Dr. Gee!
It's perfect. The first lady was so good that I had to holler for my kids to bring me a notebook. I made notes as if I was in a class. I hope fate and life leads you to the point where you're doing courses, open to the public, open and available on the internet. I watched it all the way through two times and I had to go back to a couple of points more than once. I really love your interviewing skills. I feel like I'm intruding on a private matter. I have heard this is what a GREAT interviewer is SUPPOSED to be capable of doing: drawing the subject in so much that they refrain from ceremonial speech and give a view of their "real" self.
I'm biased because I just love you to pieces no matter what you do. If you do nothing at all I'll say you're a genius. But this film and this subject? You know I dragged myself out of bed and went searching for Dr. Falola's book? I had to go back to the part where he was traveling on the train and really closely read his adventure with the "blind" guy. It sparked an essay in me on when I was fourteen and got taken in by a con man in front of a department store. Only problem is that I gave him the money I was supposed to give the store for my granma's charge plate. My grandfather had to calm her down!!! If she could have wrenched my neck thru the phone she would have. Anyway, he drove downtown to get me. I had also given the man, who presented himself as handicapped and correctly guessed that maybe my father had been in Vietnam and used that against me to get my granma's money. He was still there when my grandfather arrived.
All he said when we got in the car, "yeah, he's a good one."
Thank you Dr. Falola for opening up my mind to pages which haven't been turned or merely filed away without inspection. And thank you Dr. Gloria for letting your interview subjects speak freely and show themselves.
La Vonda
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
http://vimeo.com/76963503
Kindly note that this is the correct address for the video-film.
I gave the wrong address. Please send comments for improvement.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
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A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: Reflections on the Work of Toyin Falola
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Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
africahistory.net
vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Documentaries on Africa and the African Diaspora
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BA Psychology 2005 and MA European History 2009
"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great; Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President.
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