To tell the truth, I heard it for the first time
last week.Too bad.
But I wanted to know who said it
and when, and the context.
I appreciate those who
provided the info. Thank you.
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
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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Moses:
I'm with you here. It's truly baffling that a video clip that has been around for over five years is suddenly the subject of this animated waste of time and energy. I've used the satirical clip several times in my classes when covering structuralist (Marxist, neo-Marxist, Dependency and World-System) theories--just to let students (in a 100% white students classroom) "hear it from the white man." There's nothing "secret" about it. There are plenty such "uncomfortable" videos on YouTube for anyone who cares to view and possibly use them for their purposes.
Okey
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 6:59 AM Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought the speaker was describing and critiquing the unequal and exploitative capitalist system that keeps and has kept Africa down in order for the West to access cheap African labor and raw materials. How did we get to the point of reading the tape as some sort of secret or secretly recorded confession?This was clearly a public lecture. Am I missing something?
It's pretty clear to me that the speaker is rehashing a familiar world system, underdevelopment theory, neo-Marxian, and core-periphery analysis of how the industrialized Western "core" needs and structures an impoverished African "periphery" as a zone of labor and raw material extraction, a historical fact about how the exploitation of Africa has fueled the prosperity of Euro-America that Samir Amin, Walter Rodney, Saul Arigghi, Joseph Inikori, Eric WIlliams, and many others have enunciated in multiple publications. Why is this being discussed as a revelation or secret confession by the white man?
--On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 8:41 AM 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--Good points. Now we know thatthe talk was given in frontof a big audience, and not to a selectfew. It could certainly be secretly recordedeither way. Some large audiencesare asked not to tape proceedings.
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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When I saw the video, I knew immediately that it would be one of those "distorted information" making the rounds on some information circuits.
The funny part is that someone apparently speaking to an audience in the open was being "secretly recorded".
The surprise part is that such viewpoint was being expressed to an audience in the open.
It is a fact that a section of the western opinion leadership harbour such sentiment about Africa, but it is something that is usually discussed in the innermost sanctum of policy formulation, not at conferences.
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
On Friday, June 17, 2022, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--Prof Okafor,
No one on this forum was surprisedat the content, or disclosure aboutWestern intentions for Africa. Catchingthe person on tape was the surprise. Iwanted to know whether it was aTony Blair type personality or someIMF or World Bank official caught ontape.These are the masters of doublespeak and denialism and we shouldgrasp every opportunity to documenttheir accidental confessions.Documentation is key for AfricanStudies.When I started my seriesof video interviews in 2012, orthereabouts, that is what I had inmind, although my series focusedon the good guys not the "evil"doers-but it would have been great to catchone of those policy makers on tape.
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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Comrades:
When I was in graduate school, one of my professors was fond of saying to us, his students, that "what surprises me is that people are still surprised after a thousand years of being surprised." So, who on this forum is surprised about a historical truth (as reflected in the so-called secretly-recorded "We must keep Africa down" verbal affirmation) of the fundamentally-mercantilist agenda and purpose of the Western world's engagement with Africa, historically and contemporaneously? Anyone on this forum who is surprised by the video recorded reaffirmation of this historical strategic and underlying principle of the Western world's engagement with Africa is not only out of touch with a well-established, well-documented, a zillion-times analyzed ideological and practical truth of earthly geopolitical and geo-economic human relations, but must have also been living in intellectual outer space all this while. And, I dare submit, with all due humility, that such a person should have no business with the enterprise called African Studies.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 12:09 PM Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:
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