Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre

From 'Beyonce and Jay-Z. The decision to exhibit a Beyonce and Jay-Z's artwork/video at the world-renowned Louvre Museum of Paris, France.
The slogan "Black is Beautiful" owed its existence to the ethnocentric 'Weltanschauung' or worldview that has been characterized by what A. Cesaire calls "European reductionism." Louvre's commercial decision is an advertisement that has elevated the African-American celeb couple to the same status as Da Vinci, thereby acknowledging that "Black is Beautiful."

"The Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre: Make Black Beautiful Again" (by Zekeh Gbotokuma)
"The Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre is, to some extent, a "Mea Culpa" confession. Through it, France (and the western world in general) is correcting and overcoming Eurocentrism and obsolete pseudo-scientific theories that have ostracized Africa and reduced Africans to second-class humans and cosmocitizens. The Beyoncefication and Jay-Zification of Louvre is one of the best possible ways of practicing the French republican ideals of LIBERTE, EGALITE & FRATERNITE" (Z. Gbotokuma).

Obamanomics

From Obama + Economics. Simply defined, Obamanomics means Obama economics.
Obamanomics is a critical economics theory. It offers a critical look at existing capitalist economic models, theories, and practices, especially the obsolete trickle-down economics. President Obama is not necessarily interested in enunciating a new economic theory of production, distribution, and consumption of goods. His commitment to socioeconomic and ecological justice, green economy, general welfare, and peace leads him to suggest ways of improving life in our unequal world and increasingly warming planet. In agreement with climate science, he believes that poverty and climate change are anthropogenic phenomena over which humans have some control. He decries and rejects trickle-down economics, individualism, greed, and out-of-control consumerism as big contributing factors to poverty and unspeakable inequalities. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and The Patients' Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 are crucial components of Obamanomics. This definition is based on the international award-winning book, "Obamanomics and Francisconomics: A Call for Poverty Alleviation, Fairness, and Welfare” by Dr. Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, Europe Books, 2022).
By Cosmocitizen

The book, "Obamanomics and Francisconomics offers a critical look at, reexamines, and questions existing capitalist economic models, theories, and practices, especially trickle-down economics. .... They (President Obama and Pope Francis) believe that poverty and climate change are anthropogenic phenomena over which humans have some control."

Cosmoport

From the Greek word 'κοσμος, meaning ‘universe’ or 'world,' and from the second part of the word ‘passport’.

As Director of the Center for Global Studies at Morgan State University for ten years, I ( Zekeh Gbotokuma) founded and edited a newsletter that I called COSMOPORT.

I coined this neologism in 2000. It is based on my philosophy of international education called 'cosmoportism.' It is the belief that international education is the 21st-Century’s passport and global positioning system (GPS), so to speak, to comfortably navigate the global village. It is the key to global competitiveness. Therefore, nobody should be allowed to graduate from any university today without becoming globally competent. See 'Cosmoportism.'

COSMOPORT - The Newsletter of the Center for Global Studies at Morgan State University

Cosmoportism

‘Cosmoportism’ comes from ‘cosmoport' (see Cosmoport). It is my philosophy of international education or the internationalization of the curriculum in the global village, which s a spider’s web-like world.

This philosophy is based on the understanding of the logical and natural link between ‘university’ or 'UniverCity' and ‘globality.’ ‘UniverCity’ or an authentic university is and must be a universal or global city.

"COSMOPORTISM is a way of being, living, and acting in a world that has become a spider’s web-like place or a global village. That way must be based on a vested interest in, and commitment to worldwide world-ready learning and understanding" (Zekeh Gbotokuma, "Global Safari." Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015: 224-225; 233- 265; and Gbotokuma 2010: 23-31).
"COSMOPORTISM: DIRECTING THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AT MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Cosmoportism: Advocating for International Education Through NAFSA" (Gbotokuma, "Global Safari," Chapter Thirteen)

Junglobalization

Noun. From 'jungle' and 'globalization.' The practice of globalization characterized by the law of the jungle and natural selection of survival of the fittest. In the junglobalization, rich and powerful nations of the Global North control the international order. They benefit from the global trade more than the poor or Global South nations. With the junglobalization, trade is free but not necessarily fair. I coined the term after listening to a warning by the former French President Jacques Chirac saying that "Globalization must not be a jungle, but an opportunity for everybody."

In a post-colonial era, globalization is likely to be another form of colonialism, unless international laws, justice, and solidarity are there to protect everybody, especially the poorest and the weakest members of the international community. Globalization looks like a jungle – I sometimes refer to it as junglobalization – in which the global competition favors the strongest. I am afraid the so-called global democracy is not the government of, by, and for all people, but rather, a dictatorship perpetuated by big corporations and the digital intelligentsia. This is the case due to the nation-states’ growing powerlessness during globalization.
By Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, Ph.D. June 14, 2018

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Cosmocitizenship

Cosmocitizenship
From ‘cosmos’ in Greek, meaning ‘world’ and ‘citizenship’. Cosmocitizenship means world citizenship. I coined this world in the mid-1990s as the synonym of cosmopolitanism. I used the term in several papers presented at professional conferences and in some of my publications.

“Diplobamacy and the Obama Doctrine: Democracy, Demographics, and Cosmocitizenship,”the title of a paper presented by Zekeh Gbotokuma at the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) in Athens, Greece, August 4, 2013.
“AS I LOOK FORWARD TO CARRYING OUT REASONABLE DUTIES of my new citizenship, which also means cosmocitizenship … and as I look forward to enjoying its constitutionally unalienable rights; as I conclude the relatively less melodramatic stories about my journey from the “Heart of Darkness” (Joseph Conrad, 1899) to the “enlightened” world, so to speak, or from Kin Malebo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to “a shining city upon a hill,” as layman John Winthrop (1630) and President Ronald Reagan (1980-1988) called the USA, I am reminded of a tragic safari that took place about five hundred years ago, i.e., the Middle Passage” (From “Meditations on Global Immigration, the American Dream, Cosmocitizenship, and Netizenship,” first section of the Epilogue to Global Safari: Checking In and Checking Out in Pursuit of World Wisdoms, the American Dream, and ‘Cosmocitizenship,’ by Zekeh S. Gbotokuma. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
A cosmocitizen is a global citizens.

“Diplobamacy and the Obama Doctrine: Democracy, Demographics, and Cosmocitizenship,”the title of a paper presented by Zekeh Gbotokuma at the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) in Athens, Greece, August 4, 2013.
“AS I LOOK FORWARD TO CARRYING OUT REASONABLE DUTIES of my new citizenship, which also means cosmocitizenship … and as I look forward to enjoying its constitutionally unalienable rights; as I conclude the relatively less melodramatic stories about my journey from the “Heart of Darkness” (Joseph Conrad, 1899) to the “enlightened” world, so to speak, or from Kin Malebo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to “a shining city upon a hill,” as layman John Winthrop (1630) and President Ronald Reagan (1980-1988) called the USA, I am reminded of a tragic safari that took place about five hundred years ago, i.e., the Middle Passage” (From “Meditations on Global Immigration, the American Dream, Cosmocitizenship, and Netizenship,” first section of the Epilogue to Global Safari: Checking In and Checking Out in Pursuit of World Wisdoms, the American Dream, and ‘Cosmocitizenship,’ by Zekeh S. Gbotokuma. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
A cosmocitizen is a global citizens.

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