Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Chidi has never called himself a philosopher but a poet, residing in a motor park, to think and write for the people.

 

 

From: 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Friday, July 2, 2021 at 8:31 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Ọ̀gá Chidi,

Your argument prompted a thought about the relationship between the philosophes in 18th century  France--Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, etc.-- and the masses that finally stormed the Bastille to kickstart  the French Revolution.

 

Should there be a necessary disconnect between a freedom fighter and her lifestyle? Is there a necessary connection  between liberatory project and poverty? Is it impossifble or a rich freedom fighter to instigate a rebellion? Hasn't the elite, and the idea of vanguardism, being at the foreground of most the understanding of protest and revolution?

 

 

Adeshina 


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On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:33 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

A freedom fighter aiming to liberate people who live in abject poverty should not be seen living "a five star lifestyle". The optics would be discouraging.

 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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