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Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Deconstruction, Eurocentrism, IMF/World Bank, Jacques Derrida, Ka-Maat, Marxism, Pan-African ClubNo CommentsViews:
Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

By the time this is published, Prof Okello Oculi would have been interned in Abuja Nigeria, far away from his village of birth in Uganda but in the capital city of the black world. It is deb... Read more

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Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:
Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

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Prof Cecil Blake @ 80 Symposium Promises a Counter-Hegemonic Articulation of Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', African communication scholarship, Counter-hegemonic articulation of Africa, Deconstruction, Prof Cecil Blake, Prof Edward Said, Prof Umar Pate, TropesNo CommentsViews:
Prof Cecil Blake @ 80 Symposium Promises a Counter-Hegemonic Articulation of Africa

Rarely have African communication scholarship paid adequate attention to deconstruction of the tropes which constitute what Prof Edward Said calls ‘imaginative geographies’ and by which hege... Read more

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Prof Moses Ochonu, the NUC and the Trouble With the Nigerian University System

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2024In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Deconstruction, NUC, Stanley Hoffman, Western metaphysicsNo CommentsViews:
Prof Moses Ochonu, the NUC and the Trouble With the Nigerian University System

By Adagbo Onoja This piece has two provocations. The main provocation is the Daily Trust headline ‘British Council, NUC Partner On Development Of Varsity Curriculum.’ It was the headline tha... Read more

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Odia Ofeimum @ 70 As a Text

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'The Poet Lied', Deconstruction, Literati, TextNo CommentsViews:
Odia Ofeimum @ 70 As a Text

Where else might we turn if not the world of the literati at a time of disturbing elite fight-to-finish, grave suspicion of the other person, invention of enemies and incredible fear of the... Read more

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Is 2023 a Peter Obi Moment Coming?

Posted By: adminon: June 12, 2022In: GovernanceTags: 'New Labourism', Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, British Labour Party, Deconstruction, Dialectical Materialism, Enterism, Hamza Al Mustapha, Kola Abiola, Peter Obi, Wharton, YouthquakeNo CommentsViews:
Is 2023 a Peter Obi Moment Coming?

The point is that the presidential candidates of both the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) have totally captured the political space, overwhelming th... Read more

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How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

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The Relevance of the Conceptual or Theoretical Framework in Modern Literary Studies

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Deconstruction, Edward Said, Formalism, Structuralism1 CommentViews:
The Relevance of the Conceptual or Theoretical Framework in Modern Literary Studies

While non-specialists might find this to be a relatively tough text, it was quite okay for the audience for which it was meant. As an all-comer platform, Intervention is obliged to publish i... Read more

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How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Posted By: adminon: August 08, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: CHINA, Colin Powell, Colonialism, Deconstruction, Early Warning, Literature, Marx, Nollywood, Okonkwo, Racism, Space ExplorationNo CommentsViews:
How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong - Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Concluding the Prof Chimalum Nwankwo interview is this installment, the first installment of which ran under the header: “The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalu... Read more

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The Kukah Interruption

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2020In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, Western metaphysicsNo CommentsViews:
The Kukah Interruption

It is not clear if Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, is a student of French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. He is unlikely to be but he has done what Derrida thinks i... Read more

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A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday
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A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections

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Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 
Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 

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Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series
Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series

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Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80
Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

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