RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Igbos vote based on their stomach, says Soyinka

Ok.... but we hope that pan-Africanism and Black unity would prevail in the case of the Igbo-Yoruba
ethnic divide. I would not equate the situation with the racial conflict in the US and France.

Do you see the phenomenon as identical?

GE


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Transcend we must but the thin veneer of transcendence always ruptures into violence. Ask France, ask America.
Bode

On 5/5/15, 5:19 PM, "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"
<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:

>
>
>Many people around the world vote for their stomachs.
>
> When the US economy nose- dived in 2008 under Bush, Obama's promise of
>better days resonated with the American voter.
>
> If he had promised a continuation of economic decline, few would have
>voted for him.
>
>Sometimes voters conclude that if their 'countryman' or affiliate
>should be in power then there would be a redistribution of resources
>in their favor.
>
>
>In any case, though, we should transcend this dualistic/ bipolar
>ethnic
>- based narrative.
>
>
>GE
>
>
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>
>Professor Gloria Emeagwali
>History Department
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>Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 4:16 PM
>To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Igbos vote based on their
>stomach, says Soyinka
>
>
>Is Kongi not free to express his views? Your respect? It's yours; you
>can keep it or sell it. Life goes on. Ethnicity is as Nigerian as panla
>and egusi.
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>On May 5, 2015 7:54 PM, "'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series"
><usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.
>com>> wrote:
>"The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can
>predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election,
>because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them;
>suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would
>stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain.²
>
>- Wole Soyinka
>
>If Soyinka actually said this, then I have lost ALL respect for the man.
>I am sure the Yoruba do not vote for their stomachs, whatever that means.
>Nonsense.
>
>http://www.thecable.ng/igbos-vote-based-stomach-says-soyinka
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