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Prof Istifanus Zabadi @ 70

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Bingham University, Decoloniality, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ibadan School of History, International Relations, LSE, National Defence College, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, StrategyNo CommentsViews:
Prof Istifanus Zabadi @ 70

By Adagbo Onoja The trumpet has been heard in all the appropriate quarters. The message: Prof Istifanus Zabadi will clock 70 years, come September 14th, 2026. Prof Gani Yoroms, his junior ‘b... Read more

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Nelson Mandela University’s ‘Who We Are, What is Reality and How to Change Society’

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Decoloniality, NMU, Reality, SCSFNo CommentsViews:
Nelson Mandela University’s ‘Who We Are, What is Reality and How to Change Society’

This piece from University World News explains what a South African university is up to through a new module By Muki Moeng PhD Social consciousness is integral to education, since this is wh... Read more

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Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

Posted By: adminon: September 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, American science, Decoloniality, Discourse theory, Marxism, Permacrisis, Zaria School of History, ‘Hegemony and Strategy’No CommentsViews:
Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more

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The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:
The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more

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Invite Michael Agbam, Adoyi Okoh and Ejembi Aba If You Crave African Ontological Witticism @ Your Mother’s Funeral

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: African ontological witticism, Capt. Ibrahim Traore, Christianity, Decoloniality, Dietary intelligence, Empire, Enlightenment narratives, Ojongo, Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIVNo CommentsViews:
Invite Michael Agbam, Adoyi Okoh and Ejembi Aba If You Crave African Ontological Witticism @ Your Mother’s Funeral

By Adagbo Onoja In a world heading with great speed from inter-national to inter-cosmological relations, the folk witticism unleashed by the trio of Michael Agbam, Adoyi Okoh and Ejembi Aba... Read more

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The Sun Sets on Prof Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Leading African Liberation Scholar

Posted By: adminon: April 22, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Counter- hegemonic philosophy, Decoloniality, DRC, Pope Francis, Representational practice of power, ‘Invention of Africa’No CommentsViews:
The Sun Sets on Prof Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Leading African Liberation Scholar

The sun has set conclusively on Prof V. I Mudimbe, one of the earliest strikers in counter-hegemonic Philosophy, with particular reference to the constructedness of Africa. He died April 22n... Read more

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Nigeria’s Bingham University Marks 50th Anniversary of Walter Rodney’s Classic

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Bingham University, Decoloniality, John Hobson, Robert Vitalis, Walter Rodney, ‘Dissidence IRs’No CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Bingham University Marks 50th Anniversary of Walter Rodney’s Classic

There’s a big move against the concept of the “classic” in international political theory. The protagonists want to unravel what makes one text a classic but not another te... Read more

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What If SOAS Students Have a Point in the Case for Decolonising Philosophy?

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Decoloniality, Nishida Kitarō, Philosophy, SOAS, Takeshi Morisato, The Kyoto SchoolNo CommentsViews:
What If SOAS Students Have a Point in the Case for Decolonising Philosophy?

The United Kingdom, like much of the Western world BUT unlike much of Africa, is a key battleground involving troops of the decolonial epistemology, a battle well brought into view by the au... Read more

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Updated: Towards the Barrister Titus Mann Moment?

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Darius Dauda Angwa, Decoloniality, Ganawuri, Jurisprudence, Mignolo, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, ShakespeareNo CommentsViews:
Updated: Towards the Barrister Titus Mann Moment?

The good news from the Ganawuri community in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria is that the mother of Titus Mann has been successfully buried. The event which took place Saturday, May 4th, 2024 m... Read more

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From Decolonising the Fortune Teller to Glimpses of 2027 Politics in Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Colonial anthropologists, Decoloniality, Fortune teller, Garri, Idomaland, Lower Edumoga, Otukpo, PoliticiansNo CommentsViews:
From Decolonising the Fortune Teller to Glimpses of 2027 Politics in Idomaland

The late Chief Uloko Okoko may not have been one of the regular names we encountered in the newspapers but he ought to have been in the media regularly. It is for no other reason than that h... Read more

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