The facts are clear as I laid them out.
The links I provided enable anyone confirm my analysis.
I therefore wonder why these clear facts are being puzzled over, this being the second time I am having to respond to requests on listserves for clarification on this subject.
The short story The Madman was written by Chinua achebe.
Odun Balogun wrote an analysis of the story eventually expanded and published in his 1991 book on the African short story.
In 2016, Dan Amor, in a blog post titled The Parable of the Madman plagiarised practically word for word Baloguns book chapter on Achebes story.
I provided both a link to Amor's essay and Baloguns book so anyone may compare the relevant chaper in the 1991 book by Balogun and the 2016 essay by Dan Amor.
Anyone may therefore compare both texts and reach their own conclusions.
I am ready to respond to any challenges to my description of Dan Amor as plagiarising Balogun.
I expect such challenges to be based on a comparison between the Balogun chapter and the Dan Amor essay so we may focus on the root of the issue.
Thanks
Toyin
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 'ugwuanyi Lawrence' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
I need to be made clearer of the allegation of plagiarism below with perhaps a clarrification of the followings:
(i)Are we being told that the author of the story in question is Professor Odun Balogun not Chinua Achebe
or
(ii)that Dan Amor is publishing the text without acknowledging that he perhaps lifted it from Ola Balogun's book
or
(iii) that the story is from Chinua Achebe and the analysis done on it is by Professor Balogun and that this demarcation is not acknowledged by Dan Amor.
As soon as I finished reading this excellent piece of story yesterday,I recalled having read something of such in the past.
I made a quick search for where and guessed where it could be found in any work by Achebe.
Luckily I located Chinua Achebe's book entitled Girls at War and other stories in my library and discovered that the same story entitled the Madman is the first in the book.
So could you help clear this confussion.
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religions
University of Abuja
Abuja-Nigeria
(Formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe);
President, World Education Fellowship (WEF)Nigerian Section
&
Founder: Center for Critical Thinking and Resourceful Research in Africa (CECTRRA)
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On Tue, 5/24/16, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <oluwakaidara1@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Plagiarism : Dan Amor's " The Parable of the Madman 1" is an Almost Word by Word Copy of a Chapter in Odun Balogun's Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story ( 1991)
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Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 12:56 AM
Dan Amor's " The
Parable of the Madman 1" posted on various sites
online is practically a word by word copy of a chapter
in Professor Odun Balogun's Tradition
and Modernity in the African Short Story: An
Introduction to a Literature in Search of
Critics, published by Greenwood Press in 1991,
and described by Odun Balogun as first published in the
Nigerian literary journal Okike in the
1980s.
After being alerted to this by Odun Balogun, whose name I
mentioned in my introduction of the essay purportedly by Dan
Amor at the various platforms to which I posted it ,
describing Balogun as having introduced the story to us,
his students at the University of Benin, I accessed the
relevant chapter through the 'look inside' feature
on the book's page on Amazon.co.uk
and confirmed the practically complete lifting of
Balogun's learned and splendidly lucid and analytically
profound essay.
Anybody who wishes may do the same comparison by
themselves.
Balogun's book chapter which Dan Amor
plagiarized is the fruit of years of scholarship and
years of the most rigorous academic training in different
universities on different continents, from Nigeria to the
former Soviet Union to the US, climaxing in a PhD, followed
by years of university teaching and academic publication.
It is the distillation of self surrender to a vocation to
which he has dedicated his life, making him a pioneer in the
study of the African short story, a genre great in its
combination of brevity and profundity, encapsulating the
import of a lifetime within a single brief incident, as
Balogun taught us in those days at the University of Benin.
His book chapter demonstrates a level of skill reached only
after such total dedication. Anybody who wants to be
credited with that level of knowledge and analytical and
communicative power should commit themselves to the
necessary training to reach that level.
I call on Dan Amor to pull down that plagiarized essay
from all the places he has posted it to and on the hosts of
the various platforms where the essay is posted to make sure
it is pulled down.
Nobody should be cheated of their creative labor.
If the essay was reposted on the Internet with the
permission of the author, acknowledging him as the writer,
good. It is very bad, in contrast, to distribute the work
without the writer's permission and even worse to claim
another person wrote the essay.
Thanks
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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