Nigerian author dismissed from Oxford University speaks, apologises for his condescending posts

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“The idea of that piece is to cancel and ridicule me. They have succeeded in doing that,” he said in a public response to the article...

published by Cherwell, a students’ newspaper at Oxford University, describing him as fake and fraudulent, saying the report was meant to ridicule and cancel him.

“If I were a professor at Oxford, why did I need to add an Academic Visitor? Comprehension is a problem, so I don’t have to blame the writers of the article meant to scandalise me, for not understanding what I said in the language of the country they live in. Even the reporter from The Telegraph refused to ‘comprehend’ it,” he said.

“What brought me to the University of Oxford, was an idea I shared with James Currey and he put me in touch with Professor Wale Adebanwi, who in turn, introduced me to Professor David Pratten and after weeks of forth and back, Professor Pratten informed me, that the proposal was approved. That on Monday, I would get an official letter for it. I received a letter that I had now been approved as an Academic Visitor,” he narrated.

He said he was shocked seeing that it came from a “fellow Nigerian” who he considered an elder brother, a confidant. Although he has yet to be informed, according to him, the publisher has informed those who pre-ordered the book. Although he did not specify which of the universities between Oxford and Cambridge, he said the university has begun to remove links that have my name from their website.Mr Nwelue in his post said that it appears to people as though he has lost a job but that is not the case as he was not being paid.

 

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