Ali Mazrui Archives - Intervention

Wonders of the African World?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2021In: LifeworldTags: '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: LifeworldTags: '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: NewsLogTags: '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: NewsLogTags: 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