Sunday, April 30, 2023
USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Review 30/4
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Notable Publications from African Philosophers of the past 2 years
why only the past two years?
Within that time frame i would suggest Nimi Wariboko, specfically his acknowedgements to his books, my favourite being that to The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory, and his accounts of his inspiration as a scholar in ''I Am Transdiciplinary.''
He is a very powerful writer across his various publications but these more informal contexts have him spreading his wings in a unique way.
--Dear Colleagues,
I am currently collecting entries for a "Notable Publications"- section for the American Philosophical Association's "Studies on Philosophy and the Black Experience" (https://www.apaonline.org/general/custom.asp?page=black_experience_apastudies). As of the next issue, we will (finally!) include continental African philosophy as well. I was wondering if some of you would like to send me some references to publications (books or papers) you would like to make more widely known!
Thank you!
Bjoern
Björn Freter (he/him/his), PhD
Lecturer in World Philosophy
School of History, Religions and Philosophies,
The School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS),
University of London
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - India and census in Africa
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth, Couldn’t Nigeria adopt and adapt these Indian schemes
I read the article and thought of you, that it's the sort of program that you would like to be in the pipeline / on the agenda of President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government of national competence..
The First Revolution could enhance the accuracy of voter registration, a much easier identification of voters at the polling booths, and of course the collation of the votes counted.:
India's three revolutions - according to Fareed Zakaria
"The first revolution was a government initiative called Aadhaar, which gives every Indian a unique 12-digit ID number verifiable by fingerprints or an iris scan. It sounds simple, but it is, in Nobel laureate Paul Romer's words, "the most sophisticated ID program in the world." Today, 99.9 percent of adult Indians have a digital ID that can be used to verify instantly who they are and thus set up a bank account in minutes (literally, I have seen this done!), or to transfer government payments to recipients directly and with little skimming and corruption.
Aadhaar enrollment is open to all and free, but its most distinctive feature is that it is publicly owned and operated, unlike in the West, where digital platforms such as Google and Facebook are private monopolies that can share your data to make a profit. Entrepreneurs can even build businesses on Aadhaar. And when you use the platform to send money or take out a loan, you don't pay those persistent fees so ubiquitous in the West."
"The second is the Jio revolution. Mukesh Ambani, India's biggest and most ambitious business leader, made a staggering $46 billion bet that by offering very cheap phones and data packages through his telecom service Jio, he could get most Indians on the internet. It worked. With most using smartphones as their computers, more than 700 million Indians now use the internet. In 2015, India was ranked 122nd for per capita mobile data consumption. Last year, it was first, exceeding the consumption of China and the United States combined."
"The third is an infrastructure revolution, which is readily apparent to anyone visiting India. Spending on roads, airports, train stations and other projects has exploded. Government capital spending has risen fivefold since fiscal 2014, and the average construction of national highways has roughly doubled, as have seaport capacity and the number of airports. Mumbai is finally building an extensive set of bridges, roads, tunnels and metro lines that could truly connect all parts of India's leading economic center."
"These three revolutions could, this time, truly transform India. But they can best do so by helping in the country's greatest challenge — bringing in the hundreds of millions of Indians who are still on the margins, economically, socially and politically. As of 2019, about 45 percent of Indians — more than 600 million people — live on less than $3.65 a day.
Nandan Nilekani, the visionary architect of Aadhaar, describes how to create jobs in a novel, bottom-up fashion. Rather than the Chinese top-down approach of building 100 new factories that employ tens of thousands, he envisions using Aadhaar to get loans to the millions of small businesses scattered throughout the country. "If 10 million small businesses get loans that let them each hire two more people, that's 20 million new jobs," he said to me.
The even larger challenge of inclusivity involves India's women, who are still pressured in various ways not to work outside the home. Female labor force participation in India is low and, stunningly, has fallen over the past two decades from around 30 percent to 23 percent. Of the Group of 20 countries, not even Saudi Arabia's level is lower. Bloomberg Economics estimates that closing the gap between women's and men's participation would increase India's gross domestic product by more than 30 percent over the next three decades.
A focus on inclusivity would also ease India's religious tensions, bringing into the fold that nation's Muslims (roughly 200 million people, one-seventh of the country), who face persistent persecution. It would also be in character for a country that is an open, pluralistic democracy with a Hindu majority, a religion almost defined by its pluralism and tolerance.
India has the potential to be admired for not just the quantity of its growth but also the quality of its values. And that would truly be an incredible India."
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - are latosisa of Ibadan and General Gowon
Of Are latosisa and General Gowon and july 31
Are latosisa generalissimo of ibadan declared war on the egba
On july 31 1877 in a war that lasted 16 years, the longest civil
war in world history .
Power lay o the streets of lagos from july 29 1966 yto july 31 ,1966.
The next day August 1 1966, 32 year olg yakubu Gowon became head of
state and a civil war followed, what a coincidence!
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Saturday, April 29, 2023
USA Africa Dialogue Series - Poetic Thought
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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet, IIM Professional Fellow, MIT Chief Data Officer Ambassador and Editorial Adviser at News Updates (https://updatesonnews.substack.com)
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A Sabbath Musing on “the premise that racism is omnipresent “ ( Moses Ochonu)
Dear Kenneth,
The Yardies refer to some of the Black British Police as " coconuts", i.e. brown outside but white inside
In some ways, you remind me of Robin Horton, John Collins ( Ghana) Mcqueen ( Philöophy, Legon, Ghana, he always asked, not "How are you?", but " Good or bad?", and last but not least, Derek Walcott, on race issues.
Kenneth Harrow, No big grammar. He doesn't need it or need to. As always, marvellous, profound, concise, and succinct, as Sidi asked the village school teacher Lakunle. In his case piling on disdainful adjectives, " Is the bag empty?"
No, that was Professor Harrow, as usual, on the ball, and to the point with the ballpoint pen in his hand and, and, and, in my opinion, what Professor Harrow has said here must be of inestimable value to all of us, the certain and the uncertain ones among us alike, I'd say particularly the various so-called " mixed race " people over here in Sweden, whereas people like me and Baba Kadiri, arrived here with our identities already intact, confident, unassailable and unshakable. Having said that I would like to add that you are absolutely right when you write, " how can you live in sweden forever without swedishness being part of you?" I found out how Swedish I was or had become, within my first week in Nigeria, in late February 1981, that I was as mad as could be fuming, damn it, when are these people going to learn to stand in a queue? And retrospectively, four years later, during my last week in Nigeria when that infernal Bank manager requested that I give him HALF of my money ( £ 6,000 Sterling, if I was serious about taking it out, immediately. I was so incensed by the idea of giving him HALF of my hard-earned money, I asked him in an almost threatening voice, " And if I don't give you half?"
- Then you'll have to wait, he said.
- How long?, I asked
- Oh a few months, said he.
I was much relieved, much better to have to wait for a few months than to give him " Half"
When the Irishman that joined me on the flight, Port Harcourt - London - Stockholm. asked me, "Did you get your money?" - which money and what business of his was it, Mr Nosy Parker, and after a short discussion he assured me, " You will never get it ! ", I thought, " RACIST! "
He was right. A few months? I'm still waiting.
First thing, my neighbour Lars, said the same thing as Ken, when on the 17th of September 2019, I complained to him about something starting with the capital R, he started with Ken's conclusion, " as for racists, why bother with them?" -
just as Madiba Nelson Mandela who always spoke with measured tones, and as a relatively slow speaker, was advised, say in a TV debate, to start with the conclusion that he was going to eventually arrive at, anyway, so as not to be cut off with a " time's up" before arriving at his Q.E.D.
At the last meeting to elect some officers for our housing committee, Lars wore a solidarity T-Shirt on which was emblazoned, " FUCK RACISM". Since I was the only darkie in the room, I wonder how all the others were feeling about what was written on his T.Shirt. To their credit, no one among them blushed., at least not visibly. Now BTW, I would not have had the courage to wear such a T- Shirt to that meeting, or to any all-White meeting, over here in Sweden. I could go a lot deeper into this, but the fact is that I basically don't want to be wading knee-deep in any political palaver, not after our dear anti-immigration Jimmie Akesson said, just the other day that Swedes are in danger of becoming an ethnic minority in their own country , and that if old blue- eyes- and- blonde-hair/s is not careful this could happen within a generation. Hitherto it has only been the Law of Jante ,
Talking about blonde hair/s we have been given to understand that according to one Stormy Daniels her erstwhile darling, Donald has more blonde hairs down there than he has actual real hair on his head. BTW, I love Donald, I love the man who says that he is the only man who can prevent World War Three from breaking out. All things considered, who in his right mind and right senses would not prefer to vote to have Mr. "Make love, not war", in the saddle? In essence, that's what racism and xenophobia are all about Some people don't want other people to enjoy themselves. Simplistic and oversimplified, but true. About Joe Biden as the alternative, well I haven't checked out what Frontpage Magazine has been saying about him lately, so you see, some of us are racists, but this much is certain: One way or another, we are all biased. I leave you with this Parthian shot: here is what George Galloway had to say about Sleepy Joe Biden ( lashon hara) just the other day:
Tucker bagged and the serial incontinent seeking a second term
cornelius, thanks for your ruminations, your philosophising, your elucubrations on race.if i woke up tomorrow, and found i was black, like in the movie about watermellon people....
what makes one white or black?besides the pieces of paper they make us fill out, i can think of two answers that make sense to me—besides the songs you sing.maybe we should begin with agatha moudio's son, born of a black mama, but wait, wait, as the song—and novel—of bebey put it so playfully—we're still waiting for him to take the local color. him papa who?
anyway, if he takes the local color, it's one thing on the inside, and another on the outside. if he were in sweden, on the outside the people might see him a certain way, and when he looked in the mirror, would he see with his own eyes or their eyes? that's the double side to race, as dubois already put it.we see ourselves through their eyes. but also, we feel ourselves inside otherwise, and they can't see it.
the watermellon man is already, we can say, always already black on the inside, but didn't know it, or hid it.or, in the reverse movie of the race man, saw what he wanted, or even, woke up to who he already was.how can you live in sweden forever without swedishness being part of you?
the same applies for africanness. how can you live most of your life thinking breathing loving imbibing palm wine anbd not see the palmwine drinkard in the mirror?then someone sends you a form, and you fill it out.... black, white, mixed, other....but that doesn't have to be how you would answer the question to yourself, or your friends.
as for racists, why bother with them? they are blind to begin with.ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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Professor Harrow wasted no time in laying out the conditions that would make him happy :
"Since moses sent us this piece, and unlike me is still teaching at a prestigious university, i would love to hear his take on the piece."
Moses, of course, rose to the occasion and wrote in the heavily guarded language that he believes a professor ought to employ when responding to these kinds of demands being placed on him, wrote as he thought fit, herein.
This is my own humble response to all that has been said so far in that thread, " A Black Professor Trapped in an Anti-Racist Hell" :
O me miserum !
For the past couple of days, my computer which is neither black nor white, or red, or blue, has not been feeling so well, and in these days of AI ( Artificial Intelligence) with AI writing poetry and composing music, you can or may talk about computers "not feeling so well", assuming that computers can be said to have feelings at all, like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
By Jove!
Although when it comes to human relations, we are and can be so chronically colour-conscious, we never refer to the computer as "my white computer", or "my black computer", but there's this famous poem by Wallace Stevens ( no relative of Siaka Probyn Stevens who was never known to truck with poetry): "The Man with the Blue Guitar"
BTW, I did not so much as touch either of my beloved guitars during the whole of the Holy Month of Ramadan. Sometimes, that's how it is with me, as in me and my guitar, and right now, through no fault of its own, inherent or otherwise, or maybe I may have been mistreating it ( the computer) just as we sometimes mistreat our fellow human beings, call them'' vermin", hurt their feelings, and that's why my computer which has no volition of its own but has probably been silently suffering much abuse and vilification of others at the keyboard, has been taking a hammering, shuffering, not shmiling and consequently has been feeling under the weather the past couple of days. When that happens or it ( he or she) comes to a complete standstill, such as when you get the dreaded Black Screen, the Black Screen of Death ( always such negativity attached to black) then, not without feelings, generally of sympathy - as when the obsequious House Negro sympathises with the plantation Massa, politely enquiring "We sick boss?", you know that you and your computer are in serious trouble, that your computer needs a doctor, needs repairs, and probably so do you and you must admit that most of us over 60, half way through the long evolutionary journey known as "life's pilgrimage" to the grave - and that includes Peter Gregory Obi, since he too could do better, much better, not worse, with a new hard drive, in his case better still a new overdrive and better luck next time, in a new election, and if his labour party hasn't gone to grass by then, he should be ripe or even riper, more mature, mature enough and more perfectly prepared for the battle and all the exigencies and obstacles that he and we may all encounter or be facing before, during and after the next Nigerian Presidential Elections.
The only point I want to make here with all of the above is that whether you are black or white or red or yellow or brown, whether you are SLPP or APC (Sierra Leone) APC ( Nigeria) or Labour Party ( UK) when your own computer crashes, you feel sorry. Just only a few days without a computer and a fast connection with the WWW, clinically speaking some people fall into a depression
This racism business.The racism bug. Bugger. Racism is a bugger. He who feels it knows. Over there in West Africa, there's hardly any "racism", it's tribalism that's the bugger. Tribalism bugs you, bugs me, he, she, we, them, especially if we're not from the same tribe. It's exactly as Prince Nico Mbarga complained about it, "Tribalism, chronic disease, everlasting sickness" But over there in the Oyibo lands of North America, Europe, and down south over there in Australia, it's the biggest bugger of all with a wide range and variety of targets since the individual targets are undifferentiated in terms of "race" / ethnicity/ tribe / varying cultural and religious backgrounds, some more glorious than others, Benin Bronzes, Golden Stool, etc, exactly as Richard Pryor joked,
"I think that niggers are the best of people who were slaves, and that's how they got to be niggers 'cause they stole the cream-of-the-crop from Africa and brought them over here. And God, as they say, works in mysterious ways, so he made everybody a nigger…he brought us all over here — the best — the kings and queens, the princesses, the princes, put us all together and called us one tribe: Niggers." — Richard Pryor, Wattstax (1973)
So, from the Oyibo point of view, all Black & Beautiful Tribes and glorious royal/not-so-royal pedigrees, are subsumed into the one category under this their distinct universal nomenclature, male and female created He them: "Niggers"!
Consider: In the wake of A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass, lo and behold, if any of us or all of us were to wake up tomorrow morning and look in the mirror only to discover that we had all ( you, me, Gloria, Ojogbon Falola, Professor Segun Ogungbemi, dear Farooq Kperogi, Baba Kadiri, Ogbeni Peter Obi, Jibrin Ibrahim, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and last but not least, President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban) overnight, had all suddenly turned white - like Oyibos, from that point on we would all live to be telling a different story, our own unique stories about what happened next, where we are, or were. I'm sure that some, of course, not necessarily any of the aforementioned names, would even commit suicide on the spot or after a few days - but not if we had all miraculously metamorphosed into and thereby inherited any of the following ethnic identities and characteristics: Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani Herdsmen ( I dare conjecture that if overnight, Tony Adepoju had metamorphosed into the latter -a Fulani Herdsman, in addition to taking the change in his stride - philosophically, it would probably cause him some serious mental issues/ mental problems.
In the wake or in the light of Moshin Hamid's The Last White Man, to imagine how. e.g Donald Trump, Joe Biden or Professor Kenneth Harrow would deal with the reality of metamorphosing into a bonafide Honourable Black African Man overnight, ought not to beggar description or overtax the imagination; in the case of Trump his political future would probably be ruined and in the case of Brother Harrow, I believe that apart from maybe living up to the cultural ideology of Negritude more intensely, he would probably be denouncing the ill report that he posted, about what's happening in Tunisia even more vehemently; to borrow the words of my most eloquent friend, Claude Kayat, "Racism in all its forms is utterly revolting and disgusting"
Here's
Needless to say, in my opinion, down here on mother earth with Apartheid in South Africa, long since under arrest, there are laws that are and ought to be in place, addressing the scourge of racism whenever and wherever it raises its ugly head. Racism, of course, is not just a black and white "thingy", equally virulent, these past 30 years or so I have been reading a lot of reports, opinions, and counter-opinions ( call it anti-racism if you like) about the scourge of antiSemitism on American campuses.
It's getting a little longish, although one has not even really started on this matter that could occupy a sizable portion of a black man's memoir/ autobiography, so until the next instalment, I'd just like to add this little note, that tribalistic Nigerians ( you know what I mean " tribalistic" - tribalistic at home, and tribalistic abroad) emigrate to the United States of America where some of them become little or big kahuna professors leaving behind them the mess that's adding fuel to the racism from which some of them say that they are catching hell because it's the mess and the messing up that causing the brain-drain and the forever looking for greener pastures elsewhere, pastures that are greener than the green in our national flags that's contributing to the racism the understandable ( I understand it) anti-immigration policies and all that unsavoury talk about shithole countries.
Now if the politicians etc had not been messing up big time back home, why would anyone be emigrating to the North or South Pole countries? For What? Looking for Ingrid Bergman, Eskimo ladies?
Of absolute relevance to the signifying monkey is the Chapter on Verbal Art from pages 245 - 429 of Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
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the nigerian population census has been postponed
rather than individual counties in Africa conducting her own census why not do it collectively and treat Africa as a whole especially when you think of the Africa continental trade agreement, certainly Africa can agree because we know ,where there is no up to date reliable d data there may be no development its certainly affecting przfjce of insurabce in africa #india #development #africa #data