Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Wariboko's New Book on Literary Studies

Thanks to all of you who sent me congratulatory messages on the publication of my latest book. I appreciate your kind gesture and encouragement. For rejoicing with me, joy will not cease in your life. Anytime I hear from you or about you, it shall be good news.

 

Let me add a fillip to your day with a story and a request. In the 1970s Dr. Nabo Graham-Douglas was the Attorney-General of Nigeria under General Gowon. He came home to our town, Abonnema, Rivers States. As the AG sat in front of his house, he saw one of our mutual cousins, a secondary school teacher, riding his bicycle. He called out to him: "Sokari, you did not come to greet me. Didn't you get all my messages and greetings to you from Lagos." (In Kalabari-Ijo, what the AG said literally meant, "didn't my mouth reach you from Lagos").  Sokari replied: "I got all the messages and greetings, but not your hand. If your hand [your money] had reached me, then I would be the first person to come and greet you anytime you come home from Lagos." (In Kalabari, the man said: "Your mouth [bibi] reached me, but not your hand [bara]. If your hand reached me as your mouth did, I would have come to greet you anytime you return home").

 

To all you great scholars that sent messages to me, your mouth ( pen or keyboard) reached me, but your hands did not reach me. Next time, extend your hands to me. Then, I will run to wherever you are in the world to greet you every morning.  Abeg, I dey joke on.

 

Best wishes,

 

Nimi Wariboko

 

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Date: Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 10:34 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Wariboko's New Book on Literary Studies

 

Congratulations, Nimi.

Best wishes,

GC

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On Dec 28, 2022, at 6:10 AM, seguno2013@gmail.com wrote:

Nimi,

Congratulations to your new book. Your ink will not dry and the powerhouse in the brain will always be energized in order to nurture  us with more knowledge production. 

Segun Ogungbemi. 

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On Dec 27, 2022, at 9:39 AM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

Nimi, huge congratulations on your latest offering. Just browsing the TOC makes one salivate. There's nothing else to say about your fecundity. You're already in Falola territory of productivity and interdisciplinary publications. To borrow a phrase from Naija Afrobeats, you're giving us hits back-to-back. We're grateful.

 

 

 

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 9:28 AM Chielozona Eze <chieloz@gmail.com> wrote:

Congratulations, Nimi.

Love it. Kudos.

Chielo Eze

Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor

Coordinator, African and African American Studies

Professor and Coordinator, African and African American Studies, Northeastern Illinois University https://neiu.academia.edu/ChielozonaEze

Google Scholar:  Chielozona Eze

 

My latest book: Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination.

 

 

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 9:16 AM Elias K. Bongmba <bongmba@rice.edu> wrote:

Dear Nimi,

Congratulations. It will be a useful texts for class.

Happy New Year.

Sincerely,

Elias

 

On 12/27/2022 1:31 AM, Nimi Wariboko wrote:

Dear Colleagues:

Greetings. I am glad to bring to you information about my most recent book.  It is a book on philosophy and literature in Nigeria. I hope you would recommend to your university libraries. Thanks.

 

 

Nimi Wariboko's new book on literary studies.

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hear Word—Literature Is Philosophy
1. Theoretical Hesitations: Ibadan Brown Roofs' Rusty Revival of Desires
2. The Black Moon on the White Surface: A Philosophical Analysis of A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass
3. Bad Governance and Postcoloniality: Literature as Cultural Criticism
4. From Executed God to Ozidi Saga: Ethos of Ijo Democratic Republicanism
5. Comedy as Dialectics: Laughing Nigeria to Human Flourishing
6. Literature as Ethics
Bibliography

 

Order your copies: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Governance-Contemporary-African-Writing-ebook/dp/B0BJ6PMQ2T/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Nimi+wariboko&qid=1672123741&sr=8-4

 

 

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