Re: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Clarion Call

Dear All
Whatever happens, we all accept the need for a search for a dependable
solution to Nigerian underdevelopment problems. Top-down or bottom up
approach should be issues to be decided when we converge at a place.
We are not calling for a revolution at the moment and we are convinced
that with the likes of Prof. Godwin, Prof. Mbaku, Oluwatoyin that
Nigeria must be changed.
To that end, I am pleased to inform you that some persons have already
volunteered to sponsor a convention of social scientists from across
Nigeria to brainstorm on the issues holding our dear country back.
Am particularly inviting Prof. Mbaku, Onu and Oluwatoyin to the
convention that would soon be made public. Please, I request you to
help strategize and make the program reflect the desired intentions as
aptly captured by Prof Onu.


On 1/8/13, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tvade3@gmail.com> wrote:
> is this not simplistic?
>
> 'bring together the real experts, the masses--the poor, the historically
> marginalized and deprived (women, those residing on the urban periphery),
> rural inhabitants, and the various ethnic and religious minorities).'
>
> in what sense are they experts?
>
> bottom-up, participatory, and inclusive development does not necessarily
> imply setting up the average person as an expert-in what?-his profession?
>
> please anybody who wants to take action should so. a fine, patriotic plan-
>
> 'I am convinced that we can form a forum that could bring the best of
> brains together (think-thank) for positive/sustainable development in our
> country even without holding leadership positions. I thus, call on all
> Political Scientists across Nigeria to come under a particular umbrella and
> search for dependable solutions to the problems with Nigeria.'
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:05 PM, John MBAKU <JMBAKU@weber.edu> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Please do not bring Nigeria's political scientists and other
>> intellectuals
>> together in an effort to find solutions to the country's multifarious
>> development problems. If you really want to attack these problems and do
>> so
>> effectively and fully, bring together the real experts, the masses--the
>> poor, the historically marginalized and deprived (women, those residing
>> on
>> the urban periphery), rural inhabitants, and the various ethnic and
>> religious minorities). Real development is bottom-up, participatory, and
>> inclusive and not top-down.
>>
>> Stay well. John
>>
>>
>> JOHN MUKUM MBAKU, ESQ.
>> J.D. (Law), Ph.D. (Economics)
>> Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law
>> Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
>> Attorney & Counselor at Law (Licensed in Utah)
>> Presidential Distinguished Professor of Economics & Willard L. Eccles
>> Professor of Economics and John S. Hinckley Fellow
>> Department of Economics
>> Weber State University
>> 3807 University Circle
>> Ogden, UT 84408-3807, USA
>> (801) 626-7442 Phone
>> (801) 626-7423 Fax
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>> >>> Peter Amobi <pamogu@gmail.com> 01/08/13 7:17 AM >>>
>> Sometimes, I wonder if the problem with Nigeria has gone beyond all
>> political theories and philosophies. Or are Political Scientist across
>> the country in slumber? Can't we make instructive inputs in this mess?
>> Somebody is already laughing at me. How many Political Scientist have
>> ever served as even governor of a state in Nigeria? If there are what
>> is/was their performance? I am convinced that we can form a forum that
>> could bring the best of brains together (think-thank) for
>> positive/sustainable development in our country even without holding
>> leadership positions. I thus, call on all Political Scientists across
>> Nigeria to come under a particular umbrella and search for dependable
>> solutions to the problems with Nigeria. NPSA may not have served us
>> very well in this direction.
>>
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>> Amobi P. Chiamogu
>> Special Assistant to the Rector and Lecturer, Department of Public
>> Administration
>> Federal Polytechnic, Oko
>> Anambra State - Nigeria
>> +2348034306261, +2348123232658
>> pchiamogu@yahoo.com, panomanikz@yahoo.com
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Administration
Federal Polytechnic, Oko
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pchiamogu@yahoo.com, panomanikz@yahoo.com

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