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Professor Okafor,

These are trying times for all of us , but first the funny side of things, because it's not good to be woken up like the late Shehu Shagari, woken by an orderly or a friend of the family, first thing in the morning, to be informed , even as you're rubbing sleep from your eyes, that there has been a coup d'état (bloodless) and that verily it happened last night, on New Year's Eve, ushering in what was to have been the beginning of your Happy New Year.

And in such a situation, if you are to be the bearer of not so glad tidings, of course, you don't first crack a joke to Mr. President, to put him in a good mood, soften him up a little before announcing that his time is up, his ass is now grass, because he has just been deposed.

I like this expression : "To know him is to love him"

The expression is seldom "To know her is to love her "

that kind of inevitability, perhaps because when it comes

to " her", to know her has implications of e.g Adam having

knowledge of Eve, by loving her - as in that Percy Sledge song

When a Man Loves a Woman

More seriously, if to know x , then x must be true, I daresay I know for a fact that some of Professor Okafor's latest misgivings expressed herein have been severally (almost wrote "severely") addressed by Baba Kadiri in an epistle he posted to this thread two days ago, an epistle which has yet to see the light of day in this thread perhaps due to a technical glitch or a / the moderator's instinctual oversight / sensitive supervisory censorship objections to what could be some "controversial" elements in the contents of Baba Kadiri's discourse - in this our day of freedom (of responsible speech). But having discussed the matter with him last night, I can assure you all (family) that there's nothing in the contents of Baba Kadiri's submission that falls short of speaking truth to power and perhaps thereby inadvertently ruffling a few peacock feathers of some erstwhile top military brass, among others.

I do not intend to steal any of his thunder and in fact nobody else could possibly re-present what Baba Kadiri has said in that as yet unpublished posting in that Baba Kadiri's inimitable way of presenting some truths sometimes in their utter, stark nakedness So I'm kindly requesting that the moderator, whoever he or she believes himself or herself to be, to please release Baba Kadiri's submission form detention / solitary confinement and without further ado post what baba kadiri wrote, pronto -to keep this democratic discussion going. I am particularly incensed about this as his enlightening submission was in fact in response to my previous post in this thread.

Food for thought :

Albert Einstein's Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life

Like everybody else, I'm sad about the passing away of Biodun Jeyifo..

Among his academic laurels and legacies, his interviews ….

We all / all of us know or are at least familiar with The Trouble With Nigeria …

That was also a good series The Achebe Foundation Interviews

Here's a good signpost on which to pin this discussion :The Achebe Foundation Interviews #19: General Muhammadu Buhari through which we may observe the tension between knowing what's right and sometimes falling short of carrying it through when we are in office/ in power to fully do so

At this point I'd say that ostensibly the West (not "The Wild West" " is pleased with Brer Tinubu & The First Lady as indicated by they're being invited to dinner at the White House, and next week they will be having dinner with King Charles at Buckingham Palace and writing postcards to Peter Obi saying " Wish you were here"

"May you live in interesting times" is certainly holding true for all of us as it's obviously getting more and more interesting, as the plot thickens. I'm afraid that the crucible that is currently Nigeria's complex security/ insecurity situation has just been compounded by this main news item in yesterday's BBC Focus on Africa : US Bill on Religious Persecution in Nigeria which I'm sure this forum is going to be discussing for the rest of the year. About yesterday's BBC programme , I'd just like to add that some of us ( inkling me) are well pleased with what a very balanced Makouchi Okafor said in yesterday's BBC Focus on Africa to the extent that in what he said so succinctly in those few given minutes he was obviously also speaking on behalf of yours truly.

On Tuesday, 10 February 2026 at 10:10:03 UTC+1 Victor Okafor wrote:

Your thoughtful comment makes me wonder about the type and worldview of the individuals who are currently running the affairs of Nigeria. Are they truly alive to the nature of contemporary global geopolitics, particularly the ongoing New Age Scramble for Africa? To whom do they owe their allegiance? Are they compromised and subject to blackmail by the geopolitical powers whose music they are now dancing to? Do these current occupants of Aso Rock really believe that they are accountable to the Nigerian people? Decades ago, we used to have a Nigerian government that pursued an Africa-centered foreign policy? What is the ideological premise of the foreign policy that we see unfolding from Aso Rock? Some of the actions that we see emanating from Aso Rock these days make one wonder about the interests that are being served. What is happening to Nigeria's sovereignty? Is it being given away, piece by piece? Why is Nigeria going in the opposite direction from countries like South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, Uganda? Do the occupants of Aso Rock think that the rattle snake that was expelled from the Sahel Region would cease to be a rattle snake when relocated to Nigeria? What is really going on? This unfolding situation is worrisome, to say the least.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 6:24 AM ogunlakaiye <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sometimes ago, the Nigerian writer, Teju Cole, asserted that "the fastest growing industry in the US is the WHITE SAVIOUR INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX," and he buttressed it in a series of tweets. Tweeting, he said, "The white saviour supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by (white man's) enthusiasm. This world exists simply to satisfy the needs - including importantly, the sentimental needs - of white people. The White Saviour Industrial Complex is not about Justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. I deeply respect American (U.S.A.) sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know, it is deadly. (Quoted by Dipo Faloyin in his book titled, "Africa Is not A Country)."

Donald Trump is not sending U.S.A., soldiers to Nigeria to combat insurgents and bandits he has branded as Islamists committing genocide on Christians. If Donald Trump wants to help Nigeria to fight insurgents and bandits, he should send military hardware to equip, particularly, the Nigerian Army. The deployment of American soldiers in Nigeria is for other purpose than combating Islamist insurgents and bandits, supposedly and allegedly, killing only Nigerian Christians. It must be recalled that the U.S.A., for many years had a large drone base in Agadez, Niger Republic. After the military take over of the government by the military under the leadership of General Abdourahamane Tchiani in July 2023, the base was closed down and the 800 US troops were expelled. Since then, the US had no ground troops in West Africa. The military Juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have declared their countries' independence from the neo-colonial Western Powers which is not acceptable to the leader of Western World, the U.S.A. Nigeria may now be used as a springboard to topple, firstly, the government of Niger Republic that shares boundaries with seven states in Northern Nigeria and later governments of Burkina Faso and Mali.

Based on a CIA report in 2005, the former US ambassador to Nigeria then, John Campbell, predicted that Nigeria would dissolve as a country in 2015 as a result of ethnic and sectarian tensions. If President Donald Trump can depict the dark-skinned Christian and former President of the U.S.A., Barack Obama, and his wife as monkeys, on what ground does he stand to declare love for the dark-skinned Nigerian Christians for whose sake he is sending American soldiers to defend them?
S. Kadiri

On Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 7:01:46 PM UTC+1 Victor Okafor wrote:
https://youtu.be/GWXN7KDTUsA?si=JLlExINQSQmFbAGJ

Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies (DAAAS)
Eastern Michigan University
Email: vok...@emich.edu
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Food for Thought:
"I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior, and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don't do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won't be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.

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Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies (DAAAS)
Eastern Michigan University
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"I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior, and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don't do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won't be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.

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