Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Moses, allow Chidi to speak for himself as a father of three children in Nigerian universities, as you are allowed to speak for yourself as a diaspora Nigerian academic with a BA from a Nigerian university and graduate degrees from US universities and as I am allowed to speak for myself as an Independent Scholar in Nigeria with a BA and graduate degrees from Nigeria and the UK.

I am interested in various vantage points, in varieties of perspectives we have been observing in play, even within the same orientation.

I suggest you manage yourself more carefully or you will come across as increasingly petulant and imperialistic of not only your own point of view but of your distinctive style of expressing your point of view.

I'm not interested in going round in circles. Your views are well known.

I want to read from the perspective of a parent of children in Nigerian universities, as Chidi describes himself.

Chidi is primarily a poet and so is not given to elaborating on his views, preferring one liners.

That's okay.

If he he chooses not to elaborate, I'll take it that he chooses not so substantiate  his views, not that the views should simply be taken as self explanatory.

toyin

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 16:14, Moses Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

Toyin Adepoju, please quit the pretentious ignorance. After many years of discussing and debating the many problems plaguing higher education in Nigeria, you're still asking Chidi to elaborate on his his and his children's experiences in Nigerian universities. Can you say in good conscience say that you don't know what the problems are, or what parents like Chidi are contending with?

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On Jan 26, 2021, at 3:17 AM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:



share with us what you have observed.

toyin

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 09:43, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Oluwatoyin, 

What is there to elaborate?  I had three children in three different universities in Nigeria and I know that what I went through was not what one should wish for even his enemies. 

I still have another child in another university and I know what I am going through at the moment. 

Believe me, the system needs overhauling, all parents with children in the system will agree to this except if they are part of the system. 

It will take a whole lot of spaces to elaborate on half of the rots going on in the public university system in Nigeria. 

This, for me is not an academic exercise,  it is a statement of fact. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO) 

On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 08:58:17 UTC+1 toyin....@gmail.com wrote:

Can you elaborate?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 08:42 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:

The university system in Nigeria needs total  overhauling, I know because I had three children in three different universities in Nigeria. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

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