USA Africa Dialogue Series - To Professor Aluko, Tade & Ikhide

To Professor Bolaji Aluko's Kola-Nuts, to Tade's, "Bad breath of egotistical second rate commentators!" , to Ikhide of " Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy" fame :

This has been an exciting exchange through which some of us ignoramuses got a bit of an education.

That was a whacking! "Spare the rod and spoil the child" was the old system in Saro that is before the RUF plunged the country into war and in time even kids as young mortals who in normal times would have been trembling in fear were now toting AK-47s as child soldiers and threatening to pull the trigger on you if you as much as didn't obey their marching orders.

 The Saro angle – and the role and etymology of the various grammars of kola nut in the history of the Old Mali Empire etc. should not be a waste of space.

We could do with a lot more of these kind of erudite exchanges , even in little dribs and pieces, a little at a time, just that much that a human's mind has the capacity to  digest at just one sitting and straight reading, after which Dr. Mind (or even the honourably Retired Dr. Mind Emeritus sitting in comfort and luxury can say, and say truthfully, I read  (Truman Capote?) or I have read "Look Homeward Angel"  (not having understood anything)  have read this and that, but seldom will you see him waving his PhD dissertation - like Kwame  Anthony Appiah), all he is ever waving is just his  little or big dick magnum opus , in some cases which nobody gonna read, not even with a magnifying glass, have never read , remain unread – like some of the classics, till all the leaves turn yellow and all the pages crumble into dust , but for the retrieval systems…

And as some of the most educated tell us, after they've told us that we are a bunch of illiterates (for which reason we say it back to them): "the fingers of the left hand are not the same" – and that's - no need to mention the fecund Falola, and that's why on the same hand you have people like Okwui Enwezor

Senor Ikhide was asking a while back why some of the big bloated egos like to write big fat books that ain't nobody in Boko Haram gonna read.

But of absolute relevance, even for the non-reading public and some of the self-confessed ignoramuses among us , what is freely available of Okey Iheduru's  work is always of relevance to our diaspora and home issues and instead of wild prophetic  gestures and random chaos,  he  throws much analytical insight( light) and statistical data into the works….

Cornelius

We Sweden

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