Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead

Campaign of plagiarism against the late Jason Arday was championed by one rightwing Cambridge Philosophy Researcher, named Nathan Cofnas, a self-styled race realist. In 2024, he resigned from his fellowship at the University of Cambridge after a blog post in which he stated that Black people are less intelligent. He emphasized further that in meritocracy the number of Black Professors at Havard University would approach zero percent. Therefore, a case of plagiarism against Jason Arday emanating from such a rightwing racist, Nathan Cofnas, should not have been taken serious by the media as well as the Cambridge University itself. Nathan Cofnas believes that all Black Professors are products of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the expressed belief that murdered Jason Arday. The honour now falls on all Black Professors in Europe and America to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that they merit their professorships and they are not products of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Nathan Cofnas, in precipitating the untimely death of Jason Arday, has questioned the integrity of all Black Professors in Europe and America and the best way to mourn the death of Jason Arday by our Black Professors is to collectively give Nathan Cofnas a bloody nose by disproving his racist theory.

S. Kadiri

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None of this of course having to do with his academic prowess:

Jason Arday : a list of contested claims about his life story. (Microsoft Edge 

Jason Arday : a list of contested claims about his life story. ( Google 

“No foul play”, but according to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, they more or less hounded Jason Arday to death…

No one is being accused, and we are not privy to the exact details of the last hours of his life, but In the precarious situation this sensitive, vulnerable soul found himself in, when he would most need some round-the-clock professional psychological counselling and other emotional support in order to cope with the stress, it’s all the more amazing that apparently he was alone  - or left alone, in solitude in that flat, to brave the malicious onslaught, possibly even receiving threatening phone calls, afraid to go out to face the vicious unknown ….

When dear friend Bedu Annan departed from this life by self-annihilation I discussed the tragedy with Sheldon Litt , a psychologist and he told me that when a man does that it’s either one of two things: Woman or money problems.

Bedu was in the phase known as manic-depressive

We also know that there’s this other emotional factor :Sense of honour

On Saturday, 15 August 2026 at 14:14:52 UTC+2 Michael Afolayan wrote:

I wish it did not happen. It did NOT have to happen. May all those he has left behind be comforted. Sad!

MOA

On Friday, August 14, 2026 at 07:30:29 PM EDT, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovadep...@gmail.com> wrote:

Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead https://share.google/REef82QxOA9evB3od 

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