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The ‘Araba Hip-hop’ of Idomaland As a Challenge for Okanga 1 of Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Akatu, Bongos Ikwue, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Elder Odogwu Amanyi, Global IR, Igbe, International Relations, Israel Ekere, Joe Onyela, Oglinya, Okanga 1 of Idomaland, Ounno, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, Senator David MarkNo CommentsViews:
The ‘Araba Hip-hop’ of Idomaland As a Challenge for Okanga 1 of Idomaland

By Adagbo ONOJA The musical messaging under review here, in spite of its overt aim, is the powerful creativity locked in the production. So powerful it compels one to, instinctively, shuffle... Read more

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The Challenge of Politics and Governance in Nigeria (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Edmund Burke, First Republic, Governance, Leadership1 CommentViews:
The Challenge of Politics and Governance in Nigeria (Part 1)

  By Ambassador Usman Sarki  “Every age has its own manners, and its politics dependent upon them”, Edmund Burke, 1729-1797   Contemporary manners in Nigeria are amorphous, brittle... Read more

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Will There Be Sparks on May 29th, 2023 ala Rimi, Balarabe Musa on Oct 1, 1979?

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 2nd Republic, Fourah Bay College, Military rule, NLC, Social transformation, Sule Lamido, Super PermsecsNo CommentsViews:
Will There Be Sparks on May 29th, 2023 ala Rimi, Balarabe Musa on Oct 1, 1979?

October 1st, 1979 and May 29th, 2023 may, on the face of it, share nothing in common. But, in Nigeria’s struggle for democracy, they do. October 1st, 1979 was when the military first d... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, Decoloniality, History, Ibadan School of History, IMF, Prof Eskor Toyo, Standpoint epistemology, World BankNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more

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Four Areas PRP Actually Broke New Grounds in the 20023 Elections – National Chairman

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: APC, Katsina State, LP, Mallam Aminu Kano, NNPP, PDP, Radical democratic politics1 CommentViews:
Four Areas PRP Actually Broke New Grounds in the 20023 Elections - National Chairman

Intervention is still not out of trouble with the establishment of Nigeria’s People’s Redemption Party (PRP). Earlier today, Prof Attahiru Jega, a party mandarin, disagreed with the in... Read more

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Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Capitalism, Decolonising, Global South, Kwame Nkrumah, Marxism, neocolonialism, Noam Chomsky, Rising China, Russia, Third World Project, US supremacy, Working classNo CommentsViews:
Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

BY JOSÉ ERNESTO NOVAEZ Marxist researcher and the intellectual plenipotentiary, Vijay Prashad, can always be trusted to smartly stand with orthodoxy but creatively advocate tactics of strugg... Read more

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Does Decolonisation in the West Do Anything for the Developing World?

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Asia, Decolonisation, Developing world, diversity and inclusion, Equity, InternationalisationNo CommentsViews:
Does Decolonisation in the West Do Anything for the Developing World?

By Prof Farish A Noor Decolonisation argument continues to generate debates around it, with the author of this – a Historian at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Mal... Read more

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Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, Bayo Onanuga, Brig-Gen Dangiwa Umar (retd), Datti Ahmed, Dele Alake, Discourse theory, Dr Reuben Abati, Hajia Najatu Mohammed, IBB, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Obierika, Okonkwo, Peter Obi, Prof Humphrey NwosuNo CommentsViews:
Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

By Adagbo Onoja Has February 25, 2023 got much to do with June 12, 1993 in Nigerian politics? This is the same as asking if History repeats itself or if the social world is a matter of the p... Read more

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A Presidential Vote That deepened Mistrust Also Signals Nigerians’ Insistence on Change

Posted By: adminon: April 14, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Endemic corruption, Global South, Independent National Electoral Commission, Public trustNo CommentsViews:
A Presidential Vote That deepened Mistrust Also Signals Nigerians’ Insistence on Change

It is as if the intelligentsia in Nigeria found something in April 13th, 2023 to re-stage the 2023 General Elections all over again. That was the day the Nigerian Institute of International... Read more

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NPSA Mounts an Agenda Minting Conversation for Nigeria’s Next President

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Anti-SAP riots, Constructivists, Fuel subsidy, Gender presence, Marxists, The development model questionNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Mounts an Agenda Minting Conversation for Nigeria's Next President

The Nigerian Political Science Association is widening the scope of its intervention in the contest of discourses. Aside from its on-going Lecture Series on the 2023 General Elections which... Read more

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