Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Secret taping- “We must keep Africa down” caught on tape

Greetings Professor Emeagwali. Please, know that I applaud you for sharing the video clip with us. That was indeed an exercise in creative courage. And, I whole-heartedly agree with you that "we should grasp every opportunity to document their accidental confessions." I never meant to imply that the material should have been ignored. I also want to point out that so far, I have not read any reaction to it which would suggest that any of us on this forum was surprised by the essence of the verbalized ideology of hegemony, exploitation and control. 

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 3:12 PM Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:

Prof Okafor,

No one on this forum was surprised

at the content, or disclosure about

Western intentions for Africa. Catching 

the person on tape was the surprise. I 

wanted to know whether it was a 

Tony Blair type personality or some  

IMF or World Bank official caught on 

tape.These are the masters of double

 speak and denialism and  we should 

grasp every opportunity to document 

their accidental confessions.

Documentation is key for African

Studies.When I started my series 

of video interviews in 2012, or 

thereabouts, that is what I had in

mind, although my series focused

on the good guys not the "evil"doers-

but it would have been great to catch

one 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:

Does anyone recognize the speaker?

Please share the information.

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Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor and Head

Department of Africology and African American Studies

Eastern Michigan University

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Eastern Michigan University

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