Dear Brother
Compliments
Thanks a million for the information. I will be in Lagos for the Toyin Falola conference and will definitely visit the bookshop for a copy.
Please if know any other book written about General IBB you can let me know. I suppose you are in the US if correct do you attend ASA conferences.? The we can meet in November at Philadelphia.
Regards
chris
From: Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com>
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call for Papers
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call for Papers
Hi Chris,
I don't know where you are located. You can easily buy a copy from Amazon.com. If you are in Nigeria, for instance in the Ibadan area, you can get a copy from Booksellers Ltd at Jericho Road, Ibadan. If you are in Lagos, check CMS bookstore: I saw some copies on sale there sometime ago.
Best wishes.
Obododimma.
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Chris Akani <iafn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Compliments
>
> Please I will be veryy happy if you can direct me how to get The Prince of the Niger written by Dr Chidi Amuta.
> Regards,
> chris
> From: Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com>
> To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:37 AM
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call for Papers
>
> Dear Basil,
> I am interested in knowing the focus of your dissertation so that I could provide any useful information available to me. Back-channel.
>
> I hope that you have also noted the point made in several of the contributions that payment for publishing in journals is NOT one of those "symptoms" of Nigerian orientation to corruption. I was worried when I noticed that you tried to make this connection in your response to Prof. Oyekanmi's post. You wrote: "The perpetuation of a bad practice over several years does not make it good any more than we can say because corruption has been a religion in Nigeria for decades so that makes a great practice." It is important that we separate an option taken by some journal publishers globally (that is justifiable) from our perception of the of the prevalence of corruption in Nigeria. Granted that some people might ask for publishing money for dubious reasons, it does not lead us to conclude that demanding journal publication fee is an immoral practice generally. Of course, some of us like free things: free education, free food, free Web access, free Web-based mail account, free parking, free this and free that; even free accommodation in Heaven. And we would also desire free publications. Take it from me, time will come when journals that don't demand publication fee would start asking for it. The welfare state and government support systems are collapsing, for no condition is permanent. And that means we have to learn the lessons taught by okwa the spurfowl to its chicks: "when you peck at the tubers of cassava, also learn to peck and take things from the roots of the tree, in case tomorrow the owner of the farmer withdraws the tuber subsidy."
>
> On the Nasarawa journal's withdrawal of its previously advertised publication fee: this is error Number Two. The journal should not have advertised the fee in the first place. Information about charges is communicated privately when the article has been assessed and found publishable. It is then left to the submitter to agree or refuse to pay. Withdrawing the advertised publication fee and indicating that the journal is funded by TETFUND has also not helped the integrity of the journal. But is this single case enough for us to cancel out the integrity of fee-demanding journals some of which are published by reputable universities in the US, UK, etc?
>
> Quite sincerely, I commend the efforts of colleagues who, in spite of difficult circumstances, set up and fund journals in Nigeria and elsewhere. Experts in "Nigeria bashing" would write about lack of commitment to the survival of education in the country, but would fail to encourage efforts being made to change the situation -- even if such efforts have problems. It should not be so if we are genuinely interested in saving Nigeria. I suggest that we take seriously the advice by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson in The One Minute Manager that we need to make efforts to catch people doing things right, instead of being oriented to catching people doing things wrong. And when we catch them doing things right, what do we do? We immediately deliver the "One minute praise." As it applies to individuals at the micro level, so does it apply to governments and societies at the macro level.
>
> Regards.
> Obododimma.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, basil ugochukwu <ugochukwubc@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Dear Prof. Oyekanmi,
>> I have to thank you and the other commentators for this enlightenment. I care very much about this issue. I have a friend who is Dean of Law in one of the Universities in the Southern parts of the country and have discussed this with him several times in the past. No sooner would we meet than our discussion gravitates towards this same issue. I am presently writing up a doctoral dissertation which is centered on Nigeria. My biggest disappointment has been to access materials written by Nigerians in Nigeria. I did find some. But most of them were Nigeria-themed literature published outside the country in places like Uganda, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi and South Africa. Others came from Western journals that I could also get by just clicking a few buttons. In fairness to those in Nigeria, I did find materials attributed to some journals at Ilorin and Jos. I clicked "download" twice and on each occasion ended up mopping viruses into my computer! I assume that other researchers both within and outside Nigeria would be as disappointed as I have been.
>> Madam, you raise funding as the major issue. Both Profs. Oha and Bangura support this claim. I can respond by simply drawing attention to the fact that I have since received a different version of the post that triggered this discussion. This time the sentence prescribing a publishing fee has been withdrawn. That clinches the argument, I guess. What that suggests to me (since the Call for Pa
>
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University of Ibadan
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University of Ibadan
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I don't know where you are located. You can easily buy a copy from Amazon.com. If you are in Nigeria, for instance in the Ibadan area, you can get a copy from Booksellers Ltd at Jericho Road, Ibadan. If you are in Lagos, check CMS bookstore: I saw some copies on sale there sometime ago.
Best wishes.
Obododimma.
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Chris Akani <iafn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Compliments
>
> Please I will be veryy happy if you can direct me how to get The Prince of the Niger written by Dr Chidi Amuta.
> Regards,
> chris
> From: Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com>
> To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:37 AM
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Call for Papers
>
> Dear Basil,
> I am interested in knowing the focus of your dissertation so that I could provide any useful information available to me. Back-channel.
>
> I hope that you have also noted the point made in several of the contributions that payment for publishing in journals is NOT one of those "symptoms" of Nigerian orientation to corruption. I was worried when I noticed that you tried to make this connection in your response to Prof. Oyekanmi's post. You wrote: "The perpetuation of a bad practice over several years does not make it good any more than we can say because corruption has been a religion in Nigeria for decades so that makes a great practice." It is important that we separate an option taken by some journal publishers globally (that is justifiable) from our perception of the of the prevalence of corruption in Nigeria. Granted that some people might ask for publishing money for dubious reasons, it does not lead us to conclude that demanding journal publication fee is an immoral practice generally. Of course, some of us like free things: free education, free food, free Web access, free Web-based mail account, free parking, free this and free that; even free accommodation in Heaven. And we would also desire free publications. Take it from me, time will come when journals that don't demand publication fee would start asking for it. The welfare state and government support systems are collapsing, for no condition is permanent. And that means we have to learn the lessons taught by okwa the spurfowl to its chicks: "when you peck at the tubers of cassava, also learn to peck and take things from the roots of the tree, in case tomorrow the owner of the farmer withdraws the tuber subsidy."
>
> On the Nasarawa journal's withdrawal of its previously advertised publication fee: this is error Number Two. The journal should not have advertised the fee in the first place. Information about charges is communicated privately when the article has been assessed and found publishable. It is then left to the submitter to agree or refuse to pay. Withdrawing the advertised publication fee and indicating that the journal is funded by TETFUND has also not helped the integrity of the journal. But is this single case enough for us to cancel out the integrity of fee-demanding journals some of which are published by reputable universities in the US, UK, etc?
>
> Quite sincerely, I commend the efforts of colleagues who, in spite of difficult circumstances, set up and fund journals in Nigeria and elsewhere. Experts in "Nigeria bashing" would write about lack of commitment to the survival of education in the country, but would fail to encourage efforts being made to change the situation -- even if such efforts have problems. It should not be so if we are genuinely interested in saving Nigeria. I suggest that we take seriously the advice by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson in The One Minute Manager that we need to make efforts to catch people doing things right, instead of being oriented to catching people doing things wrong. And when we catch them doing things right, what do we do? We immediately deliver the "One minute praise." As it applies to individuals at the micro level, so does it apply to governments and societies at the macro level.
>
> Regards.
> Obododimma.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, basil ugochukwu <ugochukwubc@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Dear Prof. Oyekanmi,
>> I have to thank you and the other commentators for this enlightenment. I care very much about this issue. I have a friend who is Dean of Law in one of the Universities in the Southern parts of the country and have discussed this with him several times in the past. No sooner would we meet than our discussion gravitates towards this same issue. I am presently writing up a doctoral dissertation which is centered on Nigeria. My biggest disappointment has been to access materials written by Nigerians in Nigeria. I did find some. But most of them were Nigeria-themed literature published outside the country in places like Uganda, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi and South Africa. Others came from Western journals that I could also get by just clicking a few buttons. In fairness to those in Nigeria, I did find materials attributed to some journals at Ilorin and Jos. I clicked "download" twice and on each occasion ended up mopping viruses into my computer! I assume that other researchers both within and outside Nigeria would be as disappointed as I have been.
>> Madam, you raise funding as the major issue. Both Profs. Oha and Bangura support this claim. I can respond by simply drawing attention to the fact that I have since received a different version of the post that triggered this discussion. This time the sentence prescribing a publishing fee has been withdrawn. That clinches the argument, I guess. What that suggests to me (since the Call for Pa
>
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*Obododimma Oha*
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(*Associate Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics*)
Dept. of English
University of Ibadan
Nigeria
&
*Fellow*, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan
Phone: +234 803 333 1330;
+234 802 220 8008;
+234 818 639 5001.
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