Ojogbon Globalization

Do you want to know what I think about this? Although I wrote the paper in 2004, I haven't changed my mind. You can now view the first of 6 videos of my reading of African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of Globalization. If you'd like to read the paper, go to the following link: Okome, Mojubaolu, African Women and Power: Labor, Gender and Feminism in the Age of Globalization (2005). Sage Race Relations Abstracts, Vol 30(2): 3-26, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2761813

At the 2021 Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony in March. I co-sponsor this event with Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn, my NY State Assembly Member. I spoke from 13:33 to 22.52 minutes on the video.

  #SomberTuesday #NigerianwomenSpeak  #SecureourLives #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeraNOW #EndSars #EndSWAT #EndImpunity #LekkiTollGate #Nigeria  The Howard Zinn Quote: “Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while, the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” Let the kleptocrats give back our stolen wealth so that we can fix our infrastructure, schools, hospitals and also offer worthwhile social protection to our people. Let the masses enjoy the full benefits of citizenship in Nigeria. Let the leaders and political class repent and build peace with justice. This is no time for politics as usual. Nation building is a complex, complicated task. It would take all of us acting in good faith, with empathy, listening to...

 

Here's what I did yesterday. Recording of the discussion on the 2020 US Election. Hint: I don't talk about polls at all. I talk about democratic institutions.

Read this story: End SARS protests: UK government admits it did train and supply equipment to Nigeria’s ‘brutal’ police unit https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sars-nigeria-police-protests-uk-government-training-equipment-b1424447.html  Nigeria is independent. The UK's "help" in training SARS unit is destructive and dangerous. It should have done better. The onus however is on the government of Nigeria to ensure that it uses considerable Nigerian capacity to figure out what our national interest is, and use the most skilled and capable Nigerians in our technocratic institutions and diplomatic service, to project that national interest in a way that improves the quality of our democracy, respects human rights, protects and defends the constitution, for the benefit of all Nigerians, not just a select few. This is an urgent task.  This is why I say: #Neocolonialism thrives. With friends like the #UK #Nigeria definitely needs no enemies. #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutali...