Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Farooq, Funmi and Yona

Speaking an African Language was criminalized by the colonial occupiers  in the Caribbean.

Christianity also helped in this by waging a consistent battle of de- Africanization not only of language but

religion and culture in general. Biko speaks about this with respect to South Africa, and Maathai with respect to Kenya.

GE

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU. New Britain. CT 06050
africahistory.net

vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries on

Africa and the African Diaspora

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Farooq, Funmi and Yona

 

The colonial project was totally anti-modern. Shedding your Africaness was the pathway to westernisation and eventual creolisation—a mixture of mixture as Bylden called. Ajayi Crowther fought against this and was recalled. I am currently grappling with this reality now: nineteenth century Freetown and the non-existence of Creole as a people and Creole as a language—questioning conventional wisdom. Both the language and people were invented in the twentieth century.

But then the Creole nationalists decided to call it KRIO in the early 80s: they dropped the (C)reole and claimed the (K)rio as their ethnicity. 

On Nov 1, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Olayinka Agbetuyi <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

Pls no get disres and come quench o! We no wan call ambulance o! (And there you have the necessarily present hilarity component of pidgin well demonstrated).

On 1 Nov 2016 22:39, "Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:

Creoles/Creoledom was a twentieth century invention by the descendants of original captives who had lost their language. Those who still retained their language carved a separate identity for themselves: Oku/Aku.

Thanks, Professor Abdullah. But how did that happen? Why didn't the original captives pass on their languages to their children? I am curious. Has anyone studied this? 

Farooq 

Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

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