Rosemary,
I never intended to offend you. Sorry from deep inside my heart if I did. My upbringing as a Zongoman ( Ghanaians on this forum know what I mean and the Nigerians who know Sabon Garis will appreciate it), does not prepare me to understand the breadth of experiences of all Ghanaians, let alone the Zulus of South Africa or Bantus of Cameroon, or the Baganda of Uganda. That is, there is no universal African thought process. We all sympathize will the plight of our continent. But in no way do we all think alike. And I have come across many citizens of different non-African countries who, as Africanists, love Africa as much as any African I have met. Some even more!! If our leaders love Africa how come they go for simple medical checkups at Mayo Clinic when the hospitals in Africa are falling apart?
I always refuse to be pigeonholed.
Kwaku Mensah
Chicago
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ROSEMARY MWENJA
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:26 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read
" I do not respect or honor your credentials to decide on who are the real African thinkers" With the greatest respect to you Mensah, you have turned personal. Why turn into sarcasm? You are being dishonest with your self to suggest that a person in the West thinks in the same way as that of African. How can they when their experiences are different? Please read my comments without emotions and deciphere correctly what I am saying.
From: Mensah, Edward K. <dehasnem@uic.edu>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 9:16 PM
Rosemary the Decider of Africanness
Broadly classifying certain people as Western thinkers is your attempt
to derail all rational debates. In essence, your 'western thinkers' are at
least cognitively non-African. In your way of thinking, which to me is
quite non-African, only Western thinkers see Ghaddafi, a guy who has
funded more wars and rebellions in Africa than any leader in modern
African history--from Iddi Amin's Uganda to Sierra leone, Chad, Liberia,
Northern Nigeria, Southern Sudan, etc,.--as a murderer, opportunist,
megalomaniac, and a supreme dictator. And to real African thinkers he does
no wrong. Is that what you are saying? Or, inspite of all the problems he
has been causing in Africa over the past 4 decades, he will always be a
saint to real African thinkers,right?. Some of us will disagree with this
line of thinking. I do not respect or honor your credentials to decide on
who are the real African thinkers.
Best Regards
Kwaku Mensah
Chicago
, March 24, 2011 5:13 pm, ROSEMARY MWENJA wrote:
> Who is the oppressor and who is not? You are allowing yourself to be drawn
> into the Western way of thinking, The fact of the matter is that this is
> an internal matter and very suspect at how it started. Who are these
> rebels? What is their agenda? How different what they want from what
> Qaddafi is offering? Where does the West get the moral authority to
> support one group against another in a domesticated matter unless they are
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> From: Olabode Ibironke <ibironke@msu.edu>
> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses
> Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read
> To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com"
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> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:11 PM
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> "I wonder how the US would react if the KKK were to rise up against the
> 'White House because a black man is the president', as noted by Louis
> Farrakhan?" Steve Nwabuzor
> This is the typical clannish mentality that is destroying progressive
> politics in Africa. All you need to do is invoke neocolonialism [or
> otherness etc] and suddenly comrades Mugabe and Museveni become heroes and
> spiritual masters that intellectuals begin to recite. Is the above not the
> exact content of Gaddafi's letter to Obama when he said 'if Al-Qaida [read
> KKK] were to challenge your authority tell me what you would do and I
> would follow your example.' It is thus on the record that in the desperate
> struggle of people in North Africa to throw off the yoke of oppression,
> certain AfriKan intellectuals were solidly on the side of their
> oppressors!!!
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