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Shine on uncle Zac

Watching this in 2024 😅

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Thank you

This is something I find with a lot of non-African Blacks....they keep imagining Africa as frozen in time and people here as static

Thank you Dr. Ezeanya-Esiobu... I'm currently reading your work on this topic. It's really amazing and it's helping me as well. I'm also researching on indigenous knowledge...

Thank you for this lesson.

Decoloniality is a way of life, it is beyond epistemic knowledge. Thank you Prof for commitment to this liberating consciousness. We just need to start refocusing our attention to conscientizing society at large

Great creativity. The performance has healing properties. Outstanding and original

Great conversation marred by philosophical jargons. Meaning is lost.

In many areas of human endeavor, Yale University is primus inter pare.

Beautifully anchored erudition.

Great erudition and presentation. Ngugi is the Aristotle of African Literature and the Academy.

Excellent lecture, and original ideas. The professor a treasure in epistemes.

How can I sign up with you. Yale

Greetings from Nicaragua

Thanks. Wonderful talk and perspectives. I grew up in Melanesia. We were also labelled 'black' and share words in our Tok Pisin or creole like Pikinini which the original word meaning 'child of a black slave'. Even the word for man or 'mun' pronounced 'mon' stems from 'monkey'. Imposed and introduced by our colonizers. The language is a mixture of African, German, Latin, Portuguese, English, Chinese Samoan influences from people who invaded, were brought there to work or the slave trade destinations and slave traders. Our traditional languages are being lost but some being captured in the 'Bible'. The current language is very limiting. The general population don't even know this. People still say God save the Queen but were never taught the invasion and exploitation side of history of the British colonies ever or where he stole the jewels in her crown jewels from. I agree English speaking is a sign of status, which is a part of colonial conditioning.. and in part because people were denied an education, a legacy that continues. At school in PNG we got British and Australian literature... Generally people are thankful they were colonized. We have World War 2 memorials that don't even have a single PNG person as a tomb stone or statue despite fighting and dying on tracks (often from starvation as they were not given rations). Yet fields of Australian headstones and memorials. Again people rarely question this. I have friends that keep saying why do people still care about slavery, it was soo long ago.... and yet the legacies remain and we are still fighting for equality... they don't know their own history. I studied an English GCSE and NSW, Australia curriculum. The firsts book I ever read of PNG writers was actually compiled by a Nigerian Adeola James in 1996 well after independence from Australian administration. It wasn't part of our school curriculum but rather a prize. The first books written by a Papua New Guinean was not actually published until the 1970s and I didn't even know that until this year. Others tend to be biographies or myths and legends. We didn't traditionally have a written script, but we did have oral traditions. It is a shame they are in part captured by anthropologist rather than people telling their own stories. Interviews and telling stories (passing the mike) hardly happened before independence i.e. our stories told by others. Not all of whom would have had our best intentions at heart. What he says about attitudes, visiting Australia etc.. from my own experience, I think is true. Also it is not well known that Africans played an important part of PNG independence. From our first Prime Minister visiting Ghana prior to independence to graduates of Makerere University visiting PNG to talk to people in the 1970s prior to Independence. Stories that are hardly told... and are at risk of being lost.

Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun Alakija you are needed an inspiration. Her brilliance has only come to light for me personally in the last two weeks, and I only regret not being awear of her amazing work sooner. I share your vision that your ceiling should and will one day be the ground from which our young African women rise from like my niece. Peace Love and Respect to you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Thank you Dr Chika for opening my eyes. I admire your wisdom and bravery. My humble contribution, however, is that, science only seeks to standardize or prove, mathematically, indigenous knowledge and solutions. We should be careful not to equate science to westernization which is a political ideology to project one race superior over others.

Love Dr. Alakija

So the guy who gets rejected you bring him on 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Please I will like to contribute to the conversation next time as a Nigerian how do that?

I come from a clan in Nigeria where bullets are removed from bullet wounds without surgery.

We want exchange programmes here in the Yorùbá land with the USA Universities. We have more intelligent & talented young minds who are industrious but less privileged.

Bravo, professor ngugi wa thiongo.

A very informed presentation. Thanks, Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o, for recognizing my work 'Romeo na Churieti', Ekegusii translation of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. I am really humbled.