Neither Settler Nor Native A Response to My Critics

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Toyin Falola

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Jun 30, 2021, 2:57:08 PM6/30/21
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Codesria Bulletin online, N°20, June 2021
Bulletin du CODESRIA en Ligne, N°20, juin, 2021

 

20-_mamdani_response_codbul_online_21.pdf

Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Jun 30, 2021, 11:30:09 PM6/30/21
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Thanks for sharing this rejoinder.  Mamdani went 
to great lengths to claim that he was not guilty of  negligence, with respect to gender issues.  A better response would have been a thank you note 
to his critic, rather than a  defensive  tirade
that disclosed  unprofessional abandonment
of 2,000 questionnaires along the way.
Hey! What if there were 
some golden nuggets in the paper stack? 

He also dissed one of the great gifts of social 
engineering, affirmative action, without which 
the historically disenfranchised  would have a
grim future.  It is true that some of the
beneficiaries of this process try to kick 
down the ladder that they climbed on-
denying identity with ruthless abandon, 
but they do not speak for the community 
of grateful recipients, or the society as a whole.

Our own IB also starred in the rejoinder.





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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FJ Kolapo

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"Whereas I had come across instances of members of a self-defined race or tribe or religion dream of a genocidal path to a future without the other, I had yet to come across an instance where either gender, male or female, had imagined such a future, let alone tried to bring such a genocidal nightmare to life. The reason seemed clear to me: neither men nor women can survive without the other." -Mamdani
a great line that should hold until cloning or other forms of the reproduction of humankind take hold that are no longer based on gender polarity.

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