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CDD Holds 2026 Memorial Lecture for Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem and Abubakar Momoh

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: CDD, Democratic consolidation, Dr Tajudden Abdul-Raheem, Political parties, Prof Abubakar MomohNo CommentsViews:

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD- West Africa) is holding a lecture in memory of Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Professor Abubakar Momoh Memorial Lecture, two late Africa-minded s... Read more

Scholars, Activists Take Another Look at ‘Fanon and the African Condition’ After a Hundred Years

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African universities, ASUU, CDD, CITAD, CODESRIA, Fanon, Inter-generational conversation, UNIJOS, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

Some of Africa’s most established scholars are converging on Jos, the Plateau State capital, for the centenary of Frantz Fanon. The grand theme of the centenary is ‘Fanon and th... Read more

Tribute to Dr. John Kayode Fayemi CON, the Former Governor of Ekiti State, at 60

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Amandla Institute, CDD, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Ekiti State, Gov Biodun Oyebanji, King's College London, Mallam Aminu Kano, NADECO, Nigerian Governors ForumNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu There are many individuals in the arena of politics. Some are driven by higher ideals, while others participate solely for personal gain. The latter group is not concern... Read more

How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Raises the Stakes Again on Researching Conflict in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari, CDD, CRD, MacArthur Foundation, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Methodology, Mixed method, NPSA, Positivism, Reason, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

Adagbo Onoja reporting It is no more only in heartland academia, if it ever was, where concern for secure knowledge is an article of faith. Other arenas of knowledge production are equally c... Read more

Prof. Jibrin (Jibo) Ibrahim, the Scholar-Activist and a Marxist, Turns 70

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Billy Dudley Annual Memorial Lecturer, CDD, CRD, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, Dr. Yusuf Bangura, General Mamman Kontagora, Marxism, Prof Bjorn Beckman, Prof Okey Ibeanu, University of Bordeaux1 CommentViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim marked his 70th birthday on December 2, 2024. He was born in 1954. I was indeed in Abuja that day, but my role as the President made it difficult... Read more

A Blast from the Past in the Magazine Journalism of Nigeria’s ‘The Analyst’

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Anticolonial radicalism, Archives of Nigerian radicalism, CDD, Communism, Kwame Nkrumah, NIGERIA, Non-alignment, Pan-Africanist, PRP, Tafawa Balewa, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘ Fitila’1 CommentViews:

Intervention republishes below a piece originally titled “We are Producing, They are Eating” in Africa Is A Country where it was originally published on a creative commons terms. It has been... Read more

Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

Muhsin, Late Prof Abubakar Momoh’s Son, Opts for Academia

Posted By: adminon: June 10, 2024In: SpectacleTags: BUK, CDD, INEC, LASU, Oxford, TEINo CommentsViews:

It was another day of reflections on the life and times of Prof Abubakar Momoh, this time from the prism of perfecting elections in Nigeria through critical grooming of election personnel ah... Read more

Activists, Friends, Admirers to Memorialise Prof Abu Momoh, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem June 3rd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: CDD, Civil society, Pan-Africanism, Social movement, ‘Áfrican president’No CommentsViews:

Activists, friends and admirers of the late Prof Abu Momoh as well as Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem have another opportunity to memorialise their departure. The memorial event for this year come... Read more