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Over There in Australia, Vice-Chancellors Earn Far More Than the Prime Minister

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Australia, Exceptionally wealthy American universities, Go8, Mark Scott, UK, University College London, University governance, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Vice-ChancellorNo CommentsViews:

Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria, for example, may not need to fight for pay rise because, as critics of the system would say, they can get whatever they want informally. In Australia, however, n... Read more

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebony State Caught Out in Nigeria’s 30-Year War

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Aliko Dangote, ASUU, FG, Governor Dave Umahi, Industrial relations, Mike AdenugaNo CommentsViews:

There is a sense in which the two ‘wars’ are very similar, at least in terms of the destructiveness and the length of time. None of the two is less than 30 years. Although it is now a contes... Read more

Nigeria’s Prof Olufemi Taiwo Mentioned in Prospect Magazine’s 50 Top Thinkers in the World

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

Prof Olufemi Taiwo, the author of Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously is among the 50 individuals that UK’s ideas magazine – Prospect – considers as the... Read more

Reflecting on the Prof Anthony Asiwaju Generational Paradox in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', ASUU, Ibadan School of History, Realism, US International Relations, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:

The public presentation later today of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy presents an... Read more

Prof Olufemi Taiwo Interrupts Decolonisation Theory in a New Book

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

It is a 2022 publication. But currency is not the only unique selling point of Professor Olufemi Taiwo’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. A book questioning the empow... Read more

A Review of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s New Book, ‘Bridging African Boundaries’

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African integration, British, Colonialism, Father of African Border Studies, FrenchNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of Thursday, July 7th, 2022 public presentation, Dr Chris M A Kwaja attempts to capture the soul of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s newest book, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border... Read more

Academic’s In-depth Account of Marikana Massacre Marred by Curious Omissions

Posted By: adminon: May 22, 2022In: BookspaceTags: AMCU, Lonmin, Marikana, NUMNo CommentsViews:

Intervention serves a contentious review sourced from Johannesburg based Daily Maverick whose preface to the review is: In Marikana: A People’s History, Julian Brown, a political studies pro... Read more

Unpacking a Monarch’s Riddle of the Oil Thief

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Activist Wokolo, Bayelsa State, IOCs, IYC, OILNo CommentsViews:

TITLE: The Riddle of the Oil Thief AUTHOR: HRM, King Bubaraye Dakolo PUBLISHER: Purple Shelves Publishers YEAR: 2021 PAGES: 528 REVIEWER: Chijioke Uwasomba Oil, the greasy fluid has become a... Read more

Anticipating Odia Ofeimum’s New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', Logocentrism, Nigerian Democracy, Political Science, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:

Intervention has not read this book yet but Intervention has received the cover page. The assumption here is that a book on The Challenges and Prospects of Nigerian Democracy from Odia Ofeim... Read more

Who Actually Reads What and Why?

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Epistemology, Executive Summary, New York Times, Philosophy of (Social) Science, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

Let us begin this exercise by citing the readership details of a few, selected texts in Intervention before we get down to the argument we want to push. On January 3rd, 2019, Intervention pu... Read more