USAAFRICA DIALOGUE FAMILY: HAPPY NEW YEAR

[Adeshina Afolayan]

Dear ALL:

This 2015 year ending marks my second year on this forum and i want to say what wonderful learning years these have been for me. This forum has been illuminating, refreshing, amusing, thoughtful, educating, humorous, and sometimes outright annoying!

To all who contribute to making the forum what i have come to associate it with, i offer a tremendous appreciation, and a sincere wish that you all will go higher in 2016:

TOYIN FALOLA

KENNETH HARROW

ADEMOLA DASYLVA

MICHAEL AFOLAYAN

IKHIDE IKHELOA

JOHN MBAKU

CHIDI ANTHONY OPARA

AKWASI ASSENSOH

OLAJUMOKE YACOB-HALISO

OFURE AITO

CORNELIUS HAMELBERG

TADE AINA

SALIMONu KADIRI

CHAMBI CHACHAGE

MOBOLAJI ALUKO

MOSES EBE OCHONU

KENNEDY EMETULU

FUNMI TOFOWOMO OKELOLA

AYO OLUKOTUN

OGUGUA ANUNOBY

OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU

SAMUEL ZALANGA

KOLA FABIYI

NIMI WARIBOKO

GLORIA EMEAGWALI

JIBRIN IBRAHIM

BIKO AGOZINO

BODE IBIRONKE

AND MANY OTHERS...

Let the intellectual fireworks be accentuated this year.

May our ideas and concerns for our country and for our world bear fruits that will make us compassionate one to another.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Adeshina Afolayan

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[Funmi Tofowomo Okelola]

Happy New Year! 

Cheers. 

Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives. 

http://www.cafeafricana.com

[Adeshina Afolayan]

Transition: 12am

I sat in between 

two years at twilight

my mind borne aloft

on willowy expectation

But i heard no

rumblings

stirrings

rapture;

no comet

or portent

nor circumstance

except the raging turmoils

of my bruised

heart

 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

Five hot issues to watch in 2016:


1. Decline of oil to $20.00 a barrel - and the necessary/urgent diversification of oil economies;

2. Defeat of Boko Haram and ISIS- perhaps;

3. Increased migration to Europe and the rise of the neo-Nazis in Germany;

4. Trump vs Hillary on the march to the White House;

5. US Student debt, faculty retrenchment and the proliferation of on-line courses;



Happy 2016 to all the wonderful people of usafricadialogue



Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU. New Britain. CT 06050
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Africa and the African Diaspora

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[Abdul Bemath]

Thank you so much much to your illuminating series and all the best for 2016.

Abdul

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[kenneth harrow]

hi all, again in the spirit of tremendously warm feelings, a most happy
new year to all. the dialogue here, even when acrimonious, has been very
enriching. i agree that a spirit of cordiality is ideal

i wanted to respond to gloria's points below.
first, friends at today's new years party were very skeptical that trump
would actually get the nomination, and one pol among us hoped he would
since he didn't have a chance of getting elected. i reminded him that
hitler won w 40% of the vote, and it wasn't worth taking any chances
with extremists like trump who could lead us down the path of fascism.

i wonder, however, whether rubio wouldn't actually represent a more
substantial threat to the hilary machine.

on point 5, my fear is not of the rice of neo-nazis in germany. germany
seems better equiped at resisting neofascist parties than maybe any
other european state. but the east europeans are not at all like that.
between what i read of many of them, from poland to hungary to many
others, they are already espousing far right politics, and are as
xenophobic as they come. very very unsettling, and the future of europe
is far from settled. when the french presidential elections come around,
soon enough, marine lepen now represents a real threat.

europeans hate muslims, in large percentages. that bodes very badly for
those wanting peace.

peace only, people
ken

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

Ken, Cruz may be a greater challenge than Rubio.

He has the Republican establishment on his side.



The million dollar question is whether the new publication/popularization of Mein Kampf

in Germany will help spread the fires of hate. We have to watch that. Apparently immigrant hostels are being

burnt down every day. I think Germany is a bit shaky.



Ken, you're right about the ultra right and East European politics.

There is great danger there.



Gloria

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[Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso]

A happy new year to you, Dr Afolayan!