Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Poetic Thought

To consolidate your argument add Chidi's use of magun, and it becomes more complicated. He combines two dangerous forces—kingship and juju—converted to the instrumentality of control and violence to cage the innocents. The king uses masculinity, reinforced by juju, to kill those who want to gain access to willing vaginas, and send the women on the path of shame and suicide.

TF

 

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Date: Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 11:36 AM
To: Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com>, usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Poetic Thought

I have mixed feelings about this poem.

 

Women are not hyperactive nymphomaniacs, as the poem implies,

and polygamy is not just about sex. It is about lineage expansion,

power, class consolidation , identity, hierarchy, economy, cultural proliferation, 

historical continuity, and a lot more. 

 

Thank you, though, for your concern for the fate of women before and after their

loved ones and  partners  pass away.

 

 

 

 

 

GE

 

 

 

 

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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Great

 

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 12:53 Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Yes…

 

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Date: Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 6:50 AM
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Will they be allowed to remarry?

 

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 11:46 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

The king has journeyed

To join his ancestors.

 

They are liberated,

Those horny queens.

 

Those beautiful young ladies

Whose libidoes 

Were put under lock

By the mighty magun.

 

They are liberated,

Those horny queens are liberated.

 

(C) Chidi Anthony Opara

 

#2022Poeticthought

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