You're now grasping and it is pathetic to see you defending the indefensible. You have even become a little incoherent as you struggle to draw in extraneous irrelevances from wherever you can find them and as you labor to provide a soft landing for your fraudulent friend. Yesterday, it was "rate my professor"; today it's the tenure issues of one of our brothers. Let me tell you something: just two years ago, a white, blue eyed colleague of mine was denied tenure. Is that also racism at work? Your ignorance on these matters is so staggering and your logic so warped it is quite hard to engage in a rational discussion with you. Even when one tries to humor you on your inane distractions and outlandish suggestions, the outcome is the same: more silly logic and inane analogies. You wrote this:
"Now, you acknowledged that the man is not claiming to have a PhD on his official records or CV, so what fraud is he committing and how? If others are making this judgment, you have to measure the power he has over them to ensure that they do not do this. The point is that Emeagwali is not misrepresenting himself"
You see, your entire defense of Emeagwali is founded on layers of ignorance...and laziness. You won't enlighten yourself on the man's fraud. For you it's more important that you repair your bruised ego. The "doctor" and "professor" claims are on his several websites. But of course you won't even be bothered to do the research. He is a smart scam artist. He just makes sure that he does not identify the institution that "awarded" him the doctorate or the institution where he's a professor. The purpose of the vagueness is obviously clear. So, YES, he is misrepresenting himself. Personally, I believe that as Funmi stated in her post, the man may actually be sick, psychologically sick with delusions of grandeur and other related delusions. He may therefore need counseling. But I also believe that there is a method and motive to his madness. The man is not a fool. He's profiting from the fraud.
Sorry, you can continue to believe that "Doctor," "Professor" Emeagwali is "the greatest African scientist alive," "the father of the internet," that he has 32 patents, that he won the Nobel Prize of Computing. It is your prerogative. Perhaps one day you will overcome your inertia and actually take the time to enlighten yourself on this complex, sophisticated intellectual scam.
And oh, by the way, when I said sometime ago that the US Trade Rep and the UN Ambassador (Ron Kirk and Susan Rice) are cabinet level/rank appointment, I was right and several forum members backed me up on it. Only Bangura differed, but his disagreement was semantic; it rested on an inconsequential distinction between cabinet rank and cabinet level. The two positions were elevated to cabinet level/rank under Obama, so check the archives. Nice try though. But let me ask you a question: Do you really believe that there is an equivalence between that and the blatant impersonations and biographical falsehoods of our inventor of the internet? If you do then I am afraid to admit that your logical challenges are greater than is already apparent from your postings on this topic.
And with this I give up trying to get you to do the work and confirm Emeagwali's fraud for yourself. At least you say that I and others calling him out on the scam MAY be right. And you are not denying that he is fraudulent--just looking for paper proof! One day, you may be man enough to set aside your ego and insecurities and admit that indeed we have a calculated fraud on our hands. It's been a pleasure.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Tony Agbali <attahagbl@yahoo.com> wrote:
So, if this is not coming from him, then there is no ground for you to accuse him of anything. He did attended school and pursued a doctoral program, which he flunked. This takes the steam out of the central point of your contention against Emeagwali.Further, your appeal to the issue of liberal excuses in elevating folks like Emeagwali is just a subjective view, that has no thorough empirical grounding. This has become your mantra in trying to vilify the man, whom you are accusing of presenting a PhD fraud, without himself communicating it. However, you know it intuitively- and claim it by faith that you know what he is thinking and doing, other than what he has communicated about himself!You continue to utilize your argumentum ad hominem continuously. First, I speak to the facts of the issues that you have raised, one that seemingly reflect an adrenal animus against the man Philip Emeagwali. Now, what I kept nagging on, is that though they maybe a probability that what you are saying may turn out to be truthful, there was no certainty that your claims against this man is conclusive. It is based upon a one-sided narration.'Thanks, though, you enabled me to go and look at some of the Michigan court cases. Court opinions are respected opinions, but we all know that there are times too that the court system have erred. Persons have been jailed that shouldn't be in jail, but thanks to DNA increasingly we understand that we are dealing with a human system, that has its internal limitations and frailties. However, focusing on the Emeagwali's case, the burden placed upon the Plaintiff, especially with regards to the proving racism is one that is burdensome.Dealing with institutions and trying to prove things against powerful institutions is not an easy thing. I know what Frank Ukadike faced when he took on that your Alma Mater- U of M in 1997. Those of us, who have dealt with systems and institutions understand this dynamics thoroughly. For instance until public opinion changed as a result of the media investigative reporting of The Boston Globe, it used to be that cases of pedophilia against the U.S dioceses of the Catholic Church was hard to prove. Until, then even the police protected the church and disbelieved the victims perspectives.To some extent the American judiciary has not been immuned from such sheltering of institutions due to their influence. This is no history. Even more so, having a case dismissed in a court does not entail that some of the issues did not happen. There are many reasons a case can be dimissed in court.We also know that in the past the police and the judiciary system was used to protect crimes against blacks, favoring the KKK and other racist supremacist groups. As I stated previously, around Michigan it was a known popular fact that the University of Michigan has a very evident racist face- even my white classmates and friends used to make jokes of this in my days in Detroit! This you can say is public opinion or popular perception of U of M. For me I had no dealings with the U of M, beyond liking their beautiful campus and their history- of course, Fr. Gabriel Richard, a French Supine Priest and elected Michigan congressman is reckoned among its founders.Nonetheless, I insist that there is something also known as tokenism that come into play at times when institutions and persons want to burnish their image, especially after certain public images make it inevitable. One does not have to win a court case to try to polish one's public image. This is simply a public relations things that institutions do.There is a real or vaguely remote possibility that a cumulative recognition of minority accusations could have benefited folks like Moses Ochonu, even if these are not directly mentioned as the reasons for their actions. This organizational reimaging happens all the times given that institutions often attempt to transcend their pejorative memories (as there is something called "Institutional memory), and its takes many different forms. It is in this sense that I imagined that you could have been (potential/possibility) a beneficiary.I know too, that sometimes in the late 1990s and early 2000s the U of M was doing this, increasing their minority students and faculty populations to make it attractive. It was one of the reasons that the Michigan case against Affirmative Action relative to admissions processes came as a reactionary response to such tokenism.I can excuse you because that you are an alumni does not often embed you within the diverse operational modalities and decision processes that shape these sort of policies.Obviously, Moses, I am proud of you. However, because you made the cut as a graduate of U of M, becoming another representative statistics of the advancement within the race, does not make it evident that Emeagwali is not smart. Obviously, there are those who in playing Massa Massa win their convenient aspirations when those who are principled suffer.To tell you the truth one of the hardest thing to prove is racism, even when it is patently evident. Of course, people in institutions also have learnt how to cover their tracks! Emeagwali may feel it, but may never be able to prove it. Nonetheless, the judicial system as we know it has had its flaws. It helped denied citizenship to African-Americans. Most of the historic successes and advancement of minorities in this country until the civil rights movement came about more through activism and legislation, with a few notable rulings like Brown vs. Board of Education (1954). The judiciary has evolved, no doubt. It is also a human institution.Having said that, I perused the rulings regarding Emeagwali, the case and the nature of its arguments placed more burden on Emeagwali to prove. This he did not do well, we must concede. It may not be because the issues are not real but because he was simply unable to prove- how do you prove conversations when a party would refuse to witness because of been fired. I know this from experience even in the face of enduring injustices, you cannot produce witnesses then you are screwed.The way racism operates today, no one would intentionally leave any trace for tracking. Therefore, granted that Emeagwali had a case the burden of proving it was enormous. Personally, I would not go the route his and his attorneys went. But a desperate graduate student with a rising fame without lots of money, for goodness sake how far would he be able to go. In fact, at one point, he couldn't even easily find an attorney to represent him! I know for a fact in some of my own encounters and niche how this operates!Now, you skirted the Frank Ukadike's issue at the same University! You call that waffling!!!I have noted a pattern of your overt allergy toward any mention of racism in the experience of others. While that may not be your own direct experience, you cannot exclude that from being the experience of others. As we saw recently, an African-American worker had to take the law into his own hand, killing fellow employees at a beer distributing firm, because no one would take his allegations seriously!I know you are a Professor at Vanderbilt University! You sometimes must toe the line for the sake of your bread and butter, and who am I to blame you? But just by a wave of hand discarding others experience is a crass injustice to these persons and their feelings, when as a historian you can do better than that and listen to their perspectives. Oral history sometimes bring out more facts than we can imagined, and I know that historians, like anthropologists and sociologists (including other humanities and social science disciplines) use this tool enormously. If I remember correctly, you lay claim to doing this in Lagos, I think among the descendants of Brazilian families!I detest your attempt to jump to quick conclusions using partial information, when in fact, your professional calling expect a better sense of judgment and astuteness than you were trying to do in the Emeagwali case, Further, I have also sensed through your different posturing on issues a very ingrained desire to diminish others with acclaimed outstanding credentials. Haba, Moses Ochonu, may be the best, but others too have the right to claiming for themselves to be the best, or at least aspire toward been the best,Additionally, I think that your easy appeal to argumentum ad hominem troupes makes you very gullible. As for me being a Catholic priest, I am very proud to be one, without shame, without regrets, and without excuses. There is something called discernment in the spiritual life- that entails no rush to judgment especially one that deals with the integrity of persons.There is also another thing called "pastoral judgment" that demand charity toward persons. My call is about saving grace not about calumous attempt at denigrating and destroying others unduly, especially when the facts are not clear, and these are private individuals. In ethics, there is a principle that states that in the case of doubt do not act. I have very real doubts in the mode and methods that you used in castigating Philip Emeagwali, therefore I suspended rushing to joining you to do mob justice to a man, who has amply suffered, but energetic and determined to transcend odds and make something of himself. People, do take note of him.Call him whatever you like, until it can be definitively proven that he is such the fraud that you make of him, I still grant him a benefit of a doubt. Moses, at one level, you call Emeagwali a fraud, and being fraudulent as associated with criminality, but hear you: "That Emeagwali hasn't upped his fraud to the level of crossing into the territory of criminal impersonation yet is a mark of his perverse genius and sheer luck because none of his black audiences have felt the need to dig into his claims. He knows they won't bother, hence his persistence."I did not join you to say he was a fraud and that your reasons are factual. I allude to possible probability of the veracity of your claims. "Maybe", is not "it is."There is a difference in degree and proportion between probability and certainty. I do not trust you enough to definitively assert Philip Emeagwali as the fraud that you call him.You, Moses, Mr. Know it all Professor of Everything- like that GAGUT you criticize- have peddled numerous fraudulent, false, and erroneous assertions as facts herein on this forum. The most recent that I can remember being that the US Ambassador to the UN is a cabinet member in the Obama administration. Even when you realized your error, you tried to cleverly rigmarol in equating cabinet level to a cabinet membership!Even in the materials of African history you have at times fumbled crassly. But who have knifed you and skinned you alive as a fraud? Yet, misrepresentation in any form is misrepresentation in all forms! Reprehensible! But when one place things in context- what situation ethics is about- one makes some ethical judgment that does not go for ones jungular! The reason been that I know you are capable of self-correction and do engage in serious research, so I realize that humans do err- as I do all the times, but by the grace of the creator of the universe, I know I can be transformed, and I am daily.There seem to me you have a personal detaste for anyone who seems to have a name- that pull heaven down, I do not subscribe to and I have found it disgusting. It shows in the manner in which you have treated Abdul Karim Bangura, and others. Because of your rhetorical craftiness others patently permit you to carry on without due confrontation and that pattern has become a warranted trademark of yours.If there is any modicum of fraud in Emeagwali, go to court and ensure that he stops parading himself. Stop using cyberspace as your court of final determination, where you know there are no jurors to critically examine the facts. You are aggrieved with Emeagwali's way of public representation, file a law suit against him, so that you can have your day in court, but at least he can defend himself!Public individuals may be a little different. But even then there are times that caution is advised. I have taken on Babangida because of my experiences during his bestial rules, documents I have in my possession, newspaper clippings, including his own interviews, etc. As a public individual, if he disagrees with my position he is free to offer a rebuttal. For instance for all the ills of Babangida, I cannot deny him his citizen's rights, even though he denied others theirs.Emeagwali is a private citizen doing his best and using his skills as he knows make a difference. Bill Clinton mentioned him, he is affirmed as a great contributor to human society by CNN, Times, and he is also honorably mentioned in "Tall Drums" by Ugorji O. Ugorji in his portrait of Nigerians changing America (though therein he is stated to have a PhD, having completed a doctorate in Computing Science from the University of Michigan, pp. 48-50).What I am saying, and loudly, is not that you should not scrutinize Emeagwali. I acknowledge that some of the perspectives you bring are significant, and provide new lenses at looking at the man. But for goodness sake give him the benefit of a doubt, as an historian hear his (Emeagweali's) perspective, balance it with others, and then you can definitively nail him as you want. Some of us are too buried in archival resources- dead as those materials in some sense that we enflesh with vivaciousness once again.Humans are organic living documents, constituting the vials for qualitative and historical research privileged by the social science and also the humanities. Utilize this, carry out a thorough review, then speak more cogently to the issue. Yes, as I noted earlier the internet has rich and dirty, and haphazard materials, but why rely on this alone when other sources equally enrich your perspective?Having some restraints until a full investigation is done, and respective parties, are allowed to voice their own perspectives, only enrich the story. It does not kill. No, not Moses. Someone posted a material on Emeagwali and his adrenal surge cannot wait. He rages and pours like a rain. He becomes the apostolic arrowhead of Emeagwali's extermination. Oops, the new Hitlerism!I guess what I am demanding was in the same way Moses Ochonu, informed us that the University of Michigan endulged an internal review, making sure, even when not really mandated that they were acting appropriately. But why is he Ochonu leery? No, Moses Ochonu does not like to be called out, he is Manor of the Nigerian cyberspace forums, so it is defying his assumed authority!A thorough investigation would to my mind would have given better validity to Moses Ochonu, providing more soundproof to his claims. I am not saying Moses Ochonu does not possess the right to express himself anyway he like, or even calling the shot regarding Emeagwali. Asking for certainty on a matter that can cause grievous damage to one's reputation, in avoiding unwarranted and unredeemable unilateral damage, is nothing much to ask of someone, a professional in a reputable American university- the primus doctoris! It is just a simple caution.As for ethical judgment, I am not suspending judgment, I am only requesting for a thorough investigation of the matter. Asking me to jump up and knife Emeagwali in joining Moses Ochonu's hurried Janjaweed tribe of exterminators, I wont do it until I am certain of the facts- absolutely and without reservation.I prefer to be the lone juror holding out than preferring to add my voice to the assassination of an innocent person, that I would have regrets. No amount of blackmail, argumentum ad hominem, would make me do the wrong thing because Moses Ochonu sense of ethical onslaught bothers on mob justice. I cannot take Moses witness alone and carry out jungle justice against Philip Emeagwali, or anyone else. He needs to convince me more.But even then, giving his antecedence of pulling others down inordinately, just to upend his own interests, I do not think him a likely unprejudiced actor in this regard. I think there is a mischief to Moses Ochonu's agenda defined by the norm, that I am better than all. Until Moses Ochonu wins the Nobel Prize for Historical concotion, I am leery of his antics! He can lick boot and suck on racism and adorn it anyway he wants, I am no party to his reckless party.Emeagwali for all his assumed (unproven) ills is doing something that is making a difference for societies. Even if he has no PhD or doctorate of any kind, he has shown that he has what it takes to propel success for himself and for others. I do not want to be his "mouth organ" being apologetic for him, but definitely he knows how to excel.More than a PhD or doctorate, capitalism needs smart people of his kind, those who understand the nature of capitalism, its ethics, and its directions to ensure that the wheels of progress, affecting real people continues to be steered in the right directions. In fact, the self-promotion that Moses Ochonu hates, and he does on cyberspace for himself ironically, is a valid trait within capitalist pursuits.Some are called to do work in archives with dead letters, some are called to be at the frontfront in the new frontiers for human advancement- in creating work, driving knowledge, producing and promoting ideas, and putting into action different knowledge resources into practical utility. In all each have their vocations and their work cut out for them.I think it is a fair position for all! Aju waya!!!--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip Emeagwali
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 9:39 AM
Tony, you still don't get it so here is another effort to break this down for you. And I'll answer your questions, unlike you who won't answer mine. But first things first.1. You keep changing the subject. And you keep waffling. You say you do not doubt that our "father of the internet" misrepresented himself but you want documented proof. You're told that the research has already been done--from public and publicly accessible records. For goodness sake the database of the US Patent Office is online! It is a searchable database. Go and search Emeagwali if you'll find any patent in his name, let alone the 32 that he claims to possess. The records of the court case in Michigan have been accessed and put online and they conclusively put a lie to his allegations of racism in addition to proving that he was a lazy bum who wanetd to reap where he had not sown. The IEEE records on the Gordon Bell Prize are online. Now it appears that all of a sudden you have a problem with documents, official documents, and facts that are online. You obviously are not a Ludite nor do you have a phobia for the internet. What exactly is the basis of your insistence on paper proof. Should I go to Michigan, get the physical court records; go to the IEEE office and get paper records; go to the US patent office and get a letter and mail them to Tony Agbali? Is that what you mean by independent inquiry? This is getting farcical.2. I will repeat this again, and there is nothing ad hominem about it. You're a Reverend Father. Is it wrong for us non-clergy folks to expect that people of the cloth uphold and exhibit a higher moral clarity than you have exhibited on this matter? You're all over the place ethically on this matter. You're waffling, refusing to take a clear ethical and moral position, and justifying what in your religious context would be a straightforward matter of right and wrong. And you keep making silly excuses for your fraudulent friend. What's the matter with you? Is it that when it comes to matters of malfeasance, you cast aside your priestly robes and stake out a position founded on ethical and moral confusion? It's even very hard for me now to pinpoint where you stand because you seem to want to have it both ways--acknowledging Emeagwali's fraud but excusing and rationalizing it while at the same time attacking those who are calling him out on it. What a shame!3. The danger in black folks making unfounded allegations of racism is grave. You stated naively that Emeagwali's lawsuit may have made things better by the time I and other minorities enrolled in Michigan. This is a dumb statement and there is no other way to put it. Newsflash: the lawsuit failed at trial and was promptly dismissed on appeal as a frivolous, baseless lawsuit. The allegation of racism was baseless. Any objective observer would reach that conclusion. The first time I read the dense court records, I went in with the hope of finding racial injustice, so I went in even biased towards the accused. In fact the facts and details that came out in the lawsuit, many of them supplied by Emeagwali and his lawyers, vindicated the University and damaged and exposed Emeagwali as a lazy man with a foolish sense of entitlement. Everyone who is a student of racism in the US knows that every silly, frivolous racism lawsuit sets back the struggle for equality, civil rights, and against racism. It does not advance it. Emeagwali's stupid, baseless lawsuit meant that genuine allegations of racism by subsequent generations of black graduate students may have been dismissed or denied the attention and redress that they required. That's why playing the race card frivolously as Emeagwali did when he flunked his comps twice was a terrible thing for minorities in the U of M system, not a blessing as you claimed. Had the lawsuit any merits and/or had it succeeded, the outcome would have been positive, but this was a lawsuit clearly motivated by a desire to play the race card and intimidate the University into giving him something he hadn't earned or worked for.--
4. You keep harping on the fact that Emeagwali's transgressions have no victims. It's the same silly logic that some people use to make excuses for people who steal from banks, their employers, and corporate bodies: they claim that the culprits should not be punished or held accountable because their crimes are victimless crimes. Despicable! Did Salisu Buhari's certificate forgery hurt anyone personally? Why was it condemned universally, presumably including you? Ditto Tinubu and Evan Enwerem's certificate scandals.Now unto your questions:Why is his calling himself a doctor that much of a deal? Many fakes are parading that appellation around. People call themselves whatever they want.Simple, Tony. Because, believe it or not, we still live in a world where it is wrong to claim a title that you've not earned. It may not be illegal until someone feels defrauded or deceived into parting with their valuable asset and takes the matter up with authorities. Nonetheless it is morally, ethically wrong. It is especially outrageous when such a false claim is used as basis for currying favor and benefits from your own gullible people. It is immoral, unethical, and wrong. In the political arena it would lead to disgrace. In the arena of crime, it is called 419, except that in this case the defrauded have no idea that they've been had or are quite happy to have been had. A Reverend Father should especially know that. It is funny how you're condoning what you would not do. If there is nothing wrong with it and it is no big deal, I challenge you, Tony Agbali to wake up tomorrow and claim that you're an Engineer and proceed to alter your CV and your online profile to reflect that. Please do it and I'll know that you're truly invested in this bizarre logic and not just waffling around for the sake of being contrarian.The Nigerian preoccupation with titles seem to me, to be one of the beguiling reason herein, focusing upon what is really inconsequential. In fact, in Nigeria herbalist this or that all lay claim to doctorates they grant themselves. Professor Abiola Peller, the late Nigerian magician, had this title, and only God knows in what field he was a professor! He amassed more money and had more fame than many Nigerian professors at Ibadan, Ife, Nsukka, Zaria, and Benin back in the days!Wow, so with all your education, the concept of a stage name for a performer, magician, comedian, etc, has eluded you. Sorry, but a stage name is just that. It is radically different from someone claiming to have an ACADEMIC PhD and calling himself an academic doctor and professor when they neither is true. This is truly pathetic! I thought you'd come back with something more worthy of engagement.This bring me to the point of what I experienced and was also reechoed on a feature in Nigeriaworld.com some years ago. Some Nigerian J.Ds, and Pharm Ds, designate themselves as doctors, whereas most Americans with those credentials hardly do so. This doctor thing sometimes get to the point of a cultural problem.Again, you're comparing guava and papaya here. Did those Nigerian J.Ds and Pharm Ds not EARN the said degrees? Remember that the PhD is not the only doctoratal acronym. You even forgot D.Ed and other doctoral nomenclatures. The difference, Tony, is that if you have earned it, you have a right to use it. If you have not earned it as Emeagwali has not, he does not have a right to go around calling himself a doctor or professor. Otherwise, anyone could just wake up and claim any professional identity and craft a CV or resume to reflect that and set out to deceive people. What a shame that in your ethical fuzziness you can't make a distinction between an EARNING something and claiming what you haven't earned. In some context it is called impersonation and its egregious forms have attracted prosecutorial attention, abi? That Emeagwali hasn't upped his fraud to the level of crossing into the territory of criminal impersonation yet is a mark of his perverse genius and sheer luck because none of his black audiences have felt the need to dig into his claims. He knows they won't bother, hence his persistence.But the question is: why has Emegweali enjoyed his "diplomatic immunity" that the FBI or any other agencies for that matter have not investigated him yet, and even the White House primes him as a quintessential Nigerian immigrant made good! The American White House one would imagine should have more intelligent resources to probe this and know better! Why has the U of M not issued a disclaimer, if in fact they know that Emegweali is indulging in such crime? What has stopped them?The FBI does not waste its precious resources chasing academic fakes like Emeagwali. In fact many academics in the US have been exposed as frauds but they're simply usually dismissed from their jobs, nothing more. The FBI does not get involved. It's not as if the chap has committed a crime; lying is not a crime the last time I checked unless it is done under oath. At any rate, unless a complaint of fraud is made against him by an organization there won't be an investigation. And why should any of the people he's misrepresenting himself to report him when he usually fulfills his end of the bargain by motivating them with a speech and when they don't even know or bother to know about his fraudulent claim? Nobody said the man wasn't a good public speaker or motivator. He is. That's precisely why it's outrageous that he won't earn an honest living with his natural talent and instead has cultivated a fraudulent persona as a way of earning a living. If the FBI were to chase every maker of false claims, do you think they'd be solving actual crimes, violent crimes? The FBI generally don't bother with such crimes. There are today thousands of degree mills selling degrees to people who go on in some cases to use these degrees for work. Sometimes they're caught; sometimes not. Does the fact that this is rampant and that people get away with it make it okay? Does the fact that the FBI is helpless against it--thanks to the difficulty of fighting internet-based crimes--mean that it is not a crime? And why should Michigan issue a disclaimer when Emeagwali is not stating on his published/public CV that he has a Michigan PhD? Isn't that precisely the fraud, to get people to believe that he has a PhD without actually stating that he got it from Michigan, which might elicit a disclaimer from Michigan? The man is smarter than that--most fraudsters are very clever; after all the court record of his lawsuit are all public and are online in different forms, so claiming to have a Michigan PhD would give the fraud away.But one question, I am asking is this? You said he failed his comprehensive exams twice, yet he was able to proceed to the dissertation level? Did he pass this exam a third time and then moved to candidacy, and thereafter, failed his dissertation upon defence? In whatever manner he did redeemed himself for him to move to the dissertation writing stage, which again you said he flunked! Granted, he flunked, should that be the end of Solomon Grandy?The answer is very simple and it is in the published court records. If you would just quit being lazy and take the time to read the court records online you'd see that after failing the comps twice, Emeagwali wanted to skip the comps process altogether and be allowed to submit the project that won him the Gordon Bell (by default) for the PhD. That's a project that he had done for just one course in his graduate studies. Of course there was/is no precedent for that and his request was promptly denied. In fact Michigan was even very patient with him and tolerated his antics, constituting both internal and external committees to consider this silly request of being allowed to submit a PhD diss without passing comps. Michigan's treatment of Emeagwali reflects the offensive white liberal condescension and patronage that I have been commenting on. They would not have humored or gone down that farcical road with Emeagwali if he was white. They were too sensitive to the possibility of being accused of racial bias. But in the end they probably made the right call by obliging Emeagwali's multiple, silly requests for review because it probably saved them in the lawsuit.As an alumni of the U of M who knows the specific modalities of that institutions graduate school process, rather than depend on cyberspace, what material evidence have you spooled on Emegweali from that institution, relative to his doctoral processes? Any document in your possession, or you just begun your chronicling just yet?This is puerile almost to the point of pointlessness. I see that the cyberspace, where you spend quite a bit of time and do some of your work, inevitably, has become your new bete noir, an evil repository of information. So, documents accessed in cyberspace are no good for you? Why don't you travel to Michigan and demand the court-certified paper copies of the court records, which, I remind you, are public records and available on the internet. Perhaps you have gas and money to burn. Why not travel to Michigan to get what you can get on your computer? Very wise!! You have forgotten that in the course of the lawsuit, every single paperwork concerning Emeagwali's doctoral work in the University was requested by the court, Emeagwali and his lawyers, and the University. As a result the court records are more complete than anything Michigan may even possess. And you, as an academic man, should also know that because of privacy prohibitions Michigan (or any academic institution in the US) would NEVER release a student's information to a private party; they can only do so when requested by a court or a plaintiff in a lawsuit against them. Thanks to Emeagwali's baseless lawsuit, we have every detail about his graduate work in Michigan that we need to know--and needn't know. Again, go and read the court records. It's a lot of material, but reading it will take you away from this path of justifying fraud; don't be lazy. So, your demand for paper documents from me is on its face quite preposterous. On Emeagali's other fraudulent claims, if you need paper proof and are not satisfied with the result of the searchable database of the US Patent Office, I'd advise that you take a trip to the US Patent Office and confirm from them that what their website's searchable database returned for Emeagwali is true or better yet get them to conduct the search there in your presence or even better yet search through their paper database if they still have them. As for me and my folks, we are satisfied with the reliability of the searchable database of the Patent Office. Oh, wait, we haven't reckoned that the US Patent Office too may be involved in this grand racist conspiracy to bring down the Nigerian father of the internet!! On the IEEE, you can also go to their office and get them to confirm what is on their web archive as the official records of the Gordon Bell Prize for the year that Emeagwali won it (by default).That's all I can do for you. All of a sudden, official records accessed online are no longer valid. Yeye de boom.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Tony Agbali <attahagbl@yahoo.com> wrote:
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Steve,You're a PhD holder. Before you obtained your degree, did you go around calling yourself a doctor? Or professor? Is it okay for someone who does not have a PhD to around claiming that they do? This is a simple question. Again, we do not have to agree with my take on why he did not complete his PhD. That's not the issue. Do you condone his antics of going around claiming to be what he is not? The fact that one does not need a PhD to succeed or achieve is precisely why claiming to have one when you don't is such an outrage, a calculated scam meant to deceive and defraud. What then differentiates Emeagwali from the 419, Advance Fee Fraud operatives who introduce themselves to their would-be victims as Minister of this and that; Dr. this and that; Managing Director of this and that; Vice President this and that, etc? What's the difference? Both Emeagwali and the 419 people that you and I routinely condemn do it to obtain favor and benefits by using false pretense, by misrepresenting themselves. Should we be victims of a crime or a fraud before we condemn it? Should a scam hurt us personally before we condemn it? Speaking of hurt, I've made my case to Tony about how scam artists like Emeagwali and Oyibo hurt as as a people and call our integrity to question. Sorry; I have a daughter whom I want to grow up learning about the virtues of hard work and achievement, not about the filthy rewards of fraud and lies. I will warn her about the Emeagwalis of all races. And there are many of them prowling our world today.When the perpetrator is black/Nigerian/African, it should particularly offend us.There is no virtue in claiming to be what/who you're not. None. Not when you can be satisfied with who/what you are. Not everyone is going to be a Bill Gates or Paul Krugman, or Wole Soyinka or Achebe, or Steve Jobs, or Obama, or Einstein, or Joseph Igietseme, or Barth Nnaji. Personally I have very modest goals in life; that's why I don't feel a need to dress myself up in borrowed robes. I tell my friends that my aim is not be another Ade Ajayi or Paul Zeleza or Foucault. There can only be on Ade Ajayi. There is a lesson to be learned here: be happy and content with who/what you are. Impersonation false claims of achievement only belittles one. Emeagwali is an intelligent fellow who, as I keep repeating, writes and speaks well. There are several arenas in which he can parley those skills into a successful life in America, having failed to make it in the scientific/computing world. The fact that he chose not to do that but to invent and market a false persona as a tool of obtaining benefits from gullible, unsuspecting people is shameful and all people of conscience should find it abhorrent.On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, <wabuz@comcast.net> wrote:Thank you Tony for this note about Emeagwali's crucifixion on cyberspace. You've clearly played the advocate here. I, too, was wondering about the motive for attempting to kill the man's academic achievement on cyberspace. Have his actions hurt anyone? Or, is it a moralising motive to inform potential 'academic frauds'? It is indeed disgusting to observe that the politics of obtaining a PhD was lost in the midst of the pontifications about a man who undoubtedly is surviving in the midst of an economic meltdown. Does a Ph.D indicate that one is smart or that one accepted to play the game often noted in the award of Ph.D's? Why? Why? do we love to inflict such emotional pain on people?I will advise Emeagwali be left alone and lthat we not let USA Africa dialogue be a crucifix.
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From: "Tony Agbali" <attahagbl@yahoo.com>
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:17:50 AM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip Emeagwali
From: toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip EmeagwaliTo: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com, "naijapolitics naijapolitics" <naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 4:30 PMTim Berners Lee has only a BSc in physics.His achievements are well known.He is actually a low profile figure who does not claim more than he has achieved.
Emeagwali,on the other hand, has generated a spurious profile by claiming achievements he has not made.
That is the problem here.Tim Berners Lee continues to work to drive innovation in his field.I am yet to see any achievement of Emeagaali's beyond the work that got him the Gordon Bell prize years ago.Berners-Lee is a well known figure in the information technology industry.The same cannot be said for Emeagwali.As I wrote earlier, a more realistic Nigerian contender is Kunle Olukotun, professor of computer science at Stanford and one of the first incubator of the Niagara microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems.thanksToyinOn 20 September 2010 18:51, menre ayes <Menreayes@hotmail.com> wrote:Dear Fellow Nigerians,
I am responding to this post right now from a computer on the premises of the university where Tim Berners-Lee got his degree. We are proud of him and his achievements so far. We are proud of him, but recently he threw some challenges at us to go further with innovations. Let's give praise when deserved and blame when due.
His invention concerns the Past, Present and Future of the Web. It's a lot of work. There is a difference in the meaning of the Internet and the Wold Wide Web (WWW). Read more about Tim in his book 'Weaving the Web', or get a copy of it from the link below at Amazon.
The Founders of Google did not complete their PhD programmes. Today, they are billionaires and the world is proud of them. Tim worked on the Web project, while some other people worked on the Internet project.
Like everyone else, Phillip Emeagwali may not be perfect, but his has contributed something remarkable to humans' knowledge. There is something in him for Nigeria to be proud of. The wolrd Wide Web is still in an evolutionary process, what then can we contribute?
Menre
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CC: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:07:57 +0100Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip Emeagwali
Dom Francis and Itaetim,Emeagwali is a fraud because he claims achievements he does not have.He claims to have many patents.There is NO record that he has ONE PATENT.You can research that yourself at the site of the US Patent Office.He claims to be a Father of the Internet.His accomplishments do not seem to support that claim.The only accomplishment he can be credited with is the Gordon Bell Prize which as as far as I know,does not constitute being a Father of the Internet in his case.If you want to read about real Fathers of the Internet read about Tim Berners-Lee,who I understand developed Hyper Text Transfer Protocol,which enables computers to communicate with each other in cyberspace.Cut your claims of your accomplishments according to their reality.thankstoyin
On 20 September 2010 17:33, D Francis <dom-francis@hotmail.com> wrote:
Common People
Why must we focus on negativity?
Please tell me what makes Emeagwali a fraud?
Is it because he has not published a book yet?
Is it because he no patent accredited to his name?
Is it because he may or may not have a PhD?
Is it because he charges to make speeches?
Is it because he has his speeches on the internet and people give him praises for the speeches?
Many prominent visionaries we have today have same profile as mention above.
If every one us has the same understanding of where we should be or what we should be doing as Emeagwali does, we the blacks should be a force to be recon with in the world
Please try to encourage and not discourage, only knowledge and intelligence can help black people move forward
Cheers
Dom Francis
From: OlaKassimMD@aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:48:46 -0400
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip Emeagwali
Dear All:
I have always stayed away from the Emeagwali controversy simply because
I do not enjoy watching Nigerians/Africans pull each other down--
(ala our famous PHD syndrome.)
However there are some instances when we must speak up or else
the work of our true heroes, --the genuine achievers become rubbished
by association when the falsehoods perpetrated by some of us are
finally discovered.
I was also for many years taken in by the Emeagwali Phenomenon and Internet
self promotion. I looked him up on the Internet and I was impressed by all the
citations.
In the summer of 2002, I was approached by the Executive of the Nigerian Community
Association in Toronto to help find a keynote speaker who can helpmotivate our youths
at the Annual Independence Day celebration, I had no other person in mind but Dr Phillip Emeagwali.
However, after finally tracking him down I was shocked when he informed me of the costs for him
to appear in Toronto to speak to our youths:
a) Two return business class tickets for himself and his assistant
b) Round the clock limousine service from the moment he lands at the airport until he departs.
c) $10,000.00 speaking fee.
d) Hotel Accommodation--two rooms
After pleading with him, he promised that he would grant some discount on his speaking fee
because he would be directing his message to Nigerian youths in Canada--but that the other items were not negotiable.
We never did agree on the percentage of the discount on the speaking fee.
For obvious reasons, I did not bother to call him again. I managed to persuade myself, even briefly
that I had chosen the wrong vocation. I should have specialized on being a celebrity:)
It was years later, that I finally discovered that I was one of the millions worldwide who have been
fooled by the Emeagwali Phenomenon.
Bye,
Ola---- Original Message ----
From: Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Sent: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 9:58 am
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: Phillip EmeagwaliAmiel,With all due respect, I am very disappointed in your insistence that we honor Emeagwali's true "achievements" even after confirming for yourself that the man is indeed a fraud of immense proportion, a self-promoting genius who is, in his claimed field of expertise, a mediocre at best. I can understand Ikhide's frustration. The "debate" on Emeagwali's intellectual fraud has long been settled in the Nigerian cyberspace. Only the most fanatical Nigerian and African American sentimental (as opposed to a rational) investors in black scientific heroism, still take the fool seriously. And, of course, our people back home, for whom even the mere fact of foreign residency is a validation, let alone one that is backed by aggressively deceptive self promotion. Okay, let's do what you're asking us to do and strip away the lies, deceptions, exaggerations, false claims, and the entire intellectual pyramid scheme as someone called Emeagwali's internet based edifice of fraud. When we are done with that, we're left with:1. A guy who FAILED his PhD qualifying exam TWICE at my alma mater, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.2. A guy whose doctoral research was subsequently evaluated by internal and external examiners and declared substandard.3. A guy whose research won a minor THIRD PLACE prize in a very narrow field of applied computing. He was bumped to first place only when the teams ahead of him with higher computing speed won another prize and therefore forfeited the category to Emeagwali. In other words, he "won" by default. The prize had nothing to do with the internet or even computing as a field. It was for application of computing to oil exploration.4. A guy who has no single published paper in a peer reviewed publication in his field5. A guy who has no single patent or "patent pending" as he claims6. A guy who has managed through internet trickery to get many media organizations, especially the black press, to buy into and as a result, validate his hoax. He then cites those naive, ignorant press validations, recycling them through links, which then show up on google and are then picked up by naive, hero-hunting black folks all over the world. As a fraud, it is very clever, but it is still a fraud and a huge one at that.7. A guy who has parlayed his falsehoods into all kinds of lucrative speaking engagements in black America, Nigeria, and the Caribbean, deceiving our people who are hungry for heroes and collecting their hard earned money to make them feel good about themselves.8. A guy who routinely goes around calling himself professor and Dr but who has never taught a university class, failed his PhD, and is not an academic.I can go on, but let me not bore you with that your own research has revealed to you already. So, here you have a guy whose only achievement is the Gordon Bell Prize ($1000), which he won by default after coming THIRD and which he fraudulently calls "the Nobel Prize of Computing." I put it to you that there are THOUSANDS of Nigerians whose research have won such narrow prizes in their fields and won not by default or by coming THIRD but by beating the competition. They don't make noise or self-promote. They don't lie about themselves. They don't call themselves "Africa's greatest scientist," "father of the internet," etc. Even on this list, there are many scientists who have won more prestigious prizes and awards. Our own Joseph Igietseme recently led a team of scientists at the prestigious CDC to win a highly coveted award in the field of biomedical research. The man did not grab a megaphone to announce that he was the greatest African scientist alive.Has Nigeria honored the genuine achievers in our midst? How about our own Oga Falola, has he been given a national award let alone being put on a postage stamp? How about Pius Adesanmi and many others who have been making us proud by hauling in prestigious literary prizes from across the world; have they been as much as recognized in Nigeria?If we're desperate for heroes, why don't we honor genuine ones? Why validate liars and frauds like Emeagwali who have actually brought dishonor to the country as their claims have been serially debunked and have been sometimes generalized to Nigerians and "their 419 ways"? Remember that every time their false claims are debunked their nationality and Africanness are referenced. How can that be good for a country that has genuine scientific pioneers working in the most prestigious and cutting edge scientific institutions in the world (CDC, NASA, etc).As we speak, there is another fraud who has similarly cast a spell on home audiences, hauling in cash and recognition. Dr. Gabriel Oyibo self-describes as a five time Nobel Prize nominee even though Nobel nominations are not revealed until at least a hundred years or so, and even though his peers cannot even vouch for the validity of his bizarre claims, which reside at the confusing intersection of religion, metaphysics, African history and mythology, and physics!A trained physicist, the man, who cannot even hold down an academic job and has no impressive research pedigree to speak of, claims that he has invented a theory of everything, which he calls GAGUT! The Nigerian national assembly issued a declaration honoring him as a great African scientist! He, too, is on a Nigerian postal stamp!Oyibo is in some respect even worse than Emeagwali since he actually has a PhD and used to have an adjunct teaching position that gives him a perfect cover to perpetrate his deception. At least Emeagwali is a good motivational public speaker and writer (which I think is his actual calling in life). The GAGUT man speaks in an incomprehensible metaphysical language that is clearly a sign of lunacy.A country that honors frauds and ignores true achievers and truthful, quiet heroes deserves what is happening to her.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Amiel Fagbulu <amiel.fagbulu@ymail.com> wrote:
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To: Ayoola Tokunbo <toks_ayoola@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sun, September 19, 2010 11:28:47 PM
Subject: Re: Phillip Emeagwali
Ayoola,Thank you for the answers you gave to my questions to Ikhide. To put the whole event in perspective please let me clarify what led to this Emeagwali thing.For some time now, at least two times a week, the local Federal Radio in Osun State (FM 95.5) has been broadcasting the names of some worthy Nigerians as promotional material for the 50th Independence Celebration. Wole Soyinka, Philip Emeagwali and Okonjo-Iweala lead the pack. It came as a shock to me when in a totally unrelated matter Ikhide in passing condemned Nigerians who were falsely misrepresenting themselves to Nigeria and specifically zeroed on Emeagwali. To me it was breaking news in that someone like Emeagwali,if what Ikhide said about him was true, being touted for honor nationally would bring discredit to our counrty. The only thing I knew about him was what I read in an international magazine several years ago. I turned to the internet and ran through the titles of the first two pages of the 28,400 search results from Google. The six or eight I browsed seemed to repeat and confirm the claims of this fellow. Since I access the internet mainly between 10:00 pm and 1:00 am Nigerian time every night, using a generator most of the time, I could not afford the time or the luxury of spending my limited resources digging further into this that night so I asked those questions.It seemed likely to me that those in charge of that promotional material could be in the same darkness that I was in. The intention was to get the facts and alert them since no sane person will like to expose this country to ridicule on such a grand scale on such occassion.The only response I got from Ikhide was a lot of negative things about myself so your response proved very useful. I have since gone further and my findings seem to tally with what you aided me with..BUT I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS TO ASKYour categorization of this man is very helpful. Can we not strip down his falsehoods, remove the false parts of his half truths, and highlight his true achievement so as to see the true Emeagwali? Will there still be something concrete left at the end of it all to make him worth being held up as a worhy Nigerian?That is the way I look at events. If it can be done those who have researched him could try to present a Balanced Naration of Emeagwali's Achievements.On my part I am trying to alert those in charge of this honor thing to check the facts that I can now direct them to on the net if it is not too late.Cheers and thanks.Amiel
From: Ayoola Tokunbo toks_ayoola@hotmail.com.
To: amiel.fagbulu@ymail.com
Sent: Sat, September 18, 2010 7:50:48 PM
Subject: Re: Phillip Emeagwali
Amiel,
The following might answer those questions you were asking Ikhide.
Philip Emeagwali myths
This page briefly addresses some specific claims appearing on Emeagwali's self-promotional website and elsewhere. For a more in-depth discussion of Emeagwali's "outright lies, half-truths, and numerous unsubstantiated claims," see the article Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: "Father of the Internet" by Chioma Ezeilo.
MYTH #1:
Each year since 1987, the judges for the annual Gordon Bell competition have given out multiple prizes for supercomputing applications, usually including one for performance (fastest speed), and one for price/performance (best speed/cost ratio; specifically, "price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application").
Emeagwali made the "world's fastest computation" in 1989
Despite what you may have read on the Internet, the 1989 prize for the fastest performance was awarded not to Emeagwali, but to another entrant:
In the performance category, we awarded the prize to a team from Mobil Research and Development and Thinking Machines Corp. [...] Their solution of a seismic data-processing problem ran at almost 6 Gflops on a CM-2 Connection Machine.The winning speed of 6 Gflops was almost double that of Emeagwali's entry (3.1 Gflops, a speed that Emeagwali has repeatedly misrepresented as the "world's fastest"). The Mobil/TMC team achieved the best price-performance ratio too, but since no entry was allowed more than one prize, the price/performance award passed to Emeagwali (who also used a CM-2 Connection Machine) even though his score in that category was about 20% worse than the leading score:
"Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize," IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101
We awarded the price/performance prize to Philip Emeagwali [...] His model ran at a price/performance of slightly less than 400 Mflops per $1 million. While the Mobil/TMC team achieved almost 500 Mflops per $1 million, we decided to award only one prize per entry.See the yearly results for the performance and price/performance categories. In no year did Emeagwali achieve what he claims he did.
"Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize," IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101
MYTH #2:
In spite of efforts by Emeagwali and his admirers to hype up his $1000 Gordon Bell award as the "Nobel Prize" of computing, the rest of the computing world continues to associate that lofty label with the Turing Award, which Emeagwali has never won. The Gordon Bell prize, however, is just one of many other annual computing awards, respectable but not at all comparable to either the Nobel Prize or the Turing Award in prestige or prize money. Nor are the selection criteria analogous: Emeagwali was awarded for his performance in an annual competition, not in recognition of lasting contributions to his field.
Emeagwali won computing's equivalent of the Nobel Prize
MYTH #3:
1. Emeagwali's paternity claims to the Internet are judged and found baseless. Emeagwali has not shown any evidence that he was involved with ARPA or any other research organization or company connected with the genesis of the Internet, nor did he express his ideas in technical journals or any other channel through which he could have influenced the development of the Internet during its formative stages.
Emeagwali is a "Father of the Internet"
2. Is there a father of the Internet? A discussion of the main contenders: JCR Licklider, Bob Taylor, Paul Baran, Donald Davies, and Lawrence Roberts.
MYTH #4:
A few Web sources expand the fallacy that Emeagwali created the fastest computer program, insisting that he was also responsible for the massively parallel supercomputer on which the program ran. However, the 65,000-processor "Connection Machine" that allowed such speedy computations was actually the brainchild of Danny Hillis and was built by Thinking Machines Corporation, the company Hillis co-founded. The fact is extensively documented on the web and is so well established that I won't devote more attention to it.
The "Connection Machine" was invented by Emeagwali
MYTH #5:
The number of Emeagwali's patents or patent applications is sometimes claimed to be as high as 30. However, a search of the USPTO and esp@cenet patent databases (as of September 2003) reveals the true number to be zero. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has a fully searchable online database for all U.S. patents since 1976 as well as all current applications, simply has nothing on file for Emeagwali.
Emeagwali has lots of patents or patent applications
MYTH #6:
Emeagwali is frequently referred to on his own and other websites as "Dr. Philip Emeagwali" or simply "Dr. Emeagwali." Though he did in fact enroll in a PhD program at the University of Michigan, he did not get the degree after failing his qualification examinations twice and having his thesis rejected by a committee of faculty members. Emeagwali subsequently sued the university, alleging civil rights violations and racial discrimination. His case was dismissed without trial. When Emeagwali appealed to a higher court, a three-judge panel rejected his discrimination claims unanimously.
"Dr." Emeagwali?
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