the information void during turbulent times. “To live without the internet is like no life,” says Binfon Edwin, an entrepreneur in Kumbo city in the Northwest.
 
 
 
 
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, PhDDepartment of Political Science and Public Administration,Babcock University,Ogun State, Nigeria....
"Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
...
 
 
 
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Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jum...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 12:12PM -0700

Correct, about the techie who developed an app that uses sms to track cars and does not need the internet. His app has exploded in the market and is set to move across Africa. https://qz.com/africa/1347834/cameroon-innovator-beats-internet-shutdown-with-sms-app/
 
As for the purported error of 1959, there is no evidence to indicate that union with Nigeria would have produced different results for the people of Southern Cameroon as currently experienced with Francophone Cameroon. Nigeria’s own Biafra issue remains unresolved.
Biko Agozino <biko...@yahoo.com>: Aug 12 09:48PM

Dem ah tire fe see we face, cyaa get we out of de race. Woman you said I'm in you place and then you draw bad card. 
I think that Southern Cameroon would have been much better under the National Council for Nigeria and Cameroon. Up till today, the mothers still sing lullabies that praise 'Azikiwe banker, our our banker'. Part of the solution remains the Pan African vision of Zik for the reunification of Africa. No way will two men only be the Presidents over South Cameroon for more than 50 years with nothing to show for it had they voted in 1959 to remain with Southeast Nigeria. Bad bad mistake.
Biko
 
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso<jum...@gmail.com> wrote: Correct, about the techie who developed an app that uses sms to track cars and does not need the internet. His app has exploded in the market and is set to move across Africa. https://qz.com/africa/1347834/cameroon-innovator-beats-internet-shutdown-with-sms-app/
 
As for the purported error of 1959, there is no evidence to indicate that union with Nigeria would have produced different results for the people of Southern Cameroon as currently experienced with Francophone Cameroon. Nigeria’s own Biafra issue remains unresolved.
 
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Malami buba <mb4...@aol.com>: Aug 11 07:18PM +0100

Congratulations, Prof Ngom. You’ll be warmly received in my hometown, Sokoto, if you plan to examine the rich Ajami sources here.
 
 
Malami
 
 
Falu ngom <luf...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 01:20PM -0400

Many thanks Malam Buba!
 
Fallou
 
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Adeshina Afolayan <shina7...@yahoo.com>: Aug 12 09:24PM

Oga Fallou, Of course, you deserved this, and many more! Keep researching Ajami. That s one of the epistemological leeway available to Africa. 
Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan
 
+23480-3928-8429
 
On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 5:05:01 PM GMT+1, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

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"tadeak...@yahoo.com" <tadeak...@yahoo.com>: Aug 12 07:55PM +0100

Sad news. Prof Samir Amin has joined the ancestors.
 
May his soul rest in peace.
 
Tade.
 
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A giant has left us. I just received the terribly sad news about SAMIR AMIN who joined the ancestors today. His memory must live on. Please pass on this message to your contacts.
 
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Anthony Akinola <anthony....@gmail.com>: Aug 12 07:03PM +0100

August 12, 2018
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Below is the full text of the speech delivered by the National Chairman of
the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomole, at a press conference he
addressed on August 10, 2018 to respond to issues raised by the President
of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, at world press conference on August 8, 2018.
 
===============================
 
We decided to call this press conference basically to respond to issues
raised by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, during his press
conference.
 
It is important that we respond to some of the issues he canvassed so that
the public is not misled into turning villains into heroes and twisting the
facts that are not hidden to the Nigerian public. It is important that we
help the Nigerian public by refreshing their memories.
 
The Senate President raised the issues of the fact that he has always acted
not on the basis of his own personal interest, but that he has always acted
on the basis of national interest. The truth is that it is doubtful if the
Senate President has ever acted either in the national interest or in the
interest of his own political party before his defection recently. Without
going back to ancient history, it is important to look at how Senator
Bukola Saraki became the President of the Senate. He decided, clearly,
against the party’s position to enter into a deal with the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and got a faction of the PDP, taking
advantage of the fact that majority of the APC senators were holding a
meeting at the International Conference Centre to resolve the issue of
leadership of the senate and other principal officers that are expected to
be produced by the ruling party with majority senators.
 
Because he has put his personal interest over and above the interest of the
party, he went into alliance with the PDP and conceded the position of
deputy senate president to the opposition in other to obtain their support
for him to become the senate president. So, for the first time in our
democratic history in Nigeria, we had a situation whereby, whereas the APC
had majority of senators, it went on to elect a PDP person as deputy senate
president.
 
This action alone portrays Senator Saraki for whom he is and that his
personal interest come before any other interest, including national
interest and that of his political party.
 
Having gone into this unholy alliance with the opposition and mortgaging
the rights of the ruling party, he appointed opposition senators to head
sensitive and strategic committees whose activities can affect either for
good or for bad, the working of government and the relationship between the
government and the legislature. Senator Saraki did that in other to
continue to protect himself against the wishes of his party as Senate
President. That showed that the only thing that was constant in his mind
was to cling on to the position of Senate President even if it is at the
expense of his own party and the country.
 
Even the media has consistently drawn attention to how Senator Saraki is
managing the Senate to the extent that questions have been raised as to
whose interest the Senate was serving.
 
You do not have to be a partisan politician to appreciate that in an
election year, every democratic government around the world would do
everything possible to ensure that it is seen to be working for the people
of the country. Like any other political party in government, Nigerians
expected the APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari to do
everything possible this year to make up for lost time in terms of budget
implementation and addressing critical infrastructures without which
sustainable development is impossible.
 
The Senate under Senator Saraki chose to delay the budget up to the end of
the first half of the year and to coincide with the period of the rainy
season such that those aspects of infrastructure such as roads cannot be
constructed during the rainy season.
 
These were not errors under his leadership, but clearly designed to
frustrate the capacity of the government to address critical
infrastructural deficit without which the ordinary man cannot feel the
impact of government.
 
Again on receipt of the budget, the President cried out that it was a clear
distortion from the well thought proposal that he submitted to the National
Assembly. He appreciated that while they can make alteration to the budget,
he did not expect that it would be completely rewritten as to make far more
provisions for recurrent expenditure with very little for capital projects.
He said this budget will be difficult to implement.
 
So, when I said he has never put the interest of Nigeria first, I support
this statement with reference to the deliberate delay of the budget and
deliberate manipulation of the provisions in the budget in a way that will
compromise the capacity of the government to address critical
infrastructures.
 
It is no longer a secret that as Senate President, he tried to conspire
with others to create a semblance of division within the ruling party
having failed to truncate the national convention when they assembled a
handful of people who were neither delegates nor contestants for any office
at the National Convention. There is nothing for me to add to the
illegality of this action and the false foundation that Senator Saraki
tried to leave than to adopt the well thought-out presentation of Femi
Falana SAN.
 
Those things did not portray him as someone who is concerned about
sustaining democracy because sustaining democracy also implies absolute
commitment to the rule of law. If the rule of law is compromised and
Nigeria is reduced to a banana republic where it will be survival of the
fittest, he is probably not the strongest man in town to cling on to that
office. So, each time he takes an action that constitutes a breach of the
constitution, he is, by his own action undermining the foundation and
weakening the fabrics of our democracy.
 
However, upon his illegal defection, which he had to do hurriedly because
of the number of Senators he was playing on their fears that they would not
be able to return to the Senate.
 
At a point, he had on his list about 36 Senators who were about to defect.
But consequent upon our election, we took pre-emptive steps to reassure
some of those senators. The first meeting we held after our election was
with Senator Saraki to try and listen to what I called negotiable and
verifiable grievances and this I did in company of the Vice President and
he acknowledged that those steps were taken when he was leaving.
 
But however, his real grievances are not negotiable which is about
ambition, value and his fundamental values and the values of the APC.
 
When he defected, he went to Ilorin to tell the people part of the truth
that he was leaving for two reasons. He alleged that President Buhari gave
out over 200 juicy appointments without allocating some to him and he
choose to speak for the Speaker of the House of Representatives that he was
also not given.
 
My question is: giving Saraki, the Senate President juicy position, does
that coincide with the Nigerian project? Or the interest of the people of
Kwara State of his Senatorial zone? At no time did he refer to the interest
of the people of his constituency or the people of Nigeria.
 
The second reason he gave was that he was being persecuted. That is alleged
persecution of his person and not his people. He never pretended that any
of these actions had anything to do with the people of Nigeria, but his
person. I think the governor of Kwara State was more explicit in
corroborating his claim when he said that he as governor and Saraki as
Senate President were being linked to armed robbery cases. Again, that has
nothing to do with the Nigerian project or the Kwara people.
 
What is the truth? Who linked Senator Saraki to armed robbery? Was it the
federal government or arrested armed robbers? It is the armed robbers that
alleged that the weapons with which they carried out the operation were
procured for them by the Senate President. This is contained in the police
report which is no longer a secret. He has not denied knowledge of these
people.
 
So If armed robbers linked the name of the Senate President, is the APC or
the government to blame? A crime that led to the killing of about 35
persons cannot be dismissed with a wave of hand and in any jurisdiction,
when your name is linked to such heinous crime, people don’t clap for you.
It is the duty of the security agents to investigate and establish whether
they are valid or invalid. So, if he was linked to armed robbery, that
cannot be an offense of the government or the APC. The best defence I have
heard is that the robbers said that he did not ask them to use the weapon
for armed robbery.
 
In support of my thesis that Saraki has never acted in the national
interest, my final submission is on the way he adjourned the Senate.
 
The senate calendar is not secret to the presiding officer and the calendar
that was known was that the senate was going to adjourn on a Thursday.
 
But by Monday night, Saraki used his guest house, wrote out names of
Senators with provision for them to sign for senators to decamp from the
APC to the PDP, but some of the senators refused to sign. That is what
frustrated his calculations to turn the APC to a minority party in the
senate. Is it a coincidence that as he was reading the names of defectors
in the senate, his counterpart in the House was also doing same? So there
was coordination for defection day. But happily, the pre-emptive measures
we have taken to address genuine grievances frustrated their number such
that from 36, he could not get more than 14 senators to decamp including
one that subsequently overcame the manipulation.
 
Between Tuesday and Thursday, the Senate was expected to discuss the
supplementary budget for the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC). INEC requirements are not things that you buy from the shelf. You
have to order them from the manufacturers and so, time is of the essence.
But the senate under Saraki adjourned without considering the matters
before it including the budget for INEC. So, if Saraki adjourned the Senate
ahead of schedule to resume towards the end of nominations, can that act be
said to coincide with national interest?
 
If you decide to frustrate INEC by denying it the funds that it requires,
can you be said to be a defender of democracy? If INEC don’t get their
funds and therefore are unable to conduct t credible election, will that
not lead to further consequences for our democracy?
 
So, I submit that Saraki’s actions were calculated to undermine democracy.
Those who fought for democracy did not do it so that it can be at the
mercies of a Senate President whose interest is clearly at variance with
national interest. There was a request for virement which was also not
considered.
 
A substantial part of the 2018 budget meant for capital project was
supposed to be sourced through loans and under the constitution, you cannot
borrow from foreign countries without the express endorsement of the
National Assembly. Without those loans, the budget cannot be implemented.
 
While this was pending, Senator Saraki put his personal interest above his
office and choose to adjourn the Senate , leaving this huge national issues
unattended to. So, for an officer that behaves like that, how can he argue
that anything he did was not about himself? Everything he did has never
been informed by national interest. There are also allegations of lack of
transparency and we have seen Nigerians trying to demystify what they earn.
We have an arm that is completely unaccountable because of the way he has
presided.
 
Therefore, his attempt to use the incident at the National Assembly on
Tuesday to portray himself as the conscience of the nation is to insult our
collective intelligence as a people.
 
There is the futile attempt he has made to suggest that Tuesday’s incidence
was an attempt to carry out an illegal impeachment. How can a presiding
office arrive at such a conclusion that there was a plan to carry out an
illegal impeachment? Until an action takes place, you cannot determine the
outcome.
 
If impeachment itself is unlawful, then you can understand where he is
coming from. It is lawful to impeach anyone, including the President the
Senate and his deputy if the number required to do so is present. So, he
cannot pre-empt that.
 
From their own statement, they claim to be aware that the Senate President
was going to be illegally impeached and so mobilized thugs to the Senate.
 
They told the world that they adjourned till 25th September. But meanwhile,
about 15 PDP Senators were in the Senate and imported thugs that molested
two of our members they saw in the senate. If APC Senators were not in the
Senate and it was PDP Senators that were there, what is the basis of the
false claim that there was an attempt to carry out an illegal impeachment?
 
In any case, Saraki is not going to be the first Senate President to be
impeached and I doubt if he is going to be the last. But definitely, he
will be impeached according to law and democratic norms. The only way he
can avoid impeachment is for him to do what is honourable.
 
We saw Senator Godswill Akpabio who was the PDP leader in the Senate. Once
he made up his mind to leave the PDP, he wrote to inform the PDP even
before his defection that he was resigning. So, Senator Saraki has
demonstrated neither character nor being a man of honour.
 
I told him when we held a meeting that he came to join the APC as a Senator
and it is on our platform that you became Senate President. Once you made
up your mind to leave, the honourable thing to do is to resign as Senate
President. If he does not resign, he will be impeached according to law and
not by thuggery or by mob or anything that is undemocratic. He cannot
sustain a minority rule in the Senate and that is what is haunting him in
the Senate.
 
When I say that the Senate President will be impeached, let me emphasise
that he will be impeached properly according to law. The constitution is
clear on how a presiding officer can be impeached and because several
impeachments have taken place, we are not about to witness what has not
taken place before. We have enough precedent to fall back on.
 
I have looked at the constitution which does not say that an impeachment is
illegal. Untill it is done, you cannot arrive
"Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM" <chidi...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 07:25PM +0100

By Adeboye Boye
 
1. The daddy/founder displays his pictures on billboards, fliers etc.
Isaiah 42:8
 
2. There is segregation outlined by different types of seats provided- You
may notice the seats differ in class from that of the daddy to yours, for
instance.
James 2:2.
 
3. Control and power is centralised in one man or couple...who literally
wield/Lord it over the rest.
Matt. 20:25-26, 1 Pet. 5:3
 
4. You are manipulated to believe you must pay certain amounts of money
from your income...which they call tithes and firstfruits.
2 Pet. 2:3
 
5. They teach you that you can procure/receive favours and blessings of
financial gains, jobs, marriage, children etc from God by giving them your
money. They call these different names such as seed, raising altars,
sacrifice, offering etc.
Acts 8: 20
 
6. There's no room to ask questions or query what you are being told by the
daddy. He basically dictates his will to you all, and his word is literally
law.
1 Pet. 5:3,
 
7. Your daddy and usually his wife are called by names that psychologically
present them as superior to the rest of you.
Matt. 20: 25-26
 
8. Your money and resources is always flowing to this organisation or
system you belong to.
 
9. There's always an activity or programme that keeps you drained
physically and economically...leaving you little or no room to think and
evaluate things, independently.
 
10. The financial system/ records and how it's controlled is not public...
 
Beloved...If this reads like where you presently call your "church", I have
to let you know it doesn't represent the Church as instituted in the Bible.
 
You may derive some social fulfilment from belonging there- dress nice, see
other faces, mingle in a nice or even luxurious environment...listen to an
admixture of truth and lies called message, but that's it, and hardly
anything spiritually more.
 
In most cases, you are just a number in the carefully orchestrated setup of
man.
 
It has the similitude of spirituality- a building with a religious sounding
name, religious music and appearances but the life of Christ is not there.
 
Fear not however...you will gradually know the truth, and you'd be free
 
Truth is not afraid...
 
 
--
*Chidi Anthony Opara <http://www.chidianthonyopara.blogspot.com> is a Poet
<https://www.google.com.ng/?gws_rd=cr&ei=PwmjUpuuFObw0gWMiIHgCQ#q=chidi+anthony+opara+poems>
and
Publisher of PublicInformationProjects
<http://www.publicinformationprojects.blogspot.com>*
Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com>: Aug 12 09:42AM -0700

A small people's world ( this planet)
 
Greetings from Janheinz Jahn
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Janheinz+Jahn&trackid=sp-006> !
 
When I was in Sierra Leone, I'm sure that I knew less than two hundred
people there, but some I knew, very well.
 
Like a Muntu
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Muntu+definition&trackid=sp-006> and Ubuntu
<https://www.google.de/search?q=ubuntu+meaning&trackid=sp-006> man I don't
just believe, I know that we live in a people world and that's why I don't
have to apologise to or ask for forgiveness from anybody for e.g. sourcing
some ideas, naming anybody and giving praise where it's due. As our late
Ghanaian Brother Bedu Annan
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Bedu+Annan+(+Grounding&trackid=sp-006> told
me when we first discussed Kwame Anthony Appiah
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Kwame+Anthony+Appiah&trackid=sp-006>'s
first major splash “In My Father's House
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Kwame+Anthony+Appiah+:+In+My+Father%27s+House&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ99Oc3OfcAhUmQpoKHaFbDOgQ_AUIECgB&biw=1164&bih=815>”
- this was around the time Bedu was running a very popular Afro-Swedish
nightclub in down-town Stockholm, known as “Maison Caliban” - and just a
few more words about Bedu – he was a good friend of Buchi Emecheta
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Buchi+Emecheta&trackid=sp-006>, he was
highly, literate and literary - a little like fearless fang”, Pa Ikhide
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Pa+Ikhide&trackid=sp-006>, except that Bedu
wrote less and on a one- to-one basis, talked much about literary and
linguistic matters uninterruptedly and with both critical reserve and
unending enthusiasm , most about the latest or some kind post-mortems, like
a waterfall, like my son and I listening to Ginsberg reading his Plutonian
Ode
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Allen+Ginsberg:+Plutonian+Ode&trackid=sp-006> at
the Kulturhuset in Stockholm sometime in January 1983, when I was home on
leave before starting my second tour in the Niger Delta. Sadly, Bedu who I
would fondly refer to as African Renaissance Man
<https://www.google.de/search?q=African+Renaissance+Man&trackid=sp-006>,
was no longer with us when Buchi did her reading in Stockholm. I talked to
Bedu on the phone the day before ( as the manic-depressive he then was ,
and I was one of the few people in touch with him then, he was full of
plans about granting diplomas for his grounding courses and when I phoned
him on the morning of the following day, too late, he did not answer the
phone, It was the day on which he died
 
With reference to Appiah's book , “Thought”, said Bedu, “ is not
necessarily racial”and we continued with some of the implications thereof.
I demanded a microscope that would show the red blood corpuscles of the
brain ( like race biology in Sweden
<https://www.google.de/search?q=race+biology+in+Sweden&trackid=sp-006> some
time ago showing the cranial capacities of the various races) . We did
agree that certain thoughts emerge from certain geographical spaces - the
places from which they were reported to have first appeared . We can even
trace the lineage of some of the early Greek philosophers and the impact of
Neoplatonist <https://www.google.de/search?q=Neoplatonist&trackid=sp-006> guys
like Plotinus <https://www.google.de/search?q=Plotinus&trackid=sp-006> have
had on Iranian Sufism - at least may the Almighty be pleased with him, my
lovely Sufi Master Hazrat Hajj Sultan Hussein Tabandeh Reza Ali Shah
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Hazrat+Hajj+Sultan+Hussein+Tabandeh+Reza+Ali+Shah&trackid=sp-006> wrote
a commentary on Plotinus...
 
This world is really such a small world, the vastness of its its space in
the universe of sound like a gob of spit in the seven seas, a lonely grain
of sand in the Sahara desert. Materially speaking, even before we shed
these bodies , leave our mortal remains behind, we could say something like
these words attributed to Imam Ali (a.s ) in the Sermon of ash-Shaqshaqiya
<https://www.google.de/search?q=the+Sermon+of+ash-Shaqshaqiya&trackid=sp-006> ,
speaking of how ephemeral this world is, “*this world of yours is no better
than the sneezing of a goat *!” But whilst we are still blessed with life,
we could discover the treasure hidden in our own hearts waiting to be
discovered , said to be worth more than all the silver and gold we will
have to leave behind us.
 
Just now we mourn ( some celebrate) the passing of literary icon V.S.Naipaul
<https://www.google.de/search?q=V.S.Naipaul&trackid=sp-006> into the
Valhalla loka
<https://www.google.de/search?q=loka+(+sanskrit&trackid=sp-006>of the
literary heaven where luminaries such as the poetic prophets Walcott and
Whitman confer. Meanwhile in my own life right now I'm taken back to when I
started living in Sweden more permanently from 1971, when I had the good
fortune to meet an ethnomusicologist by the name of Björn Ranung
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Bj%C3%B6rn+Ranung&trackid=sp-006> – put in
touch with him by Lisbet Hejdebäck
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Lisbet+Hejdeb%C3%A4ck&trackid=sp-006> - who
before passing on to the aforementioned loka was literary agent and Swedish
editor of both Naipaul and Walcott - she ( a good friend of my Better Half)
sent me some Swedish treasures ( seminal translations of Swedish poetry
into English) whilst we were in Ghana , so talking about acculturation, I
was acquainted with such ( albeit through translations) before I started
living here, Today ( it's personal) although I love some of Robert Bly
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Robert+Bly&trackid=sp-006>'s and in some
cases prefer W.H. Auden
<https://www.google.de/search?q=W.H.+Auden&trackid=sp-006>'s translations,
I would like to make tiny adjustments to the feel of some of those
translations of e.g. Gunnar Ekelöf
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Gunnar+Ekel%C3%B6f&trackid=sp-006> with
whom I am most acquainted in the Swedish Language-
 
And so circa 1972 I came to listen to Björn Ranung's fieldwork collection
from Nigeria ; Various, Idege Tribes - Music Of Dawn And Day
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Various,+Idege+Tribes+-+Music+Of+Dawn+And+Day&trackid=sp-006> (
more about all this elsewhere, about a time when Ranung was my
cross-cultural therapist, medicine man and consultant, so to speak )
 
To Chidi Anthony Opara
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Chidi+Anthony+Opara&trackid=sp-006> and the
people who have been engaged in the still un-ended discussion of the Biafra
War , just a few days ago ( downsizing my library, I came across a story by Ben
Okri <https://www.google.de/search?q=Ben+Okri&trackid=sp-006> – one which I
had been looking for, for some time now : it's his short story “ Laughter
Beneath The Bridge
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Ben+Okri+:+Laughter+Beneath+The+Bridge&trackid=sp-006>”
pages 211 – 229 of Firebird 4 - New writing from Britain and Ireland
<https://www.google.de/search?q=Firebird+4+-+New+writing+from+Britain+and+Ireland&trackid=sp-006>,”published
in 1985
 
The story begins:
 
*Those were long days as we lay pressed to the prickly grass waiting for
the bombs to fall. The civil war broke out before mid-term and the boarding
school emptied fast. Teachers disappeared ;the English headmaster was
rumoured to have flown home; and the entire kitchen staff fled before the
first planes went past overhead. At the first sign of trouble in the
country parents appeared and secreted away their children. Three of us were
left behind. WE all hope someone would turn up to collect us. We were
silent most of the time-*
 
*Vultures showed up in the sky. They circled the school campus for a few
days and then settled on the watch-night's shed. In the evenings we watched
as first some religious maniacs roamed the empty school compound screaming
about the end of the world; and then as a wild bunch of people from the
city scattered through searching for those of the rebel tribe. They broke
down doors and they looted the chapel of its icons, statuaries, and velvet
drapes: they took the large vivid painting of the agony of Christ. In the
evening we saw the first Irish priest riding furiously away from town on
his Raleigh bicycle.. After he left ghosts flitted through the chapel and
rattled the roof. One might have heard the altar fall. The next day we saw
lizards nodding on the chapel walls.*
 
*We stayed in the dormitories. We rooted for food in the vegetable field.
We stole the wine of tapsters at the foot of the palm trees. We broke into
the kitchen and raided the store of baked beans, sardines, and stale bread.
In the daytime we waited at the school gate , pressed to the grass,
watching for our parents. Sometimes we went to town to forage. We talked
about the bombings in the country whispered to us from the fields. One day
, after having stolen bread from the only bakery open in town, we got to
the dormitory and found the lizards there. They were under the
double-decked beds and on the cupboards , in such great numbers , in such
relaxed occupation, that we couldn't bear to sleep there any more. . All
through the days we waited for the bombs to fall. And all through that time
it was Monica I thought about,.,,*
Biko Agozino <biko...@yahoo.com>: Aug 12 11:33AM

On the passing of VS Naipaul, I share my 2010 blog post that was republished by Vanguard newspapers
Naipaul’s Ingratitude - Vanguard News
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In this post colonial reading of V.S.Naipaul, Onwubiko Agozino provides another interesting dimension to the historic contribution of the black race in the evolvement of politics of non violence
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Anthony Akinola <anthony....@gmail.com>: Aug 12 12:20PM +0100

TRANSLATE SELECT LANGUAGE▼ Obasanjo awarded oil blocks for sex, says Wole
Soyinka ON AUGUST 12, 201812:45 AMIN NEWS, POLITICS204 COMMENTS Nobel
laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, calling former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a
degenerate, liar, predator and sadist, has challenged him to swear whether
he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual gratification while he
presided over the affairs of Nigeria. Soyinka and Obasanjo Soyinka spoke in
his Interventions VIII series, titled: ‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?’
meaning “Gani’s Unfinished Business,” launched recently in Lagos, Southwest
Nigeria. ADVERTISING He said Obasanjo knows him so well that he does not
make accusations lightly and that he despises snide insinuations.
ADVERTISING “I now challenge you (Obasanjo) to search your soul, very
deeply, and swear to this nation that you never awarded oil blocks in
return for sexual gratification. I do not make accusations lightly and I
despise snide insinuations. I believe you know me well enough. And I am no
prude, I am not a hypocrite of sexual desire, nor am I interested in the
seamy side of Power. Take your time, think deeply and remember that each
day brings you closer and closer to your Maker and the Day of
Judgment-going by your own professions.” Soyinka said sex-for-grades as a
solution to that burdensome energy seemed to have become the practice,
saying that even when Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were accused of sexual
misconduct, no one ever accused Trump of using his nation’s assets for a
romp on the presidential desk of the oval office and that not even Clinton
who nearly lost his office through Monica Lewinsky, was ever accused of
passing off any of the White House heirlooms, or influenced contracts in
return for sexual favour. “If I denounce you (Obasanjo) as a degenerate in
need of help, remember that I do not require fiction. Verifiable truth is
solemnly at my disposal. I do not concoct a thousand snipers for a thousand
listed enemies of governance-one of the most impudent egregious fantasies
ever manufactured by a former ruler, simply to destroy a successor and
persuade oneself that one is a maker and breaker of governments,” he said.
Soyinka also said that during Obasanjo’s celebration of the 10th
anniversary of his Presidential library, the former president accused him
of blocking his ambitions to become the Secretary General of the United
Nations. According to Soyinka, “could someone please stop crediting me with
that level of international clout? Of course, I feel totally content and
fulfilled with my contribution to that operation to ‘save our world’ from
the clutches of a predator, sadist and liar-convincing evidence of which we
provided in our successful diplomatic offensive-but the umbrage should also
go to that very Femi Falana and the late Beko Ransome-Kuti, with whom I
worked in close collaboration.” Soyinka also said that under Obasanjo’s
watch, and with proven collaboration, an elected governor was kidnapped,
locked in a toilet and held there under duress to force him to sign cheques
on the state treasury, saying that “he escaped confinement, thanks to a
sympathetic policeman , but the state went up in flames. The state radio
and television houses were torched. The House of Assembly and the law
courts—my own special preserve-were vandalized. Who did you say was
President at that time?” Soyinka made reference to a letter written to
Obasanjo by Col. Abubakar Umar, in which the former military governor
accused Obasanjo of awarding oil block indiscriminately and illegally. (NAN
and PMNEWS)
 
Read more at:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/obasanjo-awarded-oil-blocks-for-sex-wole-soyinka/
Anthony Akinola <anthony....@gmail.com>: Aug 11 08:02PM +0100

I am quite pleased with the cordial relationship existing between President
Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osibanjo. The fact that the former
is not known to have distanced himself from whatever action the latter took
in his acting capacity suggests to me we could also be talking of shared
credit here .Many Nigerians would have wished for this type of relationship
in the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo-I refer to the relationship between
him and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar.
Anthony Akinola
Oxford, UK
 
farooq...@gmail.com: Aug 11 07:42PM -0400

This response misses the point of the column. What I was calling attention
to in this article is Buhari's crying leadership deficit, which is amply
aggrandized by what happens when Osinbajo acts on his behalf. Buhari has a
record of working well with his deputies (he also worked well with
Idiagbon), and we now know why: it's because he is almost wholly
intellectually dependent on his deputies to rule, since he is himself has
zero leadership qualities, is intellectually incurious, and just enjoys
power and its perks for for the heck of it.
 
Farooq
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Journalism & Emerging Media
School of Communication & Media
Social Science Building
Room 5092 MD 2207
402 Bartow Avenue
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia, USA 30144
Cell: (+1) 404-573-9697
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com
<http://www.farooqkperogi.blogspot.com>
Twitter: @farooqkperog <https://twitter.com/#%21/farooqkperogi>
Author of *Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English
in a Global World
<http://www.amazon.com/Glocal-English-Changing-Linguistics-Semiotics/dp/1433129264/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436569864&sr=1-1>*
 
"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either
proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
 
 
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 7:18 PM Anthony Akinola <anthony....@gmail.com>
wrote:
 
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