"With his There was a country, Achebe hit the cruciate nerve and ruptured the portal artery of writers, politicians, academics and even plain journeymen, particularly of the Yoruba kind. But let me be clear: Although the erstwhile de facto Vice Head of the Nigerian state during the civil war was not your detribalised Nigerian by any figment of imagination, I don't agree with Achebe when he blames Awolowo for the extermination, through malnutrition, of hundreds of thousands of children and women during our country's civil war of which, having lived the entire duration of the conflict in Biafra as an adult in my twenties, I claim a hands-on perspective. My opinion is that most of the blame should rest on the General who committed his people to war propelled almost only by his own ambition and arrogance when fully aware his troops were ill-prepared and lacked even the most rudimentary of hardware to effectively prosecute the war. In the same vein, my view is that Achebe's claim that Igbo are the most progressive people in Nigeria is thoroughly debateable, probably far more arguable than the question of the Igbo political class that, even right now, is still seemingly irredeemably mercantilist, consistently selling out its own for the proverbial mess of porridge."
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Friday, May 31, 2013
USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
All said and done, US – Nigeria relations are good and just as with most relationships, there's room for improvement. From the US administration's point of view perhaps this is not the best time for such a visit - but surely there must be other occasions such as the upcoming October 1 Independence celebrations when goodwill invitations are usually extended to best friends. I would imagine that for the US, courting African nations and their public opinion would be of the essence – and that it's not only e a matter of establishing Africom and expecting the roses to grow by themselves and form bouquets without any attention and pruning from the gardeners / cultivators. Considering the competition from China which is more and more making her presence felt on the African continent – in my opinion it's all the more reason why the US needs to cultivate the US- Africa friendships – especially with an African-American president who again I would imagine would also be turning on his natural charm with a charm offensive in Africa. I know that with the people of China even in interpersonal relationships, friendship if of the essence – and friendship is something that has to be cultivated. The ease with which Chinese diplomats establish a rapport with African leaders is testimony of a relationship which is in the ascendant.
The Chinese diplomat asks "We make friendship ?" - I suppose that's what you ask the Chinese woman too ( and less of the big grammar and 1000 Phds etc) and invariably the whole-hearted answer is "Yes" and then there's some walking hand- in-hand or arm-in arm and the deal – whatever deal - is concluded – and there again, without any extensive lectures from China about Human Rights issues or the dignity of labour or about the dollar a day or the cringe or starve conundrum...
SO, I'm also looking forward to hearing Brother Obama saying , " God bless Nigeria" and reaping the tremendous effects of saying those three simple words...
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--Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.From: Tope Olaiya <esty...@yahoo.com>Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 04:16:28 -0700 (PDT)ReplyTo: Tope Olaiya <esty...@yahoo.com>Subject: OBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIAOBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIAAYO OLUKOTUNBarring an unlikely politically negotiated detour, United States President, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, will not visit Nigeria on their forthcoming African tour, billed to take them to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3.The White House announced last week the exclusion of Nigeria from Obama's African itinerary as a way of delivering a strong message to the country's rulers on their slack, anti corruption policy and poor human rights record. Subsequent reports on the matter, however, indicate that Nigeria's ambassador to the United States, Professor Ade Adefuye, is exploring the possibility of getting the United States to change its mind by reinserting Nigeria on the list of countries to be visited by Obama.Flash back to the twilight months of 1975 when General Murtala Muhammed at the time Nigeria's Head of State pointedly rebuffed United States Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, who had proposed to visit Nigeria, and see what a sea change has occurred in Nigeria's foreign policy as well as national self worth. In that glorious season, we called the bluff of the United States; today we cringe before that same country, beseeching it to consider Nigeria worthy of being visited by its president. By way of explanation, let us recall that Muritala's government and to a lesser extent the successor government of General Olusegun Obasanjo were reformist, nationalist and enjoyed popular legitimacy on account of proven, not rhetorical achievements. Nigeria relished the spotlight as a haven for anti-colonial rebels across the continent including those from apartheid South Africa.It must be recorded as a touching irony that South Africa, whose liberation was in the 1970's and early 1980's, a defining and much acclaimed credo of our vigorous foreign policy is listed today on Obama's itinerary while Nigeria the liberator is shoved aside. What has changed about Nigeria that it should now become the butt of the derisive snubbing and dismissive scorn around the globe? In the 1970's there was a nation around which nationalism could be projected. Today, the nation is imploding, and retreating to its least common denominators. That is why an Asari Dokubo can threaten war, if his kinsman loses the election in 2015; and insurgent Islam can institute a reign of terror, verging on attempted secession in another part of the country. Nigeria is viewed with the contempt that one reserves for a neighbouring family whre husband and wife square up to each other in fisticuffs on the verandah, disturbing the peace of the entire neighbourhood.That is not all. A diminution of leadership is today superimposed on a crisis of governance, with predictable diminishing returns for governmental output. South Africa, a federation like Nigeria obviously has its problems but it had as president and now statesman, Nelson Mandela who put his country on the world map both by bridge-building skills and by quitting office when the ovation was loudest. As the ongoing, tawdy squabble in the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF) shows, much of it engineered from outside, dishonourable shenanigans and dishonesty rule the political roost, mainly because of what Chief Awolowo was fond of calling "tenacity of office". Let us face it. There is hardly anything in the United States' dressing down of Nigeria that has not been pointed out by civil society and, permit the self indulgence, by this columnist. What domestic and international reactions did the Jonathan administration expect when it granted state pardon to a former Bayelsa state governor, who is on the list of wanted persons in several countries around the globe? Should not that decision have been weighed in the light of the government's loudly advertised anticorruption policy and of global public opinion?Now the rub. As condemnations at home and abroad trailed the state pardon, with a United States journalist calling for the impeachment of Jonathan, our president was quoted to have said that he has no regrets for taking that universally denounced step. In other words, as the Americans would say 'in your face'. Could not Nigeria's Foreign Minister and Jonathan's many advisers have pointed out the implications of exploring the borders of a pariah outlook in the international community and for no other reason than helping out a fallen mentor? I do not defend the United States which is not without its own human rights blemishes, symbolized by the excesses of the war on terror and the horrifying narratives that poured out of its naval base in Guantanamo. Yet, it is hard to deny that through our blunders and inactions we have often earned the rebuke of other countries, including those of our better governed, smaller neighbours.There are occasions as in the example of the 1970's cited earlier when a reformist government can rally the nation against the big brother insults of a foreign power. But this is not one of them; as we did not need the United States to tell us that the anticorruption agenda has lost its steam and that business as usual is the name of the game in our political setting. Our leaders do not expect other democracies to congratulate them for flouting emerging governance norms in the global neighbourhood; or for treating Nigerians with the contempt reserved for subjects of autocratic rule, rather than citizens of a democracy.It is not too late, however especially in the light of the current rebuff, for Nigeria's leaders to begin to do things right as well as enthrone decency in the polity and in state-society relations. Even rogue states within the international system must live with certain restrictions on their conduct as long as they remain in the comity of nations. The administration should consider breathing new life into the comatose anticorruption agenda; as well as by the force of example, institute new norms that would stem and slow down the current fiendish and fiery political skirmishes, in the run-up to 2015.Furthermore, is it not time to recompact this tottering nation by convoking a national conference that will seek to revalidate our eroding sense of nationhood and community or in the alternative, prescribe modalities for nationalities to go their separate ways without bloodletting? As argued earlier, there can be no nationalism without a nation; and there can be no nation without the consent of the nationalities. The current federal jamboree favours the emergence of second elevens as state officials and the elevation of mediocrity and visionless government into fundamental directives of state policy. It is time to renegotiate Nigeria.Olukotun is Professor of Political Science and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lead City University, Ibadan
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Jonathan Capehart: Obama can’t win with some black critics
"Here we go again. President Obama's critics in the African American community are hammering him for doing nothing for black people. Drawing my attention this time is "How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America"by Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic and"A President for Everyone, except Black People" by the Rev. Kevin Johnson that appeared last month in the Philadelphia Tribune. While I understand where they are coming from, this thinking drives me crazy because the president's detractors fail to take a 360-degree view of what they are demanding from him and ignore what he's actually done."|
For the record, I identify completely with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Mr. Obama has disappointed me with his (non)engagement with black folks and Africa. In that sense President Bush was a better leader.
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - CHINUA ACHEBE'S STATE BURIAL: MATTERS ARISING
It is common knowledge that Chinua Achebe had turned down on two occasions National Awards slated to be conferred on him by the Federal Government of Nigeria. However, in death, he was given a state burial. I am inclined to think that the Family, toeing his principles ought to have equally turned down the offer of a State burial. What is your take on this issue?
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Obama’s Personal Responsibility Snake Oil: When Will He Take Responsibility for His Own Failures?
MAY 30, 2013
When Will He Take Responsibility for His Own Failures?
Obama's Personal Responsibility Snake Oil
United States president Barack Obama appears to never pass up an opportunity when addressing Afrikan Americans to shift the responsibility for their success to personal effort and not the removal of structural barriers that are connected to white supremacy, sexism and capitalist exploitation. The American Commander-in-Chief tried to pass off a personal responsibility bill of goods to his most loyal demographic group, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. But one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there's no longer any room for excuses." Obama made that declaration in his May 19, 2013 commencement address before a graduating class of 500 men at the all-male, predominantly African American Morehouse College.
Obama like other members of the African American petty bourgeoisie or national political class are under the illusion that his occupation of the White House is an indication of a new and better day across America. However, the reality paints a much more sobering picture of the depressing indicators of social and economic well-being for African Americans. A recently published report revealed that African American male college graduates have an unemployment rate of 6.7 percent, while the joblessness figure for the their white male counterparts stood at 3.8 percent.
A 2008 study on the race of the managers and their racial hiring patterns reveals that white, Asian and Hispanic hiring agents tend to select less African Americans, while African American supervisors hire more of their racial compatriots. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported on its website that in 2003 African men in the United States with a bachelor's degree earned only 82 percent ($41,916) of the median income ($51,138) of their white counterparts.
Yet Obama had the gall to attempt selling these Morehouse men the following economic snake-oil, "You're graduating into an improving job market. You're living in a time when advances in technology and communication put the world at your fingertips. Your generation is uniquely poised for success unlike any generation of African Americans that came before it." Many of these African men do not have control over events within the labour market. There are entrenched racist, gendered and class-related employment barriers that are resistant to personal effort and responsibility on the part of these prospective racialized, despised and stereotyped jobseekers.
I look forward to the day when Obama will tell it like it is to ruling-class white men that there's no longer time for excuses for their promotion of institutional white supremacy (and other forms of oppression). Furthermore, I would like to see the display of intestinal fortitude on the part of the president in declaring to largely white graduating classes that they should not blame immigrants for taking away "their" jobs, social assistance or welfare recipients as the reason for high taxes or the capital gains tax as an impediment to job creation.
We are more likely to see Obama insulting and race-baiting African Americans so as to demonstrate to whites that he can be tough on a constituency that gave him 93 percent of its vote in the 2012 presidential election in spite of experiencing an unemployment rate of 13.7 percent in September 2012 (almost double the national joblessness figure). Therefore, please do not hold your breath in anticipation of Obama critiquing racism (capitalism and sexism) as an explanatory factor behind the oppression of African Americans, especially those from the working-class.
Obama could not help administering his personal responsibility snake-oil solution without visiting the conservative realm of family values. According to this smooth-talking 21st century Piped Piper, "Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important…. I was raised by a heroic [white] single mom…. But I sure wish I had had a father who was not only present, but involved." This first "black President" must not have received the memo from Africa that "It takes a whole village to raise a child."
There are policy options that could facilitate the development of a mature and generous social welfare infrastructure in the United States. Mr. President, social and economic justice action speaks louder than your eloquent words! If Obama would like to make it easier for parents to have the ability to raise children as well as to give force to his claim, "My job, as President, is to advocate for policies that generate more opportunity for everybody."
The people deserve prompt and immediate attention to the questions below.
What about providing a national childcare programme that would allow parents to pursue education or employment opportunities?
What about instituting a liveable minimum wage that would allow parents to better care for their children?
What about a national guaranteed minimum income that would allow mothers and fathers to provide for the material well-being of their children?
What about providing 90% of one's recent income as unemployment income or benefits so that jobless parents are to provide for their children?
How about a livable social assistance (welfare) income that would allow working-class parents to better attend to the needs of their children?
What about a single-payer national heath system that is paid for out of general revenue so as to allow families to better attend to their healthcare needs?
How about going after racist and sexist employment barriers that contribute to the lower earnings of African Americans and other racialized workers as well as women?
Obama should take personal responsibility for his failure to champion social and income-security programmes that would help working-class African Americans, other racialized peoples and women in the United States. Personal responsibility is a two-way thoroughfare, Mr. President!
Ajamu Nangwaya, PhD, is an academic worker and Membership Development Coordinator with the Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity in Canada
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Mukaiba: In Dispraise Of Achebe
| There is a saying Yoruba language that translates into 'the dead person cannot choose who will bath and dress him/her last. Or as late Tai Solarin used to say 'if nobody washed the dead person, his/her corpse would be taken care of by the community when it stars to stink'. Either way, let the soul of Prof Chinua Achebe rest in peace. Prof Felicia A. D. Oyekanmi Department of Sociology University of Lagos Akoka, Yaba, Lagos Nigeria Tel: {234} 1 7941757 Cell: {234}8056560970 --- On Wed, 29/5/13, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote: -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. |
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: OBAMA’S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA
Oh Ayo, why? But if, as you say, our ambassador to the US is still begging Obama to come here, I guess the disappointment and embarrassment are self-induced. If the only thing that will induce Nigeria's rulers to do the right thing is a fleeting visit from Barack Obama, he had as well better not come [sic!]. After all, what happens when he has been and gone? And is it his coming or not coming that will actually change the facts on the ground? Everybody who has seen a road patched up for the visit of the State Governor, only to wash away with the first rains, knows how that particular brand of eye-service works!
Only when our rulers respond to our own demands will there be genuine change. But as long as we contract out the job of making those demands to the President of the United States of America, well, I guess our rulers will know where they need to direct their eye service.
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Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.From: Tope Olaiya <estyyolly@yahoo.com>Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 04:16:28 -0700 (PDT)ReplyTo: Tope Olaiya <estyyolly@yahoo.com>Subject: OBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIA--OBAMA'S SNUBBING OF NIGERIAAYO OLUKOTUNBarring an unlikely politically negotiated detour, United States President, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, will not visit Nigeria on their forthcoming African tour, billed to take them to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3.The White House announced last week the exclusion of Nigeria from Obama's African itinerary as a way of delivering a strong message to the country's rulers on their slack, anti corruption policy and poor human rights record. Subsequent reports on the matter, however, indicate that Nigeria's ambassador to the United States, Professor Ade Adefuye, is exploring the possibility of getting the United States to change its mind by reinserting Nigeria on the list of countries to be visited by Obama.Flash back to the twilight months of 1975 when General Murtala Muhammed at the time Nigeria's Head of State pointedly rebuffed United States Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, who had proposed to visit Nigeria, and see what a sea change has occurred in Nigeria's foreign policy as well as national self worth. In that glorious season, we called the bluff of the United States; today we cringe before that same country, beseeching it to consider Nigeria worthy of being visited by its president. By way of explanation, let us recall that Muritala's government and to a lesser extent the successor government of General Olusegun Obasanjo were reformist, nationalist and enjoyed popular legitimacy on account of proven, not rhetorical achievements. Nigeria relished the spotlight as a haven for anti-colonial rebels across the continent including those from apartheid South Africa.It must be recorded as a touching irony that South Africa, whose liberation was in the 1970's and early 1980's, a defining and much acclaimed credo of our vigorous foreign policy is listed today on Obama's itinerary while Nigeria the liberator is shoved aside. What has changed about Nigeria that it should now become the butt of the derisive snubbing and dismissive scorn around the globe? In the 1970's there was a nation around which nationalism could be projected. Today, the nation is imploding, and retreating to its least common denominators. That is why an Asari Dokubo can threaten war, if his kinsman loses the election in 2015; and insurgent Islam can institute a reign of terror, verging on attempted secession in another part of the country. Nigeria is viewed with the contempt that one reserves for a neighbouring family whre husband and wife square up to each other in fisticuffs on the verandah, disturbing the peace of the entire neighbourhood.That is not all. A diminution of leadership is today superimposed on a crisis of governance, with predictable diminishing returns for governmental output. South Africa, a federation like Nigeria obviously has its problems but it had as president and now statesman, Nelson Mandela who put his country on the world map both by bridge-building skills and by quitting office when the ovation was loudest. As the ongoing, tawdy squabble in the Nigerian Governor's Forum (NGF) shows, much of it engineered from outside, dishonourable shenanigans and dishonesty rule the political roost, mainly because of what Chief Awolowo was fond of calling "tenacity of office". Let us face it. There is hardly anything in the United States' dressing down of Nigeria that has not been pointed out by civil society and, permit the self indulgence, by this columnist. What domestic and international reactions did the Jonathan administration expect when it granted state pardon to a former Bayelsa state governor, who is on the list of wanted persons in several countries around the globe? Should not that decision have been weighed in the light of the government's loudly advertised anticorruption policy and of global public opinion?Now the rub. As condemnations at home and abroad trailed the state pardon, with a United States journalist calling for the impeachment of Jonathan, our president was quoted to have said that he has no regrets for taking that universally denounced step. In other words, as the Americans would say 'in your face'. Could not Nigeria's Foreign Minister and Jonathan's many advisers have pointed out the implications of exploring the borders of a pariah outlook in the international community and for no other reason than helping out a fallen mentor? I do not defend the United States which is not without its own human rights blemishes, symbolized by the excesses of the war on terror and the horrifying narratives that poured out of its naval base in Guantanamo. Yet, it is hard to deny that through our blunders and inactions we have often earned the rebuke of other countries, including those of our better governed, smaller neighbours.There are occasions as in the example of the 1970's cited earlier when a reformist government can rally the nation against the big brother insults of a foreign power. But this is not one of them; as we did not need the United States to tell us that the anticorruption agenda has lost its steam and that business as usual is the name of the game in our political setting. Our leaders do not expect other democracies to congratulate them for flouting emerging governance norms in the global neighbourhood; or for treating Nigerians with the contempt reserved for subjects of autocratic rule, rather than citizens of a democracy.It is not too late, however especially in the light of the current rebuff, for Nigeria's leaders to begin to do things right as well as enthrone decency in the polity and in state-society relations. Even rogue states within the international system must live with certain restrictions on their conduct as long as they remain in the comity of nations. The administration should consider breathing new life into the comatose anticorruption agenda; as well as by the force of example, institute new norms that would stem and slow down the current fiendish and fiery political skirmishes, in the run-up to 2015.Furthermore, is it not time to recompact this tottering nation by convoking a national conference that will seek to revalidate our eroding sense of nationhood and community or in the alternative, prescribe modalities for nationalities to go their separate ways without bloodletting? As argued earlier, there can be no nationalism without a nation; and there can be no nation without the consent of the nationalities. The current federal jamboree favours the emergence of second elevens as state officials and the elevation of mediocrity and visionless government into fundamental directives of state policy. It is time to renegotiate Nigeria.Olukotun is Professor of Political Science and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lead City University, Ibadan
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