Gloria:
The nation-state is under implosion. More ruptures are awaited, of course, not as the prelude to the rapture.
TF
From: 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 9:36 AM
To: usa <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Putin Ukraine and Ethiopia
Putin plays chess while the West plays chequers
What do Ukraine and Ethiopia
have in common? Well it seems that
the West was pitching for the secession
of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, with
its support of the
TPLF, even though Ethiopia, was
an ally. Someone in the U.S State
Department mixed up their notes.
In any case that secession did not
materialize. Abiy Ahmed didn't get
the Nobel Prize in vain,after all.
Then Putin decides to up the ante
and support not one, but two
secessionist regions carved out
from Eastern Ukraine. Welcome
to the newborn republics of
Luhansk and Donetsk!
Meanwhile, Mali asks the French to
pack their knapsacks and leave
immediately, emboldened by their
anti- French and anti -jihadist
population, willing to
accept Putin's helping hand to
fight the insurgents.
So what is the next move?
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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