tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91988053681589599902012-02-10T10:11:23.516-08:00Mass LiteracyThis Web Log is devoted to simple but deep readings of the subtle and not so subtle messages and to the interpretation of the silences that are strategically delivered through the mass media. Other readers are welcome to agree or disagree or even offer new readings of other relevant texts for the promotion of mass literacy and mutual understanding.Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-40462174100414792922012-02-08T11:22:00.000-08:002012-02-08T11:27:04.139-08:00Frederick Douglas Held Ofo and OguOne Onyigbo who descended from our enslaved ancestors in the Caribbean asked me to explain what Ndigbo mean by Ofo and Ogu. I said:
Briefly put, Ogu na Ofo, or more commonly Ofo na Ogu are symbols of innocence and righteousness. Whenever some kind of danger approaches, it is common to hear the expression, 'ejikwa m ogu' or 'o ji ofo ga-ana' or ejikwam ofo na ogu (usually said with a slow Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-56962347827675229652012-01-19T12:01:00.000-08:002012-01-19T12:01:13.257-08:00The Pedagogy of Boko Haram<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-81737041519568247732012-01-08T13:27:00.000-08:002012-01-08T13:27:08.814-08:00Authoritarianism AUTHORITARIANISM By Biko Agozino
‘Education, and education and education through conscientisation! Our people need to be aware of the power they have as citizens; their inalienable rights as people; the fact that the power enjoyed by the rulers should actually flow from the people. They should stop glamourising and beatifying the bad rulers that make life and living impossible for them and Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-47655699609070721412012-01-03T09:47:00.000-08:002012-01-03T09:47:54.548-08:00Guilty Verdict for killers of Stephen Lawrence http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stephen-lawrence-murder--pair-found-guilty-.html
See my essay on the issue:
http://www.britsoccrim.org/volume3/001.pdf http://www.britsoccrim.org/volume3/001.pdf www.britsoccrim.orgOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-35938898417967829512011-12-23T11:29:00.000-08:002011-12-23T11:31:32.334-08:00Press Release on Black UnemploymentPress Release: African Criminology and Justice Association Policy Proposal on Black Unemployment
The unemployment rate for African Americans (16.7%) has been reported to be at its highest level since 1984.[i] At nearly double the national average (9.1%) or over double the rate for white Americans (8%), the members of the African Criminology and Justice Association, meeting in Washington DC, Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-36811496886992331292011-12-10T20:06:00.000-08:002011-12-11T07:51:12.535-08:00For ASUU
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As the members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) embark on another indefinite strike in December 2011, I re-circulate this opinion that I published in The Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-28076439794922305552011-11-14T14:14:00.000-08:002011-11-17T06:12:22.151-08:00ACHEBE’S REJECTION OF THE THIRD HIGHEST NATIONAL HONOUR TWICE.
By Dr. Biko Agozino
Achebe has again rejected the ‘third highest national honour’, CFR, from a second Nigerian President to make that offer to him in a row. The first time he was offered the honour by President Obasanjo, he turned it down on the ground that with the lack of attention to his thesis on The Trouble With Nigeria that he published decades ago during a period of his active Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-46218762555373731292011-10-14T14:45:00.000-07:002011-10-17T11:43:24.550-07:00The Artful Dodger Subsidy Withdrawal
By Biko Agozino
A colleague asked me to comment on his treatise on the just announced Nigerian policy of removing subsidies from petroleum products. The colleague started by stating that petrol is cheap in Nigeria and that the subsidies served as a form of wealth re-distribution especially given that there does not appear to be any other way of trickling down the oil wealth to the impoverished Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-80283750307453082892011-09-06T12:04:00.000-07:002011-09-20T15:07:22.787-07:00Zero-Tolerance, Control-Freaks and UK 'Riots'The War on Drugs Done It.By Biko Agozino
The uprising and the looting that occurred across England recently have renewed calls for zero-tolerance policing and get tough approaches to law and order. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, set the tone when he suggested that police tactics were ineffective and he reportedly threatened to cut off social media and authorize the police to use waterOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-59449316551446171022011-06-22T08:41:00.000-07:002011-06-22T08:41:05.681-07:00AU Press Release on Libya<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-29427393009106765882011-05-19T11:51:00.000-07:002011-05-19T11:51:33.494-07:00VIOLENCE AND LITERACY<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-80325542474656452782011-03-25T08:06:00.000-07:002011-03-25T08:06:01.731-07:00Libya Minus OneLibya Minus One
By Biko Agozino
‘If a continuous function is observed to be positive at a certain point in time, and then observed to be negative at a later point, then there must be at least one point between the two observed points where the function is zero, where it crosses the line separating the positive sphere from the negative sphere. That point of “transition,” that Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-18321816690051850492011-01-31T12:10:00.000-08:002011-01-31T12:10:29.541-08:00UWI - A World Class UniversityIs U.W.I. Still World Class?Dr Onwubiko AgozinoMon, 24 Jan 11
First published in http://www.caribbeanicon.com/component/k2/item/144-is-uwi-still-world-class?.htmlfont size
The Caribbean region remains one of the most vibrant sites of learning in the world today; yielding the inventors of many genres of music, the inventors of musical instruments, master artists, creative writers, Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-70282749583146424052010-12-02T11:16:00.001-08:002010-12-02T11:16:57.638-08:00Obama's Moral VictoryObama's Moral Victory
Dr Biko AgozinoMon, 29 Nov 2010Obama's star has not faded at all, contrary to some speculations, it continues to shine bright, but many viewers are deliberately wearing blinkers, and are blinded by hate and anger and cannot see that in reality, we are witnessing one of the most historic presidencies of all time. In two years, Obama has achieved more than most presidentsOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-65953026497262357792010-11-15T12:56:00.001-08:002011-01-31T12:40:01.412-08:00For Achebe @ 80: Tulu UgoELECHI AMADI’S COLONIALIST CRITICISM OF ACHEBE
By Biko Agozino, Ph.D.
I enjoyed reading the interview of Elechi Amadi byJames Eze in The Sun in October 2004. I wish to thank Amadifor sharing the open secret of his success as awriter: you need to read hundreds, and he repeated,hundreds of novels before you can master that art formand venture to become a successful novelist. I hopethat this Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-49680162275877554152010-09-12T12:07:00.000-07:002010-09-25T14:05:26.636-07:00Against War on African AmericansRESOLUTION AGAINST THE WAR ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
By Biko AgozinoProfessor of Sociology and Director of Africana Studies Program, Virginia Tech,Blacksburg, VA 24061, agozino@vt.edu 1-540-231-7699
Contrary to the claim by Time magazine that the war on drugs, the longest war that has cost American taxpayers $2.5 trillion over 40 years, has ‘no clear enemy’,[1] the NAACP in 2010 rightly condemned theOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-37906317405151027282010-09-02T14:15:00.000-07:002011-01-31T12:30:54.727-08:00Naipaul's Ingratitude Naipaul's Ingratitude Dr Onwubiko Agozino Mon, 22 Nov 10 font size decrease font size increase font size
Naipaul's problem is primarily that of ingratitude, which he probably inherited from his father. According to the literaryOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-21266638933691625862010-07-11T14:35:00.000-07:002010-07-12T16:01:55.713-07:00Ode to Soyinka @ 76ODE TO BABA SHO AT 76By Biko Agozino
‘Unlike societies right next to the Igbo for instance – more famously the Benin, or further West, the Yoruba or, all the way southwards of the continent, the Kwazulu of the legendary Shaka – the Igbo, with their strong social formation rooted in republicanism, would appear to belie my general claim. The Igbo have no history of expansionism, being content with Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-6065914458678072522010-06-21T16:45:00.000-07:002010-06-21T16:49:11.492-07:00Abati on Sports and DevelopmentBy Biko Agozino
Ruben Abati made very insightful observations in his analysis of the failure of the Nigerian national football team to inspire enthusiasm from supporters at home and abroad during the World Cup in South Africa. He concluded that the outing has brought more shame than pride to Nigerians given that the Nigerian preparations for the competition were characteristically shoddy, while Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-77307993235497306932010-06-13T09:46:00.000-07:002010-06-13T09:46:03.502-07:00Any Cook Can CoachBy Biko Agozino
This title was suggested by the title of an essay by CLR James on politics in the Caribbean in which he argued, following Athenian democracy, that ‘Every Cook Can Govern’. However, the institution of slavery in Athens, the fact that Athens had a war-mongering monarchy that oppressed philosophers, and the fact that women and children did not have the rights of citizenship Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-35884705826628272232010-06-05T14:43:00.000-07:002010-06-05T16:28:59.723-07:00BEWARE OF ANTI-BIGOTRY BIGOTRYBEWARE OF ANTI-BIGOTRY BIGOTRY
BY Biko Agozino
As a fan of the work of Mahmood Mamdani, I was shocked to read his commencement speech at the University of Johannesburg following his honorary doctoral degree on May 25, 2010. The speech has just been published by Pambazuka online with the title, ‘Beware of Bigotry: Free Speech and the Zapiro Cartoons’. The speech showed the dismay of Mamdani to Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-853930315055653782010-05-19T10:48:00.000-07:002010-05-19T10:52:03.559-07:00We Were Never Their Slaves
By Biko Agozino
A respected colleague in Africa recently sent me the urban legend piece that has been making the rounds on the internet with the title, ‘They are still our slaves’. A search on the internet reveals that there are more than one million sites that published the article with varied discussions. I am sure that many of you have seen it and maybe believed it to be true or ignoredOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-55863950031866058282010-05-02T16:21:00.000-07:002010-05-02T16:21:14.174-07:00Reparations demand never a blame-gameBiko Agozino Let me start by saying that this opinion by Gates represents an advancement on his PBS series in the sense that he did not say a single word about reparations in his six hours of documentary and he was called out on that. Now that he has commented on the issue, he has taken another step forward by limiting his conspiracy theory of slavery to the elites and not to all Africans as Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-3954057957217180912010-05-01T10:36:00.000-07:002010-05-01T10:45:25.540-07:00The Debt Penalty: A Play
By Biko Agozino
The Debt Penalty is a fictional drama based on the Third World
debt crisis, using the metaphor of a heavily indebted but highly
profitable trading company to represent a Third World country.
The drama opens with the Directors of the company fighting over
the formula for the sharing of the company’s profits while the
workers protest about job losses and starvation wages. The
Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-52146804351391152102010-04-24T11:03:00.000-07:002010-04-24T11:03:04.127-07:00Blogger Buzz: Blogger integrates with Amazon AssociatesBlogger Buzz: Blogger integrates with Amazon AssociatesOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-19282194806104799082010-02-07T11:45:00.001-08:002010-02-15T08:48:43.168-08:00Anambra as Litmus TestANAMBRA STATE AS LITMUS TEST
By Biko Agozino
"But my fear is that the furore that has grown around the Anambra voters register may become a battle ground, with the corpses that we did not see on February 6 showing up on the streets soon enough when the Obi administration chooses to organise the pending local government council elections in the state." This was the conclusion to Ruben Abati's 'Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-76130138227724214862010-02-06T09:33:00.000-08:002010-02-06T09:33:24.881-08:00Every Month is Black History Month
Remember contributions every month, not just oneThursday, February 4, 2010; 9:46 PM | by Biko Agozino, guest columnist Black History Month is every month because there is no month without a significant black history event.
The question of whether one month is enough to celebrate black history is possible today because of the success of activist scholars such as Carter G. Woodson, who started Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-66194793995606558562010-01-23T10:19:00.000-08:002010-01-24T11:11:08.856-08:00What Does Success Mean to You?Hi Dad,
I am participating in a program with my school called success for life where they take us to 5 different buisnesses over the course of 5 weeks and have recently completed the first day of it. They asked us to do some homework for the next session in a week's time and one of the assignments is to ask a successful adult the folowing questions:
What does success mean to you?
What three Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-65467372677932999102009-12-28T11:18:00.000-08:002009-12-31T13:26:20.765-08:00Dennis Brutus 1924-2009By Biko Agozino
When I first met Dennis Brutus on the campus of the University of Calabar in the 1980s during the African Literature Conference Series that Earnest Emenyonu organized, he looked so tall and so larger than life that when I met him again in Pittsburg in 2002, I could not believe that it was the same person. We shared an Azania Heritage Foundation platform discussing reparations forOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-88157394401891532452009-12-24T11:00:00.000-08:002009-12-24T11:00:01.341-08:00Healing The PresidentHealing Help for President Yar’Adua
By Biko Agozino
My book, ADAM: Africana Drug-Free Alternative Medicine, has been recognized by the National Natural Medicine Development Agency for many months as the ‘Book of the Month’ in their digital library. I am pleased to say that the book has the solution to the health of President Yar’Adua. The solution would cost him absolutely nothing and also Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-60955467173324299262009-12-21T16:51:00.001-08:002009-12-21T16:51:55.933-08:00The Princess and the Frog
By Biko Agozino
It was my daughter’s ninth birthday recently and she chose as one of her birthday activities to go and see the Disney movie, The Princess and The Frog. As we waited for the movie to start, she interviewed me about what anyone needs to do in order to be famous. I replied that anyone who writes a great book would become famous and anyone who stands up to speak for those who cannotOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-22145104830377088202009-07-20T08:52:00.000-07:002009-07-22T12:02:51.355-07:00My Mandela Day ActivityMandela Day Reflections on Ekwe-Ekwe’s DiscoursesBy Biko AgozinoI wrote this on July 18 in response to the call by Baba Mandela that people all over the world should spend 67 minutes to do community work in honour of his 91st birthday. Bayeete aaaah Madiba! I must confess that it took me more than 67 minutes to read Ekwe-Ekwe’s essay and then write this review but that is a good omen that Saint Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-88982120575855438272009-07-16T07:40:00.000-07:002009-07-22T12:04:12.087-07:00G8 $20 BILLION QUESTIONBy Biko AgozinoAnalysts are slow to give credit to whom honor is due for a key decision of G8 leaders in Italy. I propose that we give the credit to our self-proclaimed ‘Servant Leader’, President Umaru Yar’Adua, who must have used quiet diplomacy to sway the G8 leaders in the desired direction. Some analysts were quick to point out that the $20 billion grants for agriculture agreed by the Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-17096346033453855622009-06-22T08:54:00.000-07:002009-06-23T07:37:40.442-07:00NIYI OSUNDARE: A RESPONSEREPLY TO NIYI OSUNDARE’S LETTER TO PRESIDENT YARADUABy Biko AgozinoDear Prof.,If to say na me be President Yar’Adua, I for reply your long letter like this: Thank you for your so long a letter in the tradition of Mariama Ba. How madam and pickin them dey? Na waa for you brother Niyi self. You done dey turn oyibo o! How you take write your brother so long a letter and you no even ask about family,Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-31019367970496636402009-05-12T09:05:00.000-07:002009-05-12T09:10:27.798-07:00Miracle of Harlem?By Biko Agozino ‘The Harlem Miracle’ as reported by The New York Times in an opinion article by David Brooks on May 7, 2009 is noteworthy if only because a Harvard University Economist, Roland Fryer, claimed that the Harlem Children’s Zone study changed his life by making him hope for more than marginal gains in closing the academic achievement gaps between white and black students. I wonder whyOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-13072235199301736192009-05-07T07:21:00.001-07:002009-05-07T07:30:53.548-07:00Series Editor Interview by Ashgate PublishersInterdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations Series Editor: Biko Agozino, The University of the West IndiesSelected titles from thisseriesThis series brings together research from a range of disciplines including criminology, cultural studies and applied social studies, focusing on experiences of ethnic, gender and class relations. In particular, the series examines theOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-71499681454203872752009-04-24T09:55:00.000-07:002009-04-24T10:02:06.018-07:00PAN-AFRICANISM AND GLOBALIZATIONPAN-AFRICANISM AND GLOBALIZATIONBy Biko Agozino and a brotherI just read Pambazuka online and sent this comment about Shivji’s paper:‘Professor Shivji's Dudley Lecture was a good read. I marvel at the inventiveness of Swahili and other African languages - turning modernization (utandawazi) into a network of thieves (utandawizi) effortlessly. In Igbo language, the closest equivalent would be Otu Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-52788396343097430382009-02-26T13:22:00.000-08:002009-02-26T13:23:58.527-08:00'If' and if not?By Biko AgozinoThe poem, ‘If…’ by Rudyard Kipling was one of my favourites in High School after I saw a copy on the wall of my English Literature teacher. I copied it by hand on a large poster and kept in my room at home as an inspiration. However, another literature teacher from a girls’ school near home visited me at home once and saw the poem and immediately critiqued my poor handwriting. TrueOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-34209255815548391492009-02-23T10:49:00.000-08:002009-02-23T10:52:22.751-08:00DOC, I AM SO LIKE YOUBY BIKO AGOZINOWhen I arrived in Trinidad newly, a student told me that if I had dark glasses on top of my white jacket, I would have looked just like the Doc. Like who? Dr. Eric Williams, he explained. I thanked him for the flattery but thought that I am not that short or that bald. Of course, I admire Eric Williams as an intellectual and as a nation-builder but I did not know much about his Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-10983648848671054162009-01-11T11:30:00.000-08:002009-01-11T12:15:47.790-08:00African TimeManaging African TimeBy Biko Agozinobagozino@yahoo.comThe application of the concept of African Time was evident at a Nigerian High Commission in the Caribbean where the visiting Consul General and his staff were assisted by the High Commission staff to register hundreds of Nigerians for the new electronic ECOWAS passport. The process appeared to be chaotic in a way that seemed consistent with Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-79692712677949352482008-12-20T12:00:00.000-08:002008-12-21T09:20:14.408-08:00FOR A CULTURE OF LEARNINGBy Biko Agozinobagozino@yahoo.comIn an earlier article (http://massliteracy.blogspot.com/), I asked parents, students and teachers to send me information on their study methods and the results they get from those methods and I promised to share my preferred methods with all. No one has responded so far but I still keep reading articles about the sorry state of education especially in Africa and Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-8052765470687548532008-10-25T12:03:00.000-07:002008-10-25T12:19:38.468-07:00WHEN THE PIRANHA MET THE HONEY BEE‘I formed habits of work rather different from those of most of the other students. I burned no midnight oil. I did my studying in the daytime and had my day parceled out almost to the minute. I spent a great deal of time in the library and did my assignments with thoroughness…’ – The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1968, International Publishers, pp 140-141.THE PIRANHA OR THE HONEY BEE?By Biko Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-61968894146704386652008-09-28T06:34:00.000-07:002008-09-28T07:38:47.353-07:00Grandpa, How Did You Vote?BY BIKO AGOZINOAmericans are a people who have a love affair with history-making. There are many monumental moments in history when Americans left their gigantic marks in epochal moves that have helped to change the course of history on grand scales. There is no need to recount such historic events to prove the obvious point. Suffice it to say that Americans are presented with another such Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-55869952048970566482008-08-12T10:56:00.000-07:002008-08-12T11:06:46.186-07:00Willie Lynch FailedHow to Free the EnslavedDear Children,You may be wondering why I sent you the Willie Lynch speech for discussion. The reason is that some people believe that his fear-envy-distrust methods still work today to prevent black men from being true men and to prevent black men and black women from building healthy families. There are no chains around our feet (as Bob Marley sang) but if we suffer from Odozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198805368158959990.post-72163571404615639712008-07-21T12:40:00.000-07:002008-07-21T12:41:13.696-07:00Hancock DecodedIN CLASS WITH HANCOCKBy Biko AgozinoI have just seen the box office hit movie, Hancock, with my two teenage sons and their 12 year old cousin. As usual, after seeing a movie with the kids, we engaged in debates about the representations and subtle messages in the movie. I asked the young men if they liked the film and they all agreed that it was a great film. I asked them what they liked about itOdozi Obodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04482441827170429284noreply@blogger.com4