Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Olusola Adeyeye reacts to the renaming of UNILAG

This frequent change of names of our Nigerian Universities must be opposed by all. I am now visiting in University of Manitoba which started in 1877. The name has never changed since then. The people here in Canada too have high profile politicians who die and need to be remembered, but have not renamed their universities after these politicians. We should stop the idea of  naming all universities in Nigeria after politicians.

We Nigerians home and abroad feel very angry about this and government officials need to take note of this anger and let the University of Lagos be.

 

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From: Felicia Oyekanmi <profoyekanmi@yahoo.com>
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Olusola Adeyeye reacts to the renaming of UNILAG

There are seven new federal universities approved within the last one year and Jonathan could have changed the name of any of them into Moshood Abiola University without meeting any resistance since they only exist on paper. UNILAG cannot become MAUL or MALU just because one man thinks he owns Nigeira because he resides in Aso Rock. Prof Felicia A. D. Oyekanmi Department of Sociology University of Lagos Akoka, Yaba, Lagos Nigeria Tel: {234} 1 7941757 Cell: {234}8056560970 --- On Wed, 30/5/12, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Olusola Adeyeye reacts to the renaming of UNILAG To: "USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com> Date: Wednesday, 30 May, 2012, 6:20 "I have on several occasions opined that what we currently have in Nigeria is a civilian regime that cannot be called a democracy. Indeed, I coined the word "corruptocracy" to describe our extant experience of Government of the corrupt, by the corrupt, for the corrupt. I am fundamentally opposed to naming our universities for politicians. I prefer that these institutions be named by ownership or location. As great an advocate of education as Awolowo was, I would not have renamed the University of Ife for him. The way are going, Ibadan will end up as Olusegun Obasanjo University someday! In any case, if a university should be named for MKO, I would have wished it to be University of Abuja." - Professor Olusola Adeyeye Read the rest here.   - Ikhide   Stalk my blog at www.xokigbo.com Follow me on Twitter: @ikhide Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue- unsubscribe@googlegroups.com

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