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Afrikan Liberation Institute => Book Club => Topic started by: Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀ on Aug 03, 2017, 01:09 AM

Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243771
Post by: Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀ on Aug 03, 2017, 01:09 AM
Nowadays street scholars be like....I read a book or two

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Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243808
Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Aug 03, 2017, 08:48 AM
Quotekevlew;243771 wrote: Nowadays street scholars be like....I read a book or two

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Dr. Ben don't play! Dr. Clarke's collection filled the basement of the AUC library and they said they still had a container or few left to unpack.
Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243827
Post by: Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀ on Aug 03, 2017, 10:26 AM
QuoteObadele Kambon;243808 wrote: Dr. Ben don't play! Dr. Clarke's collection filled the basement of the AUC library and they said they still had a container or few left to unpack.
That is amazing....

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Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243905
Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Aug 03, 2017, 10:40 PM
Quotekevlew;243827 wrote: That is amazing....

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The real amazing part was the autographed first editions that he had from some of our greatest luminaries.
Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243907
Post by: Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀ on Aug 03, 2017, 10:54 PM
QuoteObadele Kambon;243905 wrote: The real amazing part was the autographed first editions that he had from some of our greatest luminaries.
I have a few as well. Probably not first editions though.

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Amilcar Cabral
Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243954
Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Aug 04, 2017, 07:21 AM
Probably sent to him by the authors out of respect. I have a few as well including a first edition The West and the Rest of Us autographed by Chinweizu that was sent to my father by Baba Asa Hilliard.

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Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243993
Post by: Agya Yaw on Aug 04, 2017, 10:54 AM
One of the reasons why we need a library of your own, unlike the Schomburg that is own by the City of New York or some university we don't control. Where scholars can trust to donate their libraries and trust that it will be well taken care in perpetuity. I know Dr. Ben always said he was going to donate his to the NOI. I'm not sure that happened since there was a lot of stuff going on with him the last few years before he became an ancestor.
Title: Dr. Ben's Library-gctid243995
Post by: Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀ on Aug 04, 2017, 11:14 AM
QuoteAgya Yaw;243993 wrote: One of the reasons why we need a library of your own, unlike the Schomburg that is own by the City of New York or some university we don't control. Where scholars can trust to donate their libraries and trust that it will be well taken care in perpetuity. I know Dr. Ben always said he was going to donate his to the NOI. I'm not sure that happened since there was a lot of stuff going on with him the last few years before he became an ancestor.
I read where he did actually donate his library to the nation.

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