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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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Our Godless Era is Dead: A Second Religiousness is Sweeping the West

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Arnold Toynbee, Enlightenment, Fascism, God, Marxism, Orthodox Church, Oswald Spengler, Religion, Western mind, Yeats, ‘The Decline of the West’, ‘The Second Coming’No CommentsViews:
Our Godless Era is Dead: A Second Religiousness is Sweeping the West

This piece is too long to subject readers to during any holidays but Intervention would argue that it is about the holidays itself and therefore worth reproducing from where it was originall... Read more

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NPSA Out With a February 2024 Intervention in Restructuring Debate in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Nigerian federation, NPSA, Omnibusness, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Out With a February 2024 Intervention in Restructuring Debate in Nigeria

Predictably, Bayero University, Kano (BUK)’s Prof Attahiru Jega’s clarion call for restructuring of Nigeria is echoing far and wider than Bauchi where he was speaking. The Nigeri... Read more

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Explosive APC Inter-Tendency Punching @ Presentation of Salihu Lukman’s Book on the Party

Posted By: adminon: December 20, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Adams Oshiomhole, APC, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Lion of Bourdillion, NANS, PDP, RadicalsNo CommentsViews:
Explosive APC Inter-Tendency Punching @ Presentation of Salihu Lukman's Book on the Party

An investment in a ‘career’ of dissidence can produce an explosive outcome because political parties, governments, caucuses and all such centres of power detest being openly criticised by in... Read more

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NPSA Holds Session on Liberal Democracy in Africa, Invites the Public

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Coups, Liberal democracy, Nigeria's democracy, NPSANo CommentsViews:
NPSA Holds Session on Liberal Democracy in Africa, Invites the Public

“Liberal Democracy: Limitations and Its Pitfalls in Africa” is the topic of the rescheduled Panel 3 of the First Seminar Series on Nigeria’s Democracy under the theme... Read more

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Jega Echoes Restructuring Ahead of 2027

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Archimedean coalition, INEC, Nigerian economy, Nigerian federation, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
Jega Echoes Restructuring Ahead of 2027

The articulatory practice that will shape the contest for power in 2027 is obviously unfolding with the return of restructuring of Nigeria back on the agenda. It is coming from Bayero Univer... Read more

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