Dear Everybody,
Here is something to reconsider: The Brain Drain: from Nigeria to the United States . It should be interesting to hear what the various highly paid professors, scholars, overqualified academics and even the unemployed and unemployable among us here have to say about reversing this trend. It's alright for Trump to say, "America First! "You can fault him for that? What do you want him to say instead? Wouldn't you accuse him of hypocrisy and insincerity if he declared that just like President Muhammadu Buhari, he was elected to declare, "Nigeria First!"?
The sorry fact is that whenever there is a revolution or the violent upheaval of the type that Sowore probably has in mind, the ones who can afford it are usually the first set of people to packs their bags and make it to the nearest airport, to fly out of the country - and usually ( to use denigratory Marxist terminology) it's the bourgeoisie and the petty-bourgeoise to get the hell out of wherever. This was true of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979 – the early 80s). Whilst I was on my way to Nigeria, the first wave of Iranian bourgeoisie and wave after wave of the Iranian petty-bourgeoise were still on their way to California. So, today there are over a million Iranians there – in fact for the past 40 years or so, LA has been the headquarters of the latest and greatest output of Iranian music in the world of Dunia. Just as - according to Chidi "U.S.A, of course, would be the first choice for Nigerians" – so too it was for the Iranians. Some of the cultured and cultural elite chose France, where they still remain, followed by Germany, where they are quite successful and even have their own hospitals, followed by the United Kingdom and Sweden (but it's not mostly the Iranian opposition that lives over here. When it comes to the love of country, every Iranian loves Iran, is proud of and boasts endlessly about Iranian culture and civilization, poetry, music architecture, the Iranian influence on Judaistic conceptions of darkness and light, etc. etc. So, Iranians are respected, wherever they are. Full stop
There's the romantic school of thought among the idealistic earthlings and they believe that "No one is an alien". Their national/ international/ global anthem is in line with John Lennon's "Imagine" and the Negro spirituals "Amazing Grace "and "We shall overcome"
There's also the radical school of "No one is illegal". They have a dream. All things considered, this could soon become a reality in borderless Africa that Julius Malema imagines should be brought about in the near future, a future where the anthem is of course Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and Bob Marley's " One Love". Once that One Africa is birthed we will no longer be reading about man's inhumanity to man, such as this latest spate of culpable xenophobia resulting in these kinds of homicide: Nine Lesotho miners killed in South Africa
It should be up to someone among us and left up to me, I would nominate the Biko Agozino the anti-imperialist criminologist for the job of forwarding these two pertinent and interlinked ideas to President Donald J Trump with the recommendation that Trump should integrate these suggestions into his campaign strategy for an easy walkover Bernie the Commie who soon enough will be trying to capture the totality of the Black vote when he puts REPARATIONS on his agenda for Black America; that, however, would be most pleasing to African Americans. You be the judge; I arrived at that conclusion about reparations on the Bernie Sanders Socialist agenda early this morning after watching this program on al Jazeera: A Moral Debt: The Legacy of Slavery in the USA
To capture the Nigerian-American vote Biko would have to persuade the POTUS that
1. No one is an alien
2. No one is an alien.
I suspect that say it loud, I'm Black and proud Biko would like to go beyond those two and add a number three, all uniquely beautiful and entirely his own, to wit that
3. "No one comes from a shithole country."
very rich in information, Cornelius--On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 21:35, Cornelius Hamelberg <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:Chidi,
I'm curious.
Yes, we all pray, May God Bless America, but is it a now a matter of premediated Pan-Africanist policy that should that something unforeseen soon happen it will be a mass exodus and, "U.S.A of course would be the first choice for Nigerians."? Eh, Chidi?
If your mind is already made up about that I hope that your residence is close to the nearest airport, for a quick getaway for you & your family first, others later. I'm only expecting this because according to Baba Kadiri, I.G.B.O. is the acronym for I Go Before Others, a wise but not necessarily a heroic or chivalric spirit of self-preservation. But there must some true-ism in the saying, "Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die"
My dear friend and sometime defender Alim Sesay once joked that in the early years of the RUF War in Sierra Leone, when the war was still confined to the East and some equally dark things were happening up North, some of the Creoles in Freetown were quite unperturbed, that their attitude was, "Oh the savages! By Jove, those savages! Let them go on killing themselves until they get tired of the bloodshed, Ojare!" However, on the 6th of January 1999 when the RUF suddenly ( like a flash of lightning) descended on Freetown – like Hannibal the son of Ogun's surprise attack, unexpectedly descending down alps and taking everyone completely by surprise, in the RUF's case to begin what they declared was their "Operation Spare No Soul" and "Operation No living Thing", it was then that Dr Olufemi Johnson groaned in Krio, "which God for call? " and started to cry. There was no possibility of a quick getaway, the airport was too far away, and the boats to Banjul were already fully loaded. He gave his last-minute orders to his houseboy Santigie to lock the gates and barricade the garage doors. Now the question remained and he couldn't quite figure out an answer, where to hide his daughters and his wife from the savages, the advancing rapists?
With regard to that episode of the war the people of Freetown still say, " God Bless Nigeria" – and will forever be grateful to Nigeria, because without the Nigerian troops and the Nigerian Airforce – all under the ECOMOG flag - under Nigerian of Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe – the genocide would have been a fait accompli….
An Israeli once told me that as a prisoner of war, you don't wait until the full moon or when the place is completely dark, you escape at the earliest opportunity - like Sierra Leone's late President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah , the moment that Johnny Paul Koroma struck ( to oust him by a military coup) Alhaji Kabbah hopped into the nearest helicopter that few him to Guinea Conakry and stayed there as a refugee for a good ten months.
We may still enquire, why didn't Kabbah continue his flight from Conakry to New York City? And why didn't Ojukwu flee from Abidjan to Washington DC, or why didn't Dr Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah flee from Conakry to Peking? Clearly, the reason (not necessarily Pan- African) was they wanted to remain close to home for a quick comeback…
--On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 17:09, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:President Trump obviously know things that we do not know. He probably knows that very soon something will happen in Nigeria that would trigger off large scale migrant visa applications. U.S.A of course would be the first choice for Nigerians.CAO.
--Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects
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