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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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Has Trump Also Buried Structure/Agency Debate, Finally?

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Barack Obama, Declinism, Discourse theory, Neorealism, Republic of China, Russia, Structure-agency debate, Trump, USNo CommentsViews:
Has Trump Also Buried Structure/Agency Debate, Finally?

Donald Trump is disrupting the world we knew in many ways and almost in all spheres. How far he will go and whether there will be any successful bandwagoning against him (not necessarily aga... Read more

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Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, Bayo Onanuga, Brig-Gen Dangiwa Umar (retd), Datti Ahmed, Dele Alake, Discourse theory, Dr Reuben Abati, Hajia Najatu Mohammed, IBB, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Obierika, Okonkwo, Peter Obi, Prof Humphrey NwosuNo CommentsViews:
Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

By Adagbo Onoja Has February 25, 2023 got much to do with June 12, 1993 in Nigerian politics? This is the same as asking if History repeats itself or if the social world is a matter of the p... Read more

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My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Lewis Obi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Concord, New Nigerian, NIIA, Popular culture, The Guardian, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:
My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

A crisis of deadline makes it absolutely impossible for me to do justice to the ‘order’ that I elaborate on Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s A Farewell to Policy which I have been accused of over-rati... Read more

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Akinyemi, Nigeria and the ‘New’ World Order

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIIA, Popular culture, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:
Akinyemi, Nigeria and the ‘New’ World Order

By Adagbo Onoja The misery index for the average Nigerian has, irrespective of what official statistics might be saying, been so high in the past decade as to compel attention to the theory... Read more

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