Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Is Something Wrong With Me?

No this   $&@/(:{)   Pres is not deterred. Printers error.  He is  DETERMINED to stay in power, even if it means courting the evangelicals with an upside down Bible photo op.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:04 PM Elias K. Bongmba <bongmba@rice.edu> wrote:

Dear Professor Falola,

We share the anxieties you express.  I worry about black youths, Cameroon, Africa, being black, and in a strange way still go through a period when I feel out of place. The conversations on this forum keep me grounded in two ways. First, I know very little about Africa, so I must learn from my colleagues. Second, we can do something and many of our colleagues are doing things to change circumstances for many.

During the last several weeks you have brought comfort and expanded my vision through the songs we have listened to everyday. I have been taught to accept that for people like me, rumba is not the only thing that makes life beautiful. 

You have brought us together for an intellectual, professional exchange, and practice that includes many publishing ventures that is helping redefine African studies. We share your anxieties, but we must continue to think and write Africa knowing that we never really know which ideas will bring the change we need, but we must work for the change that must come and bring glory to Africa.

Elias Bongmba

On 6/2/2020 10:06 PM, segun ogungbemi wrote:

TF,

Thanks for making the sacrifice for us to be adequately informed about events happening around the globe and blending it with moments of amusements. 

Ken, thanks for asking us to applause TF for the job well done. 

Segun. 

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 1:58 PM Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

dear all

please join me in applauding our renowned, respected moderator. his work on behalf of ALL of US, in postings about everything to do with africa, from politics, to religion, to current events, to covid... all this indeed is demanding, stressful, and difficult for him, but informative, healing, community building for us. what do the people do about all those nurses and doctors and grocery store clerks, who are out there risking their lives so that we might be able to live and go on with our lives? they take out a few minutes, maybe thursday at noon, go to their windows, balconies, and applaud. why? not just to show appreciation, but really to say, we are all one.

toyin falola, you are never alone. we all appreciate you much more than you will ever know.

👍❤️🙌😁

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 8:04 AM
To: dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Is Something Wrong With Me?

 

Reading some items on this site as well as others, as in the case of appointments in Nigeria, I have come to the conclusion that something is wrong with me as a person and with my emotion. When there are bigger issues, as in the ongoing protests, the devastations by COVID-19, the behavior of President Trump, declining economies in Africa, I become obsessed with those issues. I forfeit sleep and food. I will hold a cup of coffee and won't be able to raise it to my sleep. I feel betrayed.

 

I wonder how some of you are able to leave the bigger issues and focus on the smaller ones, sometimes totally irrelevant to the concerns of our civilization and collective humanity. How are you able to disconnect and live your normal life?

 

At 3AM this morning, I came to the conclusion that you are the ones who are doing the right thing and that something must be wrong with me.

Moderator

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