Intervention Accademy
It was the 24th Convocation of the University of Maiduguri, aka ‘Jewel in the Sun’ on November 16th, 2023. Naturally, it turned out the occasion for its leaders to turn out, which they did w... Read more
The knowledge industry in Nigeria may be limping, just like other sectors but the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) appears determined to take the mandate of knowledge seriously.... Read more
It is perhaps the paradoxical nature of reality that a song by a slave captain transforms into a metaphor for liberation and on which a book comes out of the press at a time of ‘everywhere w... Read more
By Prof. Oludare Ogunlana The title of this piece is not what the author gave to it. The author called it ‘Future Tears’ (Ekun Ola). It is Intervention that chose to retitle it the way it no... Read more
Why might ex-Oxford University literary philosopher, Terry Eagleton want universities to be abolished, saying “Let’s stop pretending academic study is worthwhile?” And why did his readers re... Read more
No one knows yet whether Gerard Toal (O’Tuathail)’s new book will beat Robert Kaplan’s The Coming Anarchy but, irrespective of what happens, it will be a major book in 2024... Read more
The big question in the 53 page PDF text (at least the one Intervention got) is the tricky question of what judicial activism brings or takes away from democracy/democratisation as the case... Read more
As usual with Milanovic’s essays, almost every sentence in this review is a seminar topic in its own, problematising Marx’s key texts all the way as against any tendency to consume suc... Read more
Carnegie Africa has released a shocking report on the hierarchy of global destinations in African students’ preferences. It is shocking in the sense that France, not the United Kingdom or th... Read more
Dear Mister President, Permit me, Mister President, to cut off the congratulations from this epistle. Apart from Cardinal Onaiyekan’s moratorium on that, (about which Senator George Akume ha... Read more
