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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

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