Monday, January 31, 2022

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: lemonde article

Cornelius the Wise,
I walked out of Christianity as a nineteen year old and read fifty three 
volumes of Marx (Progress publishers) and a ton of  other
 stuff and research findings by the 80s. Forty years later you expect me to be 
what? A wimp? An ignoramus praising colonizers and colonial
hegemony  hook, line and sinker? My experiences in "paradise" 
have actually confirmed  some of my wildest speculations. BTW I am not referring 
to Gurna's "Paradise." 

African countries must cherish their Indigenous languages.
Biko's idea of generous funding for multiple languages is on point.
West Africa should learn from East Africa,  where Swahili has 
priority. South Africa has eleven official languages. 
There is nothing sacrosanct about French, English or Portuguese etc.
 They are simply media of communication, and by no means the 
only avenues for such. That the new leaders of these countries 
are enriching and empowering their citizens, linguistically,
is great news. 








Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
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Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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 Re - You "not aware of Mali and others outlawing French."

Thank God, for this! Otherwise I would have continued spreading the fake news, all based on this item from our Pan- African Brother from Ghana: Mali cuts ties with France, orders French troops to exit Mali, ends use of French language, to which he added, "It's now official!"

The "ends use of French Language" the headline did not mean to proclaim that French had merely been degraded from official language to unofficial language. And how impractical. (I'm thinking of official correspondence, not the treasure libraries in Timbuktu.

I don't think that the French Government and the Academie Francaise are going to forgive Mali's current military leaders for this travesty/insubordination; if anything, the French Government is going to do their best to replace Mali's current military leadership by a new leadership that will restore French as the official language of Mali.

Whatever next! Should those upstart military men have their way they'll probably want to inspire the rest of Francophone Africa & the Caribbean to move their Central Bank from Paris to Mansa Musa's new economic headquarters in the Bamako of the modern Mali Empire and to stop paying taxes and protection money to France…

Imagine if some past Military leader of Nigeria ( e.g. Buhari, Babangida, Abacha, Obasanjo) had decreed that Her Majesty's English should cease to be the Official Language of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! There would have been no deafening silence from Nigeria's Anglophile elites , and needless to add that, that Military ruler's despotism would have been short-lived as Nigeria's Anglophiles would have roared into action in cahoots with other faithful members of The Commonwealth ( The new name for the former British Empire), the Ministry of International Cooperation ( the latest name for the Old Colonial Office) , the British Council, the BBC, London Review of Books, Oxford, Cambridge, and other cultural organisations of that kind, would have worked day and night to bring that regime down as speedily as possible.

By the way, I notice that you are becoming more and more radical. Some would say more hostile, more aggressive...some would say more progressive...


On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 21:04, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
I am not aware of Mali and others outlawing French. I know that they have been speaking in 
Malinke etc and local languages  to communicate with the rural areas and the majority population.

The region is Malinkephone and Mossiphone largely so this is a commonsense policy that
does not exclude a huge chunk of the population. 

As for the Biblical texts, well it is not a translation issue . It is a matter of
human rights violations and contradictory values. But this is from a humanist
standpoint.  Believers will think differently.

Thanks for your comment.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department, Central Connecticut State University
www.africahistory.net
Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries
2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies
 University of Texas at Austin
2019   Distinguished Africanist Award                   
New York African Studies Association
 

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 Re - "Best of luck to

the three daredevils,

Guinea, Burkina Faso

and Mali."

Amen to your prayers, although kicking against the teeth of French Assimilation Policy by outlawing the French Language in Mali is going to be a little steep and would be likewise even in Haiti, not to mention the petty cultural and nouveau riche bourgeoisie uncle toms in successful assimilé countries such as Senghor's Senegal. It was bad enough back in Sierra Leone where we had first a Belgian (A.W. Rogers) and then Mr. White (a French Canadian) as our French teachers. Rogers didn't like me because I made life impossible for him whilst our class studied André Gide's La Porte étroite for our "A" levels…. But that's another story...

This should interest you: US Secretary of State holds virtual talks with two African leaders (from Pan African Television)

As to your differences with Ken in reading and comprehension when it comes to French – the second most dominant language in post-colonial Africa, similar differences occur with regard to various translations of the Hebrew Bible often quoted in the New Testament (so called) – and the various translations of Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. It's a problem being taken up by one Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and in " Understanding the Difficult words of Jesus"

When God or God's ambassadors speak we must do our best to understand Him (or Her) and them...


On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 18:32, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
There was no escape from 
the IMF in that era and
Rawlings was caught.
Civilian  governments fared no
better. In fact it was China, 
a new kid on the block then, 
that pulled some African 
countries from the jaws of the
usurious IMF,  with offers of 
zero or low rates. To properly 
analyze China- Africa policy
one has to look at the big
picture, and I am not giving
China an unconditional 
pass, either. Policies have 
modified, and the good,
bad and the ugly have set
in. But in the early days,
China was a life saver from
the draconian twins, the
IMF and the World Bank.
This is now a slightly different
era of the Russian bear,
the Chinese dragon, and
the American eagle- or
is it a fox? Best of luck to
the three daredevils,
Guinea, Burkina Faso
and Mali.  





Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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 Ladies First :

 Gloria & Kenneth in Excelcis,

Hopefully, this article  by the First Man should interest you two too:


Otherwise , the sequnece is painfully familiar and  exactly as Dr. Sikuru Emiola characterised it  -
 in the case of Ghana in the first years of Jerry Rawlings' tenure, the IMF had him simultaneously
by the jugular and by the balls with their structural adjustment program which demanded that he
first of all devalue the  cedi, and secondly, if I remember correctly, that he take away subsidies to 
education and agriculture at which point he had no choice but to reluctantly nod in compliance 
failing which it's anybody's guess what would have happened next. A few months after biting 
the bullet, students at Legon had to start preparing their own meals  - gone were the good old
 days at Mensah Sarbah Hall ( in our case, me & Better Half it used to be  lunch at the Workers 
Canteen where two plates loaded with delicious  Kenkey and Contumley cost a mere cedi)...
the end of subsidies to education resulted in overcrowding - a room meant for two people was 
eventually being shared by four or more...


On Sunday, 30 January 2022 at 15:08:45 UTC+1 Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
Correction 
Just spotted a crazy  verb.
The top sentence should read:

"Your reading/translation does not 
correlate with mine ……."


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africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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"the arguments turn on the people's 
disappointment--not with western or 
french interventions per se 
………"



Ken, your reading and translation does not
 correlate with mine.
The title of the article summarizes
 the content accurately, namely,
that the students," betrayed "by the political 
elite, put their trust in the military junta.
That is the literal translation.
No embellishments, ifs and buts as
you imply. 


My favorite economist  Joan Robinson once
quipped that:

"The purpose of studying
 economics is not to acquire a set 
of ready-made answers to economic
 questions, but to learn how to 
avoid being deceived by 
economists."

We can say the same thing about
French, no doubt.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Au Burkina Faso, les étudiants, « trahis » par les élites politiques, placent leurs espoirs dans la junte Par Sophie Douce (Ouagadougou, correspondance). Publié hier à 19h00, mis à jour à ...


i'm afraid many won't see this, or all of it. it is very interesting re our recent discussion. moses's point about african people wanting to find their own way without subservience to received western democracies is echoed somewhat here in students' statements. however, it is not in the mode of let's try new military dictatorships or autocracies, but new ways to frame our own democracy.
the arguments turn on the people's disappointment--not with western or french interventions per se, but with their failures to end the fighting and dangers up north that have destroyed the lives of vast numbers of burkinabe people. the govt failed to deliver security. if this new army group can do it, all the better. that's the bottom line.
if you all want me to copy and paste this piece, i can do so. but it is in french, so the value lies in what french readers might get from it.
ken

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: wagner group on the make/on the take?

You seem to be on an anti- Russian campaign. I wonder why. I mentioned blackwater
with full awareness of their nasty  reputation but they  work with your democratically elected
 USA, so why shudder? I doubt they are all like Blackwater but maybe so. Maybe not.
The Malians say they will work with the devil right now to get their country back
on a strong footing. 

All of a sudden you want to give a  free pass to the people who caused
 1.5 million to flee? Call the perpetrators bandits, terrorists or Jihadists. I don't call them by an ethnic
label, though unlike TA. They are a motley group inspired by ISIS and the likes; migrants from the 
Libyan fiasco; some are fundamentalists of the Taliban type etc.
We know what they did to the Malian manuscripts. Recall Bamako the 
movie. I am shocked that they are now the good guys for you.

The Russians are in it for the money, you say. So what about the French.
I guess they were on another fake civilizin' mission, for free. 

You are right I don't use wikipedia  as a scholarly source except for the helpful images.

Thanks for your comments.





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africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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i can put this in form of questions rather than as claims of certainty, since i am not a researcher who has done that work for claims on wagner
when you mention blackwater i get the shudders. i believe they are the incarnation of evil. every report i have seen, including human rights ones, identify wagner with violations of human rights, which means abusive use of force. their presence in c.a.r. and mali are subject to accusations of mineral extraction corruption.
gloria you are an important source of information for all of us; but i have to tell you, i wouldn't use the word terrorists to identify any groups. i associate the term with bush's attempts to politicize the opposition to muslim groups in the middle east and demean their politics and opposition to u.s. domination, along with saudi etc.
disgustingly that term is now used by everyone under the sun to vilify their political opposition. i don't know why you would find the rebel opposition worse than the c.a.r. govt? a long-standing opposition between christian and muslim parties, with every side commitment great violence against civilians on the other.

the russians are in it for the money, they have diamonds glowing in their eyes. the french were not much prettier. you want the former colonial power to be on the side of evil, and others to be liberatory. i view all that as wrong now. colonial days done finish. instead it is global powers, and propping up corrupt regimes, vs. rebel forces equally given to abusive killings.

there is a wikipedia page on it. you don't have to read it since you view them as unreliable, so i'll post it for others.
not saying it is god's truth, but it is pretty detailed.


Russian mercenaries and government offensives (since January 2021)

Since January, with the help of Russian mercenaries, the rebels have been on the retreat for the first time in years.[204] On 25 January 2021, CAR forces, backed by Russian PMCs and Rwandan troops, attacked Boyali, killing 44 rebels who were plotting an assault on the capital.[205] Subsequently, CAR forces, supported by the Russian contractors and Rwandan troops, captured a number of strategic towns throughout February 2021, including Bossembele, Bouar, Beloko and Bossangoa. As the rebels were being pushed back, Valery Zakharov urged them to hand over their leaders to the CAR's security forces.[206][207][208][209] During the fighting, the rebel Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) claimed its fighters killed several Wagner PMCs and captured one when they destroyed their truck near Bambari on 10 February.[210] Government advances, with the support of Russian and Rwandan forces, continued during March, April and May 2021.[211][212][213][214][215] This included the capture of the strategic towns of Bria and Kaga-Bandoro[216][217] and the Bakouma sub-prefecture.[218] Some towns were also seized solely by the Russian PMCs,[219][220][221] including Nzacko.[222] In at least one instance, the contractors reportedly included Syrians.[221] Mid-May, the Russians captured a village about 40 kilometers from Bambari during fighting that left 20 people dead.[223] In addition, at the end of the month, Russian and Syrian PMCs of the Wagner Group attacked a rebel checkpoint at the entrance of a village 28 kilometers from Bria, killing three CPC fighters.[224] Towards the end of July, the CAR military was leaving the frontline against the CPC to the PMCs. The plan was for government troops to occupy the captured positions after they had been secured by the contractors.[225] The increase in influence by Russia at the expense of France in its former colony led to a disinformation campaign on facebook between the two powers and France suspending aid and military cooperation with the CAR government in May 2021.[226] On March 25, 3R rebel leader Sidiki Abass, whose group is accused of war crimes, had succumbed to his injuries in the northern part of the country.[227] In April 2021, the UPC, then the biggest of the armed rebel groups,[228] withdrew from the CPC[229] and asked to talk with the government which has declined so far.[204] The rebels were seen to be moving away from cities and towards peripheral areas and turning to guerilla tactics instead of open fighting.[230] A state of emergency was declared in January 25, and President Tuoadera has been accused of using that opportunity to crack down on opponents and consolidate power. Pro-Tuoadera militias known as the "Sharks" and "7th Territorial Infantry Battalion" are alleged to have been involved in disappearances of members of Bozizé's party and former president Catherine Samba-Panza as well as challengers of Touadéra in the recent polls, Anicet Georges Dologuélé and Martin Ziguélé, report being prevented from exiting the country.[204] On 5 October 2021 34 civilians were killed by alleged UPC rebels in Matchika village near Bambari.[231] Between 6 and 16 December 2021 Anti-balaka fighters from pro-government faction killed number of Muslim civilians in Boyo commune for their alleged links with UPC rebels. On 16 and 17 January 2022 Russian mercenaries killed at least 65 civilians in Aïgbado and Yanga villages.[232]


ken

kenneth harrow

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dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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I don't know enough to pass judgement on Wagner  at this point. I believe
they helped to dislodge the terrorists in Central Africa. They are
like Dyn Corp, Vinnell Corp, Aegis, Advanfort,  Akegroup,  Academi and a host of other
similar groups  that work with the US military and  US government.
For example, Academi (formerly Blackwater) works with the CIA and the
US military. 

We'll see how successful they are a few months from now. The French
have been there for eight years with their Operation Barkhane, since August 
2014. What have they accomplished?

I believe that it is a matter of time before the French military 
are asked to leave Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso.  In any case, why should a 
former colony retain the military of  the former colonial power? It is
wiser to have  contracts with more neutral regimes, if at all.





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History Department, Central Connecticut State University
www.africahistory.net
Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries
2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies
 University of Texas at Austin
2019   Distinguished Africanist Award                   
New York African Studies Association
 

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the russians, esp the wagner group, seem like the bottom of the barrel. lots of criticism for the french, but the russians in africa, the wagner group, are despicable.
true mercenaries, like those creeps from s africa.
that's my impression.
ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Mali has given France 72 hours to get
out of the country according to my sources.
This is unconfirmed.

The French have have been enriching themselves 
with Malian gold, why do they envy the Russians?
Live and let live said some sage.🤓

Well all allegations have to be confirmed so
take them with grains of salt and sugar.


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Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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michigan state university

517 803-8839

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