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Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, ANC, Chicago, SOAS, SOUTH AFRICA, UKZN, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

By Robert Morrell• On Monday, 17 August, Bill Freund died in Durban. He was 76 years old. He was among the most eminent of South Africa’s historians and published prodigiously broadly in the... Read more

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Economist, Financial Experts Engage Diversification of the Nigerian Economy

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2020In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, Diversification of the Nigerian Economy, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:
Economist, Financial Experts Engage Diversification of the Nigerian Economy

The Nigerian economy, particularly its revival through diversification, will be the subject of the 2020 webinar conference of Econsmedia, a platform for economic and allied matters taking pl... Read more

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Yusuf Bangura Turns 70

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, IMF/World Bank, Thandika Mkandawire, UNRISD, Yusuf Bala UsmanNo CommentsViews:
Yusuf Bangura Turns 70

Intrusive details from Facebook throws it at everyone that he is 70 years old today. That is Dr. Yusuf Bangura, the Sierra Leone born political economist who is as well known in Nigeria as i... Read more

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Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu, the Death of a Homeboy Who Went Global

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Agbangwe, Edemoga, ICU, NDLEA, Neoliberalism, United States of America, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:
Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu, the Death of a Homeboy Who Went Global

The death at 10 pm last Thursday of Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria is no news anymore. All those who should hear the death of the almost 65 year old academ... Read more

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Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Claude Ake, Marxism, NANS, NLC, Political economyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Four months after his death, friends, former colleagues, ex-students and critics of the late Prof Bjorn Beckman are gathering to take another look at his scholarship and activism in relation... Read more

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Epic Battles in Radical Development Theory, Field Research and Praxis: A Celebration of Björn Beckman (1938-2019)

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2019In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Bala Usman, Claude Ake, FASS, PODSU, Underdevelopment and Dependency TheoryNo CommentsViews:
Epic Battles in Radical Development Theory, Field Research and Praxis: A Celebration of Björn Beckman (1938-2019)

It is a lenghty stuff but an interesting enough read to hold the reader from the beginning to the end. It is our yesterday with implications for our tomorrow. It is, therefore, published her... Read more

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Yusuf Bangura Releases a Massive Review Piece in Celebration of Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2019In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Capitalism, Claude Ake, FASS, Marxism, UDTNo CommentsViews:
Yusuf Bangura Releases a Massive Review Piece in Celebration of Prof Bjorn Beckman

It would not be a terrible thing to say that no such text has come out in recent times. At 10, 143 words in length, it is a massive narrative which would look too long for a popular site suc... Read more

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Yusuf Bangura On Yusuf Bala Usman

Posted By: adminon: September 24, 2019In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, ASUU, Dar Debate, Fulanisation, Hausa-Fulani Hegemony, London School of Economics, NEPU, Northen Oligarchy, PRP, TalakawaNo CommentsViews:
Yusuf Bangura On Yusuf Bala Usman

As a more detached but critical and consistent observer of Nigerian affairs, his view on Bala Usman could help in clarifying the shifting battlegrounds in the struggle for power and the asso... Read more

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But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 17, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, NIIA, UI, UNESCO, UNILAG, UNN - NsukkaNo CommentsViews:
But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

The first part of this special feature was devoted to demonstrating the contention that but for the developmental tragedy that has befallen Nigeria, her founding fathers planned the first, s... Read more

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When Scholars Hit at Multiculturalism and Media Coverage of Conflict in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2018In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, CDA, DFID, LASU, NSRP, RMA, Third World Quarterly, UNN, Virtuous WarNo CommentsViews:
When Scholars Hit at Multiculturalism and Media Coverage of Conflict in Nigeria

Since Prof Absalom Mutere, the late veteran media trainer, made the startling disclosure about how so many African journalists have neither heard and could thus not have applied the concepts... Read more

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