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Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

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With Professors Like Them

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Conflict reporting, Critical thinking, Department of English, Enlightenment fairy tales, International political theory, Journalism, Mass Communication, NUC, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
With Professors Like Them

By Adagbo Onoja It is not totally new. Aside from Abiodun Adeniyi at Baze University Abuja, there is Ladi Sandra Adamu, the feminist warrior at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof Sambe... Read more

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Italian Ambassador to Nigeria Goes to NIIA Forum August 20th, 2024

Posted By: adminon: August 16, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: African hegemon, Diplomatic, NATO, NIIANo CommentsViews:
Italian Ambassador to Nigeria Goes to NIIA Forum August 20th, 2024

What might a prosperous member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) offer a potentially great but struggling African hegemon? This is the question the Nigerian Institute of Inter... Read more

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Winners and Losers in the #EndBadGovernance Protests in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: #EndBadGovernance, #EndSARS, Developmental State, Fake news, Jean Baudrillard, Losers, Muhammadu Buhari, olusegun Obasanjo, Russian flag, The North, The Patriots, Tinubu communism, WinnersNo CommentsViews:
Winners and Losers in the #EndBadGovernance Protests in Nigeria

So, what happened in and to Nigeria between August 1st and August 10th, 2024 and who might be the winners and losers from that? Empirically, the country was enveloped in mass protests agains... Read more

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How Mandela Triggered Xin Yi Lim of the University of Toronto Into a Polyglot Extraordinary

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Multilingual talent, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:
How Mandela Triggered Xin Yi Lim of the University of Toronto Into a Polyglot Extraordinary

The University of Toronto’s Arts and Science News as well as the university Bulletin inform their readers on Xin Yi Lim as one of its students who is distinguished by ability to speak eleven... Read more

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Living Through Another Great Transformation…A Review

Posted By: adminon: July 30, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Britain, Eric Hobsbawn, Industrial Revolution, Labour, Land, Market economy, Marx, Poor Laws, Ricardo, Smith, ‘Fictitious commodities’No CommentsViews:
Living Through Another Great Transformation…A Review

By Branko Milanovic Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This woul... Read more

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How Peter Obi’s Media Managers Could Imprison Him

Posted By: adminon: July 21, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: CEO, Chief Shaman, Governor, Local Government chairperson, Media Adviser, Minister, Peter Obi, President, President Bola Tinubu, Principal-agent relationship, Remi Oyo, SenatorNo CommentsViews:
How Peter Obi’s Media Managers Could Imprison Him

Presidential contender, Peter Obi had better beware he could end up in prison as an unintended consequence of the lack of suavity of his media team. The team is producing the discursive cond... Read more

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Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Animism, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Christianity, Clerical Marxism, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, God, Islam, Judaism, Marxism, NANS, olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, PPA, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

By Adagbo Onoja Introduction Marxists in Nigeria are turning to religion in numbers warranting the claim of a clerical turn among the tribe. We may still not know the number of Marxists who... Read more

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Welcome to Keir Starmer’s Post-liberal Order

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Blairism, Davocracy, Keir Starmer, NGOcracy, Post-liberalism, Tories, UKNo CommentsViews:
Welcome to Keir Starmer’s Post-liberal Order

The UK is still in the news. With a brand new prime minister who has already been quoted as saying “We can’t fix everything overnight”, observers may be unstoppable from trying to frame the... Read more

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Islam and Muslim Quest for Humane Civilization 

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: African Muslim, Christianity, Imperialism, Islamic civilizational schemata, Orientalism, Postmodern Islam, SOAS, United States, westNo CommentsViews:
Islam and Muslim Quest for Humane Civilization 

A revised version of an article written some years back, this piece by Abubakar Aliyu Liman, Professor of Comparative Literature and Popular Culture at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nig... Read more

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