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African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, Bala/Bangura Debate, Dar es Salam, Decolonial Historiography, Historiography, Ibadan, Identity politics, IMF/World Bank, MacArthur, Mock OAU/AU Summit, Nation building, Nigerian economic crisis, Northern Nigerian History Research Scheme, NUC, State building, Zaria School of History, ‘FASS model’No CommentsViews:
African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

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Bill Freund: Historian, Africanist, Intellectual

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University, ANC, Dar es Salam, The Making of Contemporary Africa, University of KwaZuluNatal, WiSERNo CommentsViews:
Bill Freund: Historian, Africanist, Intellectual

By Shireen Hassim Bill Freund was a Marxist historian in method, attentive to political economy and to the material underpinnings of power, while retaining a critical distance to Marxism Bil... Read more

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Prof Ode Ojowu’s Dosages of Kuhnian Home Truth for Veritas University, Abuja  

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABUZaria, Afriocentric lens, Dar es Salam, Makerele, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Okello Oculi, Positivists, Post-positivism, Thomas Kuhn, UI, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Prof Ode Ojowu’s Dosages of Kuhnian Home Truth for Veritas University, Abuja  

By Adagbo ONOJA, Methodology is the graveyard of knowledge production. There can be never too much of it. It was thus nothing surprising when the authorities of the university called out all... Read more

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