Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

this seems awfully limited to me.

i agree that "politics" in the broadest sense  entails how we engage the world and people around us, including the relations of power. that's always there, but what does it have to do with my worrying about death? or my love for my granddaughter? or my worry about one of my children? or how the colors that reflect off the surface of the water can lift me for the moment? or that when i see you, i am transported?

or my fears or hatreds or loves or desires or hopes or despair.

always just politics?

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

 

"I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics."

                                          - Yehuda Amichai

Ọ̀gá Chidi, with your response, you sidesteppedthe relationship between poetry and politics. 

Adeshina 


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On Thursday, February 2, 2023, 6:24 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"Oga Chidi:

Do poets understand politicians?

TF"

I spoke as a political observer.

-CAO.

On Thursday, February 2, 2023, Toyin Falola <toyin.falola53@gmail.com> wrote:

Oga Chidi:

Do poets understand politicians?

TF

 

From: usaafricadialogue@ googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@ googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 5:27 AM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Anytime Bola Tinubu says "I made Buhari President", he demarkets himself as a presidential aspirant.

 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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