[ASU] ISU Election results and Cultural Week update

[Kay-Anne Darlington]

Hello everybody,

I'd just like to use this medium to say thank you for your recognition and
support. I must also commend those who have been working on the ASU Cultural
Week. It has been wonderful so far and I'm sure the remaining events will be superb.

I look forward to working with you while I serve as ISU president for the
2009-2010 academic year.

Kind regards,
Kay-Anne. 


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>    1.  ISU Election results and Cultural Week update (Siphokazi
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>    2. Re:  ISU Election results and Cultural Week update
>       (Fletcher Ziwoya)
>    3.  5th Annual OU World Cup (Kwabena Owusu-Kwarteng)
>    4. Re:  Kenyan women and the avenues (Basetsana Maposa)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:14:54 -0400
> From: Siphokazi  Magadla <sm103708 at ohio.edu>
> Subject: [ASU] ISU Election results and Cultural Week update
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> Hey all,
> 
> On behalf of the ASU, I would like to extend BIG congratulations to
> Kay-Anne 
> Darlington who was elected as the new ISU president this evening.
> Kay-Anne is 
> succeeding Bella. On behalf of the organization it is absolutely
> fantastic 
> that ASU has repeatedly produced leaders that represent the entire 
> international student community, not just ASU. Again, congratulations
> to the 
> new Madam President. You definitely deserve it! 
> 
> As you know next week is the International Cultural Week presented by
> ISU. 
> Applications are open for a talent show on May, 15. If you would like
> to do a 
> performance of any kind, please contact me as soon as possible to get
> hold of 
> the applications. The applications close on Thursday. Please apply
> and 
> represent Africa's uniqueness and diversity! 
> 
> Big thanks to all those who came to support in the flag raising
> ceremony this 
> morning (isn't Baker just extra beautiful with all those African
> flags?). We 
> began on a high note; let's keep it like this for the whole week. Be
> reminded, 
> tomorrow is the Kenyan Children's Fund at 5:30pm at Irvine Hall.
> There will 
> African dance and music performed by the African Studies Association.
> Raffle 
> tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. Raffle items include an iPod, hotel
> packages 
> to Nashville, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas, Philadelphia as well
> as prizes 
> from local Athens vendors. You do no need to be present to win.
> Advanced 
> dinner tickets are $5 for students, $10 for non-students and can be
> purchased 
> at 304 Grosvenor Hall, 309 Grosvenor Hall, 316 Clippinger Labs, and
> Yamada 
> House or in Irvine Hall, 12-1 this week as well as May 1st and May
> 4th at 
> Baker Center.
> 
> Big cheers and Happy African Cultural Week to you all,
> Kazi. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Always in my heart I say I'm a revolutionary. I'm down with those
> who don't 
> give up"- Bethann Hardisona
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 22:41:43 -0400
> From: Fletcher Ziwoya <fz233105 at ohio.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ASU] ISU Election results and Cultural Week update
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> Kay-Anne
> 
> Congratulations to you. We have all the confidence that you will ably
> 
> represent us. Keep well and Happy African Cultural Week to all.
> 
> fletcher 
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 01:30:37 -0700
> From: Kwabena Owusu-Kwarteng <ko899105 at ohio.edu>
> Subject: [ASU] 5th Annual OU World Cup
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> Dear Brothers and Sisters,
> 
> It is that time of the year when the sons and daughters of the
> continent 
> have to defend her honor on the football/soccer field.
> The OU World Cup organized with sponsorship by ISU is taking place on
> the 
> 10th and 17th of May 2009. This is a call for all soccer players from
> the 
> continent or of African descent to come help with their skills or
> support 
> to enable us win back the cup from the Latin Americans. There are no
> easy 
> matches in this tournament so all help is welcome.
> 
> The team will be training this Friday at 6:30pm on the field by the 
> Assemblies of God by South Green. For those who have never played and
> will 
> like to showcase their skills we invite you to show up and help. This
> is a 
> justify your inclusion call as we we want to asses our strengths and
> 
> weaknesses before the days of reckoning. Please let either Jibril
> Shehu 
> (js138902 at ohio.edu) or myself, Papa (ko899105 at ohio.edu) know if you
> are 
> interested and need more information.
> Here is the tournament info:
> May 10
> 11 - 11:50 Asia vs Latin/South America
> 12:05 - 12:55 Africa vs USA
> 1:10 - 2 Europe vs Latin/South America
> 2:15 - 3:05 Africa vs Asia
> 3:20 - 4:10 USA vs Europe
> 
> May 17
> 11 - 11:50 Europe vs Africa
> 12:05 - 12:55 Latin/South America vs USA
> 1:10 - 2 Europe vs Asia
> 2:15 - 3:05 Africa vs Latin/South America
> 3:20 - 4:10 USA vs Asia
> 4:25 - 5:15 CHAMPIONSHIPS
> 
> Come join such illustrious sons who have always carried the flag
> like;
> Jibril Shehu, Suleman Wadur. Amos Adomowim, Gen. Reuben Dlamini,
> Moses 
> Ogini,Dayo Aji,Frednel Isma,Mousonda Kapotomayo,Prosper Gbolo,
> Richard 
> Chou,Papa ably managed by Andrew "Multisystem Arday" Ofori.
> 
> Ladies, if you cannot play come and support for your presence and
> cheers 
> are 2 sure goals in the opponents net. Hope to see you all on
> Sunday.
> 
> Thanks you
> Kwabena Owusu-Kwarteng
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 17:51:44 +0200
> From: Basetsana Maposa <bm148603 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ASU] Kenyan women and the avenues
> To: Andrews Ofori-Birikorang <ao377703 at ohio.edu>
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> ASU
> 
> Please read below, thought this will add another dimension, to the
> G10
> sex ban discussion.
> 
> Amani,
> 
> Kenyan Men Should Zip Up and Grow Up
> Posted April 30th, 2009 by Wandia Njoya in African Affairs
> 
> When the G10, a group of Kenyan women leaders from civil society,
> yesterday called on womenfolk to abstain from sex with their
> husbands
> for 7 days as a fast to force the bickering Kenyan leaders to act
> like
> they have some sense, I dismissed it as a poor reenactment of the
> ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata. I thought the call was
> inappropriate
> and irrelevant, and even dreamed that Kenyans would ignore it or
> joke
> about it. I was in for a surprise.
> 
> This morning, several Kenyan men called the radio station talk show
> I
> was listening to to express their anger. Some gave weak lines like
> their wives are not married to them, not to those known as the "two
> principals," namely Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Mwai
> Kibaki. Like the wives don't already know that. But others boldly
> voiced their disrespect and outright hatred for women, with one man
> boldly saying that "if my wife refused to sleep with me, she would
> see
> [a euphemism for ?I would thoroughly beat her up']." Another man
> boldly declared on television that he would flog his wife.
> 
> The comments were shocking. The first reason is the most obvious -
> it
> is unlikely that Kenyan men have sex every night of their married
> lives. I am sure that some of those men now proclaiming their
> conjugal
> "rights" go for weeks, if not months, without having intercourse
> with
> their wives. Others fast for 28 days or more from sex for religious
> reasons. And now they will have us believe that their marriages will
> collapse and that they will die because their spouses have said no
> sex? Please.
> 
> In addition, it seems strange in this day and age, when the world is
> moving towards equity and mutual respect in relations across
> continents, that some Kenyan men would be boldly exposing their view
> of sex as an assertion of dominance rather than as an opportunity of
> mutual emotional and physical exchange between a woman and a man.
> After all, what does a man have to lose when he has a edifying
> relationship with a woman? If anything, a man whose spouse relates
> to
> him out of respect and love would be more of a man than some slave
> master whose spouse relates to him out of fear and lack of options.
> The latter man always lives in the risk of his wife deserting him or
> worse, of poisoning him - and yes, it does happen in Africa.
> 
> It is surely sickening to hear a man vow to flog another adult. It
> raises the question as to why a man should marry and mate an adult
> for
> whom he has so much contempt. One may, of course, argue that the man
> does not see the woman as an adult, or even a human being. But such
> being the case, he is no better than the Southern plantation slave
> master who, during the day, would argue that the black slave is an
> animal, incapable of human thought or emotion, only to rape that
> same
> animal in the night and bear offspring by that animal a few months
> later. If we frown upon sexual intercourse between human and other
> animal species as a sign of sickness and an abomination, then a man
> who marries "something" he considers lower than human is sick,
> abominable and outright evil.
> 
> The argument that most Kenyan women are not married to Raila and
> Kibaki doesn't hold because men seem to have forgotten as much in
> January and February 2008 when they raped women and children who
> belonged to the ethnic groups perceived to be on the opposing
> political side. Other men who felt demeaned by fleeing from ethnic
> violence are quoted in a report done by the group Men for the
> Equality
> of Men and Women as saying that they raped their fellow escapees
> because "As men running away to avoid getting killed by other men,
> the
> only masculine way of testing their manhood was by gang-raping women
> escapees in broad day light without minding whether they were our
> former neighbors or strangers." Why didn't the men remember that
> those
> women were not Raila's and Kibaki's wives then? Give us a break.
> 
> So what is the real issue here? It is not sex - since men do not
> have
> sex every day. Neither is it about concern for politics interfering
> in
> marriage. It is about power. The men who are angry with the G10 are
> angry that women are asserting their right to choose what to do with
> their bodies and with their destinies. It does not anger them when a
> woman doesn't sleep with a man; it angers them when she has made the
> choice not to do so.
> 
> The irony is that this model of power relations that the men want to
> impose at home is the same one being played on the national stage
> and
> which men complain about. Just like the men callers with regards to
> the women, the Kenyan leaders have no respect for the wananchi of
> Kenya. They rape us the citizens, destroy our environment, our
> public
> coffers, our food reserves, our dignity and our intellect, leaving
> millions of Kenyans killing each other or dying from hunger. But
> instead of men who oppose the G10 offering an alternative model of
> manhood and of leadership in Kenya, they are now asserting the right
> to behave like Raila and Kibaki within their compounds and in their
> bedrooms. How pathetic.
> 
> The other issue is that the manhood of Kenyan men has reduced to
> their
> penises, and the same has been done to  politics in Kenya. From
> debates about circumcision vs. no circumcision to distinguish
> between
> the ethnic groups of the major Kenyan politicians, to the insane
> orgies of violence visited on women during the chaos in Kenya in
> 2008,
> the focus on what makes a man is the engagement of his sexual organ.
> How savage. And some of these men will be complaining on
> international
> platforms about how racism stereotyped the black man as over-sexual
> and prone to raping [white women]. In the same way, politicians have
> reduced Kenya to such narrow-minded power games that now two men -
> Raila and Kibaki - have decided to sacrifice our country as they
> engage in ego-trips and daring each other to see who will be the
> first
> to blink.
> 
> But the hypocrisy doesn't end there. Kenyan men celebrated as one of
> their son Barack Obama, who was not raised by his Kenyan father. And
> the irony gets better. Obama happens to have a successful wife, a
> Princeton graduate - I might add for those men who think that
> educating women is a waste of resources and that an educated wife is
> sheer trouble. And even as president of the most powerful country in
> the world, he takes his daughters to school, advises Black men to
> uphold their responsibilities and fathers, and horror of horrors for
> the career flogging husbands, he pulls out a chair for his wife!
> Should and when the Obama's visit Africa, I hope that at the top of
> their agenda is to show how equitable gender relations is good for
> all
> of us and for our children and that it's not just about women. In
> fact, the laudable Kenyan men spearheading the campaign to convince
> fellow men of the humanising benefit of seeing their sisters,
> mothers,
> daughters and wives as fellow human beings should consider the
> possibility of having Obama as their patron. Wouldn't that be great?
> 
> In the meantime, it is important to remember that God made the man
> with brains and a conscience to think, hands to work for his family,
> and nation, emotions to love his spouse and family and a soul to
> worship his creator. However, some Kenyan men have not used the
> different dimensions of their being to make a build a more humane
> Kenya. In 2007 and 2008, they tied their humanity and the identity
> of
> Kenya to a single male organ. Since then, many work to enrich
> themselves; they love themselves and disdain the natural and the
> sacred.
> 
> The G10 have brilliantly proved how pathetic the dominant model of
> Kenyan masculinity is. For almost two years, women have been trying
> to
> get the audience of the country in highlighting the suffering of
> women
> and children through petitions, demonstrations and other traditional
> means, but the only time they have captured the headlines and
> national
> attention is when they talk about sex. Shame on Kenyan men, on
> Kenyan
> politicians and on the Kenyan press.
> 
> The women leaders have a touched a soft spot, and in so doing, they
> have revealed what is ailing Kenya. A flawed masculinity that has
> corroded our humanity, corrupted our sense of national identity and
> that threatens to destroy our country. It is high time that Kenyan
> men
> zipped up and grew up by employing their brains and muscles to make
> Kenya a peaceful, prosperous country. And those men who believe they
> are nothing like the men callers to the radio station should talk
> some
> sense into their brothers.
> 
> Any male species in the animal kingdom can mate and sire offspring.
> But it takes a man to build a society. True manhood lies beyond the
> belt and engages every extremity of the male human being. Mere
> male-ness confines itself to a small triangular area below.
> 
> First written: April 30, 2009
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Andrews Ofori-Birikorang
> <ao377703 at ohio.edu> wrote:
> > Fetcher et al,
> > To me it sounds like these women leaders decided to make a solemn
> declaration of
> > 'Sex Harvest Week' for mistresses in Kenya. The other point is it
> will not be
> > surprising to know that many of these politicians who are expected
> to feel the
> > impact of this strike have already not been sleeping with their
> wives for weeks
> > and months under the the excuse of 'working long hours in office,
> and attending
> > meetings and conferences here and there'. In other words, and in
> addition to all
> > that have already been said earlier by my good friends, this whole
> thing about
> > sex starvation brouhaha is much ado about nothing!
> >
> > But to all the mistresses in Kenya, I say this is your moment! You
> finally found
> > yourselves some powerful advocates for a right to sex for
> mistresses! I know you
> > strongly support the call, and I do too!!!
> >
> > Peace
> > Andy
> >
> >
> > Quoting maingi Solomom <as225108 at ohio.edu>:
> >
> >> Fletcher,
> >>
> >> It is an effort, to say the least, and it is true that
> extraordinary
> >>
> >> situations call for extraordinary measures. It is also true that
> it
> >> might be
> >> imposible to monitor the diffusion of the innovation.
> >> My only concern: what is the basic assumption? That men are the
> >> problem? I
> >> don't think so. Reason one, Most families are at the same level
> of
> >> political
> >> participation and so if the man is complicit, the woman is also
> >> complicit or
> >> is ready to live with it. Two, sex might be the only consolation
> for
> >> most
> >> families (women included)who are frustrated by the selfish
> political
> >> system
> >> and power structure. This might lead to an imposition of
> 'sunctions'
> >> on a very
> >> innocent population of common men. Three, a good number of the
> men
> >> involved in
> >> the squabbles are either sexually inactive (due to age) or
> impotent.
> >> Four, it
> >> is a move championed by women only without consultation with
> equal
> >> stakeholders (men).
> >> This move might destroy the very unit that holds society together.
> It
> >> might be
> >> source of family antagonism, misunderstanding, and infidelity and
> >> thus destroy
> >> a basic unit of society, the family.
> >> Finally, in a society where everybody is a politician, this might
> be
> >> a
> >> political gimmick (cheap publicity stunt). Lets wait and see what
> >> happens...
> >> These are my opinions and so they are overly subjective!
> >>
> >> Solomon
> >> Kenyan `High commissioner'
> >> OU
> >>
> >> The significant problems that we face in this world cannot be
> solved
> >> by the
> >> same level of thinking that created them- My friend, Albert E.
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> darkness
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