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It is Good to Be a John Odah

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Anthropology, Catholic Bishops, Entrepreneurial Studies, NUC, Political sociologyNo CommentsViews:
It is Good to Be a John Odah

The 66th birthday of Cde John Odah would seem to have come and gone.  What Intervention would call the last of the rituals associated with that has now taken place, a surprise because the si... Read more

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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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Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

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Africa And Progressive Humanity Loses Canadian Internationalist, Paul Puritt

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2022In: People in ActionTags: African liberation movements, Alepo, Aleppo, Anthropology, Canadian Labour Congress, Mandela, Oxfam, Swahili, TanzaniaNo CommentsViews:
Africa And Progressive Humanity Loses Canadian Internationalist, Paul Puritt

PAUL PURITT, born at St. Luc Hospital in Montreal on 28 July 1938, passed away peacefully at the Ottawa General Hospital on the evening of 23 December 2022 at the age of 84. Paul’s warm pers... Read more

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Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa – Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Posted By: adminon: October 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Anthropology, Christianity, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Kant, ModernityNo CommentsViews:
Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa - Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Apart from Queen Mary University of London’s Dr. Clive Gabay’s book, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze, Prof Olufemi Taiwo’s book, Against Decolonisation must be the most cont... Read more

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