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• KOFI 12 years ago

  SHE SHOULD COME AND TEACH AT LEGON DEPART OF FRICAN STUDIES!!!!

  SHE SHOULD COME AND TEACH AT LEGON DEPART OF FRICAN STUDIES!!!!

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• Akwasi Bow 12 years ago

  Why dont you post this independent of other peoples' postings to this website?

  Why dont you post this independent of other peoples' postings to this website?

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• abra kuma 12 years ago

  Equally informative.True, some of us did find France, the EU and the US's maoeuvres too coincidental for comfort. One thing we've learnt to expect? The US always makes an enemy of its non-European allies when/if it becomes ex ...
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  Equally informative.True, some of us did find France, the EU and the US's maoeuvres too coincidental for comfort. One thing we've learnt to expect? The US always makes an enemy of its non-European allies when/if it becomes expedient to do so. Thank you for your detailed input.

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• Kwame Ntim 12 years ago

  Thanks for your remarks

  Thanks for your remarks

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• KK 12 years ago

  Thanks for bringing this important scholar in the African field to our knowledge. Often, the attention is too much on US scholars but it seems every other important person has to connect with the US to really get known - perh ...
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  Thanks for bringing this important scholar in the African field to our knowledge. Often, the attention is too much on US scholars but it seems every other important person has to connect with the US to really get known - perhaps except for Cheik Anta Diop??? What are his connections with the USA, Francis?
  
  Just a few curious questions about Ama:
  
  1. Her name Ama - does she know if she really was born on a Saturday?
  
  2. Has she also been to Dahomey (Benin) the source of her traditional religious power? And to Ghana?
  
  Hope your sequel(s) do not needlessly go over ground that you have already covered in your articles about Molefi Kete Asante
  
  Thank you

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• francis kwarteng 12 years ago

  Hello,
  
  Cheikh Anta Diop is a well-known intellectual giant in the West, particuarly America.
  
  I have personally read (all his work in Enghlish) together with that of his former "student," Dr. Theophile Obenga (Central A ...
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  Hello,
  
  Cheikh Anta Diop is a well-known intellectual giant in the West, particuarly America.
  
  I have personally read (all his work in Enghlish) together with that of his former "student," Dr. Theophile Obenga (Central Africa), presently one of the best Egyptologists/linguists in the world.We can discuss Diop privately if you have the time (send me an email: franciskwarteng@yahoo.com).
  
  I can do essays on Diop if Ghanaweb will publish them. Many times I have had to write to the editor to convince him to publish such articles. And it's has become easy for him to accept my arguments because both Mazama and Asante have Ghanaian names.
  
  But these non-African essays are popuar with readers on modernghana, spyghana, vibeghana, and myjoyonline--where readers admire serious intellectual stuff. I don't mean this in a negative way.
  
  The Ghanaweb editor has specifically asked me to tailor my essays to Ghanaians and Ghana. Besides, I am familiar with the influential work of so many Africans that I hope Ghanaweb will publish without my having to explain to the editor all the time why the work of these scholars are important to us.
  
  There is a Central African scholar in Germany whose work is as influential as Cheikh Anta Diop. I shall do a piece on him one day. He's already thrown many Western ideas about ancient (and contemporary) into disrepute.
  
  If you want to see Diop's intellectual influence in the world, particularly on America, See Ivan Van Sertimer's and Larry William's edited "Great African Thinkers: Cheikh Anta Diop" and Molefi Kete Asante's "Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Diop."
  
  Diop's own son, a phycisist, has written an excellent biography of his father. It's in French and I shalll get the title for you. You can also see Curtis Alexander's edited volume "Cheikh Anta Diop: An African Scientist."
  
  Let me add quickly that Cheikh Anta Diop's work is the foundation of Molefi Kete Asante's theory of Afrcentricity.
  
  Finally, both Asante and Mazama have travelled throughout Africa, studied Africa, and porbably know more about Africa than the average African. Both have trained some of the influential thinkers working in the African world.
  
  I am surprised you asked me about whether Mazama knows about Vodou and its roots in Dahomey. This is a non-issue. Have you seen her and Asante's voluminous edited work "The Encyclopedia of African Religion"? They worked with all the world's leading thinkers/researchers on African Religion to compile this volume.
  
  Mazama and Asante work with African-based scholars and leaders everyday. They travel to Africa to teach, hold seminars, do all kinds of things, now and then. I will reveal more. You will be surprised if I tell you about some of Mazama's and Asante's students writing for Ghanaweb as well as wroking in Ghana (and Africa) you will be surprised. Like I have said, you don't have to be in Africa to make an impact in Africa.
  
  Thanks.

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• abra kuma 12 years ago

  We Africans are fortunate to have our own people of such great stature still residing among us; consider how much we can learn from them! Certainly, Mr. Kwarteng, the title you have given her is not overstated.Ama Mazama is a ...
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  We Africans are fortunate to have our own people of such great stature still residing among us; consider how much we can learn from them! Certainly, Mr. Kwarteng, the title you have given her is not overstated.Ama Mazama is a true African Warrior with enviable intellect and achievements. It is time we came together as a People "worthy of" protecting, defending, and supporting her - and others like her - who take on the formidable role of fighting an institutionalized white supremacist philosophy in order to correct history's misstatements and many injustices against Africa and its diaspora. This task you have sought to execute here, Sir, and we recognize and appreciate your industriousness as well as energy expended in that regard. We look forward to the sequels and other expository essays from you. Thank you.

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• francis kwarteng 12 years ago

  Hello,
  
  Please if you can, ask the editor of Ghanaweb to allow me to do essays on influential African scholars based outside the US and those directly in Africa (not necessarily in Ghana).
  
  I have a long list with me here ...
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  Hello,
  
  Please if you can, ask the editor of Ghanaweb to allow me to do essays on influential African scholars based outside the US and those directly in Africa (not necessarily in Ghana).
  
  I have a long list with me here.
  
  Thanks

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