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  • The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues
  • Hailing Chief John Agbaji Attah Ochoga, Life Bencher, at 73
  • A Tribute to Prof Paul Izah at 76 
  • In the Shadow of Nigeria’s Journey to a $1 Trillion Economy: Prof Nentawe Goshue Yilwatda at 58
  • A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday
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Why an Abuja Symposium in Honour of Dr Segun Osoba?

Posted By: adminon: July 28, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: ASUU, Bala Usman Institute-Zaria, Dr. Segun Osoba, Emancipation, National AssemblyNo CommentsViews:
Why an Abuja Symposium in Honour of Dr Segun Osoba?

By Y. Z Ya’u Dear compatriots, friends, colleagues and comrades, on behalf of the Planning Committee for this Symposium and the entirety of the Osoba for Eternality Platform, I welcome you t... Read more

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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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CODESRIA Names a New Executive Secretary
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Awaiting NIIA's Roundtable on Xenophobia in South Africa
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August 12, 2026
Bingham University’s Conversation on Apology and Restorative Justice for Victims of Violent Extremism in Africa
Bingham University’s Conversation on Apology and Restorative Justice for Victims of Violent Extremism in Africa

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The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues
The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues

The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues

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Hailing Chief John Agbaji Attah Ochoga, Life Bencher, at 73
Hailing Chief John Agbaji Attah Ochoga, Life Bencher, at 73

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