Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Trending (1)

I have always wondered why anyone should feel insulted if asked

about his English  speaking credentials. English is just another language,

and historically,  a colonial language. No one is born with English on his tongue.

Some Welsh and Scots are actually fighting to regain their original mother tongue.

I believe that the Irish Republic has been more successful.

On a different note, I suspect that few Ethiopians are in love with  English, and  may be deeply offended

if English is assumed to be their native language.

But you are perfectly right about other silly insulting questions and assumptions -  that

 reveal a depth of ignorance. Jamaica is divided. You have the Africa-informed Rasta community

 some of whom are  even quite  fluent in  an African language, Amharic. There are also the totally uninformed

and downright silly -  in their assumptions about Africa. 

Ironically, in some cases,  the more western educated-  the more silly the assumptions.

About bookstores: I have been told that there  are no bookstores in Equatorial Guinea

and,  as we know, the 55 countries of Africa are usually conflated into one by the uninformed.

It is interesting to know that having a bookstore  is now an indication of progress. I thought that bookstores,

like newspapers, are on their way out. 

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From: 'Ayotunde Bewaji' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2018 7:40 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Trending (1)

 

I don't understand Professor Harrow. What is your point? Someone once asked if I learnt English when I got to Jamaica as a Sabbaticant. I said, of course yes. My people back in Africa lived on trees, and never heard about English. I had to come to Jamaica as a Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy to learn English.

Could I ask Professor Harrow if there were teachers in USA, given the eventful regime of Donald Trump, which seems to suggest what many of us always knew about the underbelly of America - primitive and backward exceptionalism!

On Saturday, 3 February 2018, 16:12, Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

This is misleading. I read the piece out of interest, and in face the interviewer, Catherine brouee, says, people have all kinds of ideas about Africa, and I am asking you whether there are bookstores in Nigeria so you can set the record straight. Of course I know there are.

 

That gets twisted, below, by the single word "seriously," that misrepresents what brouee said.

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 Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jumoyin@gmail.com>
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Date: Saturday 3 February 2018 at 09:31
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Trending (1)

 

A French journalist this week asked Chimamanda whether there were bookstores in Nigeria. Seriously. 

 

https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/chimamanda-adichie-french-journalist-bookstores-nigeria.html

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