Friday, November 30, 2012

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Chinua Achebe At 82: “We Remember Differently” By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear K. Gozie Ifesinachukwu,

There are a few things that have occurred in the history of Sierra
Leone, a few details about Kwame Nkrumah's demise that you will never
find in any history book. That's one thing.

In the realm of what's called public knowledge, as we approach what's
known it's basically about differences in perspective. You know how it
is and can be that " One man's meat is another man's poison" ( for
example some perspectives about Israel and the Pals in which as they
say, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

So many perspectives – three Jews and at least two opinions.

Take this quote for example "There can never be fellowship between the
deep and the shallow." (Chidi Anthony Appiah)

Others even go as far as to say that there can be no communion between
the rich and the poor.

Then there's the parable that

it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

One of my closest friends happens to also be one of my main Yoruba
mentors (I have a few) and to my chagrin recently when I returned to
Sahara Reporters to check out his seminal epistle entitled "Achebe's
Igbos and other fairy tales", I found that it had been summarily
deleted

www.saharareporters.com/article/achebe's-igbos-others-fairy-tales-s-kadiri

"Painters use their eyes
 to show us what they see,
 but when that canvass dries
 we all see it differently." ( James Taylor)

On 29 Nov, 17:58, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Toyin,
>
> Well I never!
>
> What are you talking about? Even my great teacher Abiola Irele
> wouldn't say that. And if you said that about our Aminatta Forna, I'd
> sue you and still hope that someone doesn't put a curse on you so that
> you don't wind up in some cannibal's cooking pot where they could
> still make a delicious dish out of you and invite me & Chidi for cam
> chop. Dis na serious talk.
>
> I know that your Mid-West / Bendel was hard hit at the beginning of
> the war but you can't hold a grudge towards the eternal Igbo nation,
> just because of that.
>
> I don't find anything shallow in or about Chimamanda Adichie's latest
> essay  - in fact I think her sweep is classic, a really forward-
> looking Nigeria literary chic and if we could only take even just this
> my favourite paragraph to heart  we'd begin to see the glimmerings of
> a greater nation:
>
> "Ethnicity has become, in Nigeria, more political than cultural, less
> about philosophy and customs and values and more about which bank is a
> Yoruba or Hausa or Igbo bank, which political office is held by which
> ethnicity, which revered leader must be turned into a flawless saint.
> We cannot deny ethnicity. It matters. But our ethnic and national
> identities should not be spoken of as though they were mutually
> exclusive; I am as much Igbo as I am Nigerian. I have hope in the
> future of Nigeria, mostly because we have not yet made a real,
> conscious effort to begin creating a nation (We could start, for
> example, by not merely teaching Maths and English in primary schools,
> but also teaching idealism and citizenship.) "
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=Aminatta+Forna&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t...
>
> On Nov 29, 6:52 pm, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > This essay is largely shallow on the issues discussed.
>
> > It demonstrates little  awareness of the range of responses to the questions
> > at stake that need to be tackled if one is to assert a position.
>
> > It is largely a self serving presentation buttressing  a shallow school of the
> > self described Igbo/Biafran side, a school whose claim to be representative
> > of Igbos and Biafra needs to be questioned.
>
> > If challenged, I can point out in detail the shallow self serving character
> > of the essay.
>
> > toyin
>
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:50 PM, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tva...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Sahara Reporters <sahararepor...@yahoo.com>
> > > Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:16 PM
> > > Subject: NigerianID | Chinua Achebe At 82: "We Remember Differently" By
> > > Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
>
> > > **
>
> > > I have met Chinua Achebe only three times. The first, at the National Arts
> > > Club in Manhattan, I joined the admiring circle around him. A gentle-faced
> > > man in a wheelchair.
>
> > > READ MORE…
> > >http://bit.ly/URlby4
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