Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - SUPERB

It is time fo Prof  Asante to recognize that 85 percent of Nile Waters have flowed from the Ethiopian Blue Nile. About 15 percent derives from the Great Lakes. He should not marginalize one region at the expense of another.

That Nigerian scholars do not  cite Ajayi  seems incorrect. In fact he was stuck in a time warp there. 

His overall point about the Eurocentric gaze remains accurate, however, and he eloquently made the point, brilliant scholar that he is. 

I concur that the root of the problem is the Abrahamic religions. How can you admire Ancient Egypt when the Egyptians are painted as villains in mythology and elsewhere, or when you are asked to close your mind to logical thinking.

It is not only about Egypt. It is about

Nubia and pre-Aksumite and Aksumite Ethiopia and environs, too. What if

Nubia is the mother of Egypt -  and 

pre-Aksumite Ethiopia, the mother of Nubia and Egypt, as Pirenne seems to suggest.

African universities must have their

own journals and publishing outlets

and  must be encouraged and insentivized to maintain credible standards in the process. All of us must guard against pouring old Eurocentric wine in new bottles.

I am happy to come across articles published by scholars on the continent when I search "google scholar."

Professor Gloria Emeagwali 

On Sep 20, 2021, at 05:24, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:



Baba M.,

I noticed your spellbound focus at the Asante interview. I agree, his was an engaging four-hour marathon, among the best yet of the TF Interview series. Asante is the Malcolm-X of Afro-scholarship but with a focus that has always been consistent.

As for Mailafia, it is lamenting that the world has birthed a new order of disagreeing and being violently disagreeable, to borrow the words of MLK, Jr. Wasting lives to silence dissent is an application to an inevitable social rupture, the impact of which the trigger pullers would never foresee. Watch!

Oh yeah, you could not have met Asante before and your reasons are right on the money. Now, you've met him, thanks in no small part to TF's effort at global-villaging our intellectual world. May we have more treasures to unearth on this intellectual excavation.

Greetings,

The other Michael

On Sunday, September 19, 2021, 11:23:41 PM GMT+1, Michael Vickers <mvickers@mvickers.plus.com> wrote:

ASANTE? 

BRIEFLY, 

THE VERY BEST OF AFRICA AND AMERICA. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMT3q-Psqc 

HIS PRESENTATIONS GLORIOUS, PRECISE, LOADED AND PACKED. 

LIFTED ME GREATLY, MUCH LIKE YOU. 

THAT SENSE OF ENGAGING IN A WORLD 

WHERE I CAN GIVE OF MY BEST, 

AND WHERE I FEEL RELEASED FROM BINDING RESTRAINTS OF 

ASSERTIVE BRIT/ EURO/ WEST PSYCHIC DARKNESS;  

AND FEEL FREE TO TAKE ON SO MUCH 

THAT EXTENDS VARIOUS FRONTIERS WITHIN, 

AND BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES. 

OKON UYA'S "ROCKET FUEL" IGNITED. 

ALSO THE PRESENCE OF HIS FRIEND, THE STEADY AND MEASURED, AFIGBO. 

WONDERFUL. 

DEATH OF MAILAFIA. 

Obadiah Mailafia's death unbelievable, to be investigated -NCFront - Punch Newspapers

TERRIBLE JOLT. BUT THANKS FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT. 

HOW FORTUNATE WE WERE TO HEAR FROM HIM SO RECENTLY; 

AND I WAS ABLE TO CONVEY MY WORDS OF APPRECIATION TO HIM. 

WHICH HE APPRECIATED. 

OH, MY FIELD OF DREAMS; 

WE HAVE NOW ENOUGH CLOSE FOLK TO PROVIDE 

TOP PLAYERS FOR MANY TEAMS. 

MAY OM RIP, AT LEAST FOR A LITTLE TIME, 

BEFORE HE RETURNS TO TAP US ON THE SHOULDER, 

TO PROVIDE/ INFO/ GREAT ENERGY/ GUIDANCE/ KINDNESS AND GOOD SPIRITS. 

WELL DONE, MY FRIEND. 

A VERY GOOD CHOICE; 

AND ARGUABLY THE BEST TF INTERVIEW YET. 

WHY HAD I NOT MET ASANTE BEFORE? 

HE GAVE THE REASON. 

INSTITUTIONAL DOORS SHUT, MANY RESTRAINTS APPLIED, 

AND ASANTE MONITORED BY CIA OR OTHER FED SPOOKS. 

I ALWAYS REMEMBER, THE MI5-AUTHORISED STORY CIRCULATED 

RE MY FRIEND, HAROLD SMITH, WHO CAUSED GG ROBERTSON AND OTHERS SOME BOTHER. (SEE ATTACHED ITEM)  

IT SAID ANY SUCH ITEM SHOULD BE IGNORED. WHY? 

BECAUSE, THEY SAID, "SMITH DID NOT EXIST. 

HE WAS A FICTION."  

OH MY. 

SO BRIT FOLK WERE NOT TO BE PERMITTED TO KNOW THAT THERE WAS A 

BRIT OFFICIAL WHO ACTED TO SUPPORT THE FAMED VALUES OF 

BRIT FAIRNESS, JUSTICE; 

VALUES HE DID NOT QUESTION/ IN WHICH HE BELIEVED  

AND FOR WHICH HE STOOD UP.  

A LONELY FIGURE. 

BUT SPEAKING ALSO FOR THE BRIT MILLIONS 

WHOSE VOICES ARE RARELY HEARD. 

BABA M. 

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