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

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Apartheid, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chinua Achebe, Civil society, Covering law, Derrida, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Jigawa State, Latin America, Mallam Aminu Kano, Positivism, Toni Morrison, ‘Boka’, ‘Juju’, ‘Zanna Yuroma’No CommentsViews:
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

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

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

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The Roots and Ills of Godfatherism in Third World Politics

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Asia, Europe, Godfatherism, Ideology, Kingmakers, Patron-client, Policy debates, Prebendalism, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
The Roots and Ills of Godfatherism in Third World Politics

By Comrade Sanusi A. S. Maikudi, FNIM I read with keen interest the thoughtful piece by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi titled “The Futility of Political Godfatherism.” He rightly highlighted h... Read more

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CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Africa, APC, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Julius Nyerere, Fair system, Keke- NAPEP, Lee Kuan Yew, Party School, PDP, PPI/IPSNo CommentsViews:
CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

By Adagbo Onoja The frightening powerlessness of all the centres of power in Nigeria in facing down equally frightening indicators of the catastrophic compels us to be interested in any and... Read more

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Democracy in Danger – The Economist

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: American democracy, ANC, Asia, Britain, Conflict, Coups, DONALD TRUMP, India, KMT, Rwanda, Taiwan, Vladmir PutinNo CommentsViews:
Democracy in Danger – The Economist

Intervention thought and still thinks that, for a country such as Nigeria which has made a career of heckling every president and political leaders at all levels for rigging, nepotism, corru... Read more

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Recalling Bala Usman and the Misrepresentation of Nigeria (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Alkassum Abba, America, Asia, Bala Usman, Europe, Latin America, ‘Contraption’No CommentsViews:
Recalling Bala Usman and the Misrepresentation of Nigeria (Part 1)

“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more

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Does Decolonisation in the West Do Anything for the Developing World?

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Asia, Decolonisation, Developing world, diversity and inclusion, Equity, InternationalisationNo CommentsViews:
Does Decolonisation in the West Do Anything for the Developing World?

By Prof Farish A Noor Decolonisation argument continues to generate debates around it, with the author of this – a Historian at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Mal... Read more

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Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Afropolitanism, Andre Gander Frank, Asia, Dependency Theory, Ibadan School of History, Latin America, Postcolonial theory, Samir Amin, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:
Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Two different sentences in Intervention’s reporting of the passage of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi, ex-Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have come under attack from critical rea... Read more

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Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Frantz Fanon, Latin America, North AmericaNo CommentsViews:
Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

At the risk of looking back too much and continuing to stumble, this star studded reflection on Walter Rodney is what most would welcome. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, Rodney like Fanon... Read more

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Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more

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