during the French revolution. It was an invocation that raised the specter
of violent revolution and equalization that was clearly understood and
embraced by the anticolonial and independent movements.
Bode
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[mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anunoby, Ogugua
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 6:19 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin
Falola Africa Book Award
Third world designation for some countries is indeed a pejorative term
coined by the French demographer Alfred Sauvy. It is intended to describe
the so designated countries' stage of economic development.
The real and ultimate solution to "third world" designation for so called
third world countries is the countries doing what is necessary to move up
the economic development ladder. Countries like Chile, Singapore, and South
Korea have done what is necessary and have moved up that ladder. They have
been declared advanced economies by the Organization for Economic
cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.). They are no longer third world
countries even though their financial markets are still categorized as
emerging markets. Malaysia and Taiwan are moving up that ladder and are
nearly up there. China and India are another set of works-in-progress.
If one is told that they stink and it is true, the one should know what to
do if the one is unhappy about what they are told. It does not really help
therefore, to moan about a designation that the moaner can do and be seen to
be doing something about. Moaning may be comforting but it is not a solution
or answer.
There are by the way, advantages of being a third world country. Leaders of
the countries usually have no responsibility for what has become of their
countries. They blame other countries and sometimes their fellow citizens.
Other benefits include the supply of foreign aid and grants that should not
be necessary if the country would simply practice good housekeeping. A third
world country's leaders can always go cap in hand to non-third world
countries begging for foreign aid and grants that they (leaders) know before
the fact, they would misuse. Is it conceivable that these and other benefits
help to generally explain African countries' refusal to develop and
implement policies that will help them climb up the economic development
ladder?
Long-term underdevelopment in today's world, is a state of mind and also
choice.
oa
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[mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Emeagwali, Gloria
(History)
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 9:39 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin
Falola Africa Book Award
Toyin Adepoju has a point. These days the term Third World is used
insultingly. See for example
Huffingtonpost.com on the series 'Third World America'.
Studies of Emerging Economies, African and Asian Studies, Non-Aligned
Studies
or Majority Studies are some possible alternatives that come to mind.
GE
www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
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[toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 5:16 AM
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Cc: leonenet; dw2216@columbia.edu; pmanning@pitt.edu; worldhis@pitt.edu
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winner Of The 2010 ATWS Toyin
Falola Africa Book Award
Very impressive.
Within the name of the prize,however,I have a problem with the section I
highlight in black:
"Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award"
I am wary of such self categorisation,even if it has a degree of validity.
Is Africa,for one,Third to the West,in all aspects?Even if one argues that,
taken generally,this classification can be sustained,how helpful is it to
the psyche of those who belong to this so called Third World?
I might have problems,I might not be living up to my potential but I would
not be keen to be NAMED IN TERMS OF MY PROBLEMS beceause I am convinced I
can rise above them sooner or later.
I would be much more comfortable if the prize were simply named Toyin Falola
Africa Book Award
Thanks
Toyin
On 10 October 2010 23:52, Abdul Karim Bangura
<theai@earthlink.net<mailto:theai@earthlink.net>> wrote:
Professor Patrick Manning Is the Winner of the 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa
Book Award
Good Greetings:
It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the wonderful news that
the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola
Africa Book Award is Professor Patrick Manning of the University of
Pittsburgh for his book titled The African Diaspora: A History Through
Culture (2009) published by Columbia University Press. As in previous years,
the Award's committee received numerous and excellent books from which the
selection was made. The following is just a small sample of what the judges
of the Award had to say about Manning's effulgent book:
"The author is adept at tying together what are seemingly separate and
unconnected phenomena. Integrating such a complexity (six centuries and
several continents) was challenging enough, but it was done with an almost
elegant simplicity...."
"Manning challenges three paradigms that have shaped the study of African
peoples: (1) their exclusion from studies on modernity, (2) their exclusion
from a global integrated study as a group, and (3) their absence of clearly
defined thematic structures that encapsulate the experiences of the
Africana. Through a new approach to the study of the African Diaspora,
Manning shows how African peoples in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the
Mediterranean contributed to modernity through Diasporas, networks, mixes,
hinterlands, and exchanges on the roads between centers...."
Please find below more details on the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
and the call for next year's Award. Next year's ATWS conference will be
convened in Brazil, home of the Afrikan Samba.
In Peace Always
Abdul Karim Bangura/
Committee Chair
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
CALL FOR BOOKS
THE 2010-2011 TOYIN FALOLA
ATWS AFRICA BOOK AWARD
The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, in honor of Toyin Falola, one of
Africa's outstanding historians and intellectuals, will be given for the
best book on Africa published in 2010-2011. Book submissions must be
published in 2010 through June 15, 2011. The deadline for the submission of
entries is June 30, 2011. The award will not automatically be given each
year, but only whenever the committee decides that a book of considerable
merit has been submitted. ATWS members are encouraged to enter their
publications into the competition. The recipient will receive an elegant
plaque, citation, and a $500 cash award.
Qualifications are:
1. Only monographs and studies will be considered. Please do not submit
anthologies or edited works.
2. An individual who wishes to be considered must send a letter of
application to the committee chair, Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, The African
Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012 E-mail:
theafricaninstitution@verizon.net<mailto:bangura@american.edu>
3. Publishers are permitted to nominate an author's book as long as the
above rules are observed.
4. An individual seeking the award is responsible for sending a copy of
his/her book to each member of the committee.
Committee members are:
Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, committee chair, The African Institution, 7532
Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012. E-mail:
theafricaninstitution@verizon.net<mailto:bangura@american.edu>
Dr. James T. Gire, Department of Psychology, Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, VA 24450. E-mail: GireJT@vmi.edu<mailto:GireJT@vmi.edu>
Dr. Jose Arimateia da Cruz, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and
Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA
31419-1997. E-mail:
dacruzjo@mail.armstrong.edu<mailto:dacruzjo@mail.armstrong.edu>
Dr. Ishmael Munene, Center for Education Excellence, Northern Arizona
University, Flagg Staff, AZ 86011-5774. E-mail:
Munene@nau.edu<mailto:Munene@nau.edu>
<mailto:Munene@nau.edu>
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