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Oregon and Gabon and Paris

6/20/2011: Deborah Bloom of the ODE manages to extract some qualifying language from Professor Galvan on Gabon:

“It’s one thing to say we won’t do business in Africa,” Galvan said. “It’s another thing to say we are going to understand the African reality of what a change toward good governance looks like.”

Change towards good government starts with sucking up to the boss man? Who knew. But apparently the money hasn’t come through anyway –

Still to be determined is how to fund this new program. The University has long wanted to create a research program in Africa, but federal grant money has yet to come through. For now, the agreement is a memorandum of understanding, with no hard deadline for how to move forward.

“The partnership creates the parameters of what this program will look like,” Weiler said. “Now, it’s a matter of finding the resources to make it happen.”

Maybe those resources are still tied up in Paris?

3 Comments

  1. Anonymous 06/21/2011

    It’s a shame that a great academic institution like University of Oregon will be dealing with one of the most predatory regimes of Africa, the bongo family has ruined an entire nation for 43 years now, every program they undertake is for propaganda purposes, it is never to benefit the people of Gabon. Self-proclaimed president ali bongo wants to use UO to polish his horrendous image: remember he has used the army to murder his own people in 2009 during his coup d’etat, these were unarmed civilians and teenagers whose corpses were transported by the army helicopters to be thrown at sea in order to dissimulate these atrocious crimes against humanity. Please side with the people of Gabon and not with its oppressor ali bongo. please research this information and distance yourself from Africa’s most vicious dictator.

  2. Anonymous 06/22/2011

    President Ali Bongo is not Africa’s most vicious dictator. He has stolen the most money of those “big men” that are currently alive though. He is not yet up to his father’s total thievery, but give him time.

  3. Anonymous 06/22/2011

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