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The Onoge Shock

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ABU, African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Harvard, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Abiola Irele, Prof Omafume Onoge, Prof Victor Adetula, UI, UNIBEN, UNIFE, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNNNo CommentsViews:
The Onoge Shock

I have heard a huge share of the stuff he was made of, including his articulation of the Aiyetoro community as a socialist entity in a thesis to Harvard University, at a time positivism was... Read more

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Critical Moments in Nigerian Power Elite’s 5-Hour, Non-Stop Tributes to Chief Audu Ogbeh

Posted By: adminon: September 23, 2025In: People in ActionTags: 'Amen', 'Cockcrow at Dawn', AOBA, Bongos Ikwue, Chinua Achebe, Dr. Paul Unongo, FCT, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, KCOBA, Mark Okoye, Nasir el-Rufai, PDP, Prof Jerry Gana, The Obasanjo-effect, Third TermNo CommentsViews:
Critical Moments in Nigerian Power Elite's 5-Hour, Non-Stop Tributes to Chief Audu Ogbeh

By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian power elite pulled another stunning stunt Monday September 22nd,  2025 by overcoming all factional, fractional, class, ethno-religious, regional, gender, generat... Read more

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Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2025In: People in ActionTags: African Literature, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Chinua Achebe, Literary criticism, Prof Claude Ake, University of PortharcourtNo CommentsViews:
Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Barely a month after an iroko in the African literary forest fell, a reference to Ngugi Wa Thiongo, there has been the fall of another iroko. He is Charles Nnolim, a foremost critic in Afric... Read more

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The Coming Confrontation With Meaning As Achebe Comes Alive Again @ UNN

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Chinua Achebe, Optimistic Postcoloniality, Prof A. N. Akwanya, The Novell, UNNNo CommentsViews:
The Coming Confrontation With Meaning As Achebe Comes Alive Again @ UNN

Nobody can predict what would come out of this major event from the UNN. It is probably best to wait to consume it. For, each of the variables involved – Achebe, the Novel and Postcolo... Read more

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The Jega Lens on Restructuring

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Chief Audu Ogbeh, Chinua Achebe, INEC, Peter Obi, Prof Bayonile Tolani  Ademodi, Sanusi Lamido SanusiNo CommentsViews:
The Jega Lens on Restructuring

Prof Attahiru Jega came to the conversation on restructuring at the January 22, 2021 Media Trust Dialogue clearly set on conceptualising restructuring as no more than a rigorous or far reach... Read more

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Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Chinua Achebe, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y DanjumaNo CommentsViews:
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

On September 3rd, 2016 when Intervention first carried this piece, (https://intervention.ng/4465/), it was responded to as disrespectful and there was a price to pay. But Intervention has ne... Read more

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Could Soyinka, Sawaba and Bala Usman Be Talking Back to Critics of Populism?

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2020In: People in ActionTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Chinua Achebe, Fascism, National Socialism, Nazism, Prof Abdulraufu MustaphaNo CommentsViews:
Could Soyinka, Sawaba and Bala Usman Be Talking Back to Critics of Populism?

Today, populism is a dirty word across the world. To pour mud on it is an ideologically chic practice. It is being implicated in rabble rousing, hysteria and what doesn’t go beyond the surfa... Read more

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Is Nigerian English in Oxford Dictionary Blowback or Consolidation of Colonialism?

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Blowback, Chinua Achebe, LAFA, OED, Oluada Equiano, William WilberforceNo CommentsViews:
Is Nigerian English in Oxford Dictionary Blowback or Consolidation of Colonialism?

It is no longer news that some 29 words essentially of Nigerian origin in usage have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, (OED), a powerful learning tool. But what might that mean? i... Read more

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Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2019In: People in ActionTags: (Atlantic) Slave Trade, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Decolonisation, English, French, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, PortugueseNo CommentsViews:
Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

The first part of this interview published on this platform September 9th was titled “Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor”. The t... Read more

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APGA Taking Over Nasarawa State, Breaking APC, PDP Monopoly of National Electoral Space?

Posted By: adminon: February 03, 2019In: SpectacleTags: APGA, Chinua AchebeNo CommentsViews:
APGA Taking Over Nasarawa State, Breaking APC, PDP Monopoly of National Electoral Space?

Is it possible that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) which have dominated the on-going electioneering campaign in Nigeria in terms of huge rally... Read more

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