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Journey to Macondo in Search of García Márquez

Posted By: adminon: May 30, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Aracataca, Cartagena, Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, MacondoNo CommentsViews:
Journey to Macondo in Search of García Márquez

Whether conducted decades ago or yesterday, an interview with Garcia Marquez can be a soothing weekend read in a world which has basically jumbled its card, to borrow the apt phrase. So, her... Read more

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The Death of Reader’s Digest and Why It Matters

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: No CommentsViews:
The Death of Reader’s Digest and Why It Matters

By Adagbo Onoja Dr. Yusuf Bangura, the ex-Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Political Scientist, keeps a critical eye on the arts and posts a lot of arty stuff. Yesterday, one of his posts is a... Read more

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Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Gender, Humanity, Israel, Latin America, Middle East, Palestine, violence, White supremacy, WomenNo CommentsViews:
Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

Why should Intervention unleash on readers a 2020 interview of about 6000-word interview with Prof Judith Butler? It is not Intervention’s own making. It is simply because Butler is an icon.... Read more

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How to Tell if Someone Is Lying to You, According to Experts

Posted By: adminon: April 23, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Christopher Watts, Lying, Truthful, Verbal-visual mismatchNo CommentsViews:
How to Tell if Someone Is Lying to You, According to Experts

Humanity’s war against lies and lying is moving from the technological to a variant of pyscho-analysis as can be seen in this piece reproduced from Time magazine BY ANGELA HAUPT It’s f... Read more

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Prof. William Alade Fawole, the Foreign Policy Scholar and Activist, Retires from OAU, Ile-Ife

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, ASUU, George Washington University, International Relations, Nigerian foreign policy, OAU Ile-IfeNo CommentsViews:
Prof. William Alade Fawole, the Foreign Policy Scholar and Activist, Retires from OAU, Ile-Ife

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Ife, now OAU, holds a lot of significance for the study of International Relations in Nigeria. It was from there that the discipline has spread to o... Read more

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Drawing Attention to Current Edition of IDS Bulletin

Posted By: adminon: March 10, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Global South, IDS, IDS Bulletin, International Development, University of SussexNo CommentsViews:
Drawing Attention to Current Edition of IDS Bulletin

Intervention has no formal relationship with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK. The platform, however, assumes that IDS would wish that its Bul... Read more

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President Tinubu’s Qatar Language Game on Corruption

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Barack Obama, Determinism, Discourse, Discursivisim, Investors, Mandela, Qatar, Tinubu PresidencyNo CommentsViews:
President Tinubu’s Qatar Language Game on Corruption

By Adagbo ONOJA Language, (or is it meaning-making?)  is all that we have. Those who find it difficult to come to terms with this allege that the ‘linguistic turn’ in analytical philosophy i... Read more

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The Coming NPSA Intervention in Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Concentric Circle', 4Ds, Nigerian foreign policy, NPSA, Semocracy promotionNo CommentsViews:
The Coming NPSA Intervention in Nigerian Foreign Policy

Come March, 2024, the Nigerian Political Science Association, (NPSA) is staging a conceptual intervention in Nigerian foreign policy. A statement to that effect from Prof Hassan Saliu, NPSA... Read more

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Tinubu’s Language Game Against Labelling, Blanket Stereotyping of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: ECOWAS, EFCC, Foreign policy, Language game, Liliputianism, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:
Tinubu’s Language Game Against Labelling, Blanket Stereotyping of Nigeria

Is it too early to concede that President Bola Tinubu gets it right each time he steps out  in representational practice of power? His language game is usually so well put that no platform t... Read more

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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution – A Review

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Amilcar Cabral, Anibal Quijano, C L R James, Coloniality Working Group, Decolonial Marxism, Decolonisation, Eurocentrism, Femi Taiwo, Global South, Julius Nyerere, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Gurminder Bhambra, Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, Walter Mignolo, Walter Rodney, ‘Rodney Riots’No CommentsViews:
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution - A Review

There are two reasons against publishing this article. One, it is too long. Two, it will confuse those who are not already at home with the different domains of Marxism and decoloniality. Bu... Read more

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