USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pedophilia in Pennsylvania

https://www.france24.com/en/20180815-usa-pennsylvania-priests-molested-over-1000-children-report-says-catholic-church

Little African boys are not inanimate objects but people whose human rights must be defended.We do recognize that pedophile priests make up a small percentage of all priests.




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Formal Enthronement of Buhari’s Illegitimate Rigocracy

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Formal Enthronement of Buhari's Illegitimate Rigocracy

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

Twitter:@farooqkperogi

May 29, 2019 will go in the record books as the day Nigeria formally adopted, institutionalized, and inaugurated rigocracy as a system of government. In my March 2, 2019 column titled "This is Rigocracy, Not Democracy,"I defined a rigocracy as a system of government which owes its existence not to the votes of the electorates of a country, but to audaciously violent, in-your-face, state-sponsored rigging.

 The new Buhari regime isn't just a rigocracy; it's a rigocracy wrapped in multiple layers of brazen-faced illegitimacy. An illegitimate, ethically stained Chief Justice of Nigeria inaugurated an illegitimate president who unashamedly stole someone else's electoral mandate in broad daylight.  This reality puts Nigeria's democracy in double jeopardy.

Buhari (whom people on social media now call "Buharig" because of the unprecedentedly crude electoral heist he perpetrated in February) and the cabal of corrupt, indolent, and unconscionable provincials who rule on his behalf instructed their minions to rig the last presidential election because they knew Buhari had not a snowball's chance in hell of winning.

The assault on the integrity of the electoral process actually started way before the election took place. The president was told to decline assent to a revised electoral bill that would have made rigging impossible. Then the president's villainous fixers circumvented the law, and even the conventions of basic decency, to remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria and replace him with a malleable, compromised dissembler from his geo-cultural backyard so that any judicial challenge to their planned rigging would be ineffectual.

In spite of their rigging, however, Buhari still came up short on Election Day. He lost to Atiku by nearly 2 million votes, according to figures on INEC's own server, which they have been unable to refute with the resources of logic and evidence. So Buhari ordered INEC to invent arbitrary figures and proclaim him "winner." And degenerate, unprincipled, and morally compromised Mahmood Yakubu who has gone down in the annals as the absolute worst and most detestable INEC chairman Nigeria has ever had obliged dutifully.

 That's why more than months after the election, INEC has not had the courage to share the raw data of the election with the public. It's because the numbers won't add up. The numbers won't add up because they are not even remotely faithful to the outcome of the votes cast on Election Day. Mahmood Yakubu's venal, purchasable INEC is still frantically fudging the figures to justify the fraudulent figures they assigned to presidential candidates.

To be sure, this isn't the first time elections were rigged in Nigeria. In fact, all previous elections have been rigged. Nevertheless, in past rigged presidential elections, the winners would still have won even if the elections were free and fair. It was often overzealousness and the absence of restraining mechanisms—and legal consequences— against electoral manipulation that enabled their rigging.

For example, in 1999 Olusegun Obasanjo enjoyed the support of every electoral bloc except the Southwest. His minders didn't need to rig to win. In 2003, he had the support of every voting bloc except the Northwest and the Northeast. That was enough to hand him a handy victory.

In 2007, the late Musa Umaru Yar'adua, whom I refused to address as "president" because of the intolerable magnitude of rigging that brought him to power, would have easily defeated Buhari without the need to rig. Buhari, after all, only campaigned in the Muslim north, which was also Yar'adua's natal region. The rest of the country saw Buhari for what he was (and is): a violent, closed-minded, malicious religious and ethnic bigot. So no one outside his primordial cocoon wanted to touch him with a barge pole.

Buhari's public perception as the personification of spiteful religious and ethnic bigotry was unaltered in 2011 when he ran against Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan also didn't need to rig to defeat him. In an October 10, 2010 article, even Nasir El-Rufai, who later became his most important political asset, rightly characterized him as "perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state and [his]insensitivity to Nigeria's diversity and his parochial focus."

In 2014, Buhari had a total makeover, thanks to the same Nasir El-Rufai who reached out to his allies in the southwest. He was dressed in borrowed robes—both metaphorically and literally. Jonathan's own unacceptable incompetence, which we thought was the worst we had witnessed until Buhari came and shattered his record, made Buhari an option. In other words, unvarnished, un-deodorized Buhari was no electoral threat to anyone, so rigging to defeat him was purposeless overkill.  

 It is also true that Atiku rigged in his strongholds in the last election. I've also seen firm videographic evidence to suggest that Atiku's supporters in the southeast and in the deep south rigged on his behalf, although Atiku's rigging in his strongholds couldn't cancel out the magnitude of Buhari's rigging in the Northwest, the Northeast, and in Lagos.

 Nevertheless, the rigging that ultimately determined the outcome of the presidential election this year wasn't the rigging that took place at polling booths. If it had been limited to that, Buhari would have lost. INEC outright ignored the record of the election stored in its system and plucked grotesque, fantastical numbers out of thin air. It is the first time since 1999 that a presidential candidate who lost an election by a massive margin, even after rigging, has been declared winner. It's an outrage.

From May 29, I took a decision to stop calling Buhari Nigeria's president because he is NOT. He is a shameless mandate thief, the face of a fascist rigocracy, and a dreadful reminder of the collapse of all pretenses to democracy in Nigeria. Even the president's minders know this. That is why they couldn't summon the courage to write an inaugural address for him, making him probably the first president in the world to ever be inaugurated without an inaugural address.

It's also telling that no past living head of state or president, except the uncommonly genial Yakubu Gowon, honored the illegitimate, discreditable charade called inauguration. They all withheld their symbolic stamps of approval from the disgraceful travesty. That's a first.

Because he lacks legitimacy to rule again, expect the official inauguration of fascist totalitarianism in the coming days, weeks, months, and years. All illegitimate regimes brutally suffocate their citizens who stand up to them.  That is why François-Marie Arouet, aka Voltaire, famously said, "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

This is by far the darkest period in the history of Nigeria's democracy. I commiserate with Nigerians who are witnessing the brutal annihilation of the faintest vestiges of democracy in their country by an inept, illegitimate fraud who is, in addition, held hostage by an irreversible mental and cognitive decline as evidenced, yet again, in the tediously rambling disaster of an interview he gave a few days ago where he couldn't tell Nigerians who he is.

Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Journalism & Emerging Media
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - TOFAC 2019 Book of Abstracts

Dear All:

Kindly follow this link for a downloadable version: https://babcock.edu.ng/tofac/assets/docs/TOFAC_ABSTRACT_FINAL.pdf

Thanks.

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, PhD

Department of Political Science and Public Administration,

PMB 4010, 

Babcock University, 

Ogun State, Nigeria.

"Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africans and African Americans

All men are brothers, therefore Biko is Biko!

It's a vast subject and since the problem has been identified and there is an awareness of the problem it is therefore well worth discussing with a view to disseminating understanding, maybe even some solutions...

Africans, African-Americans and Nigerians currently domiciled in the Diaspora West, particularly in the United States are better situated to understand these problems since they live in the midst of it.

The way I see it, respect is usually a two-way street, as the saying goes, " respect begets respect "

RESPECT !

Reciprocity.

Are you going to respect someone who doesn't respect you?

The other saying is that "One Black represents all, all over the world ", whether in the United States or in Europe.

A good starting point is what Chidi Anthony Opara had to say and why he said it is still not clear, but he did say this:

"It was not poverty or greed or wickedness that made our forebear to sell people as slaves, it was a way to get rid of the "efulefus"(worthless persons)."  

We can adduce this kind of attitude at the root of the alleged contempt that some Nigerians have for our African-American Brethren a few hundred years later, even if Richard Pryor jokes about it, when he says,

"I think that niggers are the best of people who were slaves, and that's how they got to be niggers 'cause they stole the cream-of-the-crop from Africa and brought them over here. And God, as they say, works in mysterious ways, so he made everybody a nigger…he brought us all over here — the best — the kings and queens, the princesses, the princes, put us all together and called us one tribe: Niggers."

That is the crux if not the genesis of the contempt problem; the differentiation, the self-identity as is probably the case in caste societies in which some people live, perhaps lurking still in their minds, the "who sold who" the "who is "efulefu" and who is not a descendant of the "efulefus", the who is who. Some people even boast, " I am a pure African"

As Malcolm X put it, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will."

Since then there has been Civil Rights , even Barack Obama in the White House, but the legacy still lingers on…

On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 22:04, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Cornel,

Did you miss the Bee in Beg in your name? Commenting on the 30th of May about the hatred for the Igbo by fellow Nigerians as part of the discussion of Nigerian hatred for African Americans is not a drag. But dragging in hatred for Jews into a discussion of the hatred between Africans and African Americans is not a drag either because all Jews are Africans, all humans are Africans and Jews are human, therefore....

Biko

On Saturday, 1 June 2019, 05:12:51 GMT+12, msjoe21st via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Waow,......intellectuals..... idleness at its highest influencing nothing.

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Biko:

You make a distinction between intellectuals and the masses. 

Do you mean to say scholars instead of intellectuals ?

The masses are intellectuals! Emotional intelligence is worth more than a PhD.

The Igbo venture capitalists at Alaba market know more about business than MIT- trained "intellectuals"

Ibn Khaldun, which only a few have read, warned us to make distinctions more carefully.

TF

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On May 31, 2019, at 5:01 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Tough questions,

Intellectuals may help to answer those questions but so also will be masses. My suggestions go beyond academic institutions to include activism ion our communities towards the United Republic of African States. There will still be problems even after unity but we will have the strength to solve more of those problems. Unity is neither uniformity nor unanimity but a little goes a long way - Cabral.

Biko

On Friday, 31 May 2019, 15:33:32 GMT+12, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Biko:

I apologize as I did not frame the question with any level of intelligence.

How does your recommendation help Rosalind? This is how I should have framed it.

You and I as scholars tend to exaggerate our sense of importance. The academy deludes us into thinking that we are relevant. If we were why do things remain the same or get worse?

What I am looking for is how academic reorganization that you stated so brilliantly solve Rosalind's key question. Molefi Asante is a great friend of mine and I have participated in his impressive annual programs.

Thus, if we mount programs the way you mentioned, how does that affect street politics?

Students listen to us, receive their grades and move on.

TF

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On May 31, 2019, at 4:10 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Kikiwin,

You no go provoke me today o. I beg, go and sleep and leave the forum to take care of itself for once. I actually agree with everything you said, so you no go decline this post. 

I admired your program when I participated in the evaluation. I liked the way you strategized to secure huge funding from the administration and the way you shared the resources with African and African American Studies. Congratulations on attaining departmental status. Many others remain programs of Africana Studies but a departmental status is always the golden fleece.

The academy remains a conservative space but the few critical voices that have managed to thrive make all the differences because they offer something that the majority are afraid to offer. There will always be struggles for ideas and priorities in Africana Studies as in every field of study. 

The launch of Africana Studies across Africa is something we can accomplish overnight without much additional costs. Then let us allow a thousand flowers to blossom - the careerists and the scholar-activists will have their say, the western servant scholars and the Afrocentrists, the nationalists and the Pan Africanists. History will justify the relevance.

Do Not Agonize, Organize!

Biko

On Friday, 31 May 2019, 14:18:45 GMT+12, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Biko:

I see this as your main thrust:

"transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad"

Can you expand on the above? I think you once evaluated our program at UT Austin which is now a Department.

Opinions are divided about this:

1. The Asante-Gates model

2. The Title six model

3. The mainstream model

4. The Africology model, etc.

In general, the integration of African studies and African American Studies remains unsuccessful in many places. I have served as an official evaluator like you but I have not seen the integration in many places.

Also bear in mind that the current recruitment of young Africans into the academy is to turn them into careerists. Careerists write about Africa for Western consumption, they seek non-African validation, they don't publish in black-oriented journals and they have been deceived to accept ranking over and above relevance. We can see their contributions in terms of advancing strictly academic issues but not of nation building. Thus one can now become a full professor of Africa but there is actually nothing for Africans in the scholarship.

TF

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> On May 31, 2019, at 2:57 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

>

> transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africans and African Americans

Cornel,

Did you miss the Bee in Beg in your name? Commenting on the 30th of May about the hatred for the Igbo by fellow Nigerians as part of the discussion of Nigerian hatred for African Americans is not a drag. But dragging in hatred for Jews into a discussion of the hatred between Africans and African Americans is not a drag either because all Jews are Africans, all humans are Africans and Jews are human, therefore....

Biko

On Saturday, 1 June 2019, 05:12:51 GMT+12, msjoe21st via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Waow,......intellectuals..... idleness at its highest influencing nothing.

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Biko:

You make a distinction between intellectuals and the masses. 

Do you mean to say scholars instead of intellectuals ?

The masses are intellectuals! Emotional intelligence is worth more than a PhD.

The Igbo venture capitalists at Alaba market know more about business than MIT- trained "intellectuals"

Ibn Khaldun, which only a few have read, warned us to make distinctions more carefully.

TF

Sent from my iPhone

On May 31, 2019, at 5:01 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Tough questions,

Intellectuals may help to answer those questions but so also will be masses. My suggestions go beyond academic institutions to include activism ion our communities towards the United Republic of African States. There will still be problems even after unity but we will have the strength to solve more of those problems. Unity is neither uniformity nor unanimity but a little goes a long way - Cabral.

Biko

On Friday, 31 May 2019, 15:33:32 GMT+12, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Biko:

I apologize as I did not frame the question with any level of intelligence.

How does your recommendation help Rosalind? This is how I should have framed it.

You and I as scholars tend to exaggerate our sense of importance. The academy deludes us into thinking that we are relevant. If we were why do things remain the same or get worse?

What I am looking for is how academic reorganization that you stated so brilliantly solve Rosalind's key question. Molefi Asante is a great friend of mine and I have participated in his impressive annual programs.

Thus, if we mount programs the way you mentioned, how does that affect street politics?

Students listen to us, receive their grades and move on.

TF

Sent from my iPhone

On May 31, 2019, at 4:10 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Kikiwin,

You no go provoke me today o. I beg, go and sleep and leave the forum to take care of itself for once. I actually agree with everything you said, so you no go decline this post. 

I admired your program when I participated in the evaluation. I liked the way you strategized to secure huge funding from the administration and the way you shared the resources with African and African American Studies. Congratulations on attaining departmental status. Many others remain programs of Africana Studies but a departmental status is always the golden fleece.

The academy remains a conservative space but the few critical voices that have managed to thrive make all the differences because they offer something that the majority are afraid to offer. There will always be struggles for ideas and priorities in Africana Studies as in every field of study. 

The launch of Africana Studies across Africa is something we can accomplish overnight without much additional costs. Then let us allow a thousand flowers to blossom - the careerists and the scholar-activists will have their say, the western servant scholars and the Afrocentrists, the nationalists and the Pan Africanists. History will justify the relevance.

Do Not Agonize, Organize!

Biko

On Friday, 31 May 2019, 14:18:45 GMT+12, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Biko:

I see this as your main thrust:

"transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad"

Can you expand on the above? I think you once evaluated our program at UT Austin which is now a Department.

Opinions are divided about this:

1. The Asante-Gates model

2. The Title six model

3. The mainstream model

4. The Africology model, etc.

In general, the integration of African studies and African American Studies remains unsuccessful in many places. I have served as an official evaluator like you but I have not seen the integration in many places.

Also bear in mind that the current recruitment of young Africans into the academy is to turn them into careerists. Careerists write about Africa for Western consumption, they seek non-African validation, they don't publish in black-oriented journals and they have been deceived to accept ranking over and above relevance. We can see their contributions in terms of advancing strictly academic issues but not of nation building. Thus one can now become a full professor of Africa but there is actually nothing for Africans in the scholarship.

TF

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> transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africans and African Americans

Waow,......intellectuals..... idleness at its highest influencing nothing.

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Biko:

You make a distinction between intellectuals and the masses. 

Do you mean to say scholars instead of intellectuals ?

The masses are intellectuals! Emotional intelligence is worth more than a PhD.

The Igbo venture capitalists at Alaba market know more about business than MIT- trained "intellectuals"

Ibn Khaldun, which only a few have read, warned us to make distinctions more carefully.

TF

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On May 31, 2019, at 5:01 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Tough questions,

Intellectuals may help to answer those questions but so also will be masses. My suggestions go beyond academic institutions to include activism ion our communities towards the United Republic of African States. There will still be problems even after unity but we will have the strength to solve more of those problems. Unity is neither uniformity nor unanimity but a little goes a long way - Cabral.

Biko

On Friday, 31 May 2019, 15:33:32 GMT+12, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Biko:

I apologize as I did not frame the question with any level of intelligence.

How does your recommendation help Rosalind? This is how I should have framed it.

You and I as scholars tend to exaggerate our sense of importance. The academy deludes us into thinking that we are relevant. If we were why do things remain the same or get worse?

What I am looking for is how academic reorganization that you stated so brilliantly solve Rosalind's key question. Molefi Asante is a great friend of mine and I have participated in his impressive annual programs.

Thus, if we mount programs the way you mentioned, how does that affect street politics?

Students listen to us, receive their grades and move on.

TF

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On May 31, 2019, at 4:10 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Kikiwin,

You no go provoke me today o. I beg, go and sleep and leave the forum to take care of itself for once. I actually agree with everything you said, so you no go decline this post. 

I admired your program when I participated in the evaluation. I liked the way you strategized to secure huge funding from the administration and the way you shared the resources with African and African American Studies. Congratulations on attaining departmental status. Many others remain programs of Africana Studies but a departmental status is always the golden fleece.

The academy remains a conservative space but the few critical voices that have managed to thrive make all the differences because they offer something that the majority are afraid to offer. There will always be struggles for ideas and priorities in Africana Studies as in every field of study. 

The launch of Africana Studies across Africa is something we can accomplish overnight without much additional costs. Then let us allow a thousand flowers to blossom - the careerists and the scholar-activists will have their say, the western servant scholars and the Afrocentrists, the nationalists and the Pan Africanists. History will justify the relevance.

Do Not Agonize, Organize!

Biko

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Biko:

I see this as your main thrust:

"transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad"

Can you expand on the above? I think you once evaluated our program at UT Austin which is now a Department.

Opinions are divided about this:

1. The Asante-Gates model

2. The Title six model

3. The mainstream model

4. The Africology model, etc.

In general, the integration of African studies and African American Studies remains unsuccessful in many places. I have served as an official evaluator like you but I have not seen the integration in many places.

Also bear in mind that the current recruitment of young Africans into the academy is to turn them into careerists. Careerists write about Africa for Western consumption, they seek non-African validation, they don't publish in black-oriented journals and they have been deceived to accept ranking over and above relevance. We can see their contributions in terms of advancing strictly academic issues but not of nation building. Thus one can now become a full professor of Africa but there is actually nothing for Africans in the scholarship.

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