Responding to
'Fellow Nigerians,
The people (of the UK) have spoken, indeed. It's time to come home, folks. Your country needs you!'
Prof Malami Buba
The people (of the UK) have spoken, indeed. It's time to come home, folks. Your country needs you!'
Prof Malami Buba
Do most Africans really have a home anywhere?
What is a home?
A place where you are welcomed unconditionally, where you don't suffer visa controls?
In that sense, Africans have a home in their respective African nations.
Human existence, however, goes beyond being able to live in a relative comfort zone. It also involves the potential for self actualization, the maximization of one's potential.
If we describe a home as both a place where one is unconditionally welcomed and which is engineered to facilitate self actualization, then the African has no home anywhere om earth. The African migrant may be understood as being like the Jews before the founding of Israel, a people from a geographical zone of origin, but one which is ill equipped to enable them blossom, and so are compelled to struggle and thrive in exile.
I salute everybody living in Africa, particularly in those countries which necessitate enduring lack of such basics of modern civilization as electricity and water, talk less other affordances.
I doubt if the Brexit vote is a big deal for African immigrants. African immigrants have been able to claim a place for themselves even without the rights created by Britain being in the EU, so Britain going out of the EU might be neither here nor there to them. The UK laws have long been increasingly anti-immigration, so the winds of anti-immigration UKIP and the fears unleashed by Brexit have long been the platforms under which African immigrants have operated in the UK.
Is it true that Nigeria needs its people abroad?
I doubt it. Nigeria is designed for failure and for the frustration of genuine growth, beginning from the evil 1914 amalgamation and the creation of constitutions with ridiculous provisions. Within such a booby trapped environment, a person might prefer operate in an environment created for success, even if that environment is rigged against the group to which he or she belongs, choosing to work on the gaps in that rigging to find a place for themselves, rather than in one that is created for failure and is rigged agst most people in the nation, as in Nigeria.
thanks
toyin
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 9:50 PM, 'M Buba' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Fellow Nigerians,The people (of the UK) have spoken, indeed. It's time to come home, folks. Your country needs you!Malami
Prof Malami BubaDepartment of English Language & LinguisticsSokoto State UniversityPMB 2134, Birnin-Kebbi Rd,Sokoto, NIGERIAgood point
On 6/24/16 6:55 PM, Mobolaji Aluko wrote:
Kenneth:
This is what is very worrying over an issue as important as this: even in 10 people more had voted to "Brexit" rather than to "Bremain", we would still be talking about a Brexit move.
I would have thought that a SUPER-MAJORITY clause should have been given to this - that unless a difference like 10% - or even 15% - was achieved, the 43-year-old status quo should be maintained. Is that not what is done, when 2/3 majority or 4/5 majority is required rather than simple majority? Or that if the vote is within 5%, a five-year breathing period will be provided, and a re-vote taken, after which a simple majority would be allowed?
But that is spilled milk now....
Bolaji Aluko
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:56 PM, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
the masses? are the majority the masses, and the losers the important people? the vote was 52% to 48%. i'd say it was largely split. it would be interesting to know that roughly the 16 million voters who lost were all the important people!
On 6/24/16 3:12 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
All the important persons pleaded for votes to remain in the European Union in the "UK Decides", yet the UK will leave because the most important persons, the masses want UK to leave.
CAO
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