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Nigeria Police Goes Think tanking @ NIIA

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, insecurity, Nigeria Police, NIIA, Peace process, ReflexivityNo CommentsViews:

There is something paradoxical, on the face of it, for the Nigeria Police to be privileging its actorness in continental peace works when generalised insecurity is tearing Nigeria apart. Bu... Read more

A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Amb Tanko Suleiman, America, Apa State, Asia, Dr. Edwin Ogbu, French, G-8, Obama, OBASANJO, PR, Protocol, Queen Elizabeth 11, Russia, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more

Nigeria’s Retreat from Constructive Engagement in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Arab-Israeli war, AU, Colonialism, Global South, Late President Yasser Arafat, Middle East, PLONo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki “We are watching the strangulation of 2 million people, 61,000 of them have already died. It’s disgraceful and disgusting. History will judge, history w... Read more

Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

Posted By: adminon: September 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, American science, Decoloniality, Discourse theory, Marxism, Permacrisis, Zaria School of History, ‘Hegemony and Strategy’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more

NIIA Confronts Africa’s Paradoxical Significance in the World

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Ambassador Godknows Igali, Dr. Julius Nyerere, NIIA, World politicsNo CommentsViews:

Africa is still a puzzle in world politics: rising in significance in the world mostly for demographic and endowment reasons but how does the significance gets realised? Well, the Nigerian I... Read more

Bingham University Submits Tribute On Prof Okello Oculi to the Family

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, AU Mock-Summit cell, Bingham University, Department of Political Science, ‘Instability and Development Crisis in Africa’No CommentsViews:

The festival of Pan-African solidarity triggered by Prof Okello Oculi’s death July 26th, 2025 raged on Thursday July 31st, 2025 with another condolence visit to the family. This time, ... Read more

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

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, Diallo Telli, Europe, FASS, Music, OAU Mock-Summits, Pan-Africanism, Sembene, ‘Banana Man’No CommentsViews:

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

Federal University, Wukari’s Coming Conference on African Literature, Language and Culture

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: 'Adinkra', 'Sankofa', Africa, Creativity, English and Literary Studies, Taraba State, WukariNo CommentsViews:

It is contestable but not stupid to claim that Literature is always ahead in the politics of recovery of the African selves (a unitary African self would be worse than colonialism) than its... Read more

28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association Takes Off in Seoul, Korea

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Global South, IPSA, Kenya, NIGERIA, Political Science, The Republic of Korea, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Political scientists from around the world have converged on Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea in Asia. They are there for the 28th World Congress of the International Political Sc... Read more

What Manner of Strange, Puzzling Marriage Could This Be?

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Chemistry, Drama, Innocence, New African, ‘Man of God’No CommentsViews:

These shots constitute one set of pictures one comes across in a platform called ‘New Africa’. The Facebook page has many interesting pictures, mostly of Africa and Africans. For instance, t... Read more