Although the idea that the modern states-system was born in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia has been shattered especially by Benno Teschke’s thesis at the LSE now published as The Myth of 16... Read more
Nigeria continues to be a contested national project, with optimists and pessimists articulating their arguments every now and then on why each’s position is the correct one. This piece whic... Read more
Unlike Europe, for instance, whose experience of the nomadic thrust in history is well accounted for, the dynamism of that process remains, understandably, undocumented in much of Africa, mo... Read more
Amazon, the online global supermarket has, in a totally unplanned manner, emerged the biggest beneficiary of the Coronavirus pandemic. It is such that it is paying its employees £2 an hour e... Read more
Unless someone else reads the list again and discovers otherwise, Nigeria is totally out of the global ranking of universities in the 2020 version. Unlike before when Covenant University and... Read more
No paradox can be superior to the case of Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina who died yesterday. He has done so great for Africa with his writing but his sexual orientation is not the type t... Read more
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, spoke himself into the sensitivity radar of the Nigerian military during the week and got a reply: count the military out of any conspiracy against c... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Ethnicity has become a completely problematic concept in the 21st century. Promoters of the specificity of meaning argue that a concept such as class necessarily offers a gra... Read more
This is the third and concluding part of this joint review of the two books in question. This part could not follow the first two parts because a death disrupted the normal flow of things. A... Read more