Monday, December 22, 2014

RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Richard Joseph: Congratulations!

"Sir" Richard:

 

For the record, many thanks for the nationality correction. Having been born in Trinidad and Tobago, then, make some of us crown you as the indomitable C.L.R. James II, also a great Trinidadian and super Pan-Africanist, who helped Africa to "create" an Nkrumah:-)

 

We are very proud of you, "Sir" Richard! Your dear wife (Lady Jennifer) is always so sisterly and  supportive that some of us simply took for granted that both of you were from Guyana. Now, we know better! Congratulations, nonetheless, as you deserve the great accolade from the New Hampshire-based Ivy League!

A.B.


From: Richard A Joseph [r-joseph@northwestern.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 10:06 AM
To: Toyin Falola
Cc: Assensoh, Akwasi B.
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Richard Joseph: Congratulations!


Greetings AB!

Each of these commentaries is deeply touching. It is wondrous to have so many patriots checking in after many years, from various places on our continent and in our Diaspora.

For the record, it is my wife, Jennifer, who is Guyanese. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Jennifer's contribution to the life and work being celebrated is, of course, well known to family, friends, and colleagues.

Let us use these renewed ties to carry forward the struggle for our people's advancement and a world of greater peace and shared prosperity.

Warm regards,

Richard



SIR Toyin:

 

Thank you very much for the valuable information about "Sir" Richard Joseph (as I used to refer to him in jest at Emory University, when I substituted in teaching a couple of African politics classes for him on that campus (as he used to crisscross Africa and the world for President Jimmy Carter's Center). At the time (with full black hair), I worked for Mrs. Coretta Scott King at the King Center on Auburn Avenue as Director of Research and Associate Editor of the M.L. King, Jr. Papers Project (on being seconded from Stanford University, where the Project was based). "Sir" Richard is not only an Africanist, par excellence, but indeed a "true" African like some of us, in spite of his Guyanese roots. Imagine the "Su6ya" baptism!:-) 

 

Through "Sir" Richard's very stimulating seminars at the Carter Center, I came to know and appreciate "Comrade" Ake (Claude) very well. I remember taking Claude to meet Mrs. King after a seminar break, and his instant description, later on, was: "This is a mountain of a woman", a deep reflection I have quoted in my intellectual memoirs, which will make some of you "drum" on my hairless African head! Of course, unlike "Sir" Toyin, I never did any "Counting of the Tiger's Teeth". Not that brave as an African teenager!:-) 

 

"Sir" Richard deserves every accolade named for a black cause (i.e. the Granger Award) because of his own generosity; I remember how he moved to Northwestern from Emory, initially, to direct the African Studies Center there, and he  quickly made sure that some of us (from his Emory University days) were urgently placed on the mailing list, and I am still there! Congratulations to "Sir" Richard and , also, his wonderful bride!

 

A.B. Assensoh, Oregon, USA. 


From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 8:42 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Richard Joseph: Congratulations!

Jambo Toyin,
 
Richard was also in Ibadan;and ate suya at Ahmadu Bello University under our supervision to guarantee the safety of a novice.
We salute him, as is said, ''a life well spent''
Okello


On Saturday, December 20, 2014 4:45 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


Richard Joseph, Northwestern's John Evans Professor of International History and Politics, will be honored by his alma mater, Dartmouth College, with one of the Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards on January 29, 2015. Joseph will be conferred with the Lester B. Granger Lifetime Achievement Award. Granger, Dartmouth Class of 1918, was an African-American who served for 20 years as Executive Director of the Urban League. He also served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt advising the Navy and received the Medal for Merit from President Harry S. Truman.                      
Joseph was a 1965 graduate of Dartmouth and a professor of Government in the 1980s. His career as a scholar-activist began with the creation and direction of the Negro Applications Encouragement Program and a local tutorial program during his junior year. On behalf of the student government, he supervised the campus visit and lecture by Malcolm X just weeks before the black leader's assassination on February 21, 1965. For his work promoting civil rights and peace and democracy in Africa, Joseph was one of 50 Dartmouth alumni awarded the "Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement" in 1991.
In a related vein, he will give the keynote address – "America from Selma to Ferguson: Reflections of a Scholar-Activist" – at a meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History in St. Petersburg, Florida, on February 27.The ASALH was founded by the pioneering black historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, in 1915. Woodson also initiated Black History Month.  Joseph will draw on a half-century of engagement as an activist scholar. His early American experiences include volunteer work during the Selma to Montgomery March, 1965, and with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in Washington, DC, 1965, and with the leader, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, in Mississippi, 1967.
Toyin Falola
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