Re: {Disarmed} USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)

Dear All:

I raised a somewhat similar issue in one of my submissions several years ago
(with respect to Nigerian professionals). I see no reason why such a project
could not be extended to the African continent. Moreover, I have tremendous
confidence in brother Falola's ability to handle such a project superbly--if he
has the time. I would suggest, however, that African governments (through their
embassies world-wide) should foot the bill or provide the grant/s for such an
awesome scheme. It is a given, in my opinion, that African governments in
particular can mine or exploit such a rich collection of professionals for
African development in this millennium--and possibly in Southern Sudan should
this weekend's referendum end up in the creation of a new nation-state in the
motherland. In truth, I believe that such a project is long overdue!

Ike Udogu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID)" <jbi8@cdc.gov>
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:22 am
Subject: {Disarmed} USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher
Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities:
Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec. 2010)
To: Adeniran Adeboye <aadeboye@mac.com>, usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com,
naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com, edo-nationality@yahoogroups.com,
afenmai@yahoogroups.com, Nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NigerianID@yahoogroups.com

> Prof Adeboye,
> Happy New Year to you and the Family. And thanks for the correction
> on Falola. Wallahi, I really dont want people to throw eggs at me
> the next time I am in Austin, Texas! As you may know, Prof Falola
> is not just a world Scholar in his discipline, he is an Ogbuefi
> (abi Otunba) in Austin TX! I have been reading him and about him
> since my Graduate School Days in the Mid-to-late-1980s.
> Frankly, I am confident that Prof Falola would muster the necessary
> resources and expertise to TRULY catalogue African Professors in
> American Colleges and Universities. I seriously encourage him to do
> it, if he has the time and space. Such information has serious
> national policy implications. For example, if American Colleges and
> Universities realize from published stats that African-born
> scholars represent 10 to 25 percent of the teaching staff,
> immigration and hiring policies will be structured to favor the
> population. There are other implicatins as well, as you would know
> more than JUI.
> BTW, do you envision any immediate prospects (in the foreseeable
> future) for a street in Austin, TX to be named after our own
> FALOLA? Pardon me, I am just stretching my imagination this early
> morning. Take care. JUI (just waking up!)
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Adeniran Adeboye [mailto:aadeboye@mac.com]
> Sent: Mon 03-Jan-11 11:18 PM
> To: Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID)
> Cc: NigerianID@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: NigerianID | RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher
> Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and
> Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec.
> 2010)
>
>
> Hello Joe I,
>
> Happy New Year.
>
> The professor's name is FALOLA. The name FALOLU belongs to an early
> Oba of Lagos and, now, a street named after him in Surulere.
>
> Adeniran Adeboye
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Igietseme, Joseph (CDC/OID/NCEZID) wrote:
>
>
>
>
> It may be apt at this point for Prof Falolu et al to underake a
> thorough survey and document African Scholars and educators in
> Collleges and Universities in the Americas and elsewhere outside
> Africa. We cannot settle for this inadequacy and under-
> representation that may have serious implications in policies
> toward Africa and in handling African matters. I consider this
> matter to be SERIOUS! Take care. JUI
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com on behalf of John Ebohon
> Sent: Mon 03-Jan-11 9:31 PM
> To: NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com;
> NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com; nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com;
naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com; edo-nationality@yahoogroups.com;
afenmai@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: nigerianid@yahoogroups.com; usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] RE: [NaijaPolitics] RE: Journal of
> Blacks In Higher Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S.
> Colleges and Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest
> Contingents (Dec. 2010)
>
>
>
>
> I agree with your sentiments below. I remembered my visits to
> Huston, Baton Rouge, Boston and it was not teaching positions but
> right through lecturers to Presidents and Vice-Presidents and they
> were so many. Projecting this across the Nation makes a mockery of
> data quoted below.
>
> OJ
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Igietseme, Joseph
> (CDC/OID/NCEZID) Sent: Mon 03/01/2011 13:29
> To: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com;
> nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com; naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com;
> edo-nationality@yahoogroups.com; afenmai@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: nigerianid@yahoogroups.com; usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [NaijaPolitics] RE: Journal of Blacks In Higher
> Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and
> Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec.
> 2010)
>
>
>
> It is uncertain how this Journal or Institute of International
> Education defines the colleges and universities surveyed in this
> report. However, I would seriously dispute the Nigerian data
> because I can count more than 300 Nigerian Scholars teaching in
> colleges and universities in just 6 States in the US, not talking
> of the whole country. In fact, the State of Georgia alone has more
> than 100 Nigerian scholars teaching in Colleges and Universities.
> So the published stats are very bogus, spurious and under-stated
> for whatever purpose the authors had! So no serious-minded person
> should buy the numbers. Take care. JUI
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Thomas Jing
> Sent: Mon 03-Jan-11 1:11 AM
> To: nigerianworldforum@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [NIgerianWorldForum] Journal of Blacks In Higher
> Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and
> Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec.
> 2010)
>
>
>
> the size of nigerian intellectuals does not reflect that of the
> country's population.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> To: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com; OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com;
> naijaobserver@yahoogroups.com From: rsoyombo@yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:02:15 -0800
> Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Journal of Blacks In Higher
> Education: Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and
> Universities: Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents (Dec.
> 2010)
>
>
>
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> Black African Scholars Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities:
> Nigeria and Kenya Send the Largest Contingents
>
> According to the Institute of International Education, during the
> 2008-09 academic year there were 113,494 foreign scholars teaching
> at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Of
> these, 3,800, or 3.3 percent, were from the African continent.
>
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>
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> About 30 percent of these African scholars were from the Arab
> nations of North Africa, mostly from Egypt. But there were about
> 2,700 academics from black African nations teaching in the U.S.
>
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>
>
> There were 441 black academics from Nigeria teaching at U.S.
> colleges and universities in the 2008-09 academic year. This was
> the most from any black African nation. Kenya came in a very close
> second with 440 scholars teaching in the United States.
>
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> Other countries sending more than 100 scholars to teach at U.S.
> institutions of higher learning were Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, and
> South Africa.
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