Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – the world as it is, goes on after Olof Palme

John:

Thank you very much for reminding us of Professor Abdul Karim Bangura's very excellent and educative book. Published as a hardcover publication of barely 164 pages, it did throw an illuminating light on contemporary perspectives on developing societies. I was glad to use the book as one of the important books for an upper-level seminar I used to teach at Indiana University and, later, at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES).

Those of us, who lived in Sweden during the nefarious apartheid era, did admire the hard work of Sweden's assassinated Prime Minister Olof Palme and other progressive Scandinavian leaders. I, in fact, remember having the opportunity – as a local Journalist in Stockholm -- watching a lawn tennis game between Mr. Palme and Mozambique's assassinated President Samora Machel. Also frequenting Stockholm , at the time, were SWAPO's Sam Nujoma of Namibia; ANC's Oliver Tambo; Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, who marched on "May Day" alongside Mr. Palme; and other Pan-African revolutionaries. Sweden did deserve our gratitude in Africa!

I did pat Professor Bangura on the back for his insightful and fine book.

A.B. Assensoh. 

 

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – the world as it is, goes on after Olof Palme

 

Unfortunately, a lot of people have forgotten, and many Africans do not know, the role that Palme and his country played in the struggle against the insidious system called apartheid. One member of this forum, however, did not forget. Consider the following:

Abdul Karim Bangura, Sweden vs Apartheid: Putting Morality Ahead of Profit (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004). It is worth reading. It is a study that can help the reader recognize the "power of one" when it comes to making a difference in this world. Whether it is "one person" or "one country", even an individual acting alone or a country acting alone, against all odds, can indeed change the world. That is the legacy of Palme and that is the legacy of Sweden.

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Olof Palme was very popular in Africa and the rest of the third world. To what extent our world could or would have been different if he had not been brutally assassinated some thirty years ago is for a competent political scientsist to assess or speculate

This is something else: 

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – the world as it is, goes on after Olof Palme

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