RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, etc

As a poet and literary man, yourself, I thought you would easily pick up the discriminatory tone
in his statement - and condemn it. Unfortunately, you have endorsed it.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chidi Anthony Opara [chidi.opara@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:00 PM
To: USA Africa Dialogue Series
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, etc

Well Prof. the issue here is female writers, not the male.

--------CAO.

On 15 Dec, 17:16, kenneth harrow <har...@msu.edu> wrote:
> well, now. can you say, some men writers, writing as men, have put
> forward superlative literature??
> (chidi, i think you have to eat those words!)
> ken
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> On 12/15/12 8:20 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
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> > I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know
> > whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me
> > --------V.S Naipual
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> > The above Naipaul sneer, in my opinion is a non issue. Some female
> > writers, while writing as women, have been known to put forward
> > superlative literature.
> > Moreover, it is even impossible to completely mask one s gender as a
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> > ---------CAO.
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> > On 14 Dec, 04:07, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"
> > <emeagw...@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
> >> ( I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me ).
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> >> What do you expect of such a bigot?
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> >> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
> >> Prof. of History & African Studies
> >> History Department
> >> Central Connecticut State University
> >> New Britain
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> >> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:25 PM
> >> To: Toyin Falola; Ederi
> >> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, etc
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> >> VS Naipaul must really be in the winter of his life. This interview is innocent of the old fighting Naipaul, innocent of substance really...
> >> http://www.tnr.com/article/110946/vs-naipaul-the-arab-spring-authors-...
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