The two sound similar but each has its pedigree. Howard University in Washington DC sounds similar to Harvard University but Howard speaks to a more sensitive ancestry or symbolism in that c... Read more
It doesn’t seem there will be any time soon when opinion about Henry Kissinger will not be divided about his person and role in the world on account of his pre-eminence in intellectualising... Read more
October 1st, 1979 and May 29th, 2023 may, on the face of it, share nothing in common. But, in Nigeria’s struggle for democracy, they do. October 1st, 1979 was when the military first d... Read more
By Aminu Habibu Jahun Modern citizenship evolved from the 18th century French and American revolutions, embedded with liberties unheard of under the absolute monarchs. Citizenship underscore... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki Certain principles and constructs may be immutable when it comes to the affairs of nations. However, nations constantly reinvent themselves or seek to revamp their... Read more
For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more
Charles Abani is not a professor, unlike Prof Gabriel Andrade whose article – Don’t Facts Matter Anymore? Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Promotes Afrocentrist Nonsense – Abani is respondi... Read more
Intervention is still not out of trouble with the establishment of Nigeria’s People’s Redemption Party (PRP). Earlier today, Prof Attahiru Jega, a party mandarin, disagreed with the in... Read more
An intellectual referent of the PRP, Prof Attahiru Jega, says it is wrong of Intervention to read the 40th anniversary lecture on Mallam Aminu Kano as a PRP affair. In a quick reaction to th... Read more
No less than six readers have queried Intervention’s phrase that the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) might have transformed from an essentially radical populist platform to radical pluralism... Read more
