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Isn’t Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Achebe, Agrarian transformation, Anambra State, Aper Aku, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, IMF/World Bank, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, Peter Obi, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:
Isn't Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

By Adagbo ONOJA This piece is about a puzzle rather than a campaign for, against or criticism of Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo who was sworn-in a week ago for his second term of four years as... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Literary Philosopher, Muazu Maiwada, Speaks on State of Writing in Nigeria Today

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Abubakar Imam, Achebe, Acholonu, Ahmadu Bello University, ANA, Chike Obi, Clark, Creative writing, Gimba, Kasimu Yero, Nelly Uchendu, Ojaide, Osundare, Poetry, Soyinka, TutuolaNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Literary Philosopher, Muazu Maiwada, Speaks on State of Writing in Nigeria Today

LiteratureVoice conducted this interview which Intervention finds re-publishable mainly because of one question: the state of writing in Nigeria today. Why are there no Achebes, Soyinkas, JP... Read more

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The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:
The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more

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

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

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Achebe, Africa, African universities, Colonialists, Igbo, Irish nationalism, Joyce, Kenya, Toyin Falola, Yoruba, Zulu, ‘Nobel of the heart’No CommentsViews:
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Age and nasty experiences in the recent past are not slowing down Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the Kenyan writer. He is still taking the fight to Africa’s conquerors, this time revisiting his insistenc... Read more

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In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, Africa, Descartes, Fanon, Hegel, Individuality, Joyce, Marx, NIGERIA, Onyeka Onwenu, Shakespeare, The worldNo CommentsViews:
In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Artists and philosophers do not die. The world is still quoting Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Shakespeare, Joyce, Achebe, Fanon and so on because they have set the terms of the conversation throug... Read more

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Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Achebe, Amos Tutola, Collective stupidity, Derrida, Ella Agunaga, God, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Marx, Religion, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

It is possible to have sat in conversation with Bongos Ikwue several times previously but to find him a different person in a more recent encounter. But that is not because he is slippery. I... Read more

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Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Achebe, Bala Usman, Decoloniality, IPPSS, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Postcolonial theory, Richard Ashley, Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Dissident scholars’No CommentsViews:
Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more

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Bringing the Mediatisation of Africa Into Raymond Dokpeshi’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African cosmologies, Aljazeera, Arise News, Brazil, Global citizenship, India, Mass Communications, Mazrui, Mbembe, Mudimbe, NIGERIA, Nigerianism, NUC, Popular culture, TrustNews, TVCNo CommentsViews:
Bringing the Mediatisation of Africa Into Raymond Dokpeshi’s Death

By Adagbo Onoja There is a point about the late Raymond Dokpeshi warranting this tribute. Otherwise, his associates and all those who interacted with him closely have said all that ought to... Read more

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For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Academia, Achebe, Canada, Coloniality of modernity, Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neorealism, SADF, SIIA, Summitry, The military, The Presidency, Things Fall Apart, Traditional diplomacy, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:
For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

By Adagbo Onoja These two books have not been written for Nigerian foreign policy but it would be surprising if they do not form the training manuals for the assemblage associated with formu... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!

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If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

April 19, 2026
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

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How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities
How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

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Dr. Chido Onumah and Turning 60 @ the Height of Radical Uncertainty
Dr. Chido Onumah and Turning 60 @ the Height of Radical Uncertainty

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