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Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

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What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more

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At Rosa Luxembourg Foundation’s Politics of Books in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Brazil, Bwari conflict, Central Nigeria, Domestic workers, Dr. Claus Konig, Formalism, Methodology, Northwestern Nigeria, Prof Alemika, Prof Joy Ezeilo, Prof W O Alli, Sit-at-home protest, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:
At Rosa Luxembourg Foundation’s Politics of Books in Nigeria

The late Professor Abubakar Momoh was fond of asserting the point about putting our thoughts in writing.  He would say, ‘Go and put it down’. At the time, one didn’t understand w... Read more

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Bringing the Mediatisation of Africa Into Raymond Dokpeshi’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Achebe, African cosmologies, Aljazeera, Arise News, Brazil, Global citizenship, India, Mass Communications, Mazrui, Mbembe, Mudimbe, NIGERIA, Nigerianism, NUC, Popular culture, TrustNews, TVCNo CommentsViews:
Bringing the Mediatisation of Africa Into Raymond Dokpeshi’s Death

By Adagbo Onoja There is a point about the late Raymond Dokpeshi warranting this tribute. Otherwise, his associates and all those who interacted with him closely have said all that ought to... Read more

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The Globalisation of Football is Closing Performance Gaps among Countries in the World Cup

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Europe, FIFA, France, Italy, Qatar World Cup, South America, UruguayNo CommentsViews:
The Globalisation of Football is Closing Performance Gaps among Countries in the World Cup

Having watched every World Cup tournament since 1970. Dr. Bangura can posit his never being as convinced as he is now after watching the Qatar World Cup that the domination of European and S... Read more

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See How Older Men and Women Have Taken Over the World

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Angela Alvarez, Brazil, CHINA, Latin Grammy, Malaysia, NIGERIA, RussiaNo CommentsViews:
See How Older Men and Women Have Taken Over the World

Officially, age is a protected characteristic, meaning that it is out of sync to go about asking people about their age as a requirement for this or that. But that is the official narrative.... Read more

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China As Peacemaker in Ukraine Conflict?

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Afghanistan, Africa, ASEAN, Brazil, CHINA, EU, India, Iraq, Losers, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, WinnersNo CommentsViews:
China As Peacemaker in Ukraine Conflict?

If what the highly influential and London based Financial Times is reporting is anything to go by, then the world might have found in China the global player which can undergird a peace proc... Read more

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What Has Gone Wrong With Democracy in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: September 05, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Brazil, CLO, India, NANSNo CommentsViews:
What Has Gone Wrong With Democracy in Nigeria?

What might a conversation on democracy in an illiberal society such as Nigeria look like? Or, better still, how do democracy activists see it in Nigeria, 21 years after formal military rule... Read more

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So, Why Did Atiku Abubakar Keep the World Guessing on US Trip?

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'Hankali', 'Rise of the Rest', Brazil, CBN, IMF, Jim O'Neil, NNPC, PTF, WASPNo CommentsViews:
So, Why Did Atiku Abubakar Keep the World Guessing on US Trip?

Either as a deliberate strategy of suspense and whatever benefits could accrue from that or a manifestation of some internal problem, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, leading presidential contender in... Read more

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Do not Take Nigeria for Granted, Scholars Warn Elite

Posted By: adminon: March 05, 2018In: BookspaceTags: Arewa Youths, BOKO HARAM, Brazil, CHINA, IMF, IPOB, MEND, NADECO, SAPNo CommentsViews:
Do not Take Nigeria for Granted, Scholars Warn Elite

Cutting edge postulations echoed across the Basement Complex at Veritas University, Abuja earlier this morning as high voltage political scientists, Historians and economists engaged the the... Read more

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