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Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:
Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

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World War in 2025?

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Cold War, Europe, Kamala Harris, NATO, Republic of China, Taiwan, The Commission on U.S. National Defense Strategy, Trump, Vladimir Putin1 CommentViews:
World War in 2025?

A world of nuclear armed states automatically imply a world at permanent risk of a global confrontation. No sane person may press the nuclear button carelessly because of the elephantine sca... Read more

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Lenin Laid Foundation for Global Confrontation With Imperialism, Global Capitalism and Colonialism

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African liberation movements, Cold War, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Dictatorship of the proletariat, Marxism – Leninism, NATO, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Warsaw Pact, ‘What is to be Done’No CommentsViews:
Lenin Laid Foundation for Global Confrontation With Imperialism, Global Capitalism and Colonialism

By Prof W. o. Alli I welcome you all to this historic Conference to mark the centenary of the passing away of one of the greatest revolutionaries of the Twentieth Century, Vladimir Ilyich Le... Read more

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Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Bernie Sanders, CHINA, Classical libealism, Cold War, Collapse of Communism, Globalisation, IT Revolution, New Left, Soviet UnionNo CommentsViews:
Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

Neoliberalism can be so complicated as for many to conclude that only French Philosopher, Michel Foucault and British Marxist Geographer and foremost theorist of concept, David Harvey, under... Read more

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Is Africa Back to Another Round of the Coup Syndrome of the Mid 1960s Or What?

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: AU, Cold War, ECOWAS, Global war on terror, Military dictatorship, UNNo CommentsViews:
Is Africa Back to Another Round of the Coup Syndrome of the Mid 1960s Or What?

Soldiers toppling civilian leaders across Africa was a very regular thing in the mid-1960s and thereafter. In the post Cold War, there was a thaw as popular interests took on military dictat... Read more

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Reflecting on the 5th Anniversary of Intervention

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Cold War, The Guardian, Yhe EconomistNo CommentsViews:
Reflecting on the 5th Anniversary of Intervention

Intervention was five years old last week. It was born early morning of July 26th, 2016. Memories are still wet of the little discussion sessions here and there on what the name should be, w... Read more

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Managing 2021 in Nigeria From Otukpo to Bosnia and Back

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Cold War, Ernesto Laclau, Muhammadu Buhari, YugoslaviaNo CommentsViews:
Managing 2021 in Nigeria From Otukpo to Bosnia and Back

It was no fun waking up to a Whatsapp photo from an otherwise cool and problem free individual, drawing attention to something that is being scheduled to happen in Otukpo town in Benue State... Read more

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As Germany Celebrates 30 Years After the Berlin Wall, What Did ‘Freedom’ Really Mean?

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2019In: World From AfricaTags: Berlin, Brexit Negotiations, Cold War, East Germany, German Reunification, Stasi, West GermanyNo CommentsViews:
As Germany Celebrates 30 Years After the Berlin Wall, What Did ‘Freedom’ Really Mean?

In length and width, it was not the toughest wall in history but it was the most symbolic wall as long as it existed. It was the most geopolitically significant wall which was not just divid... Read more

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Prof Christopher Andrew Unpacks Intelligence History

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2018In: BookspaceTags: Cold War, EmpireNo CommentsViews:
Prof Christopher Andrew Unpacks Intelligence History

Cambridge University’s Christopher Andrew is at it again – academically unmasking intelligence as an apparatus of state power. Called the world’s best-informed interpreter or historian... Read more

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Attahiru Jega’s New Wager on Leadership in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 29, 2018In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Cold War, Developmental State, NBANo CommentsViews:
Attahiru Jega’s New Wager on Leadership in Nigeria

There is something of a surprise that someone who guards his image as carefully as Prof Attahiru Jega would choose to set national leadership criterion that does out rightly favour the incum... Read more

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