Ali Mazrui Archives - Intervention

All Set for ‘Evening of Tributes’ for Late Prof. Prof Isawa Elaigwu On Oct. 10th, 2025

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Academia, Ali Mazrui, Federalism, IGSR, NCIR, NPSA, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

All is set for colleagues of his in the academia in his life time, leaders and elders of the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), civil society activists, former students and legat... Read more

Is the World Actually Heading for a Zohran Mamdani’s Electoral Moment in American Politics?

Posted By: adminon: June 30, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Ali Mazrui, American politics, Andrew Cuomo, Barack Obama, MAGA, Mahmood Mamdani, Muslim, New York, Okello Oculi, SocialistNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Pundits are still sure he is the winner – in – waiting as Mayor of New York City. He would be scoring many firsts if he is finally pronounced anytime soon. At 33, he would be... Read more

Wonders of the African World?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2021In: People in ActionTags: 'Wonders of the African World', Ali Mazrui, Biodun Jeyifo, Haiti, Henry Louis Gates, Kenya, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Many must have forgotten about the brouhaha over the television series ‘Wonders of the African World’ between the late Ali Mazrui on the one hand and Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo and Henry Lo... Read more

Placing Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, Nigeria’s Powerful Student of Power

Posted By: adminon: April 27, 2019In: People in ActionTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', Ali Mazrui, ASCON, MAMSER, NIPSS, Onugbo MlOko, PAC, Samuel Huntington, SAP, The Triple HeritageNo CommentsViews:

Jos, the Plateau State capital, is converging later this morning at the 1st Professor Jonah Isawa Elaigwu Annual Lecture taking place at the Faculty of Arts Main Lecture Hall in ‘the Garden... Read more

Africa is Underdeveloped Not Because Africans are Stupid – Prof Nzongola-Ntalaja

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2017In: SpectacleTags: African and African-American Studies, Ali Mazrui, Dr John Garang, Dr Tajudeen Abdulraheem, IMF/World Bank, John Hopkins University, President Paul Kagame, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Peter Anyang Nyong'o, UNDP, University of Abuja, University of Maiduguri, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of WinsconsinNo CommentsViews:

The African continent is not underdeveloped because Africans are stupid. Africa is materially backward relative to other civilisations because it finds itself fighting for survival on two eq... Read more

Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

Prof Abubakar Momoh: Tribute to a Rare Scholar

Posted By: adminon: May 30, 2017In: GovernanceTags: African Studies Association, Ali Mazrui, Centre for Research and Documentation -CRD, NIPSS, Prof Habu Galadima, Prof Tijani BandeNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Habu Mohammed, Dept of Political Science, Bayero University, Kano The death of Prof. Abubakar Momoh, widely shortened to just Abu by many, came as a great shock to me as it must have... Read more