Words and World | Intervention

Council on Foreign Relations Out With ‘The Invasion That Shook the World’

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: No CommentsViews:

In many ways, this is a text anyone who desires to add to his repertoire of the war in Ukraine will value. It has the advantage of coming from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the New... Read more

The Comprador Intelligentsia

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Center, Comprador intelligentsia, Islam, London, Mainland China, the West, US, Washington1 CommentViews:

By Branko Milanovic This writer recasts an age-old form of dependency into a fascinating new delivery. Read on: In “Orientalism”, Edward Said spoke of an orientalist as an interpreter... Read more

The Pope certainly has got no tanks or cruise missiles to strike at anyone but he is the unsurpassable Commander-in-Chief’ of metaphors, the most mobile army in the world. Papal deployment o... Read more

University of Mkar Interrogates IMF, World Bank and the Value of the Naira

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: IMF, Politics of Money, University of Mkar, Value of Naira, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Although it is run by an academically established Vice-Chancellor, (Prof Zacharys Gundu, ex-ABU, Zaria Archeologist), the University of Mkar, near Gboko in Benue State in central Nigeria is... Read more

Presidential Candidates in Nigeria’s February 2023 Election to Appear on NIIA Platform

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Chatham House, Critical International Relations, Domestic priorities, Foreign policy, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) is opening its own platform for presidential aspirants to upload the foreign policy lenses. It is not clear if the theme of “The world... Read more

The Good News From the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN)

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: 'CNN Effect', Abidjan, Addis Ababa, FRCN, Johannesburg, NAN, NIIA, NTA, VONNo CommentsViews:

It doesn’t appear to have enjoyed great hailing in Nigeria but it is a truly positive development in terms of nationalist enactment of Nigeria. The development under reference is the News Ag... Read more

‘A Thief and His Apprentice’ Combine Elements From Dickens, Iyayi, Shaw and even Achebe – Reviewer

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Chief Gbonka, Englishes, IBB, Nigerianisms, Synagogue Temple, United Thieves Club, ‘Ochanja’ marketNo CommentsViews:

Book Review Title: A Thief and His Apprentice Author: Onyeisi Chiemeke Publishers: Maroon Square Year of Publication: 2022 Number of Pages: iv – 185 Reviewer: Chijioke Uwasomba The Nigerian... Read more

Between Higher Order Learning and Technical Skills

Posted By: adminon: December 06, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: 'Dichotomization', 'Hierarchisation', 'Zombified', ASUU, Eugenicism, FG, Humanities, Maldevelopment, Pan-Africanists, Posthumanism, Sciences, Underdevelopment of Africa1 CommentViews:

Those who thought that they have won the debate on pedestrianizing the university system in Nigeria have got another thing coming. Not if other academics join Prof Abu Ali in reinforcing the... Read more

My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Lewis Obi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Concord, New Nigerian, NIIA, Popular culture, The Guardian, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:

A crisis of deadline makes it absolutely impossible for me to do justice to the ‘order’ that I elaborate on Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s A Farewell to Policy which I have been accused of over-rati... Read more

Open Letter To Nigerian Youth

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, 'Japa', 'Sore Soke', Gen Ibrahim Babangida, Moshood Abiola, NCNC, Zikist MovementNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta You call yourselves the ‘Japa’ generation. And quite rightly! Nigeria at present is a mess politically, socially and economically and you want to migrate to Europe and North Am... Read more