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The following conversation between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Nobel Prize–winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 2018.

—The Editors

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Wole, what’s your view of Donald Trump’s impact on Africa, and how is he perceived in Africa?

Wole Soyinka: Well, that is one hell of a question to begin with. Let me put it quite bluntly. He is considered a loose cannon that is discharging long-hidden attitudes, racial attitudes, xenophobic attitudes.



Gates: Was there a cause and effect relation between the fact that a black man occupied the White House for eight years and then his opposite was elected?

Soyinka: Trump came in on a platform of political, racial, and ideological hatred for Obama. He was not even subtle about his mission of dismantling the legacy of this black man.

Gates: And unprecedented, in my experience, to have a politician say, “My prime focus is going to be on undoing the policies of the man who preceded me.”

Soyinka: It’s unusual. In Nigeria and other places, when you hear a president or a governor come in and start badmouthing the policies, attainments, or activities of his predecessor, usually there’s only one purpose. You cancel that, you cancel this, you cancel that, so you can start all over and make your own money. In other words, corruption is often at the bottom of it. [Laughter] This is the first time I have seen an iconoclastic approach, pure negativity on its own as a purpose, as an ideology of an incoming president. It’s like telling Americans, “You people have been sold a dummy. I’m the authentic American and therefore I can do what I want.”

Gates: Is it accurate to say that Donald Trump’s a racist?

Soyinka: Oh, yes, I believe so. I know that politicians can say or do anything, but at the same time, I find it totally diabolical that a dangerous weapon like racism can be used to ascend to office. Political racism is divisive. It’s used as a weapon deliberately to set one side against the other. Any head of state, even a minor elected officer, who can make statements about “shithole countries”—and actually name them!—and who says, “But on the other hand, get me the blue-eyed Norwegians. I don’t mind them coming into the country.” [Laughter] How much more racist can you get? How close to the pernicious doctrine of the blue-eyed Aryan ideal of humanity?

Gates: You tore up your green card when you heard that Trump had been elected president. Why did you do that?

Soyinka: Because I saw what was happening. And many people do not know how emotionally, not just historically or intellectually, attached I am to our diaspora.

Gates: To the African diaspora?

Soyinka: Yes, absolutely, the African diaspora, whether in the United States, the Caribbean, or even Iraq, where we’ve discovered the Zanj.1 One of the little-known facts about me is I have a tiny, minuscule footnote in the desegregation of America, which is that I, personally, desegregated a swimming pool in Atlanta during a conference there in the early 1960s. The thrill of seeing a black man ascend to the highest position in this slave-culture nation was for me as good as watching the lift-off of a rocket into space. And so when I saw what looked like a reversal of the gains of the black diaspora, I became alarmed and despondent. I saw it coming, and I said, “If the Americans allow this to happen, this man spewing divisive and racist rhetoric, I’m going to reduce the status of my relationship to this nation.” So it was not saying I was turning my back entirely on the United States. It was a statement of how I felt. In addition to cutting up the card, I went to the embassy.

Gates: You cut it up?

Soyinka: It was difficult to tear. [Laughter] I didn’t know how to tear it. I cut it up. I carry it around as a talisman, so that if ever I’m denied entry into the United States I will just say, “Okay, I know why you’re doing it. You want souvenirs? I’ll give them a piece.” So I went to the embassy because you have to formalize it as well.

Gates: So you signed the repudiation. You didn’t take it back?

Soyinka: I will consider taking it back when you get rid of Trump.

Gates: You’re a Nobel laureate. I remember many people were surprised—some elated, some shocked—when the committee gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after he was elected. What did you think about that?

Soyinka: I can tell you frankly that I did not find it a positive gesture. Heads of states find themselves sooner or later compelled to take drastic action, some kind of action that cannot be considered in the nature of peace, but that may be justified by circumstances—I mean, if you are being attacked, for instance. If you come and attack even my so-called Nigeria for no reason at all and the head of state does not take appropriate action, I’ll be in the forefront of those who want to throw him out of office. And I believe that people in that kind of position where they have to make difficult choices should not be lumbered with an award called the Peace Prize. After he has left office you can look at his entire record and see whether some policies were put in place or some actions were taken that furthered the process of peace. Because for me peace is not a trivial virtue. It’s something that the entire universe craves sooner or later. One shouldn’t have to live up to a prize. A prize should be post facto. That’s the only reason I was against the award.

Gates: How would you assess Obama’s legacy as president?

Soyinka: From the way it affected me personally when I was a green-card holder, a permanent resident of this place, I can say thank goodness for Obamacare at critical times for my family. So I know the value of that. I know its meaning for ordinary people. And for anyone to set about dismantling it, for me it amounts to a crime against humanity.

On foreign policy, obviously Obama was firm when necessary. I remember his first declarations after he became president: “We offer a hand of friendship, but at the same time we are ready with the fist of resistance.” I think that spells out what should be the philosophy of any ruler in the world. Some people thought he was cautious to the point of timidity. I disagree entirely. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction makes it possible for a third world war to be started just like that. We’re living in a very volatile world that requires balance and caution.

He demonstrated it in that unbelievable exploit of getting Osama bin Laden. It takes a cool, principled, and committed leader to authorize that kind of operation as a signal to the world that you don’t commit that kind of atrocity without expecting repercussions. It took courage. People made the argument that it was extrajudicial killing. I find that very amusing. It was a global crime and Obama took action.

Simultaneously, however, Obama’s, shall we say, ecumenism, his sense of commitment to the equality of cultures, sometimes led him up the wrong path. His Cairo statement, for instance, I thought was a disaster in terms of the liberation of humanity—when he spoke about his, not quite approval, but endorsement of the right of any culture to force women to be veiled. That kind of speech made humanity a relative concept. For me, there’s one humanity or there isn’t. No culture has a right to degrade its womanhood. Even if you can do nothing about it, you at least must never make a statement that supports any notion of cultural relativism, not when the dignity and fundamental rights of humanity are involved.

And Obama, I believe, carried too far his distancing from the black community. I found that very troubling. Until full racial equity is established—it won’t be in my lifetime, it probably won’t be in yours—as a sort of unthinking, casual way of social existence, there must always be some kind of notice taken of the disadvantaged section of society, whether we’re talking on gender lines or on racial lines. And I believe Obama turned his back on that kind of recognition.

I think those are the major issues I had with Obama. Otherwise, I thought his was one of the most progressive tenures in the White House, and I think Americans have a right to lament their choice in the last election. [Laughter]

Gates: Every time I visit South Africa I’m shocked at the class divide. A small class of black billionaires has arisen since the end of apartheid. (Curiously, three of the country’s top ten richest men suffered imprisonment under apartheid.) Nevertheless, the class divide within the black community in South Africa is huge. Do you see that changing?

Soyinka: I believe it will evolve. Right now, one views it with surprise for one reason. The party that eventually came to power, the ANC, has been part of the fabric of South African politics and development from the beginning of the black struggle—as a moral force, a political, ideological force. Definitely it was socialist. The Western powers, of course, insisted it was communism, communism was coming to take over, etc. But socialism was the guiding principle of the ANC.

I frankly expected a far more radical transformation in South Africa. It hasn’t been as fast as one expected, and that is disappointing. Some of the factors can be traced to that monster again, corruption, at the top. And that’s really disheartening because we were looking forward to pointing to South Africa as a model of fast reform, a greater egalitarian political consciousness after decades, centuries of oppression by a minority. And it’s just disastrous for us that this “revolution” is unraveling before our eyes.

We’re watching the change of power from Jacob Zuma to Cyril Ramaphosa. I know Ramaphosa personally. As a businessman before he became president, he took advantage of the concerted effort to devolve commercial power to the blacks. He benefited from that; so did many, many others. It now remains to be seen whether he tries to spread, shall we say, the luck of timing to the rest, especially the black impoverished majority.

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Read the full text of the interesting conversation in The New York's Review of Books, March 21, 2019 issue pp.32-34
Or just read online: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/21/one-humanity-conversation-henry-louis-gates-wole-soyinka/

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Diaspora Business Investment Development Advisory (DIBIDA) is currently looking for an experienced and dynamic Marketing and Fund-raising Executive.

DIBIDA is a new platform created with UK funding to assist millions of Diaspora Nigerians who want to invest in Nigeria but cannot navigate the “Nigerian factor” DIBIDA will guide them on how the system works, provide them with critical and authentic investment and financing information, facilitate their investment process and protect them from scammers.

The successful candidate will raise and sustain awareness about DIBIDA within and beyond the shores of Nigeria; write and follow-through funding applications to potential donors, manage our relationship with them through regular contacts and updates; recruit and manage volunteers to carry out various fund-raising activities to sustain DIBIDA programmes in the long term.

The post will suit an ambitious, self-motivated achiever, an excellent and convincing communicator and negotiator who will never take “No” for an answer.

Qualifications and Experience
• A Degree or HND holder in humanities or social sciences
• Minimum of two (2) years’ relevant experience
• Proficient in the use of online and social media platforms.

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• Ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Creative, imaginative and entrepreneurial attitude towards fundraising.
• Ability to work under pressure
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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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Interested candidates should please email a cover letter and detailed CV to careers@abujagraduateschool.net or info@abujagraduateschool.net.

VACANCY FOR A DIGITAL MARKETER!!!

Diaspora Business Investment and Development Agency (DIBIDA) is looking to recruit a suitably qualified ‘DIGITAL MARKETER’ to market the agency to Nigerians in Diaspora worldwide.
Embedded in Abuja Graduate School, DIBIDA will among other assistance, guide diasporean investors on how the system works, provide them with critical and authentic investment and financing information, facilitate their investment processes and protect them from scammers.
An ideal candidate must be a graduate of Information and Communications Technology, an active blogger and a social media practitioner with excellent oral and written communication skills. A creative and imaginative thinker with a good sense of humour.
Duties will include:
Developing, implementing and managing marketing campaigns that promote DIBIDA.
Enhancing brand awareness in the digital space.
Driving web traffic and securing leads
Designing posters and flyers, etc.

Interested candidates should please email a cover letter and detailed CV to careers@abujagraduateschool.net or info@abujagraduateschool.net.

VACANCY FOR A DIGITAL MARKETER!!!

Diaspora Business Investment and Development Agency (DIBIDA) is looking to recruit a suitably qualified ‘DIGITAL MARKETER’ to market the agency to Nigerians in Diaspora worldwide.
Embedded in Abuja Graduate School, DIBIDA will among other assistance, guide diasporean investors on how the system works, provide them with critical and authentic investment and financing information, facilitate their investment processes and protect them from scammers.
An ideal candidate must be a graduate of Information and Communications Technology, an active blogger and a social media practitioner with excellent oral and written communication skills. A creative and imaginative thinker with a good sense of humour.
Duties will include:
Developing, implementing and managing marketing campaigns that promote DIBIDA.
Enhancing brand awareness in the digital space.
Driving web traffic and securing leads
Designing posters and flyers, etc.

Interested candidates should please email a cover letter and detailed CV to careers@abujagraduateschool.net or info@abujagraduateschool.net.

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