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
> behind the insurgence in the first place?
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> --- On Thu, 3/24/11, Olabode Ibironke <
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> From: Olabode Ibironke <
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> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses
> Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read
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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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