Re: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Bad breath of egotistical second rate commentators!

Dear Ken, 

My address is on the mail.

My name is Tade Aina. 

Tade. 

 

 

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device

 

 

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From: kenneth harrow

Date: Sat, 9/5/2015 2:09 PM

To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com;

Subject:Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Bad breath of egotistical second rate commentators!

 

dear friends  i suggest that when you post a message, you sign it, indicating who you   are. do we want anonymous postings?  ken    On 9/5/15 1:23 PM, 'Tade Aina' via USA Africa Dialogue Series wrote:  > Many years ago, I had the privilege to study with one of the best in " Sociological theories" and he mentioned to me that the best journals do their best to avoid " charlatans, impostors and adventurers" !  > The harsh truth of that saying has never hit me so hard till now when we have accreditation  and validation of expertise and knowledge through following by social media and public intellectuals who are nothing but sound byte pundits!  Even on our best listservs, web sites and social media services, we are tyrannized by cyber thuggery and a predominance of "Danfo " and " matatu" theorizing  and posturing and a subservience to insecure, giant egos of pretenders, auto- didacts  charlatans, and adventurers and we don't call them out for whom they are! We all know that they are BSing most of the time and we don't even have the courage to hold them up to the most basic standards of adducing evidence that has been cross checked and cross validated! We are truly living in interesting anomic times!  >  > Sent from my iPad  >    --   kenneth w. harrow  faculty excellence advocate  professor of english  michigan state university  department of english  619 red cedar road  room C-614 wells hall  east lansing, mi 48824  ph. 517 803 8839  harrow@msu.edu    --   Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin  To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com  To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com    Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue  Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html  ---   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/d/optout.    

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