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NPSA Scores Democracy in Nigeria Below Pass mark

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: DEMOCRACY, Developmental politics, Elections, National independence, NPSA, Political parties, Public fundsNo CommentsViews:

The verdicts are turning in Ahead of the 26th anniversary of democracy in Nigeria since 1999. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), for instance, has withheld a pass mark for de... Read more

Rescuing Political Science

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Ancient Greek, Constitutional democracy, Interpretivism, Liberal democracy, Plato’s Academy, Political Science, Positivism, Woodrow WilsonNo CommentsViews:

The last but one sentence of this piece from Voegelinview warrants posting it here even as it might not appeal to every reader! As an academic discipline, political science is relatively new... Read more

Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, BOKO HARAM, Borno State, CORRUPTION, Neoliberal economic reforms, Post 9/11, Sovereignty, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:

By Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) “Governance … has been turned into a mad rush to empty the treasury for private use. This means the core business of governance has disappeared for decades, and the o... Read more

NALS Unpacks “The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa”

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Academic freedom, Africa, Dialogue series, NALSNo CommentsViews:

“The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa” is the subject matter the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NALS) is inviting all who care to bear witness to its unpacking Ma... Read more

NPSA Offers A Package of Actions on Reasserting Nigeria in the World

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Democracy in Nigeria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NPSA, People's Republic of China, US, west, West Africa1 CommentViews:

Deeply disturbed by its own unpacking of how Nigeria looks on the global stage today, the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is putting on the table a set of ideas by which Nigeri... Read more

“Critique of the Gotha Programme” and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Class, Communist Manifesto, Free Market capitalism, Marx, ‘Restructuralists’No CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki “General historical circumstances are stronger than the strongest individuals”, Georgi Plekhanov The Gotha (Unity) Congress met in Germany from May 22 to 27, 1875, to fashion... Read more

Communique of HUMINT, WRAPA, NAWOJ, PLAC and PAAC Sokoto Workshop

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: ANWE, DEMOCRACY, Gender, HUMINT, Journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NAWOJ, PAAC, PLAC, Sokoto, WRAPANo CommentsViews:

Reproduced below for the interest of researchers on gender and democratisation is the communique from a 2-day capacity building workshop for women journalists. It was organised by HUMINT in... Read more

Happy Easter, Losers, Christianity is Not About Success!

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 'Alcoholics Anonymous', Archbishop of Canterbury, Christianity, Church of England, Evangelical/Catholic/Liberal Church, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus Christ, Organised goodness, Renewed humanity, ResurrectionNo CommentsViews:

Giles Fraser, a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew lets us into a critical insight into Christianity in the piece below as reproduced from Unherd. The ridder says that succ... Read more

Preface to a Bumper ‘Edition’

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2027, Change Makers, Hegemony, Inaugural Lecture, Justice James Ogebe, Prof NnoliNo CommentsViews:

Intervention is opening to post just a few materials strictly as a concession to two birthday celebrants. One is Justice James Ogebe at 85 while the second is Professor Okwudiba Nnoli. Each... Read more