Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pita Agbese's response.

Thank you, Oga Chidi. May you prosper! I just wonder how scholarship or principles are preserved when we must undermine others through barbed words and essays. It makes no sense to me. Any group of persons can call itself any name, as long as my name is not included without my consent. And whatever politics the group decide to play is the group's or the individuals concerned. Why inflict negative words on them, if there isn't any other issue involved beyond what we are made to read here? Why call the group a "fraudulent" one? And, please enlighten me, what kind of patriotic fervor is that that is so close minded and refuses others their say and perception on what is good or bad? As the Yorùbá would say, we all cannot sleep and face the same direction. There's a whole world separating reckless writing from principled writing. When they collide, we leave bad feelings all around and that undermines friendship and even good sense. 

Adeshina Afolayan 


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On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6:22 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"Is it not possible for the group to have chosen a name that does not suggest an umbrella organisation representing Nigerian diaspora academics?"(Oluwatoyin Adepoju).

If a group of Nigerian poets decide, for example to form an association and name it "Nigerian Poets Association", without consulting me and decide to support the Buhari administration, which I do not support, it would not mean that the association is "fraudulent" and/or that what they are doing would be "wrong".

The best I can do is to come out and say that I am not associated with the association and that should end it!

I would not start some unnecesary arrogant postulations about the group being "fraudulent" and all that!

CAO.

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