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Tanzanian Nobel Prize Winner on Literature Was Lecturer in Nigeria’s Bayero University, Kano

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Nobel Prize on Literature, UK, USANo CommentsViews:

Prof Abdulrazak Gournah, the Tanzanian academic who won the 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature was a lecturer in Bayero University, Kano throughout the eighties, Intervention has learnt. Some of... Read more

The Strategic Salience of Prof Gabriel Egbe’s Language Game

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Ninglish', Antonio Gramsci, Englishes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Harvard, Jacques Derrida, John Austin, NUC, Prof Adigun Agbaje, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is since 1962 that Oxford University’s John Austin delivered his “How to Do Things With Words” but, till today, the idea that it is language rather than reason or nature t... Read more

A ‘Religious Turn’ in University Governance in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2021In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

The spaces of circulation of the cover graphic for this story has been amazing. Although it is mainly within social media platforms, it appears to strike a chord. It seems many are agreed th... Read more

Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto Invites Nigerians to a Seminar on Banditry

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Political violence, University of St Andrews, Usmanu Dan Fodio University - UDUNo CommentsViews:

It is about time such a seminar is held. And there might be no better place than one very close to, arguably, the heartland of banditry in contemporary Nigeria – Zamfara State. An Historian... Read more

War, University and Life: African Studies and Politics @ Nigeria’s UI in the 1960s

Posted By: adminon: September 05, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Odejo of Idomaland', Billy Dudley, Essien Essien-Udom, James O'Connel, Kenneth Dike, Ukpabi Asika, University of ChicagoNo CommentsViews:

Students of the University of Ibadan who swear that it is “the first and the best” will never agree with Professor Hayden White who declared that there is nothing like history but only histo... Read more

US, UK Universities Still Lead the World in THE’s 2022 World University Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2021In: BookspaceTags: CHINA, Toronto, UCL, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

The world order might be changing but, as far as the knowledge-power nexus is concerned, the United States of America and the United Kingdom still have the largest number of the top scoring... Read more

The Coming Fireworks on Hegemony @ Nigeria’s University of Benin

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Anti-SAP riots, Hegemony, Political Science, University of BeninNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Because no concept today can claim centrality in Political Science as much as Hegemony, especially with its further radicalization by the post-Marxists, Nigeria might tempora... Read more

University of Mkar Appoints Prof Professor Zacharys Anger Gundu as New VC

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Archeology, COPSUN, Nok culture1 CommentViews:

The 16 year old University of Mkar in Gboko, Benue State in Central Nigeria has a new Vice-Chancellor. He is Prof Professor Zacharys Anger Gundu, a Professor of Archeology with the Ahmadu Be... Read more

Give UNIOSUN VC-ship to Prof Rotimi Olatunji

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2021In: BookspaceTags: FUOYE, LASUSOC, NUC, UNIOSUNNo CommentsViews:

Tunde Akanni, PhD Like similar relevant posts in the recent past, the advertisement for the Vice-Chancellorship position of UNIOSUN found its way to the exalted WhatsApp forum exclusive for... Read more

20% of 2nd & 3rd Year UK Undergraduates Lack Friends on Campuses – Survey

Posted By: adminon: July 18, 2021In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

By Brendan O’Malley One in every five students in the second and third year of their undergraduate studies on campuses in the United Kingdom does not have a ‘real friend’ at university. This... Read more