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A Tribute: Ali Mazrui, Ghana, & The World (2)

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  • KOO 9 years ago

    IN ONE OF HIS SERIES ON SLAVERY ON PBS TV IN THE USA, GATES ALLUDED THAT AFRICANS ARE SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF THE SIN OF SLAVERY.
    IT REALLY HORRIFIED ME THAT AN INTELLECTUAL OF HIS STATURE WOULD MAKE SUCH AN INSENSITIVE AND ...
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  • Kwesi Mensah 9 years ago

    One important point before my comment. Please do not use labels that have the effect of not recognizing the Africanity of diasporic Africans. It would have been more appropriate for your title to state: "Gates hates Continent ...
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  • francis kwarteng 9 years ago

    Hello,

    I have dealt with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s identity crisis controversies in general terms, as in here, in part 1, and in some of my earlier essays on Kwame Anthony Appiah.

    Your title "Gates Hates Continental Afr ...
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  • Agyeman 9 years ago

    Mazrui was a great thinker,scholar and intellectual of world reknown.He did Kenya and Africa proud.Fare thee well professor Mazrui.

  • Mahuwu 9 years ago

    Mazrui "advised" Idi Amin, and then ran away from him.

    That alone shows Mazrui was NOT very a PERCEPTIVE thinker!

  • francis kwarteng 9 years ago

    Dear Readers,

    These are irrelevant to the central message though I had to point them out just in case a reader wants to take me to court for typos!

    Paragraph 7 (line 6):

    Aside that, both Mazrui and Soyinka demonstrat ...
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  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    This is nothing new than a mere tribute to Francis Kwarteng's copy and paste (mixed paragraphs) nonsense part 2.

    Of course a wasted space on Ghana-web columnist platform and a circulation of crap.

  • Nana Kwame 9 years ago

    Asjoa Wangara, we are dying to read your "PERFECT PIECE", in order to compare it to Kwarteng's.