Apartheid Archives - Intervention

Decades of Colonial Policies Leave SA Needing Urgent Political and Economic Overhaul

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2026In: GovernanceTags: ANC, Apartheid, DA, NP, SAIIANo CommentsViews:

The informed and blunt Moeletsi Mbeki does it again in the piece below extracted fromDaily Maverick. Mbeki is the Chairperson of the South African Institute of International Affairs, (SAIIA)... Read more

Marxism and Literature After Biodun Jeyifo

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Apartheid, Critical security studies, Deliberative democracy, Discourse, Emancipation, Frankfurt School critical theory, Gramscian Marxism, Kant, Literature, Marxism, Plato, Prof Ken BoothNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Decades before his death January 11th, 2026, Prof Biodun Jeyifo had ceased to teach in Nigeria. But a knowledge producer is inherently a global supplier, irrespective of loca... Read more

Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity - Tradition Cord in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more

Achille Mbembe, Africa’s First Holberg Prize Laureate, Speaks on Award, Africa and on Planetary Consciousness

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Afropolitan space, Apartheid, Denationalisation, Global South, Holberg Prize, NIGERIA, Planetary consciousness, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Edwin Naidu Professor Achille Mbembe’s person, scholarship and administrative politics may not be what everyone accepts but very few would be surprised that the Johannesburg based Africa... Read more

Tribute to My Retiring Lecturers in Nigeria’s BUK (1)

Posted By: adminon: November 14, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'African Political Thought', Apartheid, ASUU Chairman, BUK, Marxist, PhD, Political Theory, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu M.M. Yusuf As An Activist Scholar Mallam Muazu Mohammed Yusuf retired from the services of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) in April, 2023 after putting in forty-two yea... Read more

From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Apartheid, British Empire, Capitalism, Chatham House, Colonialism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Imperialism, Lancaster House, Nazism, Neo-colonialism, Slavery, ‘Wind of change’No CommentsViews:

Nigerian nationalism is on warpath against those seeking to rule the country trooping to a UK platform with ties to the Empire imagination. The argument against such trend can be powerful wh... Read more