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Marxism and Literature After Biodun Jeyifo

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Apartheid, Critical security studies, Deliberative democracy, Discourse, Emancipation, Frankfurt School critical theory, Gramscian Marxism, Kant, Literature, Marxism, Plato, Prof Ken BoothNo CommentsViews:
Marxism and Literature After Biodun Jeyifo

By Adagbo Onoja Decades before his death January 11th, 2026, Prof Biodun Jeyifo had ceased to teach in Nigeria. But a knowledge producer is inherently a global supplier, irrespective of loca... Read more

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A Potential ‘Grass to Grace’ Classic

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2024In: SpectacleTags: African readers, Amazon, Ambassador Yvette Stevens, Emancipation, Sierra Leone, UNNo CommentsViews:
A Potential ‘Grass to Grace’ Classic

Intervention has not read the book but the bits clearly speaks to it as a potential classic of the grass to grace paradigm. While awaiting the read, the teasers from Amazon’s promo is sugges... Read more

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Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anibal Quijano, ASUU, Biodun Jeyifo, Campaign for Democracy, Chapter Two of the Constitution, Coloniality of modernity, Emancipation, Femi Falana, Latin America, Marxism, Philosophy, Prof Claude Ake, Walter Mignolo1 CommentViews:
Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more

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Remembering Obadiah Mailafia in the Politics of the Power of Voice (3): Bringing in the Chief Solomon Lar Dimension

Posted By: adminon: September 28, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, Emancipation, Senator Joseph Tarka, The Welsh SchoolNo CommentsViews:
Remembering Obadiah Mailafia in the Politics of the Power of Voice (3): Bringing in the Chief Solomon Lar Dimension

By Adagbo ONOJA Current fascination with the late Chief Solomon Lar’s politics in relation to alternative counter-hegemonic practices has a rather accidental origin. This student arriv... Read more

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Updated: What Happens to Radical Imagination of Capitalism After Immanuel Wallerstein?

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Emancipation, EmpireNo CommentsViews:
Updated: What Happens to Radical Imagination of Capitalism After Immanuel Wallerstein?

Intervention has just been informed that this compilation left out Thomas Picketty, the French economist, whose book, Capital in the Twenty First Century has not only sold more than a millio... Read more

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What Happens to Radical Imagination of Capitalism After Immanuel Wallerstein?

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Emancipation, EmpireNo CommentsViews:
What Happens to Radical Imagination of Capitalism After Immanuel Wallerstein?

First to go from that unique constituency of scholars who sustained radical imagination of the global capitalist system was Andre Gunder Frank. He died in 2005. That is quite a long time ago... Read more

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Three Years of Intervention and Its Critics

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Clan, Emancipation, ethnicity, Global Energy, Kaduna Mafia, Nationalism, New Nigerian, Prof Mvendaga Jibo, race, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Three Years of Intervention and Its Critics

Started July 27th, 2016, Intervention is exactly three years old today. It was a very exciting moment at Intervention earlier this week when a 45 year old editorial by the defunct New Nigeri... Read more

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General Chom Bagu and the Middle Belt

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Aten, Emancipation, Fulanisation, Islamisation, J. D Gomwalk, Queen Amina of Zazzau, Radio KadunaNo CommentsViews:
General Chom Bagu and the Middle Belt

By Adagbo Onoja* General Chom Bagu is in the news again, this time, for one of his latest Facebook posts. For those who might not know him , that is the name of one of the intellectuals of a... Read more

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Marxism at Marx’s 200th Birthday: Beyond Right or Wrong

Posted By: adminon: May 03, 2018In: People in ActionTags: 'Civilised Conversation', 'Open Future', CODESRIA, Emancipation, Occupy MovementNo CommentsViews:
Marxism at Marx’s 200th Birthday: Beyond Right or Wrong

By Adagbo ONOJA At a time when otherwise established global players such as the London based The Economist are seeking re-validation of their own overarching ideological conviction by openin... Read more

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Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and the Paradox of Power (1)

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2018In: People in ActionTags: EFCC, Emancipation, Frankfort School, Idoma Nokwu, Jigawa State, Kwararafa Empire, Nasarawa State, NPN, NPP, Power, PRP, Solomon Lar regime1 CommentViews:
Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and the Paradox of Power (1)

By Adagbo ONOJA Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, governor of Nasarawa State from 2007 to 2011 is dead and has been quietly buried in his place, Doma in Nasarawa State of Nigeria. At stake in this pie... Read more

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Siege Cuts Off Nigerian Travellers As Otukpo Protests a 3-Day Long Bandit Attacks
Siege Cuts Off Nigerian Travellers As Otukpo Protests a 3-Day Long Bandit Attacks

Siege Cuts Off Nigerian Travellers As Otukpo Protests a 3-Day Long Bandit Attacks

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Gov Dauda Lawal's Security Approach of Paying No Ransom to Bandits in Zamfara State
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'A Day Like This'
'A Day Like This'

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Leading Nigerian IR Scholars Revive NSIA, With Prof Hassan Saliu As Interim President
Leading Nigerian IR Scholars Revive NSIA, With Prof Hassan Saliu As Interim President

Leading Nigerian IR Scholars Revive NSIA, With Prof Hassan Saliu As Interim President

July 08, 2026
The Sinister Side of Oluremi Tinubu's 'Entrepreneurial Citizenship’
The Sinister Side of Oluremi Tinubu's 'Entrepreneurial Citizenship’

The Sinister Side of Oluremi Tinubu’s ‘Entrepreneurial Citizenship’

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