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Centenary of Paulo Freire, 1921 – 2021

Posted By: adminon: February 17, 2021In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

Born in 1921, the year 2021 is the centenary of his rich life. And researchers, educationists, communication scholars and sundry interests in emancipation politics are up in arms, trying to... Read more

Wikipedia is the Last Bastion of Idealism on the Internet

Posted By: adminon: February 07, 2021In: BookspaceTags: AmaryllisGardener, Britanica, Nupedia, WikepediansNo CommentsViews:

As a hot spot for quick reference by both amateur and established researchers, a piece on Wikipedia is bound to excite, even where the piece is as hefty as this. Hence the reproduction of th... Read more

Prof Mike Kwanashie Returns to Veritas University, Abuja?

Posted By: adminon: February 03, 2021In: BookspaceTags: BUK, Economics, International Relations, McGill University, UCL, UI, UoL1 CommentViews:

A big academic fish seems to have re-entered the young but determined intellectual ocean called Veritas University, Abuja. There has been no official announcement to that effect yet but Inte... Read more

In Search of Two ‘Missing’ Books

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2021In: BookspaceTags: CPN, NIIANo CommentsViews:

Two publications seem to have totally disappeared from circulation. While one is titled Balaji Akinyemi Seagull: The Perception of Others, the name of the second is not even clear anymore be... Read more

The Nigerian Public University and the Falola Intervention

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2021In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BENSU, ICSA, JAMB, NUC, PhD, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

By Prof. Zacharys Anger Gundu The blogosphere has recently been seized by a piece by the US based Nigerian academic, Prof Toyin Falola. Falola’s big name status as well as the nationa... Read more

UK, China in a Stiff Struggle for Global Primacy in Knowledge Power

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2021In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

The United Kingdom appears to be retaining or consolidating the global centre of gravity status in knowledge production as a Times Higher Education, (THE) ranking of the Most International U... Read more

The Changing State of Facilities in Mass Communications Department at Veritas University, Abuja

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Veritas Half Hour', Peter Obe, Sunmi Smart-ColeNo CommentsViews:

By Samuel Ejime Okoh It was Benjamin Franklin who said “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn’’. Franklin, one of the founding fathers of United States of... Read more

Textual Toolkit for 21st Century Power Game in Global Politics

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Geopolitics, International Relations, Popular culture, University College London, University of OxfordNo CommentsViews:

E-International Relations, the Bristow based leading open access platform for International Relations, has published a lengthy review of Popular Culture, Geopolitics and Identity. The review... Read more

Publishing Doesn’t Automatically Save African Academics From Perishing

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Africa Institute of South Africa, Commercialism, Makerere Institute of Social ResearchNo CommentsViews:

It is not a universal practice in a plastic sense of it but, in academia, the slogan is ‘publish or perish’. However, Cameroon born South African academic, Prof Francis Nyamnjoh is saying in... Read more

Nigeria Dares Covid-19, Joins Emerging African Trend in Re-opening Universities

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2021In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

Although the number involved is still too limited to sustain such a generalization just yet, it appears Africa is daring Covid-19 by re-opening the campuses. In the latest of such, Nigeria w... Read more