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Keeping Chris Kwaja’s Small Scale Philanthropy in View

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Acrimony, Annual Schools Essay competition, Boys, Development, Girls, Governor Caleb Mutfwang, Philanthropy, Plateau StateNo CommentsViews:
Keeping Chris Kwaja's Small Scale Philanthropy in View

Philanthropy has a way of resonating because, without it, life would be too hard for those whom development has left behind across the world. It is on this count that any whiff of philanthro... Read more

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Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

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Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

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NPSA Cuts Into the Democracy Conundrum in Nigeria With Supercharged Sessions

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Coups, Development, Liberal democracy, NIGERIA, NPSANo CommentsViews:
NPSA Cuts Into the Democracy Conundrum in Nigeria With Supercharged Sessions

The knowledge industry in Nigeria may be limping, just like other sectors but the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) appears determined to take the mandate of knowledge seriously.... Read more

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Nigerian Peace Academics Storm Bauchi for 20th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, Conflict, Development, PEACE, Security, SPSPNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Peace Academics Storm Bauchi for 20th Anniversary

Those who assume that scholars of Peace and Conflict Studies in Nigeria are not conscious that Nigeria has been one of the world’s richest site for the study of violent as well as structural... Read more

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The Ill-fated Goat

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Apiti’s Goat, CSP, Development, First Lady, Koko Local Government Council, PANo CommentsViews:
The Ill-fated Goat

Lagos lawyer and writer makes a literary intervention in the crisis of mission circumscribing elite leadership and politics in Nigeria, well, Africa if you like! By Chiemeke Onyeisi “Power h... Read more

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United Nation’s ECA Out With Own Tribute to Prof Thandika Mkandawire

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CODESRIA, DEMOCRACY, Development, ECA, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:
United Nation's ECA Out With Own Tribute to Prof Thandika Mkandawire

The Economic Commission for Africa, (ECA) is out with its own formal tribute to one of Africa’s sharpest voice in development matters: the late Prof Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 2... Read more

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Abubakar Momoh and the Paradox of Democratization

Posted By: adminon: May 29, 2022In: LifeworldTags: 'Big Man Rule', Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CODESRIA, De-democratisation, Democratisation, Development, General Muhammadu Buhari, LASU, Thomas Sankara Movement, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:
Abubakar Momoh and the Paradox of Democratization

It is five years today that he died. He remains a subject of engagement by academic colleagues, activists and think tankers as in this Keynote Presentation at the 5th Memorial of Professor A... Read more

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Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CODESRIA, Development, Kamuzu Banda, LSE, Mea culpas, Neoliberalism, Prof Charles Soludo, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

As long as the framing of the African crisis is what will tie together the three other forms of power to be mobilised for continental emancipation, so long will the loss of any of the analyt... Read more

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Nigeria’s Developmental Process for Interrogation at OAU, Ile-Ife

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Development, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, UINo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Developmental Process for Interrogation at OAU, Ile-Ife

Scholars, friends and critics are looking forward to January 28th, 2020 to connect with the Pre-Retirement Luncheon and Lecture in honour in honour of Prof Dipo Kolawole at the university. A... Read more

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