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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-03T17:06:00.000-08:00

Professor Gloria Emeagwali & The AMISTAD SELECTION COMMITTEE of
Central Connecticut State University also have to be congratulated.

http://web.ccsu.edu/afstudy/upd16-2.html#Table_of_Contents

On Mar 3, 5:05 pm, okpehok...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Mwalimu Bangura,
> I have not met you in person, but I have read a lot of your wonderful scholarly works. As a true Africanist, you deserve many more of these awards. We are proud of your achievements. Congratulations!
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> From: "Abegunrin, Olayiwola M." <oabegun...@Howard.edu>
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> Congratulations to you Mwalimu Abdul Karim Bagura.
> All the best
> 'Layi
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> I join others in congratulating Professor Bagura for this award.
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> Prof Felicia A. D. Oyekanmi
> Department of Sociology
> University of Lagos
> Akoka, Yaba,
> Lagos Nigeria
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> From: Seguno2...@yahoo.com <seguno2...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
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> Date: Thursday, 1 March, 2012, 17:39
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> Congrats!
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> abdullahi ashafa <abash...@yahoo.com<http://uk.mc293.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=abash...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> >A Big Congratulations to Bagura.It's a deserving honour.
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> >--- On Thu, 3/1/12, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagw...@mail.ccsu.edu<http://uk.mc293.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=emeagw...@mail.ccsu.edu>> wrote:
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> >From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagw...@mail.ccsu.edu<http://uk.mc293.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=emeagw...@mail.ccsu.edu>>
> >Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
> >To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<http://uk.mc293.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=usaafricadialogue@google...>" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<http://uk.mc293.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=usaafricadialogue@google...>>
> >Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:08 AM
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> >The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
> >that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
> >Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
> >Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
> >and others.
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> >Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
> >over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
> >PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
> >PhD Political Science, Howard University
> >PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
> >PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
> >PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
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> >Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
> >Prof. of History & African Studies
> >History Department
> >Central Connecticut State University
> >New Britain
> >CT 06050
> >www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Frank Arasanyin: Eulogy

2012-03-03T16:38:00.001-08:00

Dr. Framk Arasanyin was laid to rest today, March, 3rd, 2012. Find below my funeral oration.

Frank Olaoba Arasanyin: Eulogy

By Toyin Falola

At the service of songs held yesterday evening for Dr. Frank Olaoba Arasanyin, we heard so much about our dear friend, the illustrious son of Africa and the United States. We were reminded of the promise of the afterlife, the rewards that await the righteous and the devout, the glorious ending of the faithful, and an example of humanity's victory over death. The departed was honored, as he would have wanted.

My words are to the living, the immediate family of Frank: Victoria, Femi, Sade, his kith and kin in the US, Nigeria and elsewhere. To you all, this is a heartfelt eulogy and sympathy. I know that nothing can easily minimize your loss or grief. But time, love, and faith will heal you and will heal broken hearts caused by his sudden demise, and will allow you to once again find joy in life.

I have such fond memories of my good friend, and I poured out my emotions in the first tribute that I wrote about him, telling the world that he was an exceptional human being. I do not wish to repeat myself here since I have a second opportunity to say something. Here are some of the memories I wish to share: Frank would sometimes speak sternly so we would not forget the lessons of poise and dignity. Still, the only picture in my mind is of a man who had laughter in his heart and a smile on his face. A prince among the people, he did not lead a glamorous life, and he did not move in high circles. His appreciation was more for people rather than the best things that money can buy. Professor Akinloye Ojo, the Director of African Studies at the University of Georgia, told us yesterday of Frank's great warmth and his pride in him, thereby lending the support of an elder. Others gave testimonies of his warmth, vibrancy, and energy. As Ojo was speaking, I was telling myself that life must be translated into a vision, then a vision must become a mission, and the mission pursued with passion. It is the intentionality and intensity of the vision, mission and passion that we can control. We have no control over the outcome.

I do not pretend to understand what Frank's thoughts must have been in these last months when his health began to fail him. Perhaps, thinking that he would overcome, the optimism drove him to intense privacy, but he confided in some of us.

What could he have been thinking at a time in his life when 1 plus 1 did not equal 2? Perhaps he was dealing with his past, but I would want to guess that he reflected on the future of his wife and children when he would be no more. Life poses so many unpredictable challenges to you and me. Often we are burdened with the inner turmoil of unresolved questions for years, if not decades. I believe Frank bravely fought some inner battles -- against his bad health and the sadness that came with it, against self-doubt, against hope, or something else that we may never know -- for many months or years. At a point, he must have become exhausted or forgotten what he was fighting for.

I speculate only because these are questions I inevitably ask. My occupation is driven by questions, by the power of systematic doubt, by speculations. They are not unimportant. All of you may have experienced in different ways the effects of his inability to find a different outcome. But although our lives are bound up with others and especially our loved ones, they are also separate and express their own inner destinies and beauty. So while Frank is an intimate part of your histories and gave what he knew how to offer in order to enrich and shape your lives, whatever grief his departure evoked need not infect either your understanding of your own pasts nor the creation, imagination and contemplation of your own futures. And I use pasts and futures not as an error of linguistic inelegance, not to offend our dear friend who was a linguist par excellence, but to underscore our humanity and frailty: the fact that you and I are one, but are also without one. Our meeting today, united by a past, may not be united by a future. Know we not that we manifest different journeys and experiences, and that our histories, in spite of our love for one another and bonding, may inevitably follow different paths?

The answer to pain, suffering, despair, emptiness is always and only the sacredness of joy. In this period of grief, seek joy in the laughter of Frank's children. Envision the most beautiful possibilities for their lives and your own lives. What will these precious and triumphant portraits embody? Peace, dignity, generosity, and the noble struggles to maximize happiness. No less. All of these are within your grasp as we remember Frank, but let us also pursue happiness and love, believe in global peace, become more generous, and acquire the nobility to change the world for good.

You have an abundance of love and strength to offer one another. You have the tremendous support of ancestors who offer their gentle spirits. You have the sympathy and quiet faith of friends and family.

Frank is gone. The benevolent forces of the universe have now taken him to another realm, higher than the one we where we live. To heal him. To transform him into something more than a human. To show him that he was not alone. To assure him that his burdens were not so great as he, you and I thought. To chide him gently for failing to grasp the sacred joy all around him in this world, and the greater joy that lies ahead. To offer him consolation as we watch our resilient capacity for embracing all that is beautiful in the world.

As you remember Frank, let the memory be one of laughter. And when you weep, which I cannot prevent you from doing, let the tears be empowering. Let the tears be those of wisdom and strength, of hope and faith, of love and joy.

Frank is now on a mission. Greet all our ancestors for us. They want the latest reports on us. Tell my parents that I am doing well. Salute Oduduwa. Report Nigeria to them, in truth and faith; though the tongues may differ, we remain compatriots. Keep an eye on your family. Remind the living to live their lives with caution and a sense of proportion, to create a balance between work and family.

I began this eulogy as a philosopher; I want to close it as a priest, if only to respect Victoria, a wife, now a mother and a father, whose life is deeply religious. The Yoruba, of which Frank was a member, are very clever. They came up with various ideas germinated from the seeds of caution. In one such idea, they tell us that one needs money to survive in this world, but one needs iwa (character) to survive in the next world. Money and what it can buy cannot be carried to heaven. But character can, which the Yoruba define in terms of engagements with other human beings, the spirits, and the forces that guide the universe. Frank is now left with those elements of his character, his religiosity, his spirituality. He and the abstract and the reality of the various essences of the cosmos are now united.

Frank, your soul shall rest in peace;

Your surviving wife, children, friends and families will find consolation in the richness of your life and the warmth of your being;

May your family and friends have the fortitude to bear this enormous loss of a peaceful soul;

May we be offered divine solace, while being comforted and consoled that your life and life-works, and humanistic efforts are never in vain, mindful of the fact that your work yielded some visible results and inspired others, like Professors Tunde Akinyemi and Akinloye Ojo who are with us today, towards critical thinking, realistic strivings, and meaningful lifestyles.

Peace to you, my brother, a peaceful soul. Now, rest eternally and be as only you, Frank, can be, even in that land of ancestors and divinity.

RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Education, Legislators and Legislatures in Africa

2012-03-03T15:37:00.000-08:00

Now we appear to be witnessing the return of real democracy into global body-politiks.

Olayinka Agbetuyi

Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 14:42:18 +0300
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Education, Legislators and Legislatures in Africa
From: oldmoshi@gmail.com
To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com; NigeriansnCanada@yahoogroups.com; USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com; wanabidii@googlegroups.com; wanazuoni@yahoogroups.com; youngprofessionals_ke@googlegroups.com

Popularly elected legislatures are the sine qua non of modern,
representative democracy. Yet almost everywhere – even in
the United States where Congress plays a very powerful role –
the influence of legislatures receded during the 20th century.

Legislatures have been especially weak in Africa, almost in
every country and almost always. Yet some African legislatures
are beginning to assert their independence as players in the
policy process by formulating independent policy preferences,
monitoring the executive, and responding to popular demands
(Barkan 2008). But why are some legislatures developing these
capacities while many others are not?

In a recent attempt to answer this question Joel Barkan and
his co-authors undertook a set of intensive case studies of six
African legislatures. They isolated the importance of a 'coalition
of change' that had emerged in some legislatures thus changing
the incentive structure facing individual legislators and sparking
a series of institutional reforms. This reform agenda usually
included improvements in terms of service, such as salaries
and financial support for constituency service, efforts to build
capacity in and improve the committee system, development of
the ability to conduct budget analysis and the professionalisation
of research and other support staff (Barkan 2009).

While these coalitions consist largely of 'opportunists' interested
mainly in increasing their own salaries, perks and careers, they
are driven by 'reformers' who are 'intent on transforming their
institution from a weak rubber stamp of the executive into a
modern autonomous legislature' (Barkan 2009:18). While the
study collected no data on individual member of parliament
(MP) characteristics, Barkan observed that these 'reformers'
seemed to be younger, recently elected legislators who also
possessed advanced levels of education and professional
training (Barkan 2009). These demographic traits, argues
Barkan, produce MPs with distinct ideas and values leading
them to combine a more cosmopolitan view of the surrounding
world with a genuine commitment to democratisation (Barkan
2008).

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NIgerianWorldForum] When is the Burial Ceremony for the Real Heroes of Nigerian Civil War?

2012-03-03T15:23:00.000-08:00

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From: Joseph Onuorah <nnamulu82@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] When is the Burial Ceremony for the Real Heroes of Nigerian Civil War?

When is the funeral ceremony and/or where is the burial ground for the real heroes of Nigerian Civil war? (An an unnecessary war in my opinion!)

The real heroes are:

· Are now beggars on many Nigerian roads and are ignored as though nature cursed them

· Never got any burial ceremony, not even one gun salute

· Went to war after being deceived by lies and emotional outbursts about the circumstances leading to the unnecessary war

· Were killed by same people they were fighting with and for after being falsely accused of being sabotteurs and/or after being used

· Children who died wondering why?

· Those who died from starvation and associated ailments

· Those who died leaving their spouses and children to suffer

· Whose bones are scattered in bushes across Nigeria

Does anyone know which museums, which cemetery, etc where I can go to honor the above for they are deserving of all the honor? They are the true heroes of Nigeria. They are the ones still crying for some recognition that

they even existed; that they had wives, children, parents, feelings, emotions... They are the ones who can speak about who should have attended which and what funeral.

Joe.

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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: Police Brutality at DelawareState University Dover Cops BeatAssociate Professor at Non-violent rally 3/1/2012

2012-03-03T12:41:00.000-08:00

Mwalimu Osei, thanks a heap for your response. I have copied Dr. Randy Short on this reply to give him an opportunity to respond to your take, since he is involved in the matter and has been passing along several Internet postings on it that appear elsewhere.

In Peace Always,

Karim/.

> [Original Message]
> From: Akwasi <aosei121212@gmail.com>
> To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: 3/3/2012 1:16:07 PM
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: Police Brutality at DelawareState University Dover Cops BeatAssociate Professor at Non-violent rally 3/1/2012
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> Hi Abdul:
>
> Someone called my attention to this, and I thought I should respond as
> best as I could.
>
> First, how are you? It has been a hile since we made contact. Hope
> all is well.
>
> As Chair of the History, Political Science and Philosophy department
> at DSU, and as a long serving faculty member, I want you to know that
> whatever infiormation you have on this topic is flawed, full of
> innacuracies, half-truths and outright misrepresentations. Clearly, I
> am unable to share what I know , but I can say this: there has been
> no evidence of police brutality on this campus that anybody is aware
> of. You do not want to be the carrier of rumors and innacurate
> information.
>
> I notice Dr. Nyang also was concerned. You can tell him that there is
> no issue of police brutality on our campus.
>
> Sinceley
>
> Akwasi Osei
>
> On Mar 2, 12:39 am, "Abdul Bangura" <th...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > From Dr. Randy Short:
> > For Immediate Release 3/2/2012
> > Delaware State University Professor of History Brutally Treated and Arrested by Dover Police Officers
> > Stop Police Brutality at Delaware State University!
> > Human Rights Activist and Professor of African American History at Delaware State University (DSU), located in Dover, Delaware, Dr. Jahi Issa had to be hospitalized prior to his arrest. Dr. Issa was part of a student-organized protest concerning the unfair treatment of proactive faculty at Delaware State. Recently, Dr. Issa had filed an EEOC complaint regarding unfair and discriminatory treatment of African American faculty at the university. Delaware State University has since the ultra-conservative presidency of Dr. Allen L. Sessoms�who had the Africana Studies library materials destroyed in 2008. Sessoms ordered staff to leave Africana studies books to be left on the lawn to be destroyed by rain. Dr. Harry L. Williams replaced Sessoms as President of Delaware State in September 2008. President Williams earned his Ed.D. from the conservative East Tennessee State University.
> > Dr. Issa who is very popular with students who have become disenchanted with the �plantation styled� administration of their school. Recently, Dr. Issa had written about the inner threat that reactionary administrations pose to the future survival of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Black Agenda Report ezine in late 2011. Friends to Dr. Issa were concerned when DSU President made veiled threats to protect the image his university on a cable program that aired Sunday, February 26, 2012. Media concerns interested in learning more about the plight of minority colleges and universities or the recent violence at DSU can contact Dr. Issa of the HBCU Initiative at 302 465-3787 or his email jahiiss...@gmail.com or his Washington, D.C. representative Dr. Randy Short at wrandysh...@gmail.com. Presently, Dr. Issa is under arrest in the custody of the Dover police (302) 736-7111. As of 10:00 p.m. 3/1/2012, the authorities have refused to release Dr. Issa or explain the charges for his arrest nor given his family time for his arraignment. President Harry L. Williams can be reached at 302 857-6001 or hwilli...@desu.edu. What kind of university leadership uses police state methods on non-violent students and faculty?
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa

2012-03-03T10:10:00.000-08:00

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Tribute To My Husband by Odinakachukwu Bianca Ojukwu

2012-03-03T09:32:00.000-08:00

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Tribute To My Husband by Odinakachukwu Bianca Ojukwu

How do I sum up 23 years in one page? I don't know. How do I describe you? I cannot. Not in any depth. Not for anybody else - you were my husband, my brother, my friend, my child. I was your queen, and it was an honour to have served you.

You were the lion of my history books, the leader of my nation when we faced extinction, the larger-than-life history come to my life - living, breathing legend. But unlike the history books, you defied all preconceptions. You made me cry from laughter with your jokes, many irreverent. You awed me with your wisdom. You melted my heart with your kindness. Your impeccable manners made Prince Charming a living reality. Your fearlessness made you the man I dreamt of all my life and your total lack of seeking public approval before speaking your mind separated you from mere mortals.

Every year that I spent with you was an adventure - no two days were the same. With you, I was finally able to soar on wings wider than the ocean. With you I was blessed with the best children God in heaven had to give. With you, I learnt to face the world without fear and learnt daily the things that matter most. Your disdain for money was novel - sometimes funny, other times quite alarming.
It mattered not a whit to you. Your total dedication to your people - Ndi-Igbo - was so absolute that really, very little else mattered. You never craved anybody's praise as long as you believed that you were doing right and even in the face of utmost danger, you never relented from speaking truth to power - to you, what after all, was power? It was not that conferred by the gun, nor that stolen from the ballot box. No. You understood that power transcended all that. Power is the freedom to be true to yourself and to God, no matter the cost.

It is freedom from fear. It is freedom from bondage. It is freedom to seek the wellbeing of your people just because you love them. It is the ability to move a whole nation without a penny as inducement nor a gun to force them. When an entire nation can rise up for one person for no other reason than that they love him and know he is their leader - sans gun, money, official title or any strange paraphernalia - that is power.

To try to contain you in words is futile. You span the breadth of human experience - full of laughter, joy, kindness and sometimes, almost childlike in your ability to find something good in almost everyone and every situation. You could flare up at any injustice and in the next instant, sing military songs to the children. You could analyze a situation with incredible swiftness and accuracy. In any generation, there can only be one like you. You were that one star. You were a child of destiny, born for no other time than the one you found yourself in.

Destined to lead your people at the time total extinction was staring us in the face. There was no one else. You gained nothing from it. You used all the resources you had just to wage a war of survival. You fought to keep us alive when we were being slaughtered like rams for no reason. Today, we find ourselves in the same situation but you are not here. You fought that we might live. The truth is finally coming out and even those who fought you now acknowledge that you had no choice. For your faithfulness, God kept you and brought you home to your people.

You loved Nigeria. You spent so much of your waking moments devising ways through which Nigeria could progress to Tai-Two!!! You were the eternal optimist, always hoping that one day, God will touch His people and give us one Vision and the diligence to work towards the dream. It never came to pass in your lifetime. Instead, the disaster you predicted if we continued on the same path has come home to roost. You always saw so clearly. Your words are indelibly preserved for this generation to read and learn and perhaps heed and turn. You always said the dry bones will rise again. But you always hoped we would not become the dry bones by our actions. Above all, you feared for your own people, crying out against the relentless oppression that has not three ceased since the end of the war and saddened by the acceptance of this position by your own people. In death, you have awakened the spirit that we thought had died. Your people are finally waking up.

At home, you were the father any child would dream of having. At no point did our children have to wonder where you were. You were ever at their disposal, playing with them, teaching them of a bygone era, teaching them of the world they live in and giving them the total security of knowing you were always present.

In mercy, God gave me a year to prepare for the inevitable. I could never have survived an instant departure. In mercy, God ensured that your final week on earth was spent only with me and that on your last day, you were back to your old self. I cannot but thank God for the joy of that final day - the jokes, the laughter, the songs. It was a lifetime packed into a few hours, filled with hope that many tomorrows would follow and that we would be home for Christmas. You deceived me. You were so emphatic that we would be going home. I did not know you meant a different home.

The swiftness of your departure remains shocking to me. You left on the day I least expected. But I cannot fight God. He owns your life and mine. I know that God called you home because every other time it seemed you were at death's door, you fought like the lion that God made you and always prevailed. In my eyes, even death was no match for you. But who can say 'no' to the Almighty God? You walked away with Him, going away with such peace that I can only bow to God's sovereignty. Your people have remembered. The warrior of our land has gone. The flags are lowered in your honour. Our hearts are laden with grief.

But I will trust that the living God who gave you to me will look after me and our children. Through my sadness, the memories will always shine bright and beautiful.

Adieu, my love,
My husband,
My lion,
Ikemba,
Amuma na Egbe Igwe,
Odenigbo Ngwo.
Eze-Igbo Gburugburu,
Ibu dike.
Chukwu gozie gi,
Chukwu debe gi. Anyi ga afu na omesia.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - MICHAEL AFOLAYAN'S EMAIL

2012-03-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

Hello Folks:

Can anyone please help me find Prof. Michael Afolayan's email address or phone number(s). I understand he is in Nigeria. Thanks.

Kwabena.

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: Police Brutality at Delaware State University Dover Cops BeatAssociate Professor at Non-violent rally 3/1/2012

2012-03-03T08:27:00.000-08:00

Hi Abdul:

Someone called my attention to this, and I thought I should respond as
best as I could.

First, how are you? It has been a hile since we made contact. Hope
all is well.

As Chair of the History, Political Science and Philosophy department
at DSU, and as a long serving faculty member, I want you to know that
whatever infiormation you have on this topic is flawed, full of
innacuracies, half-truths and outright misrepresentations. Clearly, I
am unable to share what I know , but I can say this: there has been
no evidence of police brutality on this campus that anybody is aware
of. You do not want to be the carrier of rumors and innacurate
information.

I notice Dr. Nyang also was concerned. You can tell him that there is
no issue of police brutality on our campus.

Sinceley

Akwasi Osei

On Mar 2, 12:39 am, "Abdul Bangura" <th...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> From Dr. Randy Short:
> For Immediate Release 3/2/2012
> Delaware State University Professor of History Brutally Treated and Arrested by Dover Police Officers
> Stop Police Brutality at Delaware State University!
> Human Rights Activist and Professor of African American History at Delaware State University (DSU), located in Dover, Delaware, Dr. Jahi Issa had to be hospitalized prior to his arrest. Dr. Issa was part of a student-organized protest concerning the unfair treatment of proactive faculty at Delaware State. Recently, Dr. Issa had filed an EEOC complaint regarding unfair and discriminatory treatment of African American faculty at the university. Delaware State University has since the ultra-conservative presidency of Dr. Allen L. Sessomsï¿½who had the Africana Studies library materials destroyed in 2008. Sessoms ordered staff to leave Africana studies books to be left on the lawn to be destroyed by rain. Dr. Harry L. Williams replaced Sessoms as President of Delaware State in September 2008. President Williams earned his Ed.D. from the conservative East Tennessee State University.
> Dr. Issa who is very popular with students who have become disenchanted with the ï¿½plantation styledï¿½ administration of their school. Recently, Dr. Issa had written about the inner threat that reactionary administrations pose to the future survival of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Black Agenda Report ezine in late 2011. Friends to Dr. Issa were concerned when DSU President made veiled threats to protect the image his university on a cable program that aired Sunday, February 26, 2012. Media concerns interested in learning more about the plight of minority colleges and universities or the recent violence at DSU can contact Dr. Issa of the HBCU Initiative at 302 465-3787 or his email jahiiss...@gmail.com or his Washington, D.C. representative Dr. Randy Short at wrandysh...@gmail.com. Presently, Dr. Issa is under arrest in the custody of the Dover police (302) 736-7111. As of 10:00 p.m. 3/1/2012, the authorities have refused to release Dr. Issa or explain the charges for his arrest nor given his family time for his arraignment. President Harry L. Williams can be reached at 302 857-6001 or hwilli...@desu.edu. What kind of university leadership uses police state methods on non-violent students and faculty?

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-03T08:05:00.000-08:00

Mwalimu Bangura,
I have not met you in person, but I have read a lot of your wonderful scholarly works. As a true Africanist, you deserve many more of these awards. We are proud of your achievements. Congratulations!

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Congratulations to you Mwalimu Abdul Karim Bagura.

All the best

'Layi

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Felicia Oyekanmi [profoyekanmi@yahoo.com]
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I join others in congratulating Professor Bagura for this award.

Prof Felicia A. D. Oyekanmi
Department of Sociology
University of Lagos
Akoka, Yaba,
Lagos Nigeria
Tel: {234} 1 7941757
Cell: {234}8056560970

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From: Seguno2001@yahoo.com <seguno2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, 1 March, 2012, 17:39

Congrats!

abdullahi ashafa <abashafa@yahoo.com> wrote:

>A Big Congratulations to Bagura.It's a deserving honour.
>
>--- On Thu, 3/1/12, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
>Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
>To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:08 AM
>
>
>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>and others.
>
>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>PhD Political Science, Howard University
>PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>
>
>
>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>Prof. of History & African Studies
>History Department
>Central Connecticut State University
>New Britain
>CT 06050
>www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>
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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-03T06:31:00.000-08:00

Adesuahene [King of Scholarship] Nana Obirempong Bangura, we all proud of you. Congratulations!

Kwabena

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] on behalf of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:06 PM
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congratulations to abdul!! wonderful news
ken

On 3/1/12 8:51 PM, Pablo Idahosa wrote:
> Indeed, indeed. Abdul is Abdul, but, and, he is always amazing, a
> beyond worthy achievement, Congrats Abdul; congrats.
>
> Pablo
>
>
>
> On 01/03/12 11:26 AM, Bai K Blyden wrote:
>> Let me join Dr.Emeagwali in congratulating Kortoh Abdul Bangura as well.
>>
>> Bai K Blyden
>>
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>> "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is
>>> proud to announce
>>> that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura
>>> of Howard University.
>>> Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including
>>> Professor Toyin Falola,
>>> Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor
>>> Tunde Zack-Williams
>>> and others.
>>>
>>> Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and
>>> has written
>>> over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>>> PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>>> PhD Political Science, Howard University
>>> PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>>> PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>>> PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>>> Prof. of History& African Studies
>>> History Department
>>> Central Connecticut State University
>>> New Britain
>>> CT 06050
>>> www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>>> www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>>>
>>> emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>>>
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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-03T05:59:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to you Mwalimu Abdul Karim Bagura.

All the best

'Layi

From: Seguno2001@yahoo.com <seguno2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, 1 March, 2012, 17:39

Congrats!

abdullahi ashafa <abashafa@yahoo.com> wrote:

>A Big Congratulations to Bagura.It's a deserving honour.
>
>--- On Thu, 3/1/12, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
>Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
>To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:08 AM
>
>
>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>and others.
>
>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>PhD Political Science, Howard University
>PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>
>
>
>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>Prof. of History & African Studies
>History Department
>Central Connecticut State University
>New Britain
>CT 06050
>www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Education, Legislators and Legislatures in Africa

2012-03-03T03:42:00.000-08:00

Popularly elected legislatures are the sine qua non of modern,
representative democracy. Yet almost everywhere – even in
the United States where Congress plays a very powerful role –
the influence of legislatures receded during the 20th century.

Legislatures have been especially weak in Africa, almost in
every country and almost always. Yet some African legislatures
are beginning to assert their independence as players in the
policy process by formulating independent policy preferences,
monitoring the executive, and responding to popular demands
(Barkan 2008). But why are some legislatures developing these
capacities while many others are not?

In a recent attempt to answer this question Joel Barkan and
his co-authors undertook a set of intensive case studies of six
African legislatures. They isolated the importance of a 'coalition
of change' that had emerged in some legislatures thus changing
the incentive structure facing individual legislators and sparking
a series of institutional reforms. This reform agenda usually
included improvements in terms of service, such as salaries
and financial support for constituency service, efforts to build
capacity in and improve the committee system, development of
the ability to conduct budget analysis and the professionalisation
of research and other support staff (Barkan 2009).

While these coalitions consist largely of 'opportunists' interested
mainly in increasing their own salaries, perks and careers, they
are driven by 'reformers' who are 'intent on transforming their
institution from a weak rubber stamp of the executive into a
modern autonomous legislature' (Barkan 2009:18). While the
study collected no data on individual member of parliament
(MP) characteristics, Barkan observed that these 'reformers'
seemed to be younger, recently elected legislators who also
possessed advanced levels of education and professional
training (Barkan 2009). These demographic traits, argues
Barkan, produce MPs with distinct ideas and values leading
them to combine a more cosmopolitan view of the surrounding
world with a genuine commitment to democratisation (Barkan
2008).

USA Africa Dialogue Series - 2011 Global Wealth Report

2012-03-03T03:18:00.000-08:00

The Credit Suisse Research Institute second annual Global Wealth Report finds that Asia Pacific emerges as the key contributor of global wealth growth, accounting for 36% of all global wealth creation since 2000, and 54% since January 2010. Total global wealth has increased 14% from USD 203 trillion in January 2010 to USD 231 trillion in June 2011. Emerging markets remain the main wealth growth engine, with the fastest growth seen in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In the next five years, global wealth is expected to rise by 50% to USD 345 trillion and wealth per adult to increase 40% to reach USD 70,700, led by growth in emerging markets. The Report finds that emerging markets have considerable scope to increase personal wealth given their much lower ratio of net financial assets to income and a much lower debt-income ratio than found in mature economies. Aging is also expected to increase the demand for financial assets relative to real assets like housing.

https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/323525/2011_global_wealth_report.pdf

USA Africa Dialogue Series - News Release: IMF Says Ghana’s Inflation Projected To Remain Within 6.7 To 10.7 Percent

2012-03-03T01:48:00.000-08:00

The economy expanded by an estimated 13½ percent in 2011, boosted by the onset of oil production and strong broad based non-oil growth, while end-2011 inflation reached 8.6 percent below the government's 9 percent target................

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Be the part of Marathon with Green Yatra for our Society

2012-03-02T23:21:00.000-08:00

Run for a cause with Green Yatra

Be the part of Marathon organized by Parichay 2012 - Annual Cultural festival of D.J.Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai on March 4th in association with Green Yatra

The event committee has chosen a noble theme — 'Miles with Meaning' and expecting your presence for the noble cause.

Green Yatra always brings enjoyment with responsibility where the people support a social cause. The Charity Run is a fun event and group participation is encouraged. It is great opportunity to promote teamwork and demonstrate social and civic responsibility.

There are prizes for largest group, best creative group attire, best individual attire, creation of theme related to the cause and best slogan. Be the Change, Bring the Change...Join the team at www.greenyatra.org

Registration: The registration process will be online and the forms can be filled from the official website http://www.djparichay.com/marathon.

Day: Sunday 4th March
Distance: 6.1 Kilometer

Contact Person: Sagar Vora-9773673233
Starts: D.J. Sanghvi Collage and Ending at Juhu.
Time: 7A.M

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T18:06:00.000-08:00

congratulations to abdul!! wonderful news
ken

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T14:27:00.000-08:00

Dear Mwalimu Bangura,

We are proud of your achievements. Keep up with great works, which honor us all.

Many thanks for all.

Best regards.

Tukumbi

________________________________________
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Emeagwali, Gloria (History) [emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:08 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
and others.

Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
PhD Political Science, Howard University
PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
PhD Mathematics, Columbus University

Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Jobs in East Africa - 02-03-2012

2012-03-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

Airtel Vacancies

EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY JOBS

Savannah Cement Vacancies

Kenyatta University Vacancies

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T11:32:00.000-08:00

Thanks a heap for your very kind words, Mwalimu Dasylva. They are truly cherished. I must, nonetheless, hasten to mojuba and say that I am not Mwalimu Toyin Falola's "running mate." The truth is that he is my Mwalimu/Honorable Teacher in the true sense of the word. I will continue to learn from him, you, Mwalimu Ogungbemi, Mwalimu Mbaku, Mwalimu Chief Ike, Mwalimu AB Assensoh, Mwalimu Gloria Emeagwali, Mwalimu James Gire, Mwalimu Adepoju, and many, many other Honorable Teachers on this forum.

In Peace Always,

Karim/.

> [Original Message]
> From: <a.dasylva@mail.ui.edu.ng>
> To: <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: 3/2/2012 10:35:21 AM
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
>
> I join the others in congratulating Mwalimu Abdul Bangura for the well deserved award. An icon, no doubt, and so far, Mwalimu Toyin Falola's running mate - two insatiated bookworms, one might say. Mwalimu Bangura, congratulations, again and again.
> Dasylva Ademola
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
> Sender: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 11:08:01
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Reply-To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
>
> The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
> that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
> Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
> Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
> and others.
>
> Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
> over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
> PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
> PhD Political Science, Howard University
> PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
> PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
> PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>
>
>
> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
> Prof. of History & African Studies
> History Department
> Central Connecticut State University
> New Britain
> CT 06050
> www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T11:16:00.000-08:00

Dear Professor Bangura,

This is well deserved. Congratulations!!

Raphael

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A pat on the shoulder, Mwalimu Bangura, for an honor so well deserved.

Edward Kissi

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

Congratulations Abdul! You deserve this Award. Victor Brandon, my friend in Sierra Leone would be happy about this award.

John

At 08:51 PM 3/1/2012, Pablo Idahosa wrote:
>Indeed, indeed. Abdul is Abdul, but, and, he is always amazing, a
>beyond worthy achievement, Congrats Abdul; congrats.
>
>Pablo
>
>
>
>On 01/03/12 11:26 AM, Bai K Blyden wrote:
>>Let me join Dr.Emeagwali in congratulating Kortoh Abdul Bangura as well.
>>
>>Bai K Blyden
>>
>>T-Mobile. America's First Nationwide 4G Network
>>
>>"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is
>>>proud to announce that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to
>>>Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>>>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including
>>>Professor Toyin Falola, Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor
>>>Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams and others.
>>>
>>>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has
>>>written over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>>>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University PhD Political Science, Howard
>>>University PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland PhD
>>>Computer Science, Columbus University PhD Mathematics, Columbus
>>>University
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>>>Prof. of History& African Studies
>>>History Department
>>>Central Connecticut State University
>>>New Britain
>>>CT 06050
>>>www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>>>www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEm
>>>eagwali> emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>>>
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T11:14:00.000-08:00

Oga Bangura, many many many congratulations, man! We are proud of you! I don't agree with you a lot of times, but your list of achievements gives me goosebumps each time I see your CV coming my way! And no matter the ribbing, you are one great sport! Enjoy this additional feather in your groaning cap!

- Ikhide
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A pat on the shoulder, Mwalimu Bangura, for an honor so well deserved.

Edward Kissi

Congratulations Abdul! You deserve this Award. Victor Brandon, my friend in Sierra Leone would be happy about this award.

John

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Leadership for Development in Nigeria: Pitfalls and Opportunities

2012-03-02T10:14:00.000-08:00

CVL 2012 Annual Lecture by Prof. Peter M. Lewis, Director, African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Delivered on February 7, 2012.

I would like to first extend my deep appreciation to Professor Pat Utomi for honoring me with the invitation to deliver this year's lecture for the Centre for Values in Leadership. I have counted Pat Utomi as a friend for more years than we would like to acknowledge and I have always marveled at his intelligence, energy, insight, dedication and integrity. I continue to learn from his ideas and from his example. He personifies a special resource for Nigeria: an "age grade" of citizens with the vision, education, experience, and global perspective to move the country toward better governance, social equity, and economic dynamism. The Centre for Values in Leadership is a welcome project that offers us an occasion each year to reflect on the nature of leadership, the challenges of leadership in Nigeria, and the possibilities of leadership in Africa's most populous state.

Nigeria's Contradictory Paths

This past year has left many of us with a great sense of contradiction. Just twelve months ago, Nigerians and international friends looked expectantly toward elections that would be more transparent, competitive and fair. The administration promised electoral reform that was long overdue, backed by fresh leadership in the Independent National Electoral Commission, and a national mobilization to ensure acceptable polls. During the April election period, many people took encouragement from the orderly and open conduct of the voting. Domestic observers, the Nigerian media, and international observers commended the process, along with many average Nigerians, and a clear winner emerged.

Yet as we know, the elections were shadowed by some irregularities and considerable violence. Many presidential voters believed that their candidate had been unfairly defeated, and a number of state and local elections were marred by conflict. The new administration faced great challenges of managing regional tensions, securing public trust, and meeting long-standing aspirations for shared economic development.

Less than a year later, the nation is being severely tested by dilemmas of security and economic direction. The rapid escalation of the insurgency in Northern Nigeria, and the wave of social protest that answered the government's initiative to remove the fuel subsidy, have incited widespread feelings of uncertainty and popular frustration. These are very different challenges, arising from distinctive agendas and social foundations. Boko Haram is a narrow, violent sectarian group. By contrast, the civic response to the fuel subsidy issue has been inclusive, peaceful and broadly popular. Still, the unsettling events of this season leave many Nigerians asking whether their government can keep them safe, whether politicians have the capacity to manage the economy, whether elites have the empathy or interest to reduce poverty and inequality, whether Nigeria's diverse people will retain their general civility or succumb to violence.

The concerns of the moment reflect greater questions about where Nigeria is heading. Not long ago I had the opportunity to speak at a lecture series convened by the Abuja Investments Company. I sketched two visions of Nigeria that we often find in the media and in popular discussion. One vision is the "emerging Nigeria" that aims to be among the world's largest 20 economies in the next decade. It is the Nigeria of 70 million cell phones, 40 million internet users, a strengthened banking system, initiatives in electrical power, a vibrant media and entertainment industry, reform governors in Lagos and elsewhere, a rising middle class, global presence and a seven percent economic growth rate. It is also a Nigeria of elections and competitive parties, rambunctious politics, a respected judiciary, and a federal arrangement that maintains a rough stability in a plural society.

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T07:34:00.000-08:00

I join the others in congratulating Mwalimu Abdul Bangura for the well deserved award. An icon, no doubt, and so far, Mwalimu Toyin Falola's running mate - two insatiated bookworms, one might say. Mwalimu Bangura, congratulations, again and again.
Dasylva Ademola
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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T06:21:00.000-08:00

A pat on the shoulder, Mwalimu Bangura, for an honor so well deserved.

Edward Kissi

Congratulations Abdul! You deserve this Award. Victor Brandon, my friend in Sierra Leone would be happy about this award.

John

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T06:01:00.000-08:00

Let me, though I don't know Prof Abdul Bangura personally, also add my congratulations. One had got perhaps a rather one-dimensional image from the postings on this listserve, (and the gentle ribbing of those who know him better) which that list of intimidating doctorates quite shatters!

Ayo
I invite you to follow me on Twitter @naijama

On 2 Mar 2012, at 14:29, John Baffoe-Bonnie <jbb10@psu.edu> wrote:

> Congratulations Abdul! You deserve this Award. Victor Brandon, my friend in Sierra Leone would be happy about this award.
>
> John
>
>
> At 08:51 PM 3/1/2012, Pablo Idahosa wrote:
>> Indeed, indeed. Abdul is Abdul, but, and, he is always amazing, a
>> beyond worthy achievement, Congrats Abdul; congrats.
>>
>> Pablo
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/03/12 11:26 AM, Bai K Blyden wrote:
>>> Let me join Dr.Emeagwali in congratulating Kortoh Abdul Bangura as well.
>>>
>>> Bai K Blyden
>>>
>>> T-Mobile. America's First Nationwide 4G Network
>>>
>>> "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>>>> that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>>>> Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>>>> Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>>>> and others.
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>>>> over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>>>> PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>>>> PhD Political Science, Howard University
>>>> PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>>>> PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>>>> PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>>>> Prof. of History& African Studies
>>>> History Department
>>>> Central Connecticut State University
>>>> New Britain
>>>> CT 06050
>>>> www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>>>> www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>>>> emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>>>>
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T05:29:00.000-08:00

Congratulations Abdul! You deserve this Award. Victor Brandon, my
friend in Sierra Leone would be happy about this award.

John

At 08:51 PM 3/1/2012, Pablo Idahosa wrote:
>Indeed, indeed. Abdul is Abdul, but, and, he is always amazing, a
>beyond worthy achievement, Congrats Abdul; congrats.
>
>Pablo
>
>
>
>On 01/03/12 11:26 AM, Bai K Blyden wrote:
>>Let me join Dr.Emeagwali in congratulating Kortoh Abdul Bangura as well.
>>
>>Bai K Blyden
>>
>>T-Mobile. America's First Nationwide 4G Network
>>
>>"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is
>>>proud to announce
>>>that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul
>>>Bangura of Howard University.
>>>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including
>>>Professor Toyin Falola,
>>>Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor
>>>Tunde Zack-Williams
>>>and others.
>>>
>>>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and
>>>has written
>>>over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>>>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>>>PhD Political Science, Howard University
>>>PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>>>PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>>>PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>>>Prof. of History& African Studies
>>>History Department
>>>Central Connecticut State University
>>>New Britain
>>>CT 06050
>>>www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>>>www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>>>emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>>>
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - US, UK and French plan to keep Africa divided

2012-03-02T04:31:00.000-08:00

AfricanConstitution.Org

Divide and steal

BM (March 1, 2012) -- Ethiopia's PM Zenawi is in Kenya for the launch of the multi-trillion Lamu Port (Kenya)-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor Project.

In the last fortnight or so, a US official telephoned South Sudan President Kiir in the middle of a peace meeting with Sudan in Ethiopia and instructed him not to sign an oil agreement with Khartoum.

The puppet US-UK regime in South Sudan is designed to cut Khartoum off the oil in the South. The new pipeline through Kenya is the central part of a Washington-London plan to control and exploit the oil in the South.

France, the US and the UK can count on the anti-2017 regimes to keep Africa divided and weak for purposes of continuing the plunder and pillage of its resources.

IN PICTURES: Ethiopian PM Zenawi in Nairobi

PM Odinga, Pres. Kibaki, Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi and VP Musyoka (pic: Daily Nation)

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-02T03:20:00.000-08:00

From: Seguno2001@yahoo.com <seguno2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, 1 March, 2012, 17:39

Congrats!

abdullahi ashafa <abashafa@yahoo.com> wrote:

>A Big Congratulations to Bagura.It's a deserving honour.
>
>--- On Thu, 3/1/12, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
>Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
>To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:08 AM
>
>
>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>and others.
>
>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>PhD Political Science, Howard University
>PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>
>
>
>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>Prof. of History & African Studies
>History Department
>Central Connecticut State University
>New Britain
>CT 06050
>www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
>
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: Segun Oni Is Taking The Judiciary For A Ride By Nelson Ekujumi

2012-03-02T03:18:00.000-08:00

The judiciary is generally acknowledged as the last hope of the common man but certain developments within the Nigerian judiciary in the last couple of months have given patriotic Nigerians and groups cause for concern because of its long term implication on the society.................

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africa Crazy Demo Dance (Nigerian Pidgin English Poem)

2012-03-02T02:21:00.000-08:00

By Chidi Anthony Opara

I dream dream last night

Where baba Wade

Take wayo win di run off demo.

As baba Wade win,

Im come dey demonstrate,

Dey dance Africa crazy demo dance.

I come see baba third term.

Baba third term

Come join baba Wade.

Come see as di two baba

Dey dance Africa crazy demo dance.

Baba third term

Come beckon baba Wade.

Di tall baba come bend down,

Baba third term

Come whisper for im ear say;

"No mind di two years

Wey we agree before.

When di time reach

I go tell you wetin to do".

Baba Wade

Look baba third term for face,

Laugh come full

Di two baba dem mouth,

Dem continue to dance

Africa crazy demo dance.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - News Release: MEND Claims Responsibility In Marine Police Checkpoint Attack In Bayelsa State

2012-03-02T01:25:00.000-08:00

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta(MEND) confirms that the attack on a Nigerian marine police checkpoint on Thursday March 1, 2012, in Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria was carried out by our fighters...................

USA Africa Dialogue Series - TEDxEuston- Jerome Okolo speaks on Not learning from History- a tribute to Ojukwu

2012-03-01T23:50:00.000-08:00

As Nigeria bids farewell to Biafran leader, Ojukwu, TEDXEuston releases video of Jerome Okolo speaking at TEDxEuston 2011 on November 26th last year. While Jerome was on stage, speaking on the theme " How Many Nigerians does it take to change a light bulb", in an extraordinary coincidence, news came of Ojukwu's death.

It earned him a standing ovation- watch this and see why http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO2a7EWGVaE&feature=related

Ike

http://nigeriahealthwatch.com/

www.tedxeuston.com

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Russia: Block St. Petersburg’s Homophobic Law

2012-03-01T23:07:00.000-08:00

(Moscow) – St. Petersburg Governor Georgiy Poltavchenko should veto a homophobic bill adopted by the city's parliament, Human Rights Watch said today.

The St. Petersburg city parliament on February 29, 2012, adopted a bill that would impose fines on people engaging in "public activities to promote sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transsexuality" that might be observed by minors. The bill passed by a vote of 29 to 5 with one abstention. The governor has two weeks to veto the bill or sign it into law.

"February 29 was a dark day for St. Petersburg and for Russia as this damning anti-gay bill came one step closer to becoming law," said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch."The governor now has an opportunity to uphold the rule of law and stop this discriminatory and dangerous initiative in Russia's northern capital."

The bill would introduce two amendments to the St. Petersburg Law on Administrative Offenses. In addition to the amendment banning lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered, (LGBT) "propaganda," the bill would ban propaganda promoting pedophilia, insidiously linking two unrelated issues, Human Rights Watch said. People found guilty of violating the law would face fines of up to 50,000 rubles (US$1,700), and organizations would face fines of up to 500,000 rubles (US$17,000).

The bill's language is so vague and broad that it could lead to a ban on displaying a rainbow flag or wearing a T-shirt with a gay-friendly logo or even on holding LGBT-themed rallies in the city. The vote in St. Petersburg followed the approval of similar laws in other parts of Russia – in Ryazan in 2006, in Arkhangelsk in September 2011, and in Kostroma in February 2012. Those promoting the bill claim it is aimed at protecting minors from LGBT "propaganda."

"The bill is setting a dangerous precedent by maliciously linking pedophilia with homosexuality – it only serves to stoke existing homophobic sentiment in society," Williamson said. "It also sets a dangerous precedent for freedom of expression more generally."

The bill has already caused international outrage. Many nongovernmental organizations and activists have spoken out against it and called on the Russian authorities to stop the bill from being adopted. The US State Department, the UK Foreign Office, the Australian Government, and the European Parliament have also expressed profound concern.

The environment for LGBT people in Russia is very hostile, and LGBT activists are vulnerable to harassment and physical attack. The authorities routinely ban and violently disperse gay demonstrations. In October 2010 the European Court of Human Rights found Russia in violation of freedom of assembly for repeatedly denying activists the right to hold gay pride marches.

The European Court firmly rejected the Russian government's argument that there was no general consensus on issues relating to the treatment of sexual minorities. The ruling stated that there is "no ambiguity" about "the right of individuals to openly identify themselves as gay, lesbian or any other sexual minority, and to promote their rights and freedoms, in particular by exercising their freedom of peaceful assembly."

Russia is bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to guarantee the rights not to be discriminated against, and to freedom of assembly and expression. Russia also supported a March 2010 recommendation from the Committee of Ministers in the Council of Europe to end discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. The document includes provisions for the right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression without discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.

"Russia has clear human rights duties and this bill flies in the face of Russia's obligations to protect its LGBT citizens," Williamson said. "The governor can now send a message that St. Petersburg will not tolerate such blatant homophobia or become a negative example for other Russian regions."

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/02/russia-block-st-petersburg-s-homophobic-law

USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Scope For Foreign Exchange Market Interventions

2012-03-01T23:05:00.000-08:00

The discussion on exchange rate policy is dominated by the so-called "impossible trinity". According to this principle an autonomous monetary policy, a control over the exchange rate and free capital movements cannot be achieved simultaneously. In this paper, a strategy of managed floating is developed that allows transforming the "impossible trinity" into a "possible trinity". If a central bank targets an exchange rate path which is determined by uncovered interest parity (UIP), it can at the same time set its policy rate autonomously. As a UIP path removes the incentives for carry-trade, it is also compatible with capital mobility. The approach can be used unilaterally to prevent carry trade as a central bank can always prevent an appreciation of its currency. But it can also be applied bilaterally or multilaterally. Successful examples are the European Monetary System and the exchange rate policy of Slovenia before its EMU membership.

http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/osgdp20114_en.pdf

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Confronting Chinese Innovation Mercantilism

2012-03-01T23:04:00.001-08:00

In the last decade, China accumulated $3.2 trillion worth of foreign exchange reserves and now enjoys the world's largest current account balance. China's economic strategy consists of two main objectives: 1) develop and support all industries that can expand exports, especially higher value-added ones, and reduce imports; 2) and do this in a way that ensures that Chinese-owned firms win. It is time for policymakers in the United States and other countries to begin responding to today's reality for Chinese mercantilism represents a fundamental threat to not only the U.S. economy, but to the entire system of market and rules-based globalization.

http://www2.itif.org/2012-enough-enough-chinese-mercantilism.pdf

USA Africa Dialogue Series - ISO 26000 and global governance for sustainable development

2012-03-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

ISO 26000 is a new international standard on social responsibility developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It offers guidance across themes including human rights, labour, environment, consumer protection, fair operating practices and community development.This paper describes the development of the ISO 26000 standard and discusses the dissonances that emerged in relation to policy making, global governance and consequently sustainable development. The paper suggests a number of steps that could be taken to maximize the positive contributions of ISO 26000 to global governance for sustainable development and offers lessons for the analysis of other market governance mechanisms.

http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/16507IIED.pdf

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Police Brutality at Delaware State University Dover Cops BeatAssociate Professor at Non-violent rally 3/1/2012

2012-03-01T22:53:00.000-08:00

Dear Randy:
Thanks for your letter educating all of us about the situation at Delaware State University. What else are you asking all of us to do to see that justice is done to the colleague in the academy. Keep the faith and good luck in your activism.

Sincerely,

Professor Sulayman S. Nyang
Howard University
P.O. Box 590113
Washington D.C. 20059

--- On Fri, 3/2/12, Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Police Brutality at Delaware State University Dover Cops BeatAssociate Professor at Non-violent rally 3/1/2012
To: "USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012, 12:39 AM

From Dr. Randy Short:

For Immediate Release 3/2/2012

Delaware State University Professor of History Brutally Treated and Arrested by Dover Police Officers

Stop Police Brutality at Delaware State University!

Human Rights Activist and Professor of African American History at Delaware State University (DSU), located in Dover, Delaware, Dr. Jahi Issa had to be hospitalized prior to his arrest. Dr. Issa was part of a student-organized protest concerning the unfair treatment of proactive faculty at Delaware State. Recently, Dr. Issa had filed an EEOC complaint regarding unfair and discriminatory treatment of African American faculty at the university. Delaware State University has since the ultra-conservative presidency of Dr. Allen L. Sessoms—who had the Africana Studies library materials destroyed in 2008. Sessoms ordered staff to leave Africana studies books to be left on the lawn to be destroyed by rain. Dr. Harry L. Williams replaced Sessoms as President of Delaware State in September 2008. President Williams earned his Ed.D. from the conservative East Tennessee State University.

Dr. Issa who is very popular with students who have become disenchanted with the "plantation styled" administration of their school. Recently, Dr. Issa had written about the inner threat that reactionary administrations pose to the future survival of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Black Agenda Report ezine in late 2011. Friends to Dr. Issa were concerned when DSU President made veiled threats to protect the image his university on a cable program that aired Sunday, February 26, 2012. Media concerns interested in learning more about the plight of minority colleges and universities or the recent violence at DSU can contact Dr. Issa of the HBCU Initiative at 302 465-3787 or his email jahiissa65@gmail.com or his Washington, D.C. representative Dr. Randy Short at wrandyshort@gmail.com. Presently, Dr. Issa is under arrest in the custody of the Dover police (302) 736-7111. As of 10:00 p.m. 3/1/2012, the authorities have refused to release Dr. Issa or explain the charges for his arrest nor given his family time for his arraignment. President Harry L. Williams can be reached at 302 857-6001 or hwilliams@desu.edu. What kind of university leadership uses police state methods on non-violent students and faculty?

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Police Brutality at Delaware State University Dover Cops BeatAssociate Professor at Non-violent rally 3/1/2012

2012-03-01T21:39:00.000-08:00

From Dr. Randy Short:

For Immediate Release 3/2/2012

Delaware State University Professor of History Brutally Treated and Arrested by Dover Police Officers

Stop Police Brutality at Delaware State University!

Human Rights Activist and Professor of African American History at Delaware State University (DSU), located in Dover, Delaware, Dr. Jahi Issa had to be hospitalized prior to his arrest. Dr. Issa was part of a student-organized protest concerning the unfair treatment of proactive faculty at Delaware State. Recently, Dr. Issa had filed an EEOC complaint regarding unfair and discriminatory treatment of African American faculty at the university. Delaware State University has since the ultra-conservative presidency of Dr. Allen L. Sessoms—who had the Africana Studies library materials destroyed in 2008. Sessoms ordered staff to leave Africana studies books to be left on the lawn to be destroyed by rain. Dr. Harry L. Williams replaced Sessoms as President of Delaware State in September 2008. President Williams earned his Ed.D. from the conservative East Tennessee State University.

Dr. Issa who is very popular with students who have become disenchanted with the "plantation styled" administration of their school. Recently, Dr. Issa had written about the inner threat that reactionary administrations pose to the future survival of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Black Agenda Report ezine in late 2011. Friends to Dr. Issa were concerned when DSU President made veiled threats to protect the image his university on a cable program that aired Sunday, February 26, 2012. Media concerns interested in learning more about the plight of minority colleges and universities or the recent violence at DSU can contact Dr. Issa of the HBCU Initiative at 302 465-3787 or his email jahiissa65@gmail.com or his Washington, D.C. representative Dr. Randy Short at wrandyshort@gmail.com. Presently, Dr. Issa is under arrest in the custody of the Dover police (302) 736-7111. As of 10:00 p.m. 3/1/2012, the authorities have refused to release Dr. Issa or explain the charges for his arrest nor given his family time for his arraignment. President Harry L. Williams can be reached at 302 857-6001 or hwilliams@desu.edu. What kind of university leadership uses police state methods on non-violent students and faculty?

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sovereign National Conference in Nigeria: A Valiant and Refreshing Perspective!

2012-03-01T18:32:00.000-08:00

Original conception revisited

By Edwin Madunagu (March 1, 2012)

About 20 years ago, precisely on June 25, July 2, and July 9 1992, this column carried a three-part article on Sovereign National Conference (SNC). Each of the three parts dealt with a different aspect of the subject and carried a different title: For a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) (June 25); SNC and flashpoints of discontent (July 2) and Organising the SNC (July 9).

I started the first part of the article, For a Sovereign National Conference (SNC), with revolutionary optimism and high morale: "Now that the convening of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) for Nigeria can be regarded as historically inevitable, we turn part of our attention to its historical basis, justification, status, composition, structure, mandate, agenda, tenure and relation to the incumbent government. We must turn attention to these questions so that the conference, when it finally comes, does not descend on us unprepared, as historical anti-climax".

Clarification: By "we" and "us" in this opening paragraph I meant, not "all Nigerians", but specifically, the Radical Movement, that is, the aggregate of Nigeria's socialists, labour unions, popular-democratic formations and radical patriots. I am today aware, more than I was in 1992, that there are genuine democrats and radical patriots who are only opposed to "Nigerian capitalism" and "Nigerian system" and not to capitalism in general. The federation of "we" and "us" has spaces for all such compatriots.

The opening paragraph was restrained, so to say, by the second paragraph, from going over the roof. And this was the restraint: "I hasten to add, however, that the actual historical point at which this conference – that is, the SNC – will be convened cannot be predicted. We cannot say if it will come before the end of the present transition or after it. Since I am not a soothsayer, I cannot say whether it will come peacefully or not. What is abundantly clear is that the way forward passes through a National Conference and no where else". The phrase "whether it will come about peacefully or not" appears to introduce a contradiction into this advocacy because a national conference, sovereign or not, was - and is - supposed to prevent a one-sided, or unilateral and therefore violent, resolution of a fundamental political crisis. So how can it come about violently? In other words, how can a "peaceful alternative" be conceived as a project which may be brought into being by violence? I now see that my 1992 formulation in this instance was too dry. I ought to have added two notes by way of illustration: One, that an actual armed confrontation can force a Sovereign National Conference on the nation; and two: that, generally and historically, a violent action, or actions that threaten to use force, may be inevitable in laying the foundation of a system that is envisaged as peaceful.

In the third paragraph of the article I said: "A Sovereign National Conference becomes the only viable historical option, not all times, but precisely at those points in a nation's history when a crisis, signifying the bankruptcy of a social order or an existing political structure, cannot be resolved either by the existing state or by any other coalition of forces. At those points, the nation in crisis can advance in one of three directions: Either it degenerates into anarchy (Liberia and Somalia) or disintegrates (Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union), or the whole nation meets to save itself. The way to national recovery and renewal therefore lies in the third direction."

The only comment I should make today on this arguably idealistic formulation is that I was - and I am - interested in the question of Sovereign National Conference principally because of the role I believed - and believe - my "constituents", that is radical patriots, genuine democrats and leftists, would play in such a gathering and the specific weight of the interests of Nigeria's popular masses in it. Otherwise, I would not be talking politics. I may however add that neither in 1992 nor today would I conceive a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) as a gathering of Nigeria's ethnic nationalities, however articulated. Nigeria is not, and has never been, the arithmetical sum of ethnic nationalities.

In the fourth paragraph, I attempted an implicit definition of a Sovereign National Conference by differentiating it from a Constituent Assembly: "A Sovereign National Conference (SNC) is not a Constituent Assembly, and must not be confused with it. A Constituent Assembly is normally put in place by an incumbent government under its own rules…Whatever form it takes, a Constituent Assembly comes into being only when a basic direction of national renewal has been agreed upon, or imposed. The Assembly then works out the mechanisms or details". I would today replace "Constituent Assembly" with "Constitutional Conference" to correspond with our own political lexicon.

On the other hand, a Sovereign National Conference "proceeds with no assumption whatsoever; it is national in the truest sense of the term; it is virile; it is self-constituted and, while it lasts, it is superior to any other political institution in the land, including the incumbent government. This is the type of conference I consider now inevitable in the country". I do not see the need for any modification of this formulation, although I admit that it is "extremist" and "maximalist". But that is it. If you are not comfortable with this, you may talk of another conference, but not a Sovereign National Conference. I may also add, for completeness, that only a referendum can alter even a single word in SNC's decisions.

In the sixth and seventh paragraphs I argued that a Sovereign National Conference (SNC), as I had conceived it "is a social revolution, regardless of the fear which conservatives have for the term. There are two types of social revolution: the national but radical; and the class-based. A Sovereign National Conference is a revolution of the first type. The Conference need not aspire to address all questions. It should limit itself to the fundamental question of our national existence. Other questions will be taken up by an elected Constituent Assembly when the terms of our continued existence have been agreed upon by the SNC and the foundations of a New Nigeria have been laid". My comment here is by way of clarification. By "national existence" or "continued existence" I did not mean-and do not mean - ethnic cohabitation". I meant - and I mean - the prevention of a Somali-type situation. We all know that, today, Somalia simultaneously exists and does not exist.

This first part of the three-part article ended with a "distillation" of what I had called the "fundamental question of our national existence". I listed four elements of this "fundamental question" and added a fifth one in the second article. They may be summarized. The first element is the national question and structure of national unity. "Under this, the SNC should deal with the question of relationship between the various nationalities that constitute Nigeria. It should make a choice between confederalism, federalism and unitarism. It should deal with the nature and elements of the choice that is made". My hope here was - and is - that my "constituents", as I defined them above, would fight for either the retention of states as constituent units of a Nigerian federation or the empowerment of the current geopolitical zones. But not restructuring along ethnic lines.

The second element of the fundamental principle of our national existence, as I saw it in 1992, is Fundamental human rights. Here the SNC should "agree on a list of enforceable and justiciable human rights to be enjoyed by all Nigerians with immediate effect, not at an unspecified future". The third element is State and religion. "Here the terms of relationships that should exist between organized religions and the Nigerian state should be stated in clear terms". I added that "there should be no ambiguity here". The fourth element is the Philosophy of government and political system. I now believe that the fifth and last element, Economic system and property relations, sounds too suggestive for the type of conference that is envisaged. It may come under fundamental human rights.

I would like to end with the obvious: Just as nothing guarantees the victory of a revolution before it is launched, or even as it is launched, the SNC, as conceived above, is not guaranteed of victory. In fact, it can hasten the advent of the "doomsday", as some people now warn - honestly or dishonestly. For instance, there may appear irreconcilable disagreements on the composition of the conference, on the agenda or on the mode of taking decisions. There may also be threats of, or actual, extra-SNC interventions in the course of the proceedings.

Regards,
Chido Onumah
Coordinator, African Centre for Media & Information Literacy,
P.O.Box 6856, Wuse 11, Abuja, Nigeria
www.africmil.org
+234-7043202605

USA Africa Dialogue Series - What is the Attitude of Africans towards Blood and Organ Donation?

2012-03-01T18:06:00.000-08:00

One of the major threats to the future of health in African Communities is the severe lack of sufficient blood and organ donors. African people are 4-5x more likely to need an organ transplant but less than 2% of people on most Health Service Organ Donor Registers are of African descent. The number is clearly exponential in Africa, where the condition is even grimmer.

A study finds that one of the reasons is that African donors are more likely to donate to family members, or other closely related recipients. Unlike people of European descent who were are likely to be unrelated to the recipients of their organs. Organ donation is still a taboo in some discussions from African, Asian, mixed race communities. Understanding why such discrepancies exist could help reduce concerns about organ donation and assist in the development of specialized encouragement strategies for new donors in the African communities.

It's natural to have questions or possibly concerns, and so we invite you to talk to our team in about what it means to become an organ donor. The more we can understand what contributes to people's willingness to donate blood or organs, the better job we can do of educating potential living donors about the need and allay fears about the risks.

Join us as we explore this very important topic on African Health Dialogue

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-01T17:51:00.000-08:00

Indeed, indeed. Abdul is Abdul, but, and, he is always amazing, a
beyond worthy achievement, Congrats Abdul; congrats.

Pablo

On 01/03/12 11:26 AM, Bai K Blyden wrote:
> Let me join Dr.Emeagwali in congratulating Kortoh Abdul Bangura as well.
>
> Bai K Blyden
>
> T-Mobile. America's First Nationwide 4G Network
>
> "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)"<emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>> that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>> Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>> Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>> and others.
>>
>> Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>> over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>> PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>> PhD Political Science, Howard University
>> PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>> PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>> PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>> Prof. of History& African Studies
>> History Department
>> Central Connecticut State University
>> New Britain
>> CT 06050
>> www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>> www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>> emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nota Bene: More Proof For Cheikh Anta Diop's Scientific Effulgence

2012-03-01T15:03:00.000-08:00

Nota Bene: More Proof for Cheikh Anta Diop's Scientific Effulgence

Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt (2011)

To Mary Lefkowitz and other Eurocentrists and Afropessimists, YES, it is still Out of Afrika!

It is coincidental that I had just finished an interview yesterday during which I discussed my Pluridisciplinary work patterned after that of The Great Cheikh Anta Diop when I came home and received a copy of the brand new book, Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt (Bear and Company, Rochester, New York, 2011), by Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy, which, I hope, will finally put to rest the pernicious charge that African-centered scholarship is a "feel good," "romanticizing" exercise. Employing archaeological, anthropological, climatological, geological, and genetic research tools for four decades, Bauval and Brophy provide new empirical archaeoastronomical and hieroglyphic evidence that supports The Great Cheikh Diop's theory of the Black Afrikan origin of Egyptian Civilian---consequently, Greek and other European civilizations.

As Bauval and Brophy put it in their Introduction, "We came across...inherent bias and prejudice against African origins of the Egyptian civilization in the debate---more of an auto-dafe'---against the Black African professor Cheikh Anta Diop, who, in 1954, published his thesis, Nation negre et Culture, which argued a Black African origin for the Egyptian civilization. Anta Diop was both an eminent anthropologist and a highly respected physicist, and as such, he was armed with an arsenal of cutting-edge science as well as the use of the latest technology in radiocarbon and biochemistry to determine the skin color of ancient mummies and corpses by analyzing their content of melanin, a natural polymer that regulates pigmentation in humans....We can now say with much evidence-driven conviction that [ancient Egyptian civilization] origins have their genesis with a Black African people" (2011:1-2).

Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery , published in 1994 and becoming a number-one best-seller translated in 25 languages, and his research has been featured in documentaries throughout the world, is an Egyptologist who lives in Torremolinos, Spain. Thomas Brophy, an astrophysicist who has worked with NASA, including as a member of the Voyager II spacecraft instrument teams, is the author of several books, including The Origin Map, and numerous published articles in scientific journals, lives in Encinitas, California.

In Peace Always,

Abdul Karim Bangura/.

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-01T14:39:00.000-08:00

Congrats!

abdullahi ashafa <abashafa@yahoo.com> wrote:

>A Big Congratulations to Bagura.It's a deserving honour.
>
>--- On Thu, 3/1/12, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>
>Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU
>To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
>Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:08 AM
>
>
>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>and others.
>
>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>PhD Political Science, Howard University
>PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>
>
>
>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
>Prof. of History & African Studies
>History Department
>Central Connecticut State University
>New Britain
>CT 06050
>www.africahistory.net<http://www.africahistory.net/>
>www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali<http://www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali>
>emeagwali@ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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2012-03-01T11:32:00.000-08:00

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Re: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori

2012-03-01T09:29:00.000-08:00

It is now clear that former Governor Ibori is the Alibaba of Delta State (of
Nigeria). My question is: what about the other "40" thieves that have
contributed to the slow growth of a state that houses substantial black gold?

Ike Udogu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eke, Maureen Ngozi" <eke1mn@cmich.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:56 am
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>

> I want to puke. And, this is one person. Imagine how much Nigeria
> has been bled and is still being bled. So, if Ibori wey be small
> shrimp in the sea come tief tief all dis money how much him ogas
> bin take? Will London return the money he siphoned through them?
> And, if that is returned, who takes custody of it?
>
> This is an ugly cycle really. Think of it, these are simply the
> foot soldiers. My mother would say this is like tape worm. You cut
> of the tail, but the head survives to continue sapping the life
> force out of its victim. How painfully sad, very sad, indeed.
>
> Maureen
>
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori
>
>
> The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori
>
> Published on February 28, 2012
>
> The Daily Mail of London exposes the massive wealth of former
> governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who pleaded guilty to a 10-
> count charge of money laundering and conspiracy yesterday before a
> Southwark Crown Court in London.
> His rise from DIY store worker to international playboy with a £250
> million fortune is the stuff of dreams.
> A few years after quitting his £5,000-a-year job as a cashier for
> Wickes, James Ibori had become one of Nigeria's most influential
> and richest politicians.
> He wasted no time spending his new-found wealth on luxury homes,
> top-of-the-range cars, five-star travel and fees at exclusive
> boarding schools.
> But yesterday the 49-year-old stood shame-faced in the dock of
> London's Southwark Court as he admitted stealing tens of millions
> of pounds from the oil-rich state he governed in Nigeria. Scotland
> Yard detectives believe his fraud could exceed £250million.
>
> He was on trial in the UK because much of the stolen money was
> laundered through his London office.
> Ibori moved from Nigeria to West London in the late 1980s and was
> found guilty of stealing goods from the Wickes store he worked at
> in Ruislip in 1990.
> A year later he was convicted of handling a stolen credit card. He
> moved back to Nigeria and worked for its president, Sani Abacha, as
> a policy consultant.
> Rising quickly through the ranks of the ruling People's Democratic
> Party, he was voted governor of Delta State in 1999, winning re-
> election four years later.
> In power, he systematically stole from the public purse, taking
> kickbacks and transferring state funds to his own bank accounts
> around the world.
> He was helped by family members, including his wife Theresa, sister
> Christine Ibori-Ibie, his mistress Udoamaka Oniugbo, and Mayfair
> lawyer Bhadresh Gohil.
> A massive police investigation into Ibori's activities revealed he
> had bought six properties in London, including a six-bedroom house
> with indoor pool in Hampstead for £2.2million and a flat opposite
> the nearby Abbey Road recording studios.
> There was also a property in Dorset, a £3.2million mansion in South
> Africa and further real estate in Nigeria.
> He owned a fleet of armoured Range Rovers costing £600,000 and a
> £120,000 Bentley. On one of his trips to London he bought a
> Mercedes Maybach for more than £300,000 at a dealer on Park Lane
> and immediately shipped it to South Africa.
> He bought a private jet for £12 million, spent £126,000 a month on
> his credit cards and ran up a £15,000 bill for a two-day stay at
> the Lanesborough hotel in London.
> Prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court Ibori concealed his UK
> criminal record, which would have excluded him from office in Nigeria.
> "He was never the legitimate governor and there was effectively a
> thief in government house," Miss Wass said. "As the pretender of
> that public office, he was able to plunder Delta State's wealth and
> hand out patronage."
> The court heard Ibori abused his position to award contracts to his
> associates including his sister and his mistress.
> Scotland Yard began its investigation into Ibori after officers
> found two computer hard drives in his London office that revealed
> his criminality.
> He was arrested by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes
> Commission in December 2007, but two years later a court in his
> home town, Asaba, dismissed the charges saying there was not enough
> evidence.When the case was reopened by Nigerian authorities in
> April 2010, Ibori fled to Dubai where he was detained at the
> request of the Metropolitan Police and extradited to the UK last
> April.In a packed courtroom Ibori, dressed in a dark grey suit and
> black shirt, appeared in the dock to enter ten guilty pleas to
> fraud, money laundering and conspiracy on what was due to be the
> first day of a 12-week trial.
> His wife, his mistress and his sister were all jailed for five
> years each for money laundering offences following earlier trials.
> Last March, Gohil, 46, and described as Ibori's London-based
> lawyer, was jailed for seven years for his role in the scam.
> Attempts will be made to confiscate as much of Ibori's money and
> assets as possible so that they can be returned to Nigeria.
> The Met's Detective Inspector Paul Whatmore said: "It is always
> rewarding for anyone working on a proceeds of corruption case to
> know that the stolen funds they identify will eventually be
> returned to some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the
> world."Ibori will be sentenced on April 16 and 17.
> .Culled from the DailyMail
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-01T08:26:00.000-08:00

Let me join Dr.Emeagwali in congratulating Kortoh Abdul Bangura as well.

Bai K Blyden

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"Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:

>The AMISTAD COMMITTEE of Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce
>that the 9th Amistad Award has been given to Professor Abdul Bangura of Howard University.
>Dr. Bangura joins a long list of distinguished scholars including Professor Toyin Falola,
>Professor Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor Mobujaolu Okome, Professor Tunde Zack-Williams
>and others.
>
>Dr. Bangura has authored, edited and contributed to 65 books and has written
>over 400 articles. He holds the following doctorates:
>PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University
>PhD Political Science, Howard University
>PhD Development Economics, University of Maryland
>PhD Computer Science, Columbus University
>PhD Mathematics, Columbus University
>
>
>
>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
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>History Department
>Central Connecticut State University
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Coffin Carrying Courage (Poem)

2012-03-01T08:13:00.000-08:00

By Chidi Anthony Opara

The requiem

Resounds,

The cries.

The tears

Cascade

On the city of coal.

The coffin carrying courage,

Clothed with cloth

Coloured green and white

Perch

Atop enu ugwu.

The bearded bard is here,

The masses

Are massed here

Moping tears,

Musing on their messiah.

From the bunker

Biafra

Bellows.

About Me

USA Africa Dialogue Series - 9th AMISTAD AWARDEE, CCSU

2012-03-01T08:08:00.000-08:00

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Senegal: Run-off

2012-03-01T08:06:00.000-08:00

Big 'if' Cornelius, though it ought to seem like a no-brainer for the opposition. I'm not sure how the turnout issue will work. I would have thought it should work against Wade, given that some opposition parties said they were boycotting the poll, but I've just heard someone on the radio saying that Wade was hoping for a bigger turnout ...

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On 1 Mar 2012, at 12:37, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wade loses,
> it's a foregone conclusion
> if the 13 other opposition candidates
> unite as one,
> to get him out of the race
> nota bene:
> and that would be no disgrace.
>
> On Mar 1, 4:43 am, Toyin Falola <toyin.fal...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> AFRICA
>>
>> 29 February 2012 Last updated at 18:43 ET
>> Senegal presidential poll results confirm run-off
>> Senegal is to hold a second round of presidential
>> elections after incumbent Abdoulaye Wade failed
>> to win outright, election officials have
>> confirmed.
>> Mr Wade gained 34.8% of the vote in Sunday's first round.
>> He faces a run-off next month against his former
>> prime minister, Macky Sall, who came second with
>> 26.5%.
>> Mr Sall urged the opposition to rally behind him
>> against Mr Wade, who has been in power since 2000
>> and is seeking a controversial third term.
>> "I'm sure the desire for change of the Senegalese
>> people will give me the victory in the second
>> round," Mr Sall said at a press conference after
>> the results were announced.
>> Mr Sall promised that if elected, he would
>> shorten the presidential term to five years from
>> the current seven, and enforce a two-term limit.
>> He also promised to bring in measures to reduce the price of basic foodstuffs.
>> Analysts say Mr Wade is likely to struggle in the second round.
>> His bid for a third consecutive term has sparked
>> weeks of violent protests in recent months,
>> leading to about six deaths, although polling on
>> Sunday was largely peaceful.
>> The second round is expected on 18 March.
>> On Tuesday, Mr Wade's admitted he had failed to
>> win more than 50% in the first round.
>> He also said that he would be opening talks with
>> opposition candidates ahead of the run-off.
>> The president was booed as he cast his vote on
>> Sunday in the capital, Dakar - and he lost in his
>> own constituency.
>> Senegal's constitutional court ruled in January
>> that Mr Wade could stand again on the grounds
>> that his first term had not counted since it
>> began before the two-term limit was introduced in
>> 2001.
>> Senegal, a former French colony, is seen as a
>> stable democracy with an unbroken series of
>> elections since independence in 1960.
>> It remains the only West African country where the army has never seized power.
>>
>> More Africa stories
>> ANC youth leader Malema expelled
>> South Africa's governing ANC expels its
>> controversial youth leader Julius Malema after he
>> was found guilty of fomenting divisions in the
>> party.
>> '7/7 widow' link to Kenya terror probe
>> Row erupts over towing Costa ship
>>
>> BBC © 2012 The BBC is not responsible for the
>> content of external sites. Read more.
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori

2012-03-01T08:02:00.000-08:00

I want to confess myself baffled. Such mundane, empty acquisitiveness! Even the huge amount spent to send his children to elite boarding schools: what was he hoping that they would learn there, and for what?

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On 29 Feb 2012, at 21:49, "Eke, Maureen Ngozi" <eke1mn@cmich.edu> wrote:

> I want to puke. And, this is one person. Imagine how much Nigeria has been bled and is still being bled. So, if Ibori wey be small shrimp in the sea come tief tief all dis money how much him ogas bin take? Will London return the money he siphoned through them? And, if that is returned, who takes custody of it?
>
> This is an ugly cycle really. Think of it, these are simply the foot soldiers. My mother would say this is like tape worm. You cut of the tail, but the head survives to continue sapping the life force out of its victim. How painfully sad, very sad, indeed.
>
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori
>
>
> The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori
>
> Published on February 28, 2012
>
> The Daily Mail of London exposes the massive wealth of former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who pleaded guilty to a 10-count charge of money laundering and conspiracy yesterday before a Southwark Crown Court in London.
> His rise from DIY store worker to international playboy with a £250 million fortune is the stuff of dreams.
> A few years after quitting his £5,000-a-year job as a cashier for Wickes, James Ibori had become one of Nigeria's most influential and richest politicians.
> He wasted no time spending his new-found wealth on luxury homes, top-of-the-range cars, five-star travel and fees at exclusive boarding schools.
> But yesterday the 49-year-old stood shame-faced in the dock of London's Southwark Court as he admitted stealing tens of millions of pounds from the oil-rich state he governed in Nigeria. Scotland Yard detectives believe his fraud could exceed £250million.
>
> He was on trial in the UK because much of the stolen money was laundered through his London office.
> Ibori moved from Nigeria to West London in the late 1980s and was found guilty of stealing goods from the Wickes store he worked at in Ruislip in 1990.
> A year later he was convicted of handling a stolen credit card. He moved back to Nigeria and worked for its president, Sani Abacha, as a policy consultant.
> Rising quickly through the ranks of the ruling People's Democratic Party, he was voted governor of Delta State in 1999, winning re-election four years later.
> In power, he systematically stole from the public purse, taking kickbacks and transferring state funds to his own bank accounts around the world.
> He was helped by family members, including his wife Theresa, sister Christine Ibori-Ibie, his mistress Udoamaka Oniugbo, and Mayfair lawyer Bhadresh Gohil.
> A massive police investigation into Ibori's activities revealed he had bought six properties in London, including a six-bedroom house with indoor pool in Hampstead for £2.2million and a flat opposite the nearby Abbey Road recording studios.
> There was also a property in Dorset, a £3.2million mansion in South Africa and further real estate in Nigeria.
> He owned a fleet of armoured Range Rovers costing £600,000 and a £120,000 Bentley. On one of his trips to London he bought a Mercedes Maybach for more than £300,000 at a dealer on Park Lane and immediately shipped it to South Africa.
> He bought a private jet for £12 million, spent £126,000 a month on his credit cards and ran up a £15,000 bill for a two-day stay at the Lanesborough hotel in London.
> Prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court Ibori concealed his UK criminal record, which would have excluded him from office in Nigeria.
> "He was never the legitimate governor and there was effectively a thief in government house," Miss Wass said. "As the pretender of that public office, he was able to plunder Delta State's wealth and hand out patronage."
> The court heard Ibori abused his position to award contracts to his associates including his sister and his mistress.
> Scotland Yard began its investigation into Ibori after officers found two computer hard drives in his London office that revealed his criminality.
> He was arrested by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in December 2007, but two years later a court in his home town, Asaba, dismissed the charges saying there was not enough evidence.
> When the case was reopened by Nigerian authorities in April 2010, Ibori fled to Dubai where he was detained at the request of the Metropolitan Police and extradited to the UK last April.
> In a packed courtroom Ibori, dressed in a dark grey suit and black shirt, appeared in the dock to enter ten guilty pleas to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy on what was due to be the first day of a 12-week trial.
> His wife, his mistress and his sister were all jailed for five years each for money laundering offences following earlier trials.
> Last March, Gohil, 46, and described as Ibori's London-based lawyer, was jailed for seven years for his role in the scam.
> Attempts will be made to confiscate as much of Ibori's money and assets as possible so that they can be returned to Nigeria.
> The Met's Detective Inspector Paul Whatmore said: "It is always rewarding for anyone working on a proceeds of corruption case to know that the stolen funds they identify will eventually be returned to some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world."
> Ibori will be sentenced on April 16 and 17.
> .Culled from the DailyMail
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Washington Post: Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago

2012-03-01T07:58:00.000-08:00

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Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:27:00 AM GMT-0600
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Washington Post: Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago

Here's something simple: if the article is true why wasn't this a disease
transported to the New World? What has been has always been so why didn't
we see this illness in centuries when Africans were ALWAYS hunters and came
in contact with the blood of animals? Why?

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Okechukwu Ukaga <ukaga001@umn.edu> wrote:

> Nonsense! This is conjecture on steroids masquerading as news. There is
> no proven causal relationship between the chimps in Cameroon or anywhere
> else in Africa and HIV/AIDS in humans. The fact is that first AIDS cases
> were detected in the United States of America in 1981. This prompted
> extensive epidemiological work by CDC and others, which included
> interviewing the first 40 patients, and identifying the person most
> responsible for spreading the HIV –nicknamed patient zero, although he was
> actually patient #7 or so. Notably, it was only after we have had
> documented cases of HIV/AIDS in the USA and Europe, did HIV/AIDS then
> appear in Africa…most likely via tourists/visitors from the USA/Europe.
>
> -OU
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> By Craig Timberg<http://www.washingtonpost.com/craig-timberg/2011/05/17/AFM2rbAH_page.html>and Daniel Halperin, Published:
>> February 27
>> **
>> We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS
>> epidemic. But a series of recent genetic discoveries have shed new light on
>> it, starting with the moment when a connection from chimp to human changed
>> the course of history.
>> We now know where the epidemic began: a small patch of dense forest in
>> southeastern Cameroon. We know when: within a couple of decades on either
>> side of 1900. We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected
>> chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp's blood into
>> the hunter's body, probably through a cut during butchering.
>>
>> Read the rest here<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/colonialism-in-africa-helped-launch-the-hiv-epidemic-a-century-ago/2012/02/21/gIQAyJ9aeR_story.html>
>> .
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - A tribute to Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Great.

2012-03-01T07:17:00.000-08:00

A tribute to Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Great

KAYODE KETEFE

By the time you are reading the piece, all preparations for the historic interment of the late Biafran warlord cum Nigerian statesman, Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will have been made, to pave way for that substantive final ash to ash rite, which is the most emotive moment in human cultural symbolism of mortality. This writer has never overgrown the emotion of being awe-stricken and perplexed in soulful transportation at the sight of a funeral, especially at that very somber moment filled with aura that stirs the pensive tunes in the heart, while a corpse is being lowered into the final resting place – the grave.

Whenever the eerie subject of death is the theme, all men succumb to some sort of emotions which underline the paucity of human knowledge on the mystery - the uncertainty of what lies beyond the grave.

Yesterday, a man was full of life, zestful, up and doing and today he is completely immobilised by the great leveler whose cold, lethal hands do not discriminate between the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the wicked and the righteous etc.

The announcement of the death of Dim Ojukwu on November 26, 2011, was initially taken with a measure of skeptical cautiousness, this being the natural emanation borne of earlier false reports of his demise, as the old warrior was callously being ravaged by sickness in a London hospital, but all doubts were soon dispelled and it later became evident that the death of Ikemba Nnewi was for real.

Then the torrents of tributes began to pour in honour of one of the great historical icon of modern Nigeria. People extolled his virtues in deluge of adjectives and flowery epithets. If there is one thing Nigerians are good at, it is crafting reflective tributes and moving elegies that would make even Shakespeare green with envy; we rarely celebrate our hero when they are alive but we never stint the praises in appreciative hagiography when they are gone.

Born on November 4, 1933 in the northern city of Zungeru and brought up in Lagos, Ojukwu, a highly socialised polyglot who spoke Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa fluently, was an advocate of egalitarian society where everyone, irrespective of ethnicity, would be free to live, thrive and pursue happiness. It is the erosion of this virtue in the troubled first republic and the pogroms leading to the callous killings of his kinsmen that inspired Ojukwu to secession project. He himself said the secession which he declared on May 30, 1967, was not a war on Nigeria but a declaration of the right of Igbo people to self-determination.

The obstinacy with which the Igbo nation under Ojukwu withstood the federal might for three good years in spite of overwhelming odds is a symbolism of Ojukwu's sterling character.

Ojukwu exhibited the same principled unyielding temperament when three years after his 1982 return from exile, the military government forcibly ejected him from his father residence at No. 29, Queen's Drive, Ikoyi, known as "Villaska Lodge".

The military government in 1985 wrote to Ojukwu of its intention to confiscate the building describing it as one of the "abandoned properties" of the Nigerian civil war, the title of which had reverted to the government. Ikemba filed an action in court to contest the confiscation and while the action was pending, the then military government of Lagos State sent 150-strong armed men which callously threw "the people's general" out of his father house.

Never a man to be cowed, Ojukwu defied the inclemency of the weather and other discomforts and stayed days on end in his vehicle right in front of the building, having vowed not to give up until he regain the possession of his father property.

His resolve eventually yielded dividend and Ojukwu got back his father's property through judicial intervention.

Such was Ojukwu's tenacity and uncompromising resolve. He was a dogged fighter, a man irrevocably committed to the actualisation of his ideals. Today, whenever the name Ojukwu is mentioned, it is evocative of virtues like courage, self discipline, erudition, forthrightness, outspokenness and charisma. When criticisms trailed the way he ruled as the Head of State in his   in short-lived Peoples Republic of Biafra, especially regarding his ordering the death, through tribunal, of his once able and trusted lieutenants like Col. Victor Banjo and Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Ojukwu pleaded military necessity. He said "I did not permit personal friendship to intervene in my duties as Head of State"

On the Nigerian civil war, he had this to say "The civil war was a stage. Some might say an unnecessary stage, some might say inevitable stage, in our march to nationhood. Whichever way, it was a stage and a mile post in our agglomerate development. We cannot wish it away"

In a brief summary of his personal achievements, Ojukwu bypassed all apparent great accomplishments one may attribute to him and put his entire life achievements in a simple manner thus "My achievement is that whenever I speak, I am taken serious by Nigerians, the people I want most to serve."

Adieu, the People's General, Ikemba Nnewi, Dikedioranma Ndigbo, Odenigbo Ngwo, Ezeigbo Gburugburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Washington Post: Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago

2012-03-01T06:27:00.000-08:00

Here's something simple: if the article is true why wasn't this a disease transported to the New World? What has been has always been so why didn't we see this illness in centuries when Africans were ALWAYS hunters and came in contact with the blood of animals? Why?

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Okechukwu Ukaga <ukaga001@umn.edu> wrote:

Nonsense! This is conjecture on steroids masquerading as news. There is no proven causal relationship between the chimps in Cameroon or anywhere else in Africa and HIV/AIDS in humans. The fact is that first AIDS cases were detected in the United States of America in 1981. This prompted extensive epidemiological work by CDC and others, which included interviewing the first 40 patients, and identifying the person most responsible for spreading the HIV –nicknamed patient zero, although he was actually patient #7 or so. Notably, it was only after we have had documented cases of HIV/AIDS in the USA and Europe, did HIV/AIDS then appear in Africa…most likely via tourists/visitors from the USA/Europe.
-OU

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

By Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin, Published: February 27

We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But a series of recent genetic discoveries have shed new light on it, starting with the moment when a connection from chimp to human changed the course of history.

We now know where the epidemic began: a small patch of dense forest in southeastern Cameroon. We know when: within a couple of decades on either side of 1900. We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp's blood into the hunter's body, probably through a cut during butchering.

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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 2012 Global Economic Prospects (GEP)

2012-03-01T05:30:00.000-08:00

Mwalimu Yona Maro, if only Afrikans had listened to Kwame Nkrumah and other Afrikan stalwarts, we would not be in this bind! Indeed, it is the proverbial, "When the West sneezes, the developing world gets the fever."

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 2012 Global Economic Prospects (GEP)

This report, released by World Bank on 18 January 2012 finds that developing countries should prepare for further downside risks, as Euro Area debt problems and weakening growth in several big emerging economies are dimming global growth prospects.

In the report, the Bank has lowered its growth forecast for 2012 to 5.4 percent for developing countries and 1.4 percent for high-income countries (-0.3 percent for the Euro Area), down from its June estimates of 6.2 and 2.7 percent (1.8 percent for the Euro Area), respectively. Global growth is now projected at 2.5 and 3.1 percent for 2012 and 2013, respectively.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1322593305595/8287139-1326374900917/GEP_January_2012a_FullReport_FINAL.pdf

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Senegal: Run-off

2012-03-01T03:37:00.000-08:00

Wade loses,
it's a foregone conclusion
if the 13 other opposition candidates
unite as one,
to get him out of the race
nota bene:
and that would be no disgrace.

On Mar 1, 4:43 am, Toyin Falola <toyin.fal...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> AFRICA
>
> 29 February 2012 Last updated at 18:43 ET
> Senegal presidential poll results confirm run-off
> Senegal is to hold a second round of presidential
> elections after incumbent Abdoulaye Wade failed
> to win outright, election officials have
> confirmed.
> Mr Wade gained 34.8% of the vote in Sunday's first round.
> He faces a run-off next month against his former
> prime minister, Macky Sall, who came second with
> 26.5%.
> Mr Sall urged the opposition to rally behind him
> against Mr Wade, who has been in power since 2000
> and is seeking a controversial third term.
> "I'm sure the desire for change of the Senegalese
> people will give me the victory in the second
> round," Mr Sall said at a press conference after
> the results were announced.
> Mr Sall promised that if elected, he would
> shorten the presidential term to five years from
> the current seven, and enforce a two-term limit.
> He also promised to bring in measures to reduce the price of basic foodstuffs.
> Analysts say Mr Wade is likely to struggle in the second round.
> His bid for a third consecutive term has sparked
> weeks of violent protests in recent months,
> leading to about six deaths, although polling on
> Sunday was largely peaceful.
> The second round is expected on 18 March.
> On Tuesday, Mr Wade's admitted he had failed to
> win more than 50% in the first round.
> He also said that he would be opening talks with
> opposition candidates ahead of the run-off.
> The president was booed as he cast his vote on
> Sunday in the capital, Dakar - and he lost in his
> own constituency.
> Senegal's constitutional court ruled in January
> that Mr Wade could stand again on the grounds
> that his first term had not counted since it
> began before the two-term limit was introduced in
> 2001.
> Senegal, a former French colony, is seen as a
> stable democracy with an unbroken series of
> elections since independence in 1960.
> It remains the only West African country where the army has never seized power.
>
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> South Africa's governing ANC expels its
> controversial youth leader Julius Malema after he
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> party.
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit

2012-03-01T01:57:00.000-08:00

This report a collaboration between InSight at Pacific Community Ventures and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, examines the practices of the largest U.S. investors in investing for both financial return and positive social and environmental impact.

It also explores the extensive role of public policy in shaping how institutional investors channel capital. The research reveals numerous government strategies that catalyze private investment for public good, including laws in 20 states that allow or encourage "economically targeted investments" where a public pension system invests in its home state to support local economic growth while also targeting a financial return to the fund.

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/media/download/02164e4d-8556-4977-bb58-a53b3ca5192b

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2012-03-01T01:52:00.000-08:00

This report reviews developments in wholesale interconnection rates for mobile wireless telephony service in the OECD area (Mobile Termination Rates or MTRs). These rates are the charges that telecommunication network operators pay for delivering telephone calls to mobile wireless providers. There have been considerable changes in these rates and, in some countries, the role regulatory authorities play in how these charges are set. In these countries, particularly those with the calling party network pays (CPNP) system, regulators have increased their role over time.

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/developments-in-mobile-termination_5k9f97dxnd9r.pdf;jsessionid=3v52ime78c4vn.delta?contentType=/ns/WorkingPaper&itemId=/content/workingpaper/5k9f97dxnd9r-en&containerItemId=/content/workingpaperseries/20716826&accessItemIds=&m

USA Africa Dialogue Series - 2012 Global Economic Prospects (GEP)

2012-03-01T01:51:00.000-08:00

This report, released by World Bank on 18 January 2012 finds that developing countries should prepare for further downside risks, as Euro Area debt problems and weakening growth in several big emerging economies are dimming global growth prospects.

In the report, the Bank has lowered its growth forecast for 2012 to 5.4 percent for developing countries and 1.4 percent for high-income countries (-0.3 percent for the Euro Area), down from its June estimates of 6.2 and 2.7 percent (1.8 percent for the Euro Area), respectively. Global growth is now projected at 2.5 and 3.1 percent for 2012 and 2013, respectively.

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1322593305595/8287139-1326374900917/GEP_January_2012a_FullReport_FINAL.pdf

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