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
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
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
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
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
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