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Thinking Africa As Sam Nujoma, the Last of That Generation, Goes Home

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Cyril Ramaphosa, Mugabe, Namibia, Paul Kagame, Sam Nujoma, The CommonwealthNo CommentsViews:

The death Saturday night (08/02/25) of Sam Nujoma, the first president of independent Namibia in Southern Africa must have set Africa thinking. Incumbent Namibian President, Nangolo Mbumba h... Read more

Has Trump Also Buried Structure/Agency Debate, Finally?

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Barack Obama, Declinism, Discourse theory, Neorealism, Republic of China, Russia, Structure-agency debate, Trump, USNo CommentsViews:

Donald Trump is disrupting the world we knew in many ways and almost in all spheres. How far he will go and whether there will be any successful bandwagoning against him (not necessarily aga... Read more

Adieu! Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu: Chief Promoter of the Option A4 Open Voting System

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Abacha, Abiola, ABN, buhari, IBB, June 12, NECNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu, who died at 83 on October 20th, 2024, was a man who made several marks in the field of Political Science both at home and abroad. He w... Read more

‘Washing’ Kwaja’s Professorship

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Frame game, Modibbo Adama University, Reality, UNIJOS, ‘Washing’No CommentsViews:

Nigeria has just increased her stock of the professoriate by one. He is Chris Kwaja, most likely the newest professor in town. That’s not the news anymore as Intervention learnt reliab... Read more

Locating Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine’s Impending Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Africa, DEMOCRACY, Disorder, Empiricism, Inaugural Lecture, LASU, NANS, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer news that Lagos State University (LASU)’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine is to deliver the university’s 103rd Inaugural Lecture February 25th, 2025. The media – soc... Read more

Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari in the Eyes of the People

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Abba Kyari, ABU Zaria, Afonja, External Affairs Minister, Ilorin Emirate, NPSA, OAU, President John Mahama of Ghana, Theory of Concentric CirclesNo CommentsViews:

Prof Hassan A. Saliu Introduction No doubt, many birthday celebrations have been held in honour of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari but none can compare with the 2024 edition in terms of number of act... Read more

Swem Must Be Preferred Over the Cross By the Tiv

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Ancestors, Benue State, Biblical teachings, Gboko, God, Swem, Tiv, Tor TivNo CommentsViews:

By Terngu Sylvanus Nomishan Three key themes: Tiv identity, Swem, and the Cross, form the foundation of this discourse. This discussion aims to highlight why the Tiv people must recognize th... Read more

Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

Pursuing Happiness is a Waste of Time

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Cambridge, Happiness, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Philosopher-at-large. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, University of SouthamptonNo CommentsViews:

UK based Prospects magazine from whence this was reproduced introduced Sasha Mudd as its philosopher-at-large. An assistant professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Mudd is... Read more

Should Africa Fear Trump 2.0?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', African actorness, BRICS, MAGA, Samuel HuntingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Imagining Africa under Donald Trump as he took power today for another four years as president of the United States of America should be the most legitimate of all concerns.... Read more