USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Plagiarism : Dan Amor's " The Parable of the Madman 1" is an Almost Word by Word Copy of a Chapter in Odun Balogun's Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story ( 1991)

Dan Amor's " The Parable of the Madman 1"  posted on various sites online  is  practically  a word by word copy of a chapter in Professor Odun Balogun's  Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics, published by Greenwood Press in  1991, and described by  Odun Balogun  as first published in the Nigerian literary  journal Okike in the 1980s.

After being alerted to this by  Odun Balogun, whose name I mentioned in my introduction of the essay purportedly by Dan Amor  at the various platforms to which I posted it , describing  Balogun as having introduced the story to us, his students  at the University of Benin, I accessed the relevant chapter through the 'look inside' feature on the book's page on Amazon.co.uk and confirmed the practically complete lifting of Balogun's learned and splendidly lucid and analytically profound essay.

Anybody who wishes may do the same comparison by themselves.

Balogun's book chapter which Dan Amor plagiarized  is the fruit of  years of scholarship and years of the most rigorous  academic training in different universities on different continents, from Nigeria to the former Soviet Union to the US, climaxing in a PhD, followed by  years of university teaching and academic publication. It is the distillation of self surrender to a vocation to which he has dedicated his life, making him a pioneer in the study of the African short story, a genre great in its combination of brevity and profundity, encapsulating the import of a  lifetime within a single brief incident, as Balogun taught us in those days at the University of Benin. His book chapter demonstrates a level of skill reached only after such total dedication. Anybody who wants to be credited with that level of knowledge and analytical and communicative power should commit themselves to the necessary training  to reach that level.

I call on Dan Amor to pull down that plagiarized essay from all the places he has posted it to and on the hosts of the various platforms where the essay is posted to make sure it is pulled down.

Nobody should be cheated of their creative labor.

If the essay was reposted on the Internet with the permission of the author, acknowledging him as the writer, good. It is very bad, in contrast,  to distribute the work without the writer's permission and even worse to claim another person wrote the essay.

Thanks

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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