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An Evening Encountering History @ Wole Olaoye’s Birthday

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2025In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, BUK, DRUM, Journalism, NANS, NUNS, Political economy of Mass Communication, UNIJOS, University of Ife, ‘Junk journalism’, ‘Peeping Tom journalism’No CommentsViews:
An Evening Encountering History @ Wole Olaoye's Birthday

By Adagbo Onoja Although he carries a swagger stick, a signifying practice communicating authority or mystique in much of Africa, he doesn’t accept that he is an elder statesman yet. But he... Read more

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African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, Bala/Bangura Debate, Dar es Salam, Decolonial Historiography, Historiography, Ibadan, Identity politics, IMF/World Bank, MacArthur, Mock OAU/AU Summit, Nation building, Nigerian economic crisis, Northern Nigerian History Research Scheme, NUC, State building, Zaria School of History, ‘FASS model’No CommentsViews:
African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, FASS, Historiography, Identity politics, MacArthur, Nation building, NUC, State buildingNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

The Nigerian university system came under a reflexive scrutiny today at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where deans of the old Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) were called to be... Read more

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Okello Oculi (1942-2025): The Scholar Who Lived and Breathed Africa

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2025In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, Diallo Telli, Europe, FASS, Music, OAU Mock-Summits, Pan-Africanism, Sembene, ‘Banana Man’No CommentsViews:
Okello Oculi (1942-2025): The Scholar Who Lived and Breathed Africa

By Yusuf Bangura  I received the shocking news of the passing of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan scholar who lived 48 years of his life in Nigeria, while I was on the train to Ottawa from Kingston... Read more

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Another Leading Nigerian Political Scientist, Prof Okello Oculi, Passes On

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2025In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, Literature, Makerere, Mock-OAU Summit, Pan-Africanist, Prof Ali Mazrui, Prof Crawford Young, University of WisconsinNo CommentsViews:
Another Leading Nigerian Political Scientist, Prof Okello Oculi, Passes On

Barely a week after the sudden death of notable Nigerian political scientist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, another one has followed. He is Uganda – born Prof Okello Oculi, a remarkable Pa... Read more

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Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, BMMC, Captain Ibrahim Traore, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), FASS, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of Abuja, YBU1 CommentViews:
Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Switzerland based, Sierra Leone born Dr Yusuf Bangura, a former Political Science lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria does not like to hold grudges but neither does he want to whitewa... Read more

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Reveal Your Head, It Cannot Be Hidden: The Unmasking of the PYMN and the Student Movement in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, ASUU, BUK, Emma Ezeazu, Feminists, Marxists, MPN, NANS, NCNC, NLC, NUNS, NYM, PYMN, Segun Okeowo, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNN, WIN, YUSSAN, ZikistsNo CommentsViews:
Reveal Your Head, It Cannot Be Hidden: The Unmasking of the PYMN and the Student Movement in Nigeria

By Y. Z. Ya’u Cde Y. Z Yáu, the Executive Director of the Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), delivered this review of the book Aluta Continua: The Story of... Read more

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At Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh’s Recent Presentation of ‘Power Politics in International Trade Law’ in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: March 31, 2025In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, Baze University - Abuja, Economic Partnership Agreements, International trade law, Power, UCT, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
At Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh’s Recent Presentation of ‘Power Politics in International Trade Law’ in Abuja

As slippery as the concept of power in international relations, it remains a concept of huge attraction. Law lecturer, Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh, seems persuaded on this in writing Asymmetric Powe... Read more

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At the Bingham University’s International Conference on Instability and Development Crisis in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 09, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, Bingham University, Election Commission of India, INEC, Intervention, NIGERIA, TrustNo CommentsViews:
At the Bingham University's International Conference on Instability and Development Crisis in Africa

It was a great day for Political Science or, better still,  for knowledge production in Nigeria; a big day for Bingham University, Karu, near Abuja for its uncommon boldness in the politics... Read more

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How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:
How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

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