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  • The Task Innocent Chukwuma Left for Us to Complete
  • Worrisome Violence in Imo, Ebonyi and Benue States
  • The ‘Coronation’ of Mathew Agaba
  • The Challenge of Framing Mahmud Tukur at Death
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The Jega Lens on Restructuring

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: 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: NewsLogTags: 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: LifeworldTags: '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: Intervention AcademyTags: 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: LifeworldTags: (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: Meta-NigeriaTags: 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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Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: NewsLogTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

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Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Aime Cesaire, Capitalism, Chinua Achebe, Colonialism in Africa, Decolonisation of education, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Globalectics, Home, Literature, Mau Mau, neocolonialism, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Writing in EnglishNo CommentsViews:
Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Interveiw By Mahdi Ganjavi,  Ngugi Wa Thiongo needs no introduction in the world of Letters. Except the dosage of post modernist lexicons observable in his language, the critical postcolonia... Read more

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Nigerian Elite: On the Path of Reconciliation or of Mutual Assured Destruction, (MAD)?

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2017In: NewsLogTags: Chinua Achebe, Iron Law of Oligarchy, Julius Berger, Senator Murray-BruceNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Elite: On the Path of Reconciliation or of Mutual Assured Destruction, (MAD)?

Nigerian Elite: On the Path of Reconciliation or of Mutual Assured Destruction, (MAD)? It is certain to be such a mighty and welcome entertainment were it to happen that any two of Generals... Read more

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Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2017In: NewsLogTags: Bala Usman, Chinua Achebe, Jigawa State, NEPU, NPC, NPN, PRP, Sule Lamido, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria

Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria By Adagbo ONOJA A few days ago, someone circulated an existing picture of the graveside of Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi... Read more

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