Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read

I am amazed at how my comment has unnerved many. I wonder why? We are a product of our experiences and that has a big influence in how we think. If you have been part of the oppressor you think in a particular way. If you are the oppressed you think in a particular way. Then there is the saying that "if you can't beat them, join them" crops in. In my humble opinion that is how most educated Africans think.         --- On Thu, 3/24/11, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote: From: kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:29 PM there is no such thing as a western way of thinking. there are lots of problematic ways to put together knowledge, but it isn't geography that creates it, and even history's role is a divided one. to lock us in to such formulae is to arrest critical thought. ken On 3/24/11 6:13 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 is 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?   --- On Thu, 3/24/11, Olabode Ibironke <ibironke@msu.edu> wrote: From: Olabode Ibironke <ibironke@msu.edu> Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Museveni Discusses Libya &Gaddafi: A Must Read To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 2:11 PM  "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!!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue- unsubscribe@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue- unsubscribe@googlegroups.com -- kenneth w. harrow distinguished professor of english michigan state university department of english east lansing, mi 48824-1036 ph. 517 803 8839 harrow@msu.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin. For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue- unsubscribe@googlegroups.com

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