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The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Clash of Civilisation, Constitution Drafting Committee, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Kano, LAGOS, Portharcourt, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:
The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

All students of security start from or acknowledge the premise that security is not an objective thing but a question of power, a question of who is seeing a threat, from where and how. So,... Read more

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The Return of ‘M’ Ola @ Richard Adakole Ola’s Impending Wedding

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Clash of Civilisation, Ebirraland, Edumoga, No Longer @ Ease, Ontological violence, ReincarnationNo CommentsViews:
The Return of ‘M’ Ola @ Richard Adakole Ola's Impending Wedding

Dead people do not come back. That was Obi Oknkwo’s father in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease, protesting loudly when the elders said the returnee was a reincarnation of his grandfather or... Read more

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What is Thomas Piketty’s Battle Cry This Time Around?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Clash of Civilisation, Davos, Harvard University Press, Hypercapitalism, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
What is Thomas Piketty’s Battle Cry This Time Around?

Later this week, a new book will enter the bookshelves across the world. At a time intellectual enemies and intellectual defenders of capitalism are locked in battle like never before, any b... Read more

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Buhari, Naomi Campbell, Kukah and Mantu’s Siezure of Easter

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2018In: People in ActionTags: 'Convergence of Civilisation', Chibok girls, Clash of Civilisation, Leah, New NigerianNo CommentsViews:
Buhari, Naomi Campbell, Kukah and Mantu's Siezure of Easter

It is an odd combination in identity terms but they share a collective identity in doing something out of the rather routine, predictable, boring ways which has characterised every major fes... Read more

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Veritas University Discusses Governance, Separatist Agitations and the the Nigerian State

Posted By: adminon: March 01, 2018In: BookspaceTags: CEPAD, Chatham House, Clash of Civilisation, NATO, NPSA, Rohingya Muslim Crisis, UN, USNo CommentsViews:
Veritas University Discusses Governance, Separatist Agitations and the the Nigerian State

From Abuja where a think tank’s platform which interrogated the distinction between Procedural and Substantive Democracy degenerated into an analytics war early February to Bayero University... Read more

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The Church and the Happiness Index Puzzle in Contemporary Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Catholic Church, Church, Clash of Civilisation, Culture, Happiness Index, IdomalandNo CommentsViews:
The Church and the Happiness Index Puzzle in Contemporary Idomaland

  The Church and the Happiness Index Puzzle in Contemporary Idomaland It was always a shocker to consistently observe that much of vibrancy and high spirit among the folks. Relative to their... Read more

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