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Kwame Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Identity, Philosophy, race1 CommentViews:
Kwame Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Letters has a new president. In this story lifted from Daily Nous, (with minor alteration to the title, paragraph arrangement and the reference to his publications),... Read more

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Re-conceptualising Tunji Lardner’s Concept of Time Conflation

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: #EndSARS, Africa, Modernity, Post-modernity, Prof Ali Mazrui, Tradition, Triple HeritageNo CommentsViews:
Re-conceptualising Tunji Lardner’s Concept of Time Conflation

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed It was Mr. Tunji Lardner, a philosopher in his own right but more popularly considered as a strategic communication expert, that conceptualise the idea of time conflat... Read more

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How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

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Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, COVID-19, Cuba, Intellectual property rights, US, WHONo CommentsViews:
Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more

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See What a Mess We Have Made of Democracy, in Nigeria – CISLAC

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Constitutional democracy, Coups, President BuhariNo CommentsViews:
See What a Mess We Have Made of Democracy, in Nigeria - CISLAC

“Democracy, the world over, faces intractable challenges that threaten the fundamental freedoms and the promise of development that were once considered the key signposts of democracy. In Af... Read more

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No Matter How Risky, Those Left Behind By Development Must ‘Innovate’ to Survive

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Cameroons, Dependency, DRC, Globalisation, UnderdevelopmentNo CommentsViews:
No Matter How Risky, Those Left Behind By Development Must 'Innovate' to Survive

The cover picture has written the story, all by itself. It is a pleasurable, even if risky response to the stressful and incomplete modernisation across Africa. There are no roads, especiall... Read more

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Can the Global Subalterns Speak on Climate Change? Yes, They Can!

Posted By: adminon: November 05, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Carnegie Foundation, Climate ChangeNo CommentsViews:
Can the Global Subalterns Speak on Climate Change? Yes, They Can!

Bogged down at home by coping with banditry, kidnappers, terrorists, secession campaigners, high degree of corruption, overwhelmed leadership, elite fragmentation, election rigging, rising p... Read more

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China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Century of humiliation', Africa, Communist Party of China, Marxism, US, west, ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’No CommentsViews:
China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more

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Wither Africa, Indeed!

Posted By: adminon: June 19, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Tanzania, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:
Wither Africa, Indeed!

In the cover picture of this spectacle are (L-R), the late Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. They are all gone as at today. In the second... Read more

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Nigeria Completely Out of 2021 Global University Ranking Where China is Slugging It Out With the West

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, MIT, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Completely Out of 2021 Global University Ranking Where China is Slugging It Out With the West

There is no knowing whether it is her internal bleeding or the criteria by which the QS ranking exercise is conducted that may explain why not a single university from Nigeria made it in the... Read more

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