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Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Anthropology, Europe, Evidence, Knowledge, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Prof Paul Boghossian, Relativism, Truth, Washington UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US

By Adagbo Onoja The 30 – page PDF text is already the subject of a thickening controversy in the US. So much that the Provost of Washington University, one of the two sponsor universities, M... Read more

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Royal Bombshell @ Baze University, Abuja’s 7th Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 'Benin Empire', Africa, Baze University, Belongingness, Identity, Kabba Calendar, Memory, MigrationNo CommentsViews:
Royal Bombshell @ Baze University, Abuja's 7th Inaugural Lecture

It was an Inaugural Lecture with several differences. There was the fanfare which we can call the Baze University flavouring of the Inaugural Lecture tradition in academia. There was the roy... Read more

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Wits, Prof Achille Mbembe and the Remaking of Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CWUR, Necropolitics, President John Mahama of Ghana, Prof Achille Mbembe, WITSNo CommentsViews:
Wits, Prof Achille Mbembe and the Remaking of Africa

By Adagbo Onoja The current edition of the Centre for World University Ranking (CWUR) named South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (aka Wits) in Johannesburg as the number one univer... Read more

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A Divided Africa on France and the Sahelian States on Display? 

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, France, Peace maker, President Ruto of Kenya, Three Sahelian statesNo CommentsViews:
A Divided Africa on France and the Sahelian States on Display? 

Something is happening to and in Africa that is not easy to characterise or that Intervention doesn’t have enough details to characterise. A set of African states – the three Sahelian... Read more

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

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', 'Emperors', Africa, Colonialism, Dictators, DRC, Eseentialism, Pope Leo XIVNo CommentsViews:
Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!

There is, indeed, radical contingency. Who would have known that a ruling Pope will be the ultimate nemesis of false emperors and professional dictators across the world? Well, in less than... Read more

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Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode’s ‘The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century’

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 21st century, Africa, ASUU, FG, International Relations, Marxism, NUC, Ontology, Scholarship, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode's 'The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century'

Text: The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century Author: Prof Omotoye Olorode Pages: 78 Year: 2023 Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Like the banana tree which gets cut down... Read more

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Women Leadership of Front-rank Global Universities On the Rise

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Gender equity, Global front - rank universities, People's Republic of ChinaNo CommentsViews:
Women Leadership of Front-rank Global Universities On the Rise

The Higher Education (THE) figures are showing a rise in the number of women academics mounting headship of global front-rank universities. In the age of the knowledge/power paradigm, that m... Read more

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The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Africa, CIA, Deliberative democracy, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Kant, Marx, Nazism, OSS, Post-Marxism, ThatcherNo CommentsViews:
The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

The Habermasian imaginary has come to an end with the death of German philosopher and theorist, Jurgen Habermas Saturday, March 14th, 2026. He was 96 years old. At 96, he has so much to be g... Read more

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Bingham University Holds International Conference on Climate Change and Insecurity April 2026

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Climate Change, Conflict, Crisis of Governance, Development, Diplomacy, insecurity, NAM, PEACE, Plural Studies, Political instability, South- South, TerrorismNo CommentsViews:
Bingham University Holds International Conference on Climate Change and Insecurity April 2026

Bingham University in Karu, near Abuja, Nigeria is keeping its promise of being a debating space. Its Ambassador Bulus Lolo Centre for Diplomacy, Conflict, Peace and Plural Studies is up wit... Read more

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NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, AU, BRICS, Great power, Iran, Israel, Medium powers, NIIA, NPSA, Political Science, Prime Minister Mark Carney, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Ukraine, USANo CommentsViews:
NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) might be plumbing into raising the stakes in think tanking the international. For its impending Lecture Series, it is not only aggregat... Read more

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