Dear Dr Oohay,
Please be patient with this scatter-brained missive.
Even knowing you as we do,“Apparently, anyone who resists seeing the Arday tragedy as Wokeism at its worst must be living in "lala" land.” strikes me as being too ambiguous. Could you care to explain…?
In Sweden there was the strange case of Refaat El-Sayed at the cusp of truly becoming a bio-tech giant. He had earlier on made the unsubstantiable claim of having a "doctor's hat", and, sadly, that proved to be his undoing.
BTW, honestly, I’ve been patiently waiting for Cambridge man Professor Bernad Porter ( history) who has briefly touched on racism in his Pensées, and finally, yipee, here is his take : Plagiarism
https://bernardjporter.com/2026/08/16/plagiarism/
The jury is still out there and the global members of that jury are doing the postmortem are busy deliberating the verdict that Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder,
As a certain Black, rightwing conservative judge known as Clarence Thomas, once famously put it in relation to the crucifixion of his own skin, it was “a high-tech lynching.”
“False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin
Only a matter of time ’til night comes steppin’ in”
When it comes to the hideous realities of heinous racism // that List of ethnic slurs, no doubt, obviously we are and of necessity must be on the same page of that history -
again - as Buggin’ Out puts it in Do The Right Thing,
"No. I'm just a struggling Black man trying to keep my dick hard in a cruel and harsh world."
We all recall the opposition that confronted Cheikh Anta Diop before and after his seminal publication The African Origin of Civilization
Fast forward with these improbable lines “Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood. When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud”...
Fast forward to Martin Bernal, his Black Athena and, headed by Mary Lefkowitz
the indignant, scholarly opposition that was assembled to confront him, with heyday debates and lectures culminating in their publication titled “Not Out Of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History”
The battle outside is raging and it’s a good thing that we know exactly where we have you in the trenches, which side you’re on - locally & globally, during the ongoing battle between Wokeism and your beloved Capitalism
It should be a relief that Dr. Jason Arday has been exonerated concerning the mostly malicious and misunderstood allegations of “plagiarism”
( “I talk to God everyday”, chimed the pious Rabbi.
“Would God talk to a liar?” retorted an awestruck sceptic
who apparently missed the point of God talking to man
in the Tanakh, and man talking to God in prayer
As for me, I’m madly in love with Sweden. That love has a very high value, and they, whoever they are or think that they are, They Can't Take That Away From Me…
Next to this Jacobin item in my notebook ( https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1365299772433036&set=a.292875739675450&type=3#) I have scribbled “ I wonder what Dr.Oohay thinks of Bertolt Brecht ?
( I know what Wole Soyinka( perhaps not fully) thinks of him….
Grand finale:
You can't fall into the same river twice - and all that jazz and seriously, BTW, I don’t suppose that Sweden would be the same again if ten million Nigerian immigrants were to arrive unheralded and summarily granted Swedish citizenship in the next five years. Yes, Sweden would never be the same, after that…..and even Baba Kadiri would agree with me about that
On Wednesday, 19 August 2026 at 12:00:52 UTC+2 Dr. Oohay wrote:
Apparently, anyone who resists seeing the Arday tragedy as Wokeism at its worst must be living in "lala" land.
Before the shouts about heinous racism start getting too shrill, well, there's always the incontestable academic pedigree of e.g. Kwame Anthony Appiah a distinguished son of Black Star Ghana and Cambridge to write home about.
In his case no cries of plagiarism, radical woke-ism or crucify him!
In multi-racial Britain there was also Benjamin Zephaniah
The first time (very recently) that I looked at a photo of the dearly departed Jason Arday and saw his long hair braids, which must have taken some time to cultivate and meticulously groom to such fashionable lengths, unmistakably, I thought of the hair theme in Adichie’s Americanah and these verses of prayer that beseech the Almighty -
“That You do not bring us into the power of error,
nor into the power of transgression and sin;
nor into the power of challenge,
nor into the power of scorn
let not the Evil Inclination dominate us;
distance us from an evil person and an evil companion;
attach us to the Good Inclination
and to good deeds ….
that You rescue me today and every day
from brazen men and from brazenness
from an evil man, from an evil companion,
from an evil neighbour, from an evil mishap,
from a destructive spiritual impediment,
from a harsh trial, and from a harsh opponent…. “
The centre of gravity there being “the power of challenge” - and in the tragic case of Jason Arday at Cambridge I guess that to start with, the power of challenge must have been symbolised by his revolutionary hairstyle further reinforced by his having said that he was on a mission to correct some of the racism that’s inherent in the system and that his position at Cambridge (hopefully a safe haven) was going to be the epicentre of his acting locally and expanding the fight for justice and racial equality, globally.
That of course wouldn't sound like music in the ears of Baba Kadiri’s super-villain Nathan Cofnas and his disciples….
On Tuesday, 18 August 2026 at 00:19:41 UTC+2 Salimonu Kadiri wrote:
Campaign of plagiarism against the late Jason Arday was championed by one rightwing Cambridge Philosophy Researcher, named Nathan Cofnas, a self-styled race realist. In 2024, he resigned from his fellowship at the University of Cambridge after a blog post in which he stated that Black people are less intelligent. He emphasized further that in meritocracy the number of Black Professors at Havard University would approach zero percent. Therefore, a case of plagiarism against Jason Arday emanating from such a rightwing racist, Nathan Cofnas, should not have been taken serious by the media as well as the Cambridge University itself. Nathan Cofnas believes that all Black Professors are products of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the expressed belief that murdered Jason Arday. The honour now falls on all Black Professors in Europe and America to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that they merit their professorships and they are not products of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Nathan Cofnas, in precipitating the untimely death of Jason Arday, has questioned the integrity of all Black Professors in Europe and America and the best way to mourn the death of Jason Arday by our Black Professors is to collectively give Nathan Cofnas a bloody nose by disproving his racist theory.
S. Kadiri
None of this of course having to do with his academic prowess:
Jason Arday : a list of contested claims about his life story. (Microsoft Edge
Jason Arday : a list of contested claims about his life story. ( Google
“No foul play”, but according to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, they more or less hounded Jason Arday to death…
No one is being accused, and we are not privy to the exact details of the last hours of his life, but In the precarious situation this sensitive, vulnerable soul found himself in, when he would most need some round-the-clock professional psychological counselling and other emotional support in order to cope with the stress, it’s all the more amazing that apparently he was alone - or left alone, in solitude in that flat, to brave the malicious onslaught, possibly even receiving threatening phone calls, afraid to go out to face the vicious unknown ….
When dear friend Bedu Annan departed from this life by self-annihilation I discussed the tragedy with Sheldon Litt , a psychologist and he told me that when a man does that it’s either one of two things: Woman or money problems.
Bedu was in the phase known as manic-depressive
We also know that there’s this other emotional factor :Sense of honour
On Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 14:14:52 UTC+2 Michael Afolayan wrote:
I wish it did not happen. It did NOT have to happen. May all those he has left behind be comforted. Sad!
MOA
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