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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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ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, Decoloniality, History, Ibadan School of History, IMF, Prof Eskor Toyo, Standpoint epistemology, World BankNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more

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But, What is the Tinubu Imaginaire? (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Information and Strategy', Awo, Bala Usman, BMMC, Ife Collective, Kaduna Mafia, Laos-Ibadan financial oligarchy, NNDC, Northern oligarchy, PraetorianismNo CommentsViews:
But, What is the Tinubu Imaginaire? (2)

While we await possible explosive judicial tackles between Peter Obi’s Labour Party and Asiwaju Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress, (APC), we get on with trying to read the president – elect... Read more

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Richard Umaru Reacts to Intervention, Says He is Contented, Fulfilled

Posted By: adminon: January 06, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Bala Usman, Balarabe Musa, Claude Ake, Lawal Batagarawa, National Party of Nigeria, olusegun Obasanjo, People’s Redemption Party, Sunday AwoniyiNo CommentsViews:
Richard Umaru Reacts to Intervention, Says He is Contented, Fulfilled

Richard Umaru, a member of the ideologues behind the Balarabe Musa Government in Kaduna State of Nigeria in the Second Republic says he is contented and proud of his contributions to the str... Read more

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The Victory of Tragedy in Richard Umaru @ 70

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Bala Usman, Balarabe Musa, Claude Ake, Lawal Batagarawa, National Party of Nigeria, olusegun Obasanjo, People’s Redemption Party, Sunday Awoniyi1 CommentViews:
The Victory of Tragedy in Richard Umaru @ 70

It is victory of tragedy when a Richard Umaru writes on his Facebook page on his 70th birthday that he has gathered no moss. It must be tragedy because the reference to moss in the single se... Read more

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Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the ‘ABU, Zaria School of History’

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Africa, Bala Usman, Dependency Theory, FASS, Ibadan School of History, Standpoint epistemology, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the 'ABU, Zaria School of History'

It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more

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Celebrating Festus Iyayi, Textualising the Future

Posted By: adminon: November 13, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Bala Usman, Neoliberal globalisation, Nigerian Left, NLC, Popular culture, Prof Claude Ake, ‘Hegemony as strategy’No CommentsViews:
Celebrating Festus Iyayi, Textualising the Future

It must, indeed, be great that, in spite of the tribulations tormenting Nigerians, the rump of the Nigerian Left was still able to put together an Online Session to mark the 9th Anniversary... Read more

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Closing the Christian-Muslim Gap But Is It Really Between Christians and Muslims?

Posted By: adminon: May 15, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Bala Usman, Dr Ibrahim Tahir, Dr. Stanley Macebuh, Obi of Onitsha, Sultan of Sokoto1 CommentViews:
Closing the Christian-Muslim Gap But Is It Really Between Christians and Muslims?

The late Dr. Stanley Macebuh’s tribute to the equally late Dr. Ibrahim Tahir which serves as the cover picture of this piece raises a question: what explains the perpetual conflict, most oft... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Loses Another Radical Scholar-Activist, Prof Sule Bello

Posted By: adminon: October 03, 2021In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Bala Usman, NUC, PhDNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Loses Another Radical Scholar-Activist, Prof Sule Bello

Barely 24 hours after a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof A.D Yahaya died in Abuja, Nigeria is also receiving the news of the death... Read more

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Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Bala Usman, Billy Dudley, Canada, Claude Ake, Dele Awojobi, Eskor Toyo, Global Governance, International Relations, Private universitiesNo CommentsViews:
Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

By Adagbo Onoja The private universities remain a debate in Nigeria. For one, they are more in number than the public universities but their share of the total, annual admission figure is st... Read more

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