Colonialism Archives - Intervention

Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more

Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more

Nigeria’s Retreat from Constructive Engagement in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Arab-Israeli war, AU, Colonialism, Global South, Late President Yasser Arafat, Middle East, PLONo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki “We are watching the strangulation of 2 million people, 61,000 of them have already died. It’s disgraceful and disgusting. History will judge, history w... Read more

Okello Oculi’s Banana Man: Musings On Tradition, Colonialism and Modernity

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: BookspaceTags: 'Presidential Elephant', Colonialism, Mau Mau, Modernity, Tradition, UhuruNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura Published in 2019, Banana Man is the last novel of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan literary scholar who spent most of his life in Nigeria and passed away on 26th July, 2025. He ga... Read more

Scanning Ibrahim Muazzam’s Explosive Survey of the Literature on Ethnic Profiling in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Awo, Colonialism, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, North-South dichotomy, Western metaphysics, Yoruba, Zik, ‘Dissidence International Relations’, ‘MetaBosnia’No CommentsViews:

Title: Ethnic Profiling and the Challenges of Inclusion in Nigeria: A Survey of the Literature Author: Ibrahim Muazzam Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Pages: 139 The tyr... Read more

Let the truth be told?

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Colonialism, DONALD TRUMP, Dr Obed Mailafia, Ezeulu, Hegel, Hegemony, IDOMA, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Prof Stuart Hall, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This is one of the commonest phrases we hear or read from those who write. It is not clear why it is so freely used even when no truth claim has been able to establish... Read more

From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Apartheid, British Empire, Capitalism, Chatham House, Colonialism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Imperialism, Lancaster House, Nazism, Neo-colonialism, Slavery, ‘Wind of change’No CommentsViews:

Nigerian nationalism is on warpath against those seeking to rule the country trooping to a UK platform with ties to the Empire imagination. The argument against such trend can be powerful wh... Read more

Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa – Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Posted By: adminon: October 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Anthropology, Christianity, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Kant, ModernityNo CommentsViews:

Apart from Queen Mary University of London’s Dr. Clive Gabay’s book, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze, Prof Olufemi Taiwo’s book, Against Decolonisation must be the most cont... Read more

The King and the He-Goat

Posted By: adminon: September 27, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: (Atlantic) Slave Trade, British Monarchy, Colonialism, Empire, Princess Dianna, Queen Elizabeth 11No CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq A fortnight ago, England literarily came to a standstill in two unique events, complimentary and opposite: the transition of Queen Elizabeth II and the investiture and c... Read more

Dr. Yusuf Bangura Engages ‘History’ in Lisbon

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Colonialism, History, Lisbon, Potugal, Siera Leone, Stalin, Vasco da GamaNo CommentsViews:

Was it not Stalin who said something like History being so important to be left to historians? Both his critics as well as admirers would concede that he knew what he was speaking about. Whi... Read more