Thread by @Udadisi

1/As the debate on @tonyalfredk’s article👇🏿 rages on within+without the gates+fences(yes,nowadays there is a fence)of @UdsmOfficial let me just share an anecdote in this thread🧵to partly—yes,partially—affirm that I share most of his opinions/sentiments:

thechanzo.com/2023/04/24/uni…

2/I was shocked my co-author was not listed👉🏿“This is to inform the University Community and the general public that…The Appointments Committee has as well on 18th November,2021 approved promotions of the following members of the academic staff from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer”.

3/As an enraged member of “the general public”,I felt the urge to write an article on one of the reasons why my co-author was not promoted then,I even started drafting it on WhatsApp👇🏿and you may see why @tonyalfredk’s recent article on #UDSM @TheChanzo has ‘triggered’ my memory.

4/The 1st challenge was how to write it without affecting my co-author’s promotional process that involved the ‘powers that be’ in the university,the 2nd was my own bias—a ‘lifelong love’ for #UDSM—and,3rd,how to deal with what can be revealed publicly and what cannot,officially.

5/Succumbing to ‘wisdom of age’,I shelved the article and,I guess this subtweet👇🏿as I cannot find it on my twitter timeline—only on my WhatsApp where I archive my draft tweets etc;it was in reference to a 10K-word peer-reviewed article that was #rejected for promotional purposes.

6/The 10,000+-word peer-reviewed article can be accessed at oxfordre.com/africanhistory… but since it’s now paywalled by @OxUniPress(something my co-author and I didn’t foresee)it makes me want to write about the double marginalization/exclusion of #BibiTiti Mohamed—in life and death.

7/So,I end this anecdote by saying it experientially makes me share @tonyalfredk’s sentiments @TheChanzo👇🏿;especially when I remember that dark,windy evening between #UDSM’s library,Nkrumah Hall+photocopy shop when my coauthor was busy chasing #BibiTiti’s flying newspaper clips.

https://twitter.com/udadisi/status/1651895203844816897

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