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Between Civil Society and Social Movements By CDD

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abubakar Momoh, Coups, DEMOCRACY, Neoliberalism, Pan-Africanism, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, West Africa, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:
Between Civil Society and Social Movements By CDD

The Centre for Democracy and Development – West Africa (CDD) is operationalizing a Concept Note for a memorial event in honour of Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Prof Abubakar Momoh. The event... Read more

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Obafemi Awolowo University Sets Feb 14th, 2024 to Re-engage Democracy

Posted By: adminon: February 03, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Adams Oshiomhole, Africa, CODESRIA, DEMOCRACY, George Washington University – DC, Illiberalism, Legon, Leiden, olusegun ObasanjoNo CommentsViews:
Obafemi Awolowo University Sets Feb 14th, 2024 to Re-engage Democracy

With a record number of 50 countries across the world holding crucial elections in 2024 alone, it is not surprising if the world reactivate interest in this much contested concept. This is m... Read more

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NPSA Examines Role of Scholars in Democracy Across the World

Posted By: adminon: January 23, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, America, DEMOCRACY, Europe, NPSA, ScholarsNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Examines Role of Scholars in Democracy Across the World

What exactly do scholars as a social category do to, for and/or against democracy? How do they do so in South Africa and in Europe as well as in the Americas?   These are the posers the... Read more

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CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Africa, APC, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Julius Nyerere, Fair system, Keke- NAPEP, Lee Kuan Yew, Party School, PDP, PPI/IPSNo CommentsViews:
CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

By Adagbo Onoja The frightening powerlessness of all the centres of power in Nigeria in facing down equally frightening indicators of the catastrophic compels us to be interested in any and... Read more

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Jega and Campion’s Revealing Essay on African EMBs in the Era of Democratic Backsliding

Posted By: adminon: November 05, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: DEMOCRACY, INEC, SAJIA, Sub-Saharan Africa, ‘Authoritarian resurgence’ ‘Democratic recession’, ‘Autocratising countries, ‘Backsliding’No CommentsViews:
Jega and Campion’s Revealing Essay on African EMBs in the Era of Democratic Backsliding

With many hailing the Appeal Court as obviously more mindful of the legitimacy and survival of the system in the way they handle election petitions in Nigeria of late (with many expecting mo... Read more

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What Threatens Democracy and Trigger Coups in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Coup de’tat, DEMOCRACY, Elite, Military, Post-colonial, westNo CommentsViews:
What Threatens Democracy and Trigger Coups in Africa?

Coup and coup-making is back on the agenda in Africa. Scholars of coups must track the phenomena as Lagos State University’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine, a Professor of Political Science, h... Read more

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Nigerian Academics Engage Banditry, Ethnic Relations

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Banditry, Conflict, DEMOCRACY, Ethnic relations, NAL, UDU, UI, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Academics Engage Banditry, Ethnic Relations

Although academia is generally accepted to have been on a downward spiral across Nigeria, the discursive space is bustling with sharp, inviting topics being handled by well-established names... Read more

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Keeping an Analytical Eye on INEC’s Technocracy on Election Management in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'New materialism', DEMOCRACY, INEC, Prof Abubakar MomohNo CommentsViews:
Keeping an Analytical Eye on INEC's Technocracy on Election Management in Nigeria

Intervention just received a picture that triggered thoughts on accounting for an observable trend in Nigeria’s electoral democracy. It is the thought of the necessity for putting an e... Read more

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As Prof Habu Mohammed Takes Over Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies

Posted By: adminon: October 23, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'African Political Thought', BUK, DEMOCRACY, Mallam Aminu Kano, Obafemi Awolowo University-Ile-Ife, Philosophy of Social SciencesNo CommentsViews:
As Prof Habu Mohammed Takes Over Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies

Research centres constitute the nerve centre of the university idea. This may not be the case only in certain parts of the world where the Federal Government which owns the universities have... Read more

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What a Turbulent Week for the World and for Intervention!

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2022In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, DEMOCRACY, Empire, PDP, Queen Elizabeth 11, Rapid industrialisationNo CommentsViews:
What a Turbulent Week for the World and for Intervention!

The week Queen Elizabeth 11 died cannot but be a turbulent week. It is difficult to be indifferent to the Queen whether one was her admirer or critic. She had a mystique and presence which 7... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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