Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Claudine Gay is out

Speaking about Gaza!

Crossposted from N. Sadanand.

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Israel in Secret Talks to 'Resettle' Palestinians in Congo, Report Says
Allison Quinn
Wed, January 3, 2024 
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Israeli authorities have reportedly been engaged in secret talks with Congo to "resettle" Palestinians from Gaza in the Central African country. That's according to The Times of Israel, which cites its Hebrew-language sister site Zman Israel to report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition is looking at the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as other countries for the "voluntary" resettlement plan. "Congo will be willing to take in migrants, and we're in talks with others," an unnamed source in the security cabinet is quoted as saying. Saudi Arabia has also reportedly been floated as an option. The news comes after the U.S. State Department on Tuesday singled out two far-right Israeli ministers who've been pushing to resettle Palestinians outside Gaza, blasting their "inflammatory and irresponsible" rhetoric. While Netanyahu's office has not officially said it had plans to "resettle" Palestinians, the prime minister reportedly told a meeting last Monday that work is underway to facilitate "voluntary migration" of Palestinians to other countries.

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Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Ah!

I feel it as a personal blow.

She did all she could to accommodate her critics, until the plagiarism allegations did irreparable damage.

What are the implications of this development for her, for Harvard, for US academia?

The pro-Israel, right wing hero here is Ackman, whose campaign has at last borne desired fruit, even as Israel proceeds on Palestinian genocide with the help of the US.

The dead and dying in Gaza most likely do not know about Gay.

Whether Hamas knows about her is questionable.

But the Israeli pro-govt media will celebrate.

She was unlucky to become Harvard President during this crisis.

One must strive to do ones best at all times, and yet pray to avoid unlucky situations. 

Learning to drive, I ran into a wall in front of which a woman had just been farming.

If she had not left there before my car ran into the wall, I am likely today to be a man who once killed someone, and perhaps a former convict who had spent time in prison, an experience the influence of which is unpredictable.

Travelling from Benin to Lagos, I survived an accident in which two people died and I was the only uninjured person, having not even experienced the accident, only closed my eyes to meditate and opened them again to find myself in hospital, having been taken there by villagers on the accident routes who pulled us from the wreckage.

Plagiarism is a primary sin in academia.it can at times be a struggle to do proper attribution, given the various ways in which one may use others work

I also wonder why her output was so slim, in a world and system with the likes of Falola and Nimi Wariboko.

Were those epochal papers?

Does Wole Soyinka need.more than his essay collection Myth, Literature and the African World to become a professor?

I would not think so, it being a great book.

Were her papers like that?

Einstein got his Nobel Prize for one or two papers but that's in physics, not humanities and social sciences.

Rowland Abiodun became prof at then Ife and later Armherst with the same scope of papers as Gay, papers all of which I have read, his book coming many years after the professorship.

Those papers, however, were strategic in defining Yoruba art studies and are central to African art studies, on account of their combination of uneclipsed field research, analytical rigour, creative sensitivity, imaginative range and splendid English even as he wonderfully explicates sublime Yoruba literature.

Alexis Sanderson was long an Oxford professor who never published a book, but even a layman in his recondite field in Hindu Studies can attest to the absolute richness of those numerous papers, their forest like amassing of references from grounding in recondite Sanskrit texts which Sanderson explicates in luminous English.

Every scholar must identify their zones of action and make the most of them.

Toyin Falola is an awesomely prolific book writing scholar, but if one wants to experience Falola's best writing in a manner enabling entry into this glorious forest, one could begin with his poetry and the best I know so far of these being "For Clara Adeyemi" published only in his USAAfrica Dialogues Series Google group, his essay and poetry on Ade Ajayi in In Praise of Greatness, his essays "From Stroke to Stone", 'Ritual Archives" and his autobiographies and his chapter on symbolism of hair in Decolonizing African Knowledge, these being my favourites among his texts I have read so far.

My immediate thoughts.

Thanks

Toyin

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 7:23 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

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