It seems to me that this Aluko-Nwakanma dispute only serves to deepen the tension that undergirds every reflection of our local traditions (in all their religiocultural and linguacultural nuances) in relation to the effort to decree a multicultural hub from where a united national energy can be constituted, galvanized and launched. This being the case, I would suggest that what is going on is an infertile disputation because the intellectual tension that it habitually convokes is not likely to dissipate, here or ever, for as long as the jury is still out on the case of Nigeria as a nation state.
It seems to me that our approach to Farooq's facts-based thesis tends to position all of us as outsiders weeping more than the bereaved. The bereaved, in this sense, could be any of the trio of Joe Chinakwe (aka Joachim Iroko), the Sango-Ota Buhari, and President Buhari. For instance, we have heard from Chinakwe and he says that his target is not the Ota Buhari but President Buhari who considers his hero. The Ota Buhari is yet to make public his feelings about Chinakwe's action; rather, it is his son that the police allege is complaining and threatening thunder. So far, we have also not heard directly from or seen this complainant. As for the President, the whole thing is "laughable" and nothing for which to lose sleep. Why do we find it easy to dig into our various ethnic trenches to deploy logic and abuse that confirm our pet prejudices, and based not on the testament of the bereaved but on shifting narratives of police bulletins.
It seems to me, in the final analysis, that we have the Ogun State Police Command to thank for mishandling this affair – holding it in one breath as a potential ethnic conflict situation and in another as the protection of the good name and honor of the President of Nigeria. Chinakwe originally comes from a place where most shun all suggestions that tie them culturally or linguistically to the Igbo ethic group. We presume that the Ota Buhari could be of the Hausa-Fulani stock, same as President Buhari. How did this Ota neighborhood dispute quickly deteriorate in this forum into the tiresome Igbo-Yoruba sociocultural rivalry?
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-- It seems to me that our approach to Farooq's facts-based thesis tends to position all of us as outsiders weeping more than the bereaved. The bereaved, in this sense, could be any of the trio of Joe Chinakwe (aka Joachim Iroko), the Sango-Ota Buhari, and President Buhari. For instance, we have heard from Chinakwe and he says that his target is not the Ota Buhari but President Buhari who considers his hero. The Ota Buhari is yet to make public his feelings about Chinakwe's action; rather, it is his son that the police allege is complaining and threatening thunder. So far, we have also not heard directly from or seen this complainant. As for the President, the whole thing is "laughable" and nothing for which to lose sleep. Why do we find it easy to dig into our various ethnic trenches to deploy logic and abuse that confirm our pet prejudices, and based not on the testament of the bereaved but on shifting narratives of police bulletins.
It seems to me, in the final analysis, that we have the Ogun State Police Command to thank for mishandling this affair – holding it in one breath as a potential ethnic conflict situation and in another as the protection of the good name and honor of the President of Nigeria. Chinakwe originally comes from a place where most shun all suggestions that tie them culturally or linguistically to the Igbo ethic group. We presume that the Ota Buhari could be of the Hausa-Fulani stock, same as President Buhari. How did this Ota neighborhood dispute quickly deteriorate in this forum into the tiresome Igbo-Yoruba sociocultural rivalry?
O dikwa egwu.
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Rex Marinus <rexmarinus@hotmail.com>: Aug 30 11:23PM
Zikism is a system of ideas, and ideas do not die. It is also praxis. One of the cardinal practices of Zikism is in the theory of "Suru Lere," or what the Igbo would suggest to be, "adaruo ala, erie nka." It is a version of pragmatism rooted in African epistemology. Zikism as a method draws tactically from the methods of the Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. That is the basis of the Zikist theory of organization: a non-linear application of process. Zikist humanism draws from a profound sense of the interconnections and linkages of all men, which the Igbo celebrate symbolically in the ritual of the kolanut, that affirms the universal connections of man, and of the universal rights of man as therefore inherent in being. Thus the ideological charge, "that man shall not be a prey to his fellow man" and that all political action and obligation must be constantly to restore and affirm "the dignity of man" ( already present in the etymology and value: "mma ndu") - which became the charge at the threshold, and the central mission of the university which he founded - which he conceived in its original vision to be the 20th century restoration or African renaissance as the "new Sankore" - a place where any African from the homeland and the Diaspora may find intellectual refuge. That is why he named its most symbolic places after great Africans - from the Hansberry Institute to the various Halls and Schools. Zikism is about constant renewal - the idea of a renascent Africa - and the activation of the spiritual ad mental energy of its youth in every generation. Zikism is a living idea, and it is ultimately the idea that will save Nigeria when it is ready to embrace it.
Obi Nwakanma
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com > on behalf of Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7:51 PM
To: USAAfrica Dialogue
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Obi Nwakanma:
Okay, Obi, enough already. I am NOT an Awoist, and you are CERTAINLY not a Zikist - Zikism died eighteen years before you were born, and even Zik - a clever suave politician, ever the opportunist, and always one step ahead of the law - was not a Zikist.
Let us move on.
Bolaji Aluko
Having a belly laugh
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Rex Marinus <rexmarinus@hotmail.com<mailto:rexmarinus@hotmail.com> > wrote:
Dr. Aluko: I threw in the "Igbo" part, not in any reference to Chinakwe, but because you threw in the "Oba" part to circumscribe him. I am vigorously opposed to any presumption of the monarchy in any reference to the Republic and federation of Nigeria, because Nigeria is a secular state, and it negotiated its independence from Great Britain and its union as a nation on the basis of a modern republic. And yes, you're in good company with Obafemi Awolowo. I am ideologically opposed to "Awoism" because it grandfathered the current state of Nigeria in its various fragments, and its reactionary compulsion towards extreme or radical difference. As an Igbo, I live on that fundamental principle that accepts the idea that "all men are born free and equal. There is none who is king over the other. And that nobility dwells in all humans from their "Chi" rather than in a select few, ordained by the divine to rule them. Note also that in conceiving the nobility of all (wo)men, I do not restrict it to 'Igbo" men and women, because in the Igbo conception of humanity, there is no such profound difference as all is "mma ndu" as far as the Igbo are concerned. It is the ethos of Igbo humanism that I defend, not simply because I am ethnically Igbo.
It is actually immaterial that you now deny conspiring to sabotage the Nigerian nation under the military dictatorship of Sani Abacha, the point is that you were once accused, and evidence - manufactured or real - presented against you for which you were declared wanted by that regime. Thank the heavens that you have the opportunity today to deny any such accusations. Imagine that you were caught, brought to court, and tried by the "properly constituted courts" under that regime, and then you can also imagine why injustice ought not be tolerated. And I have not read you defend Chinakwe's rights! You remain consistent in your umbrage against him, and the evidence is even in the body of your mail where you claim to defend his rights! "One thing I know: Chinakwe has learnt his lesson: he ain't naming another dog Buhari soon, and parading him in that same neighborhood." Those are your very words, and it doesn't sound much like defence to me - especially when you go n to say he deserves to be beaten up by his neigehbors and charged falsely by the police because he is "a neighborhood troublemaker" simply because he named his dog "Buhari."
The very fact that the Igbo, and all those who raise issues of peoples rights, including the rights of the Igbo as a people among the many in Nigeria, to exist peacefully, equally, and without discrimination in that country are "anarchists" and "psychotics" to you speaks of your predilections for selective recrimination and underscores your reactionary politics (though you claim not to be a politician!!!). It is sad that establishment intellectuals like you continue to feed the fire in the forges that continues to create the all consuming force - that dark demi-urge to whom you bow - shaped with the hands you now use to beat down poor citizen Chinakwe to the soil because you're disturbed by his impulse for liberty and full self-expression. And all because your living "god" - the "Oba" was called a dog. Yet you talk ever so glibly about Goebel and the supermenchen. It is a dangerous habit to ascribe to others what you so frequently appropriate for yourself. And just to be clear, we Zikists do not claim to be "supermen." We only claim to be "men" in equal proportion to other humans, no more. If you must label, at least label me as correctly as I have labelled you a fascist and reactionary - an Awoist intellectual.
Obi Nwakanma
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 7:07 AM
To: USAAfrica Dialogue
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Obi Nwakanma:
S(h)ebi to you Chief Obafemi Awolowo was "reactionary and fascist?" Then I am in good company, and being so tattoed by YOU, a vulgar Igbo supermenschen commentator of Goebellsian propensity - I wear it as a badge of honor.
Read you fart: "We, the Igbo belong to that country, and give no fiddler's fart for that medieval aberration". What does being Igbo have to do with this - simply because the name of the fellow charged is Chinakwe, an Igbo fellow who might have resided in Ketere Area, Sango Ota all of his life, and is Igbo in name only? The guy's name could have been Mobolaji or Hassan, and I would have maintained EXACTLY the same position as I have - although I am NOT going to tear my hair trying to convince any one of you paranoid and psychotic souls that not everyone is after your blood.
Here you are: you have read different people of different ethnic groups DEFEND Chinakwe's right to name his dog Buhari. I HAVE written to defend his right to name his dog Buhari, or even Mobolaji. What I have also written is that he stands to be charged for breaching the peace IF he names the dog Buhari, pastes the name Buhari on both sides of the dog's body, and then PARADES the dog in a provocative manner in a neighborhood in which there is a prominent person called Buhari, and where he has already bad blood with community members for whatever other reason. In short, he is a neighborhood trouble-maker, and he already had it coming. But let ONE person - who is not Igbo - point that out, and it does not matter whether HUNDREDS of non-Igbo maintain their stand about Chinakwe's right even to that - let one person oppose Chinakwe, and silly supermenschen persons like yourself will start farting about "We, the Igbo belong to that country, and give no fiddler's fart for that medieval aberration " - the traditional blackmail that will NEVER work in Nigeria.
Poppy-cock and nonsenses!
The fact of the matter is that people like you make enemies of friends and friends of enemies, and then you wonder why you feel surrounded by so many enemies. Somebody may indeed be after you, but it is not I.
You must understand once and for all, that despite my so-called "Western" upbringing and long years living and working in the West, I am NOT a wild-eyed "Western Democracy" advocate. I choose what I conserve about my African traditions (particularly of the Yoruba stripe), what I am liberal about in my Western imbibements, while thoroughly embracing universal values consistent with my Christianity. I make no apologies about that. That mix of concoctions may be different for different people, but I believe that whoever puts too much Western "salt" into the African broth spoils the broth! I do not look at the West, and see "See, they got to the Moon because they can abuse their fathers and mothers anyhow, in a demonstration of free speech." That would be silly, which is what argument it amounts too when you read some people jump up and down about Western democracy.
Finally, you wrote that I was "once on the books for treasonable felony for simply backing your favorite political horse." I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you are writing about here. I have NEVER been accused. arrested or charged to court for "backing" any "political horse" - never. The issue of me "backing a political horse" has never even been one of public discourse - I am NOT a politician. How is that even possible - so were ALL the "backers" of that "favorite political horse" were "on the books for treasonable felony" - or why was I singled out? What did I, Mobolaji Aluko, do SPECIFICALLY then?
But if you, in your hackneyed Goebbelsian manner, are harping back to the fact that under the Abacha regime, while I was abroad, I and a few others were WRONGLY accused of manufacturing and throwing bombs in Nigeria to abort that regime - a charge which I have REPEATEDLY denied as being ABSOLUTELY false - then one can see the nature of your narratives. First, I NEVER took part in "backing the Abiola political horse", in case Abiola was that horse. I took part and aligned with those who believed that the Nigerian people had the absolute right to choose who they wanted as President, and having done that, that right should not have been abridged by cancelling a concluded election because the person who emerged was not to the liking of the military. I was NOT backing Abiola - his name could have been Nwakanma - but rather the Nigerian people. I MAINTAINED that stand all throughout the Pro-Democracy Days, a position that sometimes earned me opprobrium during those days, because the PDM had both politicos (die-hard partisans) - and non-politicos like myself, idealistic, Johnny-come-lately then to the activist, non-partisan arena.
But the regime HAD the absolute right to go after ANYBODY who they thought was VIOLENTLY trying to remove it. Yes, it THOUGHT wrongly that I was violently trying to remove it - but yes. I was NON-VIOLENTLY advocating for its removal. But I knew the consequences of even those non-violent actions, and was prepared to bear it.....and bore it while it lasted.
The problem with some of you anarchists is that you do not wish to face the consequences of your actions. Every action has a reaction, and even IF you would not have the same reaction, you must understand that others may have REACTIONS different from you, and you must then WEIGH either your readiness to DEFEND yourself against that reaction (so that it does not succeed), or bear that reaction, if it succeeds. That is plain wisdom, which episodically you choose not to exhibit.
One thing I know: Chinakwe has learnt his lesson: he ain't naming another dog Buhari soon, and parading him in that same neighborhood. He can buy a new dog, name him Buhari quietly in his own house; or move neighborhood to my Ode-Ekiti, and slap the name on both sides and walk around. (Even at that, in my Ode-Ekiti, I am not so sure! I might come after him:-))
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Rex Marinus <rexmarinus@hotmail.com<mailto:rexmarinus@hotmail.com> > wrote:
Dr. Aluko, your reactionary and fascist instincts cannot stand a young "colored" man "making fun of the "Oba" of his country?!! O ma bloody se o! There are those who actually hoped that you, of all people, should stand up and defend "free speech" and civic protest, and a difference of political and cultural views, wherever they're expressed. You were once on the books for treasonable felony for simply backing your favorite political horse. And meanwhile, we are not in a "traditional village." We are in the 21st century with its rapidly urbanizing ethos. And Buhari is nobody's "Oba." We, the Igbo belong to that country, and give no fiddler's fart for that medieval aberration, which civilized people dispensed with about 300 years ago. Nigeria is a republic with citizens. Not a monarchy with subjects - even if your reactionary soul cannot stand that fact of human equality and civilized conduct. Chinakwe's act is the fullest expression of his rights to free speech, and it is satire at its best. It is the same kind of satire Soyinka used to deadly effect at the height of his career. It is the same kind of theatre that only really nuanced, and sophisticated imaginations can comprehend and be amused by, but which heats up the collars of dunces and reactionaries! I think you guys should give this oppressed Nigerian, Chinakwe, a break.
Obi Nwakanma
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:27 PM
To: USAAfrica Dialogue
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Shola Adenekan:
I did not watch the video - my African sensibilities cannot stand a young "colored" fellow abusing a 70-year-old man (the "Oba"of his country) - making millions of dollars doing so. You cannot make fun of an Oba's dick like that in a traditional village and get away with it.
But your commentary below about Trevor Noah and Zuma's dick in a modern democracy seriously lacks context. That is political SATIRE, which is EXPRESSLY protected in America's Constitution, and may be also covered in South Africa's. If Zuma does not sue Trevor Noah, then Noah can go on.
But Chinakwe's naming of a dog was not about Muhammadu Buhari - that would also be political satire - but about his neighbor's father's name - who happened to be Buhari. That Father Buhari is NOT a political figure, and his son COMPLAINED, and the local Police man at the station considered the complaint sufficiently weighty to detain Chinakwe, arresting him for "possibility of breach of the public peace." It is thereafter up to the court to say whether Chinakwe is guilty or not.
It is as simple as that, and all this harrumping about Western democracy and the onslaught of tyranny because of tyranny smacks of something more grieving of you commentators than the dog. I think that you are just smirking secretly that a dog has been named after Buhari, which happens to be the President Buhari'sKenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu>: Aug 30 08:09PM -0500
To what extent do you want the state to prohibit provocations?? What is a free society, in your view? A woman should have the right to cover herself on the beach, without imagining the French will go nuts. It is pure islamophobia that is at stake, and tomorrow, believe me, it will be Africans who will suffer, muslim or not. Racism is the ugly side of ultranationalism, xenophobia, rightwing extremism, the true sickness here
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
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From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com > on behalf of Ayo Obe <ayo.m.o.obe@gmail.com>
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Date: Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 16:02
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
The phrase that is running through my mind as I read this thread is the one about "Freedom of speech does not include the right to shout 'FIRE!' in a crowded theatre."
Ayo
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On 30 Aug 2016, at 4:18 PM, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
I love this point obi is making. And just returning france I found exactly the same thing—blaming the victim—to have been true in the laws and persecution of women wearing the burkinis on the beach in france. this is not a small point: it is a question of tolerating different cultural forms of expression for women
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com > on behalf of Rex Marinus <rexmarinus@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Date: Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 09:51
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com >
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
The point we miss is that Chinakwe has committed no crime. He may be insensitive, opinionated, and all what not, but there is no conduct warranting his arrest, and the charges brought against him. Anyone has a right to name their dogs after Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Okpara, or Awolowo, Gowon, and so on, and they'd be within their rights, for as long as they do not set these dogs after anyone to commit violent crimes. Chinakwe clearly did not physically attack his neighbors. He however was the victim of brutal physical attack. Rather than charge his attackers for battery, the police charged the victim for acts capable of causing public disturbance. And that act is one already protected under Nigerian laws: free speech. The only act of speech capable of causing injury in law is "libel." And this man is not charged for libel, but for "acts capable of causing public disturbance." It is a charge that validates intolerance, and that criminalizes the victim. It is the same kind of intolerance that permits the killing of 8 people in Zamfara for expressing different religious opinion. It is the same that permits the killing of the female pastor in Abuja for publicly proclaiming her god early on a Friday morning. It is the same impulse that permitted the lopping off of the head of Gideon Akaluka, or the killing of a 70-years old Elizabeth Agbahareme in Kano for blasphemy. Those who defend it today may become victims tomorrow.
Obi Nwakanma
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 12:43 PM
To: Rex Marinus
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Dear all,
What's in a name?
When I proposed to name my son Habakkuk, his mother looked at me in horror and told me:
You cannot ridicule God.
How would I ridicule the Almighty by appropriating a name from his Holy Writ? I asked.
But there are other good names in the bible, Habakkuk is far out ridiculous and a mockery of my church going. She retorted.
In such arguments, the rock cannot win against the egg. Especially when the holy ghost and other saintly phantoms are invoked and involved. It is simply no contest. David defeats Goliath again.
So I gave up and we settled for the bible's own Poet Warrior - David. Twitter profile: Slayer of giants. Harpist. Psalmist. Great Adulterer. King. Father of Solomon the wise.
But she was right. It was an irresponsible attempt at satire, a childish rebellion against the naming of people after biblical characters and the culture of pastors or imams officiating at naming ceremonies. I'm not a church goer, I do not need a priest to name my child, his mother however needs. She is as fanatically attached to the church as I am to football.
Perversely, I also wanted to see the reactions, the whole shebang of emotions; from shock to disbelief and derision when the naming priest mouths the thunderously onomatopoeic Habahabakakakukukkkulus. And that of the bunch of churchified relatives, neighbours and friends, some who I suspect harbour dark suspicions that I must have slipped and fell in the bathroom as a kid, the way I carry on.
I did defer to the woman, not because I'm not a chauvinist pig but because of the infant adonis involved. I can imagine the burden of him living his life with a name that is pointless, apocryphal in its ugliness, pugilistic in its suggestions and jaw crunching in its uttering. A name that elicits laughter. That conjures an image of long beards, robes, the wrath of Jehovah and the wilderness. I was not going to take responsibility for such a scarlett name that'll make him a target for bullies and sniper clowns. A name rejected by a church loving prayer warrior is a name the society cannot tolerate, would not condone.
Lil tots have a very human right to be given responsible names by their parents. Responsible parents do not name their kids Hitler, Judas or Caliban. (Osama has become quite the rage though, but we all know why). And so I backed down, waiting for another opportunity to strike another blow for secularity.
Now let us imagine that in the pursuit of freedom and happyness, one Shehu Bagudu, a resident of Amuwo Odofin, buys a white Ram and decides to name it Achebe and then goes to great lenght to boldly tattoo that legendary name on the spotless animal. Will shehu retain his Bagudus still ?
What if an Ogbeni Kadiri names his chicken Azikiwe and posts a video of the overweight bird with its feathers festooned with that saintly name on this forum? What will Jesus do?
Or imagine me, the gods forbid, naming my rat (a white wooly guinea pig) Ikemba Ojukwu and printing those names loudly in blood red letters all over the lab rodent and after all my exertions take a swaggering stroll down the streets of Enugu. Would it be still be peaceful on the eastern front?
There's hell in a name?
In all these back and forth on Names, Naming and an Emerging Tyranny, we have failed to address the Tyranny of Names and Naming.
How does a mullah who has vowed never to associate with alcohol address Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in full?
What about the Yoruba father who names his child "Otaibayomi, Sasaeniyan, Moboriaye ". (roughly translated as: Enemies couldn't defeat me, Very few people, I triumphed over the pricipalities, ) How would his enemies feel, a little slighted?
How would the French welcome the British Ambassador Mr. Frank Waterloo in Paris?
What would happen to the white historian Professor Sam Nigger, with his very bold white name tag on a sharp black suit on the streets of Queensbridge or Compton?
How will Cardinal Sin be welcomed by the Arch Angel at the pearly gates, will he be allowed to gaze at the singing Seraphs and the choir of Cherubs?
And finally, why has nobody shown an iota of consideration for the feelings of the canine, even our feminists? Doug E. Doggs do have feelings too and all animals do have Animal rights too. There are laws against cruelty to animals and naming can be cruel or downright fatal to animals. To endanger ones own life is a privilege but to expose a pet, not a bedbug or mosquito, to mortal danger is irresponsible. What is the point to owning a pet? My dogs don't guard me, I am their guardian. We claim at every turn and bend that a dog is man's best friend. Does the name Buhari befit that friend?
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Rex Marinus
Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2016 1:54 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Dr. Aluko, your reactionary and fascist instincts cannot stand a young "colored" man "making fun of the "Oba" of his country?!! O ma bloody se o! There are those who actually hoped that you, of all people, should stand up and defend "free speech" and civic protest, and a difference of political and cultural views, wherever they're expressed. You were once on the books for treasonable felony for simply backing your favorite political horse. And meanwhile, we are not in a "traditional village." We are in the 21st century with its rapidly urbanizing ethos. And Buhari is nobody's "Oba." We, the Igbo belong to that country, and give no fiddler's fart for that medieval aberration, which civilized people dispensed with about 300 years ago. Nigeria is a republic with citizens. Not a monarchy with subjects - even if your reactionary soul cannot stand that fact of human equality and civilized conduct. Chinakwe's act is the fullest expression of his rights to free speech, and it is satire at its best. It is the same kind of satire Soyinka used to deadly effect at the height of his career. It is the same kind of theatre that only really nuanced, and sophisticated imaginations can comprehend and be amused by, but which heats up the collars of dunces and reactionaries! I think you guys should give this oppressed Nigerian, Chinakwe, a break.
Obi Nwakanma
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com > on behalf of Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:27 PM
To: USAAfrica Dialogue
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Shola Adenekan:
I did not watch the video - my African sensibilities cannot stand a young "colored" fellow abusing a 70-year-old man (the "Oba"of his country) - making millions of dollars doing so. You cannot make fun of an Oba's dick like that in a traditional village and get away with it.
But your commentary below about Trevor Noah and Zuma's dick in a modern democracy seriously lacks context. That is political SATIRE, which is EXPRESSLY protected in America's Constitution, and may be also covered in South Africa's. If Zuma does not sue Trevor Noah, then Noah can go on.
But Chinakwe's naming of a dog was not about Muhammadu Buhari - that would also be political satire - but about his neighbor's father's name - who happened to be Buhari. That Father Buhari is NOT a political figure, and his son COMPLAINED, and the local Police man at the station considered the complaint sufficiently weighty to detain Chinakwe, arresting him for "possibility of breach of the public peace." It is thereafter up to the court to say whether Chinakwe is guilty or not.
It is as simple as that, and all this harrumping about Western democracy and the onslaught of tyranny because of tyranny smacks of something more grieving of you commentators than the dog. I think that you are just smirking secretly that a dog has been named after Buhari, which happens to be the President Buhari's name, the foe-du-jour.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Shola Adenekan <sholaadenekan@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Mr Kadiri,
There you go again, not answering the question. You write without relying on facts. That is the difference between when Farouk writes and when people like you write. Farouk does his research, you sir, do not.
Anyway in other societies, people are not gunned down if they name their dogs or monkeys after their president. Here is a discussion about a person who named their dog Obama - http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t- 578765.html
Here is Trevor Noah - before he became famous - making fun of President Jacob Zuma´s dick, scroll to 1.30min - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v41uKgTxHNE
And here is him mocking Zuma again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awimlo60jls
I think you, like the rest of our politicians, need to re-learn what democracy entails.
Be well, sir!
Shola
On 29 August 2016 at 16:10, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Adenekan,
You have asked me to tell, "Who are these Americanized and Europeanized people you are referring to?" Your question is superfluous because you failed to read the complete sentence, which is as follows, "Americanised and Europeanised Nigerian intellectuals are known for their being exaggerated democrats who always dress themselves in the beautiful garments of democracy only in words and not in practice." The underlined part of that sentence answers your question, who are these Americanized and Europeanized people?
With regards to your lecture on the aspect of freedom of speech, I agree with you that not in any circumstance should it be contained. However, you should not confuse freedom of speech with freedom of action. Mr. Chinakwe did not utter any word to the effect that anybody bearing the name Buhari is a dog rather he dressed up his dog with a printed inscription of a human name, Buhari. Any human being bearing the name, Buhari, and irrespective of the person's status in the society, is likely to react violently to Chinakwe's freedom of action during encounter. Similarly, if you buy a monkey and dress it up with a printed inscription of Obama in the United States, the probability that you will be gunned down with your monkey is hundred per cent. Yes, you can call Obama monkey in the public but you cannot print the name, Obama, on a monkey and walk around with it in the public.
Your assertion that the current administration *has bent the rule of law* in Messrs Kanu and Chinakwe's case is totally false. A law is either applied or misapplied. It is up to you to tell readers which law has been misapplied in the case of the aforementioned law breakers. While it might be true that I criticized Jonathan's regime for one thing or the other, it might be wise to cite what aspect of those criticisms are relevant to your current reference.
S.Kadiri
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Dear Mr Salimonu Kadiri,
Have you actually read your intial response to Farouk´s piece? Perhaps, you want me to copy and paste it again? Here it is:
"Americanised and Europeanised Nigerian intellectuals are known for their being exaggerated democrats who always dress themselves in beautiful garments of democracy only in words and notCornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> : Aug 31 02:13AM -0700
A short aside. Just cleaning my keyboard after which guitar will get the
afternoon's attention.
Re - "Nigeria is a republic with citizens."
Feel good to be sitting there somewhere in the USA or Owerri (In my time Sam
Mbakwe'
<https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&sa=X&ved= >s0ahUKEwj335Df0rHNAhUE3SwKHZ9MD ooQPAgD#hl=en&q=Sam+Mbakwe
Owerri – and most mornings I travelled by okada or in a friend's "vehicle"
from Port Harcourt to Owerri (not from Owerri to Port Harcourt) we would
come across a decapitated dead body on the highway – as once on the highway
from Port Harcourt to Ahoada the police had stopped a peugeot in front of
us and to everybody's horror discovered five human heads in the boot of the
car. Destined to redeem one contractor by the name of O.C.C. Brown who the
drivers said had been trapped in his house by his juju - his juju had
allegedly demanded that Brown pay a ransom of five human heads in order to
be released – or else!
Dangerous times. The maintenance of law and order in that domestic area
where there were not so many internally displaced people was a huge
problem, it was dangerous territory – and if that territory is like the
rest of Nigeria - in the future – the comedian had better be more careful
with his liberal use of "Freedom of Speech" and "Human Rights" when it
comes to either insulting himself (to which he probably claims a divine
ability or right) insulting his dog (which he could believe is his "Human
Right" ) - and from animal to man, extending to himself the privilege to
insult others with impunity...
The wise people dem sey, "Once bitten , twice shy" so in the interests of
harmonious social relations Chinakwe must learn from history and had better
not try any risky dog- naming and dog parade ceremonies in e.g. Zamfara,
Sokoto , Kano, Katsina - not in the Buhari neighbourhood either.
Chinakwe's ingenious self-defence "But Buhari is my hero and my president "
will not delay the wrath of the mob that is known to be swift to deliver
immediate justice - as appropriate. No delay. It's known as "taking the law
into your own hands"
As Brother Obama said, "The Future must not belong to those who slander the
prophet of Islam
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I guess that you think it's all tight to lean back there in Harvard ,
pontificating about this and that revisionist history and now it's all
about the right to slander and insult others, all in the name of unlimited
freedom of speech
At night Mobutu was known as the leopard, can't remember who is or was the
crocodile and the chimpanzee ( according to the Chinese horoscope this is
the year of the monkey)
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Shola Adenekan <sholaadenekan@gmail.com>: Aug 31 11:05AM +0200
Hear, hear, Kenneth!
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Ayo Obe <ayo.m.o.obe@gmail.com>: Aug 31 04:23PM +0100
I guess the issue is on whom the blame lies for being provoked. Those responding to the idiot shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre cannot be blamed for reacting and rushing out of the theatre even at the risk of stampede. But those responding to a burquini, a mini-skirt or a dog named Buhari, however dead certain it is that they will be provoked, are - in my subjective view - to blame if they allow themselves to be provoked.
The police justified their action by talking about the likely reaction of "the average Northerner". But in this case, advantage seems to have been taken of the (un)happy coincidence of the name of the provoked man's father and that of the President, so it seems to have been a particular Northerner as much as the average one!
Ayo
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Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com>: Aug 31 07:11PM +0100
Nigeria, hmmmm. Interesting country! Could someone please ask those
prosecuting Chinakwe to advertise a change of the dog's name to Obododimma?
I am cool with a dog sharing a name with me.
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Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com>: Aug 31 06:08PM
Provocations can be prohibited if they are born out of hatred which can incite and lead people into violence and lost of lives. A moustached and brown uniformed German wearing swastika symbol around his neck cannot travel to Israel and throw a pig head into the Synagogue without repercussion. Netanyahu cannot address a state visiting German Chancellor in Israel by saying, "Welcome to Israel, Mrs. Eva Braun" without hell breaking out. Is there a free speech that allows pale-skinned Americans to call dark-skinned people, Niggers? What is the difference between free speech and hate speech? Can one man's free speech not be another man's hate speech? If your free speech constitutes hate speech for me, how do we resolve the ensuing melee?
S.Kadiri
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To what extent do you want the state to prohibit provocations?? What is a free society, in your view? A woman should have the right to cover herself on the beach, without imagining the French will go nuts. It is pure islamophobia that is at stake, and tomorrow, believe me, it will be Africans who will suffer, muslim or not. Racism is the ugly side of ultranationalism, xenophobia, rightwing extremism, the true sickness here
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
The phrase that is running through my mind as I read this thread is the one about "Freedom of speech does not include the right to shout 'FIRE!' in a crowded theatre."
Ayo
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On 30 Aug 2016, at 4:18 PM, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu >> wrote:
I love this point obi is making. And just returning france I found exactly the same thing—blaming the victim—to have been true in the laws and persecution of women wearing the burkinis on the beach in france. this is not a small point: it is a question of tolerating different cultural forms of expression for women
ken
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Date: Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 09:51
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
The point we miss is that Chinakwe has committed no crime. He may be insensitive, opinionated, and all what not, but there is no conduct warranting his arrest, and the charges brought against him. Anyone has a right to name their dogs after Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Okpara, or Awolowo, Gowon, and so on, and they'd be within their rights, for as long as they do not set these dogs after anyone to commit violent crimes. Chinakwe clearly did not physically attack his neighbors. He however was the victim of brutal physical attack. Rather than charge his attackers for battery, the police charged the victim for acts capable of causing public disturbance. And that act is one already protected under Nigerian laws: free speech. The only act of speech capable of causing injury in law is "libel." And this man is not charged for libel, but for "acts capable of causing public disturbance." It is a charge that validates intolerance, and that criminalizes the victim. It is the same kind of intolerance that permits the killing of 8 people in Zamfara for expressing different religious opinion. It is the same that permits the killing of the female pastor in Abuja for publicly proclaiming her god early on a Friday morning. It is the same impulse that permitted the lopping off of the head of Gideon Akaluka, or the killing of a 70-years old Elizabeth Agbahareme in Kano for blasphemy. Those who defend it today may become victims tomorrow.
Obi Nwakanma
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To: Rex Marinus
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Dear all,
What's in a name?
When I proposed to name my son Habakkuk, his mother looked at me in horror and told me:
You cannot ridicule God.
How would I ridicule the Almighty by appropriating a name from his Holy Writ? I asked.
But there are other good names in the bible, Habakkuk is far out ridiculous and a mockery of my church going. She retorted.
In such arguments, the rock cannot win against the egg. Especially when the holy ghost and other saintly phantoms are invoked and involved. It is simply no contest. David defeats Goliath again.
So I gave up and we settled for the bible's own Poet Warrior - David. Twitter profile: Slayer of giants. Harpist. Psalmist. Great Adulterer. King. Father of Solomon the wise.
But she was right. It was an irresponsible attempt at satire, a childish rebellion against the naming of people after biblical characters and the culture of pastors or imams officiating at naming ceremonies. I'm not a church goer, I do not need a priest to name my child, his mother however needs. She is as fanatically attached to the church as I am to football.
Perversely, I also wanted to see the reactions, the whole shebang of emotions; from shock to disbelief and derision when the naming priest mouths the thunderously onomatopoeic Habahabakakakukukkkulus. And that of the bunch of churchified relatives, neighbours and friends, some who I suspect harbour dark suspicions that I must have slipped and fell in the bathroom as a kid, the way I carry on.
I did defer to the woman, not because I'm not a chauvinist pig but because of the infant adonis involved. I can imagine the burden of him living his life with a name that is pointless, apocryphal in its ugliness, pugilistic in its suggestions and jaw crunching in its uttering. A name that elicits laughter. That conjures an image of long beards, robes, the wrath of Jehovah and the wilderness. I was not going to take responsibility for such a scarlett name that'll make him a target for bullies and sniper clowns. A name rejected by a church loving prayer warrior is a name the society cannot tolerate, would not condone.
Lil tots have a very human right to be given responsible names by their parents. Responsible parents do not name their kids Hitler, Judas or Caliban. (Osama has become quite the rage though, but we all know why). And so I backed down, waiting for another opportunity to strike another blow for secularity.
Now let us imagine that in the pursuit of freedom and happyness, one Shehu Bagudu, a resident of Amuwo Odofin, buys a white Ram and decides to name it Achebe and then goes to great lenght to boldly tattoo that legendary name on the spotless animal. Will shehu retain his Bagudus still ?
What if an Ogbeni Kadiri names his chicken Azikiwe and posts a video of the overweight bird with its feathers festooned with that saintly name on this forum? What will Jesus do?
Or imagine me, the gods forbid, naming my rat (a white wooly guinea pig) Ikemba Ojukwu and printing those names loudly in blood red letters all over the lab rodent and after all my exertions take a swaggering stroll down the streets of Enugu. Would it be still be peaceful on the eastern front?
There's hell in a name?
In all these back and forth on Names, Naming and an Emerging Tyranny, we have failed to address the Tyranny of Names and Naming.
How does a mullah who has vowed never to associate with alcohol address Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in full?
What about the Yoruba father who names his child "Otaibayomi, Sasaeniyan, Moboriaye ". (roughly translated as: Enemies couldn't defeat me, Very few people, I triumphed over the pricipalities, ) How would his enemies feel, a little slighted?
How would the French welcome the British Ambassador Mr. Frank Waterloo in Paris?
What would happen to the white historian Professor Sam Nigger, with his very bold white name tag on a sharp black suit on the streets of Queensbridge or Compton?
How will Cardinal Sin be welcomed by the Arch Angel at the pearly gates, will he be allowed to gaze at the singing Seraphs and the choir of Cherubs?
And finally, why has nobody shown an iota of consideration for the feelings of the canine, even our feminists? Doug E. Doggs do have feelings too and all animals do have Animal rights too. There are laws against cruelty to animals and naming can be cruel or downright fatal to animals. To endanger ones own life is a privilege but to expose a pet, not a bedbug or mosquito, to mortal danger is irresponsible. What is the point to owning a pet? My dogs don't guard me, I am their guardian. We claim at every turn and bend that a dog is man's best friend. Does the name Buhari befit that friend?
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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Dr. Aluko, your reactionary and fascist instincts cannot stand a young "colored" man "making fun of the "Oba" of his country?!! O ma bloody se o! There are those who actually hoped that you, of all people, should stand up and defend "free speech" and civic protest, and a difference of political and cultural views, wherever they're expressed. You were once on the books for treasonable felony for simply backing your favorite political horse. And meanwhile, we are not in a "traditional village." We are in the 21st century with its rapidly urbanizing ethos. And Buhari is nobody's "Oba." We, the Igbo belong to that country, and give no fiddler's fart for that medieval aberration, which civilized people dispensed with about 300 years ago. Nigeria is a republic with citizens. Not a monarchy with subjects - even if your reactionary soul cannot stand that fact of human equality and civilized conduct. Chinakwe's act is the fullest expression of his rights to free speech, and it is satire at its best. It is the same kind of satire Soyinka used to deadly effect at the height of his career. It is the same kind of theatre that only really nuanced, and sophisticated imaginations can comprehend and be amused by, but which heats up the collars of dunces and reactionaries! I think you guys should give this oppressed Nigerian, Chinakwe, a break.
Obi Nwakanma
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:27 PM
To: USAAfrica Dialogue
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Shola Adenekan:
I did not watch the video - my African sensibilities cannot stand a young "colored" fellow abusing a 70-year-old man (the "Oba"of his country) - making millions of dollars doing so. You cannot make fun of an Oba's dick like that in a traditional village and get away with it.
But your commentary below about Trevor Noah and Zuma's dick in a modern democracy seriously lacks context. That is political SATIRE, which is EXPRESSLY protected in America's Constitution, and may be also covered in South Africa's. If Zuma does not sue Trevor Noah, then Noah can go on.
But Chinakwe's naming of a dog was not about Muhammadu Buhari - that would also be political satire - but about his neighbor's father's name - who happened to be Buhari. That Father Buhari is NOT a political figure, and his son COMPLAINED, and the local Police man at the station considered the complaint sufficiently weighty to detain Chinakwe, arresting him for "possibility of breach of the public peace." It is thereafter up to the court to say whether Chinakwe is guilty or not.
It is as simple as that, and all this harrumping about Western democracy and the onslaught of tyranny because of tyranny smacks of something more grieving of you commentators than the dog. I think that you are just smirking secretly that a dog has been named after Buhari, which happens to be the President Buhari's name, the foe-du-jour.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Shola Adenekan <sholaadenekan@gmail.com<mailto:sholaadenekan@gmail.com >> wrote:
Dear Mr Kadiri,
There you go again, not answering the question. You write without relying on facts. That is the difference between when Farouk writes and when people like you write. Farouk does his research, you sir, do not.
Anyway in other societies, people are not gunned down if they name their dogs or monkeys after their president. Here is a discussion about a person who named their dog Obama - http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t- 578765.html
Here is Trevor Noah - before he became famous - making fun of President Jacob Zuma´s dick, scroll to 1.30min - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v41uKgTxHNE
And here is him mocking Zuma again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awimlo60jls
I think you, like the rest of our politicians, need to re-learn what democracy entails.
Be well, sir!
Shola
On 29 August 2016 at 16:10, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com<mailto:ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com >> wrote:
Dear Mr. Adenekan,
You have asked me to tell, "Who are these Americanized and Europeanized people you are referring to?" Your question is superfluous because you failed to read the complete sentence, which is as follows, "Americanised and Europeanised Nigerian intellectuals are known for their being exaggerated democrats who always dress themselves in the beautiful garments of democracy only in words and not in practice." The underlined part of that sentence answers your question, who are these Americanized and Europeanized people?
With regards to your lecture on the aspect of freedom of speech, I agree with you that not in any circumstance should it be contained. However, you should not confuse freedom of speech with freedom of action. Mr. Chinakwe did not utter any word to the effect that anybody bearing the name Buhari is a dog rather he dressed up his dog withOkechukwu Ukaga <ukaga001@umn.edu>: Aug 31 02:13PM -0500
Again, rather than worry so much about the name of a dog, I wish Nigerian
Police and other security agencies would focus on more heinous such as the
following (read and weep for my country):
http://saharareporters.com/2016/08/20/soldier-punctured- our-eyes-emmanuel-ugwu
QUOTE
The Soldier Punctured Our Eyes By Emmanuel Ugwu
One of the worst misfortunes a Nigerian can experience is to fall into the
hands of an angry Nigerian soldier. There is no predicting the inhumanity
that will ensue. The potential victim stands the risk of sustaining a
physical injury that would follow him to the grave and an emotional wound
that is beyond the healing of time.
One of the worst misfortunes a Nigerian can experience is to fall into the
hands of an angry Nigerian soldier. There is no predicting the inhumanity
that will ensue. The potential victim stands the risk of sustaining a
physical injury that would follow him to the grave and an emotional wound
that is beyond the healing of time.
It's a whole new level of brutality when, by some happenstance, you become
the pet peeve of a bunch of angry Nigerian soldiers. They make your torture
a party. They compete to elicit the loudest scream from you. They jockey as
if the act of harming you is a ritual that would improve their lives.
This week, I encountered one of the most extreme examples of their capacity
for sadism
<http://saharareporters.com/2016/08/15/nigerian-soldiers- >.pluck-out-eye-road-safety- official-who-pleaded-mercy- road-victim-being
I read a stranger-than-fiction real life story of soulless wickedness,
unconscionable assault and intoxicated impunity. And I have no hope of
forgetting it because it is etched on my memory.
A group of 19 Nigerian soldiers were making a road show of brutalizing a
hapless and helpless Nigerian citizen. It was not anything like the garden
variety soldier-on-civilian beating that is a fact of life in our country.
The soldiers were relentless. They wouldn't stop battering the bruised,
bloodied and broken man. They were manifestly intent on quitting at the end
point of his death.
Another Nigerian, a compassionate passerby, interposed and pleaded for
mercy. The peacemaker, an officer of the Nigerian Road Safety Corps,
Segun Enikuemehin, asked the soldier-gangsters to pause the violence porn
and hand over the young man to the police, if he committed any criminal
offence, instead of killing him like a bush animal.
The soldiers regarded Segun's intervention as the meddling of a busybody
and his voice of reason as an insult. They judged his person inadequate to
interrupt them and decided that his appeal was an insufferable outrage. So
they transferred their collective rage to him and began to lynch him.
They savaged him like a legion of vengeful demons. They mauled him as if he
was the very incarnation of all their past disappointments.
In the heat of 'teaching the interloper a lesson', one of the soldiers,
presumably the most malevolent of them all, reached for Segun's eyes,
punctured the man's left eye and damaged the right one. He didn't achieve
absolute success. He had intended to gift Segun the handicap of blindness
in both eyes.
Segun is in the hospital. The picture of his face does not bear watching.
Doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) are battling to save
him from a lifetime of total darkness. He was guilty of caring. He didn't
turn a blind eye to the dehumanization of his fellow human being. He was
his brother's keeper. He was a Good Samaritan.
And what was the crime of the young man Segun tried to save? He had worn
some camouflage three weeks back. A mischievous solider hankering for a
pretext to unleash the beast in himself summoned him and ordered him to
produce the clothes. He replied that he had disposed it. That innocuous
answer enraged the soldier and his company and turned them into a mob of
bullies.
The soldier who punctured Segun's eye has been identified as Private Ihama
Osaretin
<http://saharareporters.com/2016/08/19/soldier-who-gouged- >.out-eye-frsc-officer-lagos- identified
He is based in Myoung Barracks, Yaba, Lagos State. He doesn't deserve a
place in our military. He is unfit to be a soldier. He is also unfit to
exist in a human society. He has the nature of a beast. He belongs to the
evil forest.
Don't tell me that Ihama acted in a fit of fury. That he punctured Segun's
eye because he has a temper problem. Or that he was drunk. Or that a witch
in his mother's village hypnotized him.
Ihama is entirely responsible for his atrocity. His puncturing of Segun's
eye was no accident. It was a willful, inexcusable act of hate.
There was intention. Ihama suggested to himself the idea of blinding Segun.
He desired to make the most consequential contribution to the abuse of
Segun's body. He told himself that he needed to distinguish himself from
the crowd. That he had to make a terrible impact on Segun to awe his mates.
To shock them into conceding to him the title and respect of the meanest
champion.
There was aiming. Ihama focused his eyes on Segun's eyes. Ihama fixed his
gaze on Segun. Others were beating Segun randomly and arbitrarily but not
him. He wanted to do a one-off damage on a specific site.
There was execution. Ihama has a seared conscience. He did the unthinkable.
He punctured… Segun's eyes.
No reasonable adult would intentionally puncture a child's balloon. He
lends you his toy globe in the hope that you know that what you are holding
in your hands encompasses the world. That child will burst into tears if
you blow his globe until it bursts.
If Ihama had gone out of his way to puncture the balloon of a child, he
would be liable to be deemed a spoilsport. But he didn't puncture a
spherical object that is produced by a machine and sold in the market. He
punctured a biological organ. An eye. A human eye.
The Holy Writ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:29 > tells us to
pluck out our right eye and throw it away if it causes us to sin. The
injunction was certainly not meant to be taken literally. It is the biggest
hyperbole in the gospels: It was written to communicate the necessity of
disciplining the flesh, of subjecting it to the rule of the spirit.
It staggers the mind that Ihama, somebody who claims membership of the
human species, a person who purports to live by the light of this age, a
so-called twenty first century soldier, in peacetime, looked upon his
fellow human being, already made hors de combat by the beating of 18 adult
men, and decided to add forced blindness to the cruelty.
Ihama was not satisfied with the ordinariness of Segun's lynching. He felt
that Segun deserved a more painful and lasting ordeal. He persuaded himself
that it behooved him to perpetrate the drastic measure that would make
Segun's suffering permanent.
Ihama, a man who owns a pair of eyes and cherishes his vision, proceeded to
puncture Segun's eye and render him blind because he wanted to demonstrate
that Segun was ineligible to confront him. Ihama punctured Segun's eyes in
order to subtract from Segun's wholeness. Ihama sought to validate his
belief that Segun was not his equal. That Segun was less a human being than
a soldier.
I imagine that when the soldiers were beating Segun, they were mocking him,
telling him that he was nobody. And that they could kill him like a fowl. I
suppose he pleaded, moaned and grunted, until the avalanche of pain
overwhelmed him.
The Nigerian Army is not entirely populated by brutes and misanthropes. As
a human organization, it has its fair share of the good, the bad and the
ugly. And the good side of the Nigerian Army is celebrated all over the
world. The Nigerian Army earns accolades from the international community
on account of the conduct of our troops in overseas peacekeeping
operations. Nigerian soldiers are lauded as paragons of professionalism,
bravery and honour.
But that nice side is rarely the facet Nigerians in Nigeria are familiar
with. Nigerians know soldiers who are quicker to act like thugs than
comport themselves as defenders of the homeland. Nigerians know soldiers
that are more proud of their barbarism than their veneer of civility.
Nigerians know brash and bullish and brutish soldiers that seem to be
hardwired to invent reasons to demean civilians and crush them as
sub-humans.
Of course, bullying civilians is not the preserve of Nigerian soldiers.
Other members of the Nigerian armed forces, as well as policemen and other
individuals whose line of work requires them to bear arms and wear
jackboots have anti-civilian proclivities. They appear to be perennially
plagued by the urge to assert their brawny superiority over the bloody
civilian. And everything, including nothing, can push them to 'arrest' you,
curse you, disrobe you, slap you, scourge you, kick you, frog jump you...
shoot you!
Nigeria's long years of military rule is often cited as the cause of the
lingering military chauvinism. But that is oversimplifying the issue. The
foundation of this deep-seated culture of military predation is actually
the socialization of our military men. They adopt a philosophy that tells
them the sacrifice of enlisting as a soldier elevated them above other
mortals. The youngest recruit may not to be taught that this in training.
But culture is caught. He inevitably assimilates the ways Nigerian soldiers
advantage themselves over the civilian population.
The Nigerian military believes that the Nigerian civilian is beneath the
Nigerian in khaki. And that military men are entitled to stress that
difference in class whenever, wherever and however they wish. It is this
unwritten but ubiquitous code that is at the root of the adversarial
relationship between the force man and the civilian. It is the reason why
Ihama and his friends practiced war on Segun.
Sometimes, the code boomerangs. We see them abandon espirit de corps and
fight as gladiators on the street. Naval ratings versus air force
officials. They tear one another's uniforms. They exchange blows. They
wrest someone to the ground. They use the butt of their guns as pestle.
They fire gun shots into the air.
We need to humanize the Nigerian military. We have to reorient our armed
forces away from lawlessness to respect for the rule of law. We have to get
them to unlearn their contempt for their civilian countrymen.
Military officers should not constitute a threat to the society or civil
liberties. They should not defy the traffic light. They should not be free
to maim anybody they don't like –as a privilege of having a badge.
More importantly, the Nigerian state should address abuse of force by the
military officers properly, swiftly and transparently. When their violence
against civilians is ignored, minimized or rationalized away, we legitimize
a habit we should not abide.
For instance, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Yusuf Buratai, and the foot
soldiers that massacred 347 Shiites in Zaria
<http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/207155- >exclusive-judicial-panel- indicts-nigerian-army-general- others-zaria-massacre-shiites. html
are
still in the system. If the head of the Nigerian Army was promptly
arrested, tried and sentenced for complicity in mass murder, Ihama and his
gang would have thought twice before terrorizing a civilian in a public
space. It is because President Buhari, a retired general, trivialized the
genocide on national TV
<http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195995- >zaria-massacre-buhari-breaks- silence.html
that
Private Ihama mustered the temerity to puncture Segun's eyes.
Ihama should rot in jail. He should see only the perpetual night of an
unlit cell until he draws his last breath. He did more than blind Segun's
eye. He punctured all of our eyes.
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Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu>: Aug 31 03:48PM -0500
Hi salimonu,
I don't know how much time you and others on this list have worked on these questions. They are very complicated, and your examples should really be regarded not as closing down the argument but opening it up. I am not a legal scholar, but have heard a bit from some on free speech. There are universal conventions granting us all free speech, if our countries signed those u.n. conventions. As you probably know, some countries ban hate speech, and others do not. There is a vast difference between the u.s., whose first amendment and general history opposes banning speech, and only prosecutes if there is incitement to violence (which has to be very direct), or libel (where damage is caused), and france and Canada which ban it. I don't know about African countries, but I bet most if not all signed the u.n. conventions, which accord us free speech.
I understand the desire to prohibit the ugly speech you cite below, but strong arguments could be adduced against them. In its simplest form, an oppressive, autocratic state will prevent its citizens from criticizing the govt. chidren in Burundi were arrested—dozens—for drawing over the image of the president whose election was highly controversial.
Not to mention zuma and art mocking him in s Africa.
Who gets to decide, in cases like that? You and I know: the police, the agents of the state.
On the other hand, I (against the views of bill Clinton) favored bombing radio milles collines in Rwanda that advocated genocide in 1994. Clinton wanted to stay out of it, to let genocide run its course. That was criminal.
We all have different views here. What I find truly distasteful, simply, is those who argue so forcefully against freedom of speech, assuming it is some Eurocentric notion that goes against African values. As anyone who has joined in the open spirit of a palaver knows, Africans value the right to speak out as much as anyone else. We can legitimately debate its appropriate limits, as you begin to do. But taking it to the next level, arguing basically for state repression, is to limit us all.
I believe we need to be able to criticize governments freely—100%. You can't have that right and still be told not to insult anyone.
I like your last question a lot. It is a good summary. But it is not an answer. Try answering it, and you'll find it is very very very complicated.
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
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Date: Wednesday 31 August 2016 at 13:08
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Subject: SV: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Provocations can be prohibited if they are born out of hatred which can incite and lead people into violence and lost of lives. A moustached and brown uniformed German wearing swastika symbol around his neck cannot travel to Israel and throw a pig head into the Synagogue without repercussion. Netanyahu cannot address a state visiting German Chancellor in Israel by saying, "Welcome to Israel, Mrs. Eva Braun" without hell breaking out. Is there a free speech that allows pale-skinned Americans to call dark-skinned people, Niggers? What is the difference between free speech and hate speech? Can one man's free speech not be another man's hate speech? If your free speech constitutes hate speech for me, how do we resolve the ensuing melee?
S.Kadiri
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To what extent do you want the state to prohibit provocations?? What is a free society, in your view? A woman should have the right to cover herself on the beach, without imagining the French will go nuts. It is pure islamophobia that is at stake, and tomorrow, believe me, it will be Africans who will suffer, muslim or not. Racism is the ugly side of ultranationalism, xenophobia, rightwing extremism, the true sickness here
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
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Date: Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 16:02
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
The phrase that is running through my mind as I read this thread is the one about "Freedom of speech does not include the right to shout 'FIRE!' in a crowded theatre."
Ayo
I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama
On 30 Aug 2016, at 4:18 PM, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
I love this point obi is making. And just returning france I found exactly the same thing—blaming the victim—to have been true in the laws and persecution of women wearing the burkinis on the beach in france. this is not a small point: it is a question of tolerating different cultural forms of expression for women
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
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Date: Tuesday 30 August 2016 at 09:51
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
The point we miss is that Chinakwe has committed no crime. He may be insensitive, opinionated, and all what not, but there is no conduct warranting his arrest, and the charges brought against him. Anyone has a right to name their dogs after Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Okpara, or Awolowo, Gowon, and so on, and they'd be within their rights, for as long as they do not set these dogs after anyone to commit violent crimes. Chinakwe clearly did not physically attack his neighbors. He however was the victim of brutal physical attack. Rather than charge his attackers for battery, the police charged the victim for acts capable of causing public disturbance. And that act is one already protected under Nigerian laws: free speech. The only act of speech capable of causing injury in law is "libel." And this man is not charged for libel, but for "acts capable of causing public disturbance." It is a charge that validates intolerance, and that criminalizes the victim. It is the same kind of intolerance that permits the killing of 8 people in Zamfara for expressing different religious opinion. It is the same that permits the killing of the female pastor in Abuja for publicly proclaiming her god early on a Friday morning. It is the same impulse that permitted the lopping off of the head of Gideon Akaluka, or the killing of a 70-years old Elizabeth Agbahareme in Kano for blasphemy. Those who defend it today may become victims tomorrow.
Obi Nwakanma
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 12:43 PM
To: Rex Marinus
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Dear all,
What's in a name?
When I proposed to name my son Habakkuk, his mother looked at me in horror and told me:
You cannot ridicule God.
How would I ridicule the Almighty by appropriating a name from his Holy Writ? I asked.
But there are other good names in the bible, Habakkuk is far out ridiculous and a mockery of my church going. She retorted.
In such arguments, the rock cannot win against the egg. Especially when the holy ghost and other saintly phantoms are invoked and involved. It is simply no contest. David defeats Goliath again.
So I gave up and we settled for the bible's own Poet Warrior - David. Twitter profile: Slayer of giants. Harpist. Psalmist. Great Adulterer. King. Father of Solomon the wise.
But she was right. It was an irresponsible attempt at satire, a childish rebellion against the naming of people after biblical characters and the culture of pastors or imams officiating at naming ceremonies. I'm not a church goer, I do not need a priest to name my child, his mother however needs. She is as fanatically attached to the church as I am to football.
Perversely, I also wanted to see the reactions, the whole shebang of emotions; from shock to disbelief and derision when the naming priest mouths the thunderously onomatopoeic Habahabakakakukukkkulus. And that of the bunch of churchified relatives, neighbours and friends, some who I suspect harbour dark suspicions that I must have slipped and fell in the bathroom as a kid, the way I carry on.
I did defer to the woman, not because I'm not a chauvinist pig but because of the infant adonis involved. I can imagine the burden of him living his life with a name that is pointless, apocryphal in its ugliness, pugilistic in its suggestions and jaw crunching in its uttering. A name that elicits laughter. That conjures an image of long beards, robes, the wrath of Jehovah and the wilderness. I was not going to take responsibility for such a scarlett name that'll make him a target for bullies and sniper clowns. A name rejected by a church loving prayer warrior is a name the society cannot tolerate, would not condone.
Lil tots have a very human right to be given responsible names by their parents. Responsible parents do not name their kids Hitler, Judas or Caliban. (Osama has become quite the rage though, but we all know why). And so I backed down, waiting for another opportunity to strike another blow for secularity.
Now let us imagine that in the pursuit of freedom and happyness, one Shehu Bagudu, a resident of Amuwo Odofin, buys a white Ram and decides to name it Achebe and then goes to great lenght to boldly tattoo that legendary name on the spotless animal. Will shehu retain his Bagudus still ?
What if an Ogbeni Kadiri names his chicken Azikiwe and posts a video of the overweight bird with its feathers festooned with that saintly name on this forum? What will Jesus do?
Or imagine me, the gods forbid, naming my rat (a white wooly guinea pig) Ikemba Ojukwu and printing those names loudly in blood red letters all over the lab rodent and after all my exertions take a swaggering stroll down the streets of Enugu. Would it be still be peaceful on the eastern front?
There's hell in a name?
In all these back and forth on Names, Naming and an Emerging Tyranny, we have failed to address the Tyranny of Names and Naming.
How does a mullah who has vowed never to associate with alcohol address Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in full?
What about the Yoruba father who names his child "Otaibayomi, Sasaeniyan, Moboriaye ". (roughly translated as: Enemies couldn't defeat me, Very few people, I triumphed over the pricipalities, ) How would his enemies feel, a little slighted?
How would the French welcome the British Ambassador Mr. Frank Waterloo in Paris?
What would happen to the white historian Professor Sam Nigger, with his very bold white name tag on a sharp black suit on the streets of Queensbridge or Compton?
How will Cardinal Sin be welcomed by the Arch Angel at the pearly gates, will he be allowed to gaze at the singing Seraphs and the choir of Cherubs?
And finally, why has nobody shown an iota of consideration for the feelings of the canine, even our feminists? Doug E. Doggs do have feelings too and all animals do have Animal rights too. There are laws against cruelty to animals and naming can be cruel or downright fatal to animals. To endanger ones own life is a privilege but to expose a pet, not a bedbug or mosquito, to mortal danger is irresponsible. What is the point to owning a pet? My dogs don't guard me, I am their guardian. We claim at every turn and bend that a dog is man's best friend. Does the name Buhari befit that friend?
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Rex Marinus
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Dr. Aluko, your reactionary and fascist instincts cannot stand a young "colored" man "making fun of the "Oba" of his country?!! O ma bloody se o! There are those who actually hoped that you, of all people, should stand up and defend "free speech" and civic protest, and a difference of political and cultural views, wherever they're expressed. You were once on the books for treasonable felony for simply backing your favorite political horse. And meanwhile, we are not in a "traditional village." We are in the 21st century with its rapidly urbanizing ethos. And Buhari is nobody's "Oba." We, the Igbo belong to that country, and give no fiddler's fart for that medieval aberration, which civilized people dispensed with about 300 years ago. Nigeria is a republic with citizens. Not a monarchy with subjects - even if your reactionary soul cannot stand that fact of human equality and civilized conduct. Chinakwe's act is the fullest expression of his rights to free speech, and it is satire at its best. It is the same kind of satire Soyinka used to deadly effect at the height of his career. It is the same kind of theatre that only really nuanced, and sophisticated imaginations can comprehend and be amused by, but which heats up the collars of dunces and reactionaries! I think you guys should give this oppressed Nigerian, Chinakwe, a break.
Obi Nwakanma
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:27 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Naming a Dog and Buhari's Emerging Democratic Tyranny
Shola Adenekan:
I did not watch the video - my African sensibilities cannot stand a young "colored" fellow abusing a 70-year-old man (the "Oba"of his country) - making millions of dollars doing so. You cannot make fun of an Oba's dick like that in a traditional village and get away with it.
But your commentary below about Trevor Noah and Zuma's dick in a modern democracy seriously lacks context. That is political SATIRE, which is EXPRESSLY protected in America's Constitution, and may be also covered in South Africa's. If Zuma does not sue Trevor Noah, then Noah can go on.
But Chinakwe's naming of a dog was not about Muhammadu Buhari - that would also be political satire - but about his neighbor's father's name - who happened to be Buhari. That Father Buhari is NOT a political figure, and his son COMPLAINED, and the local Police man at the station considered the complaint sufficiently weighty to detain Chinakwe, arresting him for "possibility of breach of the
"Bitrus Gwamna" <bgwamna@gmail.com>: Aug 30 05:26PM -0500
Bolaji: You are above calling someone by that name danduriuwa (SOB) Please don't follow him to the gutter.
Bitrusor
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: : [Naijaintellects]: Chinakwe, Alhaji Buhari & the dog: STAR RE-ITERATION: Real reason we charged man who named his dog "Buhari" to court -– Police {Re: [africanworldforum] More on Man Naming dog "Buhari"
dan duriuwa Nebukadineze Adiele:
I do not know what "dan duriuwa" means - and I have no Hausa speaker nearby to translate (possibly) pornography - but I have prefixed your name above by the description, so if it is good or bad, I am paying you back in your own coins.
Evens stevens.....we have both expressed our Free Speech rights.
Sai gobe, dan duriuwa Nebukadineze Adiele! Kana jin harshen?
Mallam Bolaji Aluko
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Bolaji Aluko,
If you understood how galling your sycophantic displaying of dishonesty is received by decent people, you would be a better human being by ceasing it.
I usually don't speak this way but I must make an exception now and speak it: you are what Awusa folks call dan duriuwa -- ask Hausa speakers what Americans call that.
Nebukadineze Adiele
Organized religion sired irrationality.
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Subject: [Naijaintellects] Re: Chinakwe, Alhaji Buhari & the dog: Re: STAR RE-ITERATION: Real reason we charged man who named his dog "Buhari" to court -– Police {Re: [africanworldforum] More on Man Naming dog "Buhari"
Chiwuikem:
There are actually four groups of people having these discussions about Chinakwe, Buhari, and the dog:
1. Those who see the aggriever's name as "Chinakwe", and feel it a duty to defend him, because it is an Igbo name. These are the ones who believe that all attacking Chinakwe are "Igbo haters."
2. Those who see the aggriever's action as pricking the eye of their political foe, Buhari: whether it is the neighbor's Buhari or President Buhari, and are taking secret delight in the "satire." They are the ones who believe that anybody attacking Chinakwe are doing so because they see President as a demi-god.
3. Those who are enamored about the "western democracy" notion of Free Speech, and believe that "by definition", it should not be abridged by any means necessary. They are the ones who see anybody who does not believe in unlimited Free Speech as barbarian autocrats, uncivilized.
4. Those of us who believe that while there is in the law books of Nigeria a charge called "possibility of the breach of peace", then a citizen can complain that a particular "free speech" exercise is not really "free" but "common", and hence requests redress in the law courts. I for one see the first group as paranoid schizophrenic; the second group as wickedly partisan; the third group as anarchists.
We have all exercised our rights of Free Speech, where no Public Peace has been breached.
So there are ethnicists, partisans, wide-eyed democrats and rule-of-law advocates at the barricades here, including yourself who, like me, may also be a pandering, educated fool.
By the way, if Chinakwe named his house "Buhari", he would have to get permission from "Buhari" (whoever that might be) I would permit an elaborate edifice to be named after me, but not a shit-house.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Chiwuikem Ihediwa <chiwuikem@hotmail.com <mailto:chiwuikem@hotmail.com> > wrote:
This is the problem with Nigeria when educated men starts pandering to foolishness. It would have been the duty of the police to educate Mr. Buhari and not to pander or gratify his foolishness. Here too Professors Bulaji, Ayo and others are dancing, tweaking out of shape, bending over for foolishness, trying to convince us that Mr. Chinakwe does not have the right to name his dog, goat, wife, child, father or any thing of his what he decides to name them.
Supposing it was a house that he named Buhari, would we be discussing this?
Chiwuikem
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Subject: Re: Chinakwe, Alhaji Buhari & the dog: Re: STAR RE-ITERATION: Real reason we charged man who named his dog "Buhari" to court -– Police {Re: [africanworldforum] More on Man Naming dog "Buhari"
This posting is even more sorry arguing that the Buhari harmed is not the President but an ordinary citizen.
Again, this is not the point - the personality involved is completely irrelevant. This is what we are saying, regardless of whether he named his dog Buhari after the president with another Buhari located in the same neighborhood as Chinakwe where he paraded "... the dog with swagger amongst his neighbours and/ traders who are mostly northerners," is a moot point, meaning his right to name his own property, dog, any name he wants is fundamental HUMAN RIGHTS which transforms "protected speech" and "civil rights".
Stay tuned! We have teaching to do. Iguade
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" . . . . the case, as it was erroneously perceived, has nothing to do with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, but with one Alhaji Buhari, the biological father of the complainant, Alhaji Halilu Umar, all of Ketere Area, Sango Ota in Ado Odo Otta Local Government Area of Ogun State.
". . . it's fundamental to state that the man was not charged to court for christening his dog Buhari, but for the behaviours of the suspect and circumstances surrounding the matter when Mr. Joe, who had been having conflicts with his neighbour, (complainant) named his dog Buhari, his neighbour's father's name, inscribed Buhari on both sides of the said dog, and started parading the dog with swagger amongst his neighbours and/ traders who are mostly northerners,
"The said Joe was actually attacked by the people around for his action before he was rescued by the police. The timely intervention of the police prevented a crisis or inter-tribal crisis in the area.
Ayo Ojutalayo
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. " . . . Martin Luther King Jr
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Subject: STAR RE-ITERATION: Real reason we charged man who named his dog "Buhari" to court -– Police {Re: [africanworldforum] More on Man Naming dog "Buhari"
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/209519-real- reason-charged-man-named-dog- buhari-court-police.html
Real reason we charged man who named his dog "Buhari" to court -– Police
<http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/209519-real- > August 29, 2016 <http://www.premiumtimesng.reason-charged-man-named-dog- buhari-court-police.html com/author/oladimeji-kayode > Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji
The police on Monday decried public comments linking President Muhammadu Buhari with the ongoing saga over a dog named "Buhari" in Ogun State.
A 40-year old trader, Joe Chinakwe, was recently arrested and arraigned in court for allegedly naming his dog "Buhari." He has since been granted bail.
Some members of the public have however associated the president with the matter.
The Ogun State Police Command and Zone 2 Police Command, in separate statements, said series of uncomplimentary remarks against the president over the case were uncalled for.
In the statement by the Zonal Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, the police said the matter was grossly misconstrued, explaining that the president has nothing to do with it as it was erroneously perceived.
The police explained that the case before it showed that one Alhaji Buhari, the father of the complainant, Haliru Umar, both of who live in Ketere Area of Sango Ota in Ado/Odo-Ota LGA of the state, were involved.
The statement said, "The attention of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, Lagos, AIG Abdulmajid Ali, has been drawn to series of uncomplimentary comments and publications in respect of the case of a man, Joe Chinakwe, who was arrested and charged to court by the Ogun State Police Command for naming his dog "Buhari" and wishes to state categorically that the matter was grossly misconstrued.
"The Zonal Command wishes to clarify and set the records straight that the case, as it was erroneously perceived, has nothing to do with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, but with one Alhaji Buhari, the biological father of the complainant, Alhaji Halilu Umar, all of Ketere Area, Sango Ota in Ado Odo Otta Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The police explained that Mr. Chinakwe was not charged to court for naming his dog "Buhari" but for his behaviour and that the suspect had been having conflicts with Mr. Umar, which made him to name his dog after the latter's father.
"Also, it's fundamental to state that the man was not charged to court for christening his dog Buhari, but for the behaviours of the suspect and circumstances surrounding the matter when Mr. Joe, who had been having conflicts with his neighbour, (complainant) named his dog Buhari, his neighbour's father's name, inscribed Buhari on both sides of the said dog, and started parading the dog with swagger amongst his neighbours and/ traders who are mostly northerners," the statement added.
"The said Joe was actually attacked by the people around for his action before he was rescued by the police. The timely intervention of the police prevented a crisis or inter-tribal crisis in the area.
The zonal police command called for the understanding of members of the public on Mr. Chinakwe's action, which it said was capable of causing a breach of public peace.
It said the suspect was charged under section 249(d) of the Criminal Code.
"The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Lagos, AIG Absulmajid Ali, appeals to the general public to understand the action of the police in the matter, which is in consonance with the primary duties of the Nigeria Police Force as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and accept it as a professional way of preventing total breakdown of law and order," the statement said.
On its part, the Ogun State Police Command, in a statement by its spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, also said the president had no connection with the matter.
"The attention of Ogun State Police Command has been drawn to a story in some section of the media regarding the case of Joachim Iroko who named his dog Buhari and was subsequently arrested and charged to court," the police command said.
It said Mr. Umar reported the matter at the Sango Police Station to report claiming that Mr. Chinakwe provoked him by inscribing his father's name 'Buhari' on both sides of his dog knowing fully well that it was his father's name.
"The suspect was invited and he did not deny the allegation. All efforts to resolve the matter amicably between the two parties proved futile and it was about to degenerate to a serious crisis within the area, hence, the command took a proactive step by charging the case to court in order to avert unnecessary blood shedding," the statement said.
"The command wants to make it clear to members of the public that the case has nothing to do with the President as some media are painting it to be. It is a clear case between theMobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>: Aug 31 04:32AM +0100
Bitrus Gwanma:
Long time - you pop up so episodically! :-)
Anyways, dan duruiwas (if it really means SOB) and bullies should sometimes
be "followed to the gutter",thoroughly rubbed into the contents of that
gutter, but then left there permanently, with the gutter covered up.
You then clean yourself thereafter, and deodorize.
When you are too gentlemanly with SOBs and bullies, they grow wings and
never change their habits. Ultimately, deep down, they are
cowards...Nebukadineze Adiele - not his parent-given name; one of the
ghosts that pollute our Naija forums and write in pseudonym, as one of
their "free speech" exercises - is a prime example.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
Ibigbolade Aderibigbe <gbolaade.aderibigbe@gmail.com >: Aug 31 04:05PM -0400
I have followed the naming of a dog "Buhari" with amused disposition!
Though I must commend Bolaji for his "boldness"to keep responding to the
"Free Speech" advocates. Two thoughts keep crossing my mind in all these.
First, these advocates most have been greatly disappointed that the name of
this "Buhari" is not of Mr. President. So they had to change the focus
of their argument and hide under free speech advocacy. But from the
contents and tones of their writings it is easy to detect that they are
just pretenders. Second, it looks from their arguments, that the only
person who has a right here is the one who named his dog "Buhari. To them
the person who complained to the police has no such rights. My question is
when does the right of a person precludes the right of another person? Any
one, in my view,
who holds this kind of position is,to say the least, hypocritical.
Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abickersteth@googlemail.com>: Aug 31 05:22PM +0100
Of Obafemi Awolowo and Rolake Akinkugbe By Augustine
Togonu-Bickersteth,London,England
Obafemi Awolowo a graduate of the London School of Economics , was a
politician and head of Government of Western Nigeria.Awolowo founded the
Unity Party of Nigeria(UPN) on September 22 1978 adopting as the party
symbol a candle lighting up Nigeria
Furthermore September 22 1791 saw the birth , in London, Of Michael
Faraday,British Chemist and Physicist regarded as the Father of
Electricity.For several years running, Michael Faraday gave a series of
lectures under the title,The Chemical History of a candle and when
Nigerias defunct National Elecrtic Power Authority(NEPA) became PLC
Nigerians termed PLC to mean "Please Light Canndle"
whereas Rolake Akinkugbe, a graduate of the London School of Economics
studied Politics
and Government ,and had announced to the world, her business ,Inatide in
the Financial Times of London on September 21 2015. Inatide is a Yoruba
expression which means" Light has come" Often uttered by the Yoruba
speaking in Nigeria when the utilities restore Electric Power supply.
Inatide is an initiative set up to support renewable and clean energy
start ups in Africa.
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Religion and the Future of Nigeria: Lessons from the Yorùbá Case
J. D. Y. Peel
The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in Ifá Corpus
Ọmọ́tádé Adégbindin
A Comparative Study of Olódùmarè, the Yorùbá Supreme Being and the Judeo-christian God
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The Glocalization of Yorùbá Ọmọlúwàbí Ideology
Adémọ́lá Dasylva
Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Ọ̀làjú and the Multilateral Modernity
Adéshínà Afọláyan
The Migration Patterns and Identity of the Okun-Yorùbá People of Central Nigeria
Ilésanmí Àkánmídù Paul
Women and the age-group System among the Ìjẹ̀bú of Southwestern Nigeria
Catherine Olútóyìn Williams and Níyì Ògúnkọ̀yà
Literature and History: A Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels
Lérè Adéyẹmí
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Ìkẹ́rẹ́-Èkìtì in Art and Cultural Narratives
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Rare Objects and the Rhapsodic World of Yorùbá Elite Art Collectors: Preliminary Notes
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YSR, Vol. 1, No. 1 is now in print-find attached the cover
CONTENTS
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Religion and the Future of Nigeria: Lessons from the Yor?b? Case
J. D. Y. Peel
The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in If? Corpus
?m??t?d? Ad?gbindin
A Comparative Study of Ol?d?mar?, the Yor?b? Supreme Being and the Judeo-christian God
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The Glocalization of Yor?b? ?m?l?w?b? Ideology
Ad?m??l? Dasylva
Is Modernity Single and Universal?: ??l?j? and the Multilateral Modernity
Ad?sh?n? Af?l?yan
The Migration Patterns and Identity of the Okun-Yor?b? People of Central Nigeria
Il?sanm? ?k?nm?d? Paul
Women and the age-group System among the ?j??b? of Southwestern Nigeria
Catherine Ol?t?y?n Williams and N?y? ?g?nk??y?
Literature and History: A Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels
L?r? Ad?ye?m?
SPECIAL PROFILE: d?l? j??g??d??: Art and Life
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?k??r??-?k?t? in Art and Cultural Narratives
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Rare Objects and the Rhapsodic World of Yor?b? Elite Art Collectors: Preliminary Notes
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A Voice Sweeter than Salt: T?y?n F?l?l? and the Construction of Subaltern Narrative Space
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Jimoh Oriyomi <oriyomijimoh4@gmail.com>: Aug 31 10:45AM +0100
Thank you for this historic achievement.
> Congratulations and well done. How much is the subscription and who is in
charge of sales and marketing? Again, many thanks for your efforts to keep
Yoruba culture alive.
> Sent from my Infinix
> On Aug 31, 2016 9:21 AM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
wrote:
> The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in Ifá Corpus
> Ọmọ́tádé Adégbindin
> A Comparative Study of Olódùmarè, the Yorùbá Supreme Being and the
Judeo-christian God
> Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Ọ̀làjú and the Multilateral Modernity
> Adéshínà Afọláyan
> The Migration Patterns and Identity of the Okun-Yorùbá People of Central
Nigeria
> Lérè Adéyẹmí
> SPECIAL PROFILE: délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́: Art and Life
> The Masquerade in the Marketplace: délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́'s Introspections and
Reflections In Colors and Lines
> Ìkẹ́rẹ́-Èkìtì in Art and Cultural Narratives
> délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́
> Rare Objects and the Rhapsodic World of Yorùbá Elite Art Collectors:
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> A Voice Sweeter than Salt: Tóyìn Fálọlá and the Construction of Subaltern
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Yoruba Studies Review, 1,1, 2016
YSR, Vol. 1, No. 1 is now in print—find attached the cover
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
Religion and the Future of Nigeria: Lessons from the Yorùbá Case
J. D. Y. Peel
The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in Ifá Corpus
Ọmọ́tádé Adégbindin
A Comparative Study of Olódùmarè, the Yorùbá Supreme Being and the Judeo-christian God
Ṣẹ́gun Ògúngbèmí
The Glocalization of Yorùbá Ọmọlúwàbí Ideology
Adémọ́lá Dasylva
Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Ọ̀làjú and the Multilateral Modernity
Adéshínà Afọláyan
The Migration Patterns and Identity of the Okun-Yorùbá People of Central Nigeria
Ilésanmí Àkánmídù Paul
Women and the age-group System among the Ìjẹ̀bú of Southwestern Nigeria
Catherine Olútóyìn Williams and Níyì Ògúnkọ̀yà
Literature and History: A Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels
Lérè Adéyẹmí
SPECIAL PROFILE: délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́: Art and Life
The Masquerade in the Marketplace: délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́'s Introspections and Reflections In Colors and Lines
Tóyìn Fálọlá
Ìkẹ́rẹ́-Èkìtì in Art and Cultural Narratives
délé jẹ́gẹ́dẹ́
Rare Objects and the Rhapsodic World of Yorùbá Elite Art Collectors: Preliminary Notes
Adérónkẹ́ Adéṣọlá Adésànyà
REVIEW ESSAY
A Voice Sweeter than Salt: Tóyìn Fálọlá and the Construction of Subaltern Narrative Space
Ben Weiss
Toyin Falola
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Congrats. The next in the series should be on the intersections between the New and Old(er) African Diasporas.
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Toyin Falola & Adebayo Oyebade (eds.), The New African Diaspora in the United States, (New York, NY: Routledge, 2017)
Table of Contents
Introduction
Adebayo Oyebade and Toyin Falola
Part I: Historical and Conceptual Perspective
1. Pan-Africanisms and the Integration of Continental and Diaspora Africans, Victor Iyanya
Part II. Continental Expressions and Diasporan Identities
2. The Young Igbo Diaspora in the United States, Uchenna Onuzulike
3. African Immigrants and their Churches, Adebayo Oyebade
4. The Making of the Liberian Diasporas and the Challenges of Postwar Reconstruction, Chris Agoha
5. Exploring the Transformative Effects of Policy Among African Diaspora Voters, Karen Okhoya-Inyanji
6. Contemporary Migrations of Nigerians to the United States, Joseph O. Akinbi
Part III: The Diaspora and Continental Ramifications
7. The Remittance Objectives of Second-Generation Ghanaian-Americans, Kirstie Kwarteng
8. The Diaspora and the Leadership Challenge in Nigeria, Silk Ugwu Ogbu
9. The Role of the Diaspora in Strengthening Democratic Governance in Africa, Kenneth Nweke and Vincent Nyewusira
10. The Visa Lottery Versus Brain Drain: The impact of the African Diaspora on Vocational Artisanship,Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi
11. Revisiting Africa's Brain Drain and the Diaspora Option, Gashawbeza W. Bekele
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