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Flashing Back to the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Adorno, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Horkheimer, The Enlightenment, Third ReichNo CommentsViews:

It seems newer and even older perspectives on ‘the trouble with the world’ – classical Marxism, religion, Constructivism/Deconstruction, Huntington and numerous middle-level theories – have... Read more

Are you Better off Alone or Otherwise?

Posted By: adminon: April 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Avoidants, Singlehood, Singlehood research, Therapy, University of California – San Francisco, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

Originally titled Forever alone… and thriving?, this piece starts by asking: Why are some happier flying solo while others want a romantic partner? Are some people truly better off alo... Read more

Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Bernie Sanders, CHINA, Classical libealism, Cold War, Collapse of Communism, Globalisation, IT Revolution, New Left, Soviet UnionNo CommentsViews:

Neoliberalism can be so complicated as for many to conclude that only French Philosopher, Michel Foucault and British Marxist Geographer and foremost theorist of concept, David Harvey, under... Read more

Updated: Building on NPSA’s Recent Maneuver in the Methodological Battlespace

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Atiku Abubakar Foundation, Dangote, Elumelu Foundation, Interpretivism, MacArthur Foundation, Michel Foucault, NPSA, Postpositivism, Rationalism, TY Danjuma FoundationNo CommentsViews:

This is republished in strict obedience to the DIRECTIVE to make this more easily readable and more understandable by all. It was thought to be understandable by nearly all. Some senior read... Read more

Political Lies and Lying to the Nigerian Public (2)

Posted By: adminon: April 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Abimbola Davies, ABN, Bashir Tofa, Brigadier General Haliru Akilu, Facebook, Jerry Okoro, Justce Dahiru Saleh, Justice Ita Ikpeme, M K O Abiola, Major Hamza AlMustapha, Michael Okpara, NPSA, NRC, Orwell, Plato, SDP, Senator Francis Arthur Nzeribe, YEAA, “Judas of Oduduwa”1 CommentViews:

This is the second and concluding part of the Billy Dudley Lecture, 2022 by John A. A. Ayoade, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Ibadan; President, Nigerian Political Sc... Read more

Political Lies and Lying to the Nigerian Public (1)

Posted By: adminon: April 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

An Emeritus Prof of Political Science delivered this lecture delivered as the Billy Dudley Lecture, 2022 and another Professor of Political Science sent it to Intervention. It has to be publ... Read more

Is Prof Amechi Akwanya Emerging a Literary Phase in (Nigerian) Literature?

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African Continental Philosophy, Biodun Jeyifo, Derrida, Ibadan, Kwame Nkrumah, Legon, Makerere, Okike, Prof Ken Booth, UNNNo CommentsViews:

The (Nigerian) literary world might be entering a Prof Amechi Akwanya phase because Intervention understands that the Oxford University Press is coming out with an edited text on the priest... Read more

Socialism and Religion Are Not Antagonistic of Each Other – Major Adeyi, HoD, Political Science, University of Jos

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Chief Awolowo, Eneke the bird, Marxism, Obafemi, Ontological standpoint, Religion, UPNNo CommentsViews:

The original intention for putting a call through to him was to question his daily practice of dispatching religious texts through his WhatsApp. It is not that the religious text messages ar... Read more

Lecturers in Nigeria Earnestly Need ‘Doomsday Prepping’

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Atropheee, Contingency, Damnation, IPPISed pre-retirement salariesNo CommentsViews:

By Ibrahim Bello-Kano I just read about a retired Professor in a Nigerian university campus who was virtually evicted from the university quarters and a long list of people of the same cadre... Read more

On the Dangers of Office Hunting

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Epicurus, Ex-VCs, Former governors, Ministers, VCsNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Ibrahim Bell-Kano Whenever I see people or colleagues hunting for office or other appointed positions, I am always reminded of a famous quip by the great Epicurus, namely that one sh... Read more