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The African World’s Debt to W.E.B. Du Bois

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Chairman Mao of China, CHINA, Double Consciousness, Dr. Nmandi Azikiwe, Jomo Kenyatta, Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more

Radical Activists Mourn Nelson Ananze, Late Executive Director, CAPP,

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2022In: LifeworldTags: CAPP, CISLAC, CLO, NUJ, Robert Cox, WINNo CommentsViews:

This story will be withdrawn and reposted as soon as Intervention is able to get a good picture of the late Nelson Ananze. Radical activists in Nigeria are mourning their own share of the sp... Read more

Death Snatches UI Academic, Prof Alex Gboyega

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Political Science, Public Administration, University of Ghana, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:

Academia in Nigeria has lost Prof Alex Gboyega, a leading scholar in Public Administration at the University of Ibadan before his retirement. He was 76 years old at death Wednesday morning,... Read more

Critics Take on Prof. IBK’s “Symbology and the Discourse of a Death”

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Albani TV, David Hume, Eternal LoveNo CommentsViews:

It is not easy to intellectualise mourning/death and not get rejoinders. This is what Bayero University, Kano’s Prof Ibrahim Bello-Kano, (IBK) may taste after Intervention published hi... Read more

Mediating the ‘Mustard Seed’: Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah and Empowerment in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Catholicism, Communalism, Dr Yima Sen, Ikulu, SubalternityNo CommentsViews:

Dear His Lordship, Happy New Year to you over there in Sokoto! This is actually not my project in its original sense. The duty of taking it over and reconceptualising it has only fallen on m... Read more

Wonders of the African World?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2021In: LifeworldTags: 'Wonders of the African World', Ali Mazrui, Biodun Jeyifo, Haiti, Henry Louis Gates, Kenya, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Many must have forgotten about the brouhaha over the television series ‘Wonders of the African World’ between the late Ali Mazrui on the one hand and Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo and Henry Lo... Read more

The Benue Invasion of ‘Benin Empire’ When Begha Became the Chancellor of UNIBEN

Posted By: adminon: November 29, 2021In: LifeworldTags: 'Benin Empire', Begha, Engineer Benson Abounu, University of BeninNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria can be considered the world headquarter of paradoxes. Too many things are going wrong but, amidst the nightmare, many good things are also happening. However one sees it, making a tw... Read more

Okpani Benedict Oko Ochiga, the Death of the Classical ‘Ochonyilo’

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2021In: LifeworldTags: 'Ochonyilo', 'Omajaklekwu', Boriga, Ogene Amejo, Pili, Prof Sophie Harman, PRPNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The ‘Ochonyilo’ vocabulary is a gender insensitive idiom in Idoma, a celebration of manliness with performative implications for gender equity that Intervention would, ordina... Read more

General Anthony Ukpo, Man and Mortality

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2021In: LifeworldTags: IBB, Mary Knoll College, Mortality, Ogoja, Plato, SinNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It has to be a sermon by a priest of that intellectual pedigree to be such an exercise in social criticism. And to overshadow the tragedy for any family in losing three membe... Read more

Rev. Tanimu Samari Aduda Was a Man of Peace – Engineer Mohammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2021In: LifeworldTags: FCT, Gwagwalada Diocese of the FCT, Senator Phlip AduddaNo CommentsViews:

Former FCT Minister, Engr. Muhammed Abba-Gana, CON, is leading the mourning of the father of Senator Philip Aduda, the Senator Representing FCT at the National Assembly, (NASS). Rev. Tanimu... Read more