Month: March 2013
WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION
By
PROFESSOR IYORWUESE HAGHER
PhD, FSONT, FIMC, MOIF, OON
Compiled by
Akuma Stephen
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…..They recommend books published only in Europe or America, which often bear little relevance to our situation……..meanwhile, our own intellectuals are not being published.
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The African then, need not bow before the shrine of western globalization that will bring us to dead end of culture, founded on supremacy and racial typology upon which the universalism of man was founded.
Homi Bhebha ourges Africa to “refuse to occupy the past of which the white man is the future”
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The IMF and the World Bank have constituted themselves into weapon of mass destruction.
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The fight we fight for moral ideals, without which, not just Africa, but the whole world would come to an end in this 21st century.
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Today’s curriculum, must burst out of the person of the school system and fling open the gates of our schools and educational institutions, that have become breeding ground for violence and vandalism, mugging, beating, rapes and now murders.
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We must wrest the control art, music, rituals, news, and literature from the hands of the dominat ruling white elite and democratize these.
Whoever controls our culture, prescribes the parameters of our civilization.
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What runs the world today is entirely dependent on conditions of human consciousness through virtual reality, tele-presence, robotics and other cultural Instruments.
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A democracy that refuses to guarantee economic and social rights is deficient and damaging to the concepts of democracy.
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To defend the poor, the weak and the oppressed, the writer needs to have an ordered personal life.
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The writer in Africa needs to engage the society in the language where real communication takes place.
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A democracy that merely pays lip service to the rule of law but in reality has different laws for the poor or rich is a charade
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Anytime the system puts more emphasis on democracy than the people, democracy is threatened.
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Our cardinal goals as writers is to liberate man from the fetters of tribal and religious jingoists, isolationists, prejudices, hatred and fear.
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Good leaders have four things in common. They are: Vision, passion, integrity and courage.
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But if our leaders can put the ideology of servant-leadership, as the national ideology, then all our institutions would experience a new lease of life, as both the leaders and the led, serve one another, for the mutual benefit of our society and the glory of God.
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…..an impression is projected that there is no need for hard work, incentive, and creativity, all one needs to do is to get attached to a big man, who has all the answers.
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We have to deal with this biggest pathology of corruption in Nigeria – Patrimonialism, so that decent people can exercise their integrity in political leadership without soiling their hands.
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We don’t have leaders with a vision, instead, we have politicians.
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Another reason the Tiv are feared and hated is their sense of moral integrity, and their lack of respect for people of questionable riches. The majority of Tiv, look down on riches and instead uphold men of moral strength, integrity and good conscience. In a country that glorifies corruption, the Tiv position can hardly win friends for them, who are arrogant, corrupt and high-handed. The reason why the Tiv are being profiled, denigrated and stereotyped is not because we are warlike. If we were not warlike, we would not have defended successfully Nigeria’s territorial integrity. We would not have fought for the British in the 1st and 2nd World Wars and lost so many people.
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We insist that there shall be no meaningful, educational, political, economic nor social progress in Tivland unless we urbanise and bring people together to share amenities like schools, hospitals, markets, roads, churches, and even knowledge.
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The time has come when the churches must stop collecting huge monies from the people to build big churches only, but should organize the people to do something to change their lives so that the living body of Christ as the church shall have practical results in our society.
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I wish to appeal to the conscience of the World Bank. IMF. London and Paris Clubs, and others, that they are killing us with their “kindness”. We have a right to determine our economic goals and to move away from market centered capitalism.
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Dare we suggest that from Monday-Friday, all churches in Benue state be utilized as adult education centres? But if we dare not then, the early missionaries laboured in vain, to bring the light of literacy and Christ to us!
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The development of rural roads at best may be to render such roads fully asphalted surfaces and by a “grade A” construction company. But where there is a minimal budget, or a wider area to be covered, the emphasis should be to fully involve the community in the labour that goes into construction.
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In this context, rural hospitals, community schools, industries, etc are to be put under the supervision of the local party leadership, which represents the hierarchy of the ruling administration. In this way, we can channel the abundant energies of the unemployed men and women in politics, who claim to be professional politicians while in reality, are merely glorified beggars and thugs. These energies can be effectively rechanneled into rural development.
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….Undertake systematic research of traditional healing, especially HIV/AIDS, orthopaedic and mental cases.
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The Mobocrats are favour-seekers and rope-climbers that take advantage of the easy-going- nature of the chief executive and are daily encamped at his various lodges and offices. They come every day in droves and for twenty-four hours. They follow the governor to his bedroom and even bathroom and mount unhealthy and unbearable pressure on the chief executive. These Mobocrats are driving democracy crazy……..
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Witchcraft constitutes an impediment to development; it should be eliminated through rigorous education.
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We must understand that when we lead, we must be servants to the people; we must have courage of conviction, and must serve in humility.
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The disturbing signals are that the majority of home videos have already incorporated the negative cultural attributes that seem to thrive on the diet of grotesque violence, and the power of Juju. As our video films get exported abroad, our image is at the same time being greatly distorted due to this backward vision.
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The starting point of our democracy and its political foundation is and ought to be morality. Politics that is not moral in practice is nothing but brigandage.
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