Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Baby is Crying

There you have iit, someone making sense at last! Thanks jare Mr Ike Udogu!

Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

---

From: <udoguei@appstate.edu>

Sender: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:07:48 +0000

To: <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>

ReplyTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Baby is Crying

My view on this poignant stuff


This is our problem--talk, talk and talk--write, write and write. Ask Nigerians
to organize for a real change in our country and the answer, with a few
exceptions, will be: "I no dey-o! nobi my problem-o! na government problem-o!"
If "the baby is crying" why are we not ready to feed it or provide it with milk?
Civil society and Nigerians in the Diaspora can do something to change this
situation but are not doing enough in my opinion. Moreover, what are our
colleagues who not too long ago went on a prolonged strike for better wage--and
got it--doing to make our country better for those left behind? We need their
powerful support on this matter. In this way, we don't have to wait for London,
Washington and Beijing to "feed the child" and save us.

Let our people "suffer and suffer and suffer"--probably that's when we would
work together and change the situation for the good of all Nigerians. Let's stop
blaming PDP and APC and their leaders for our woes. We are the problem as many
have rightly argued on this forum!

I rest my case.

Ike Udogu



----- Original Message -----
From: Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2015 4:01 pm
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Baby is Crying
To: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>

>
> Dear All,
> The baby that is crying is not your own. It is a country call
> Nigeria.
> The country has become an orphan crying for food, clothing, shelter
> and security. But the people in authority are paying little
> attention.
> The baby is left to fate in the desolate hot and dry season.
> She regrets being in existence to be ridiculed, abandoned and
> profiled.
> What can save the malnourished baby? Wisdom, honesty, love, truth,
> justice, equity, devotion, commitment, courage, good leadership
> among others are the necessary and sufficient recipes that can
> remove the tears of the crying baby.
> The baby will not die like Sisyphus of old whose eternal punishment
> is to roll the stone to the top of the mountain and as soon as he
> does that, the stone rolls down to the bottom of the mountain.
> Sisyphus stole the secrets of the gods according to Homer hence the
> eternal punishment.
> But Camus explains the plight of Sisyphus in existential paradox
> using human existence to drive home his philosophy.
> The question that follows is, is Sisyphus happy? In the case of the
> crying baby, is she happy and does life have meaning for her?
> Perhaps that is the kind of question or questions the Chibock girls
> captured by the Islamic militants on April 14, 2014 will be asking
> themselves.
> One day, and it may not be long before the tears of the crying baby
> will bring joy and happiness.
>
> Prof. Segun Ogunhbemi
>
> --
> Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
> To post to this group, send an email to
> USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.comTo subscribe to this group, send
> an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
> Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
> Early archives at
> http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
> send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>

--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.