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The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Africa, CIA, Deliberative democracy, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Kant, Marx, Nazism, OSS, Post-Marxism, ThatcherNo CommentsViews:
The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

The Habermasian imaginary has come to an end with the death of German philosopher and theorist, Jurgen Habermas Saturday, March 14th, 2026. He was 96 years old. At 96, he has so much to be g... Read more

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Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Algerian independence, Articulatory politics, Classical Marxism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, SCON, ‘Marxism in Africa’No CommentsViews:
Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

If the Nigerian Left or what remains of it has not publicly acknowledged Peter Obi for forcing an ontological moment in there, it might only be because the recovery from the Obi shocker for... Read more

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Flashing Back to the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Adorno, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Horkheimer, The Enlightenment, Third ReichNo CommentsViews:
Flashing Back to the 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'

It seems newer and even older perspectives on ‘the trouble with the world’ – classical Marxism, religion, Constructivism/Deconstruction, Huntington and numerous middle-level theories – have... Read more

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Prof Abu Ali Back in the News

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Frankfurt scholars, LSN, Obafemi Awolowo University, Oyin Ogunba, Popular cultureNo CommentsViews:
Prof Abu Ali Back in the News

Prof Abu Ali, the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic who was the subject of a recent snap in Intervention is back in the news. This time, it is the news of him serving as the keynote sp... Read more

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From ‘History As Iconoclast’ to ‘History As Unthinkable’: Prof Jibrin Ibrahim As Resolution?

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'Jibogram', Frankfurt scholars, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
From ‘History As Iconoclast’ to ‘History As Unthinkable’: Prof Jibrin Ibrahim As Resolution?

The Zabarmari massacre in Borno State has been such a chilling and saddening reminder of where Nigeria has found itself that no glasses could have clicked or clicked at more than half mast m... Read more

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After Trump, Shouldn’t the World Take The Economist, Fela and Claude Ake More Seriously on the Virus Called Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: November 08, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: 'Liberal World Order', Deliberative democracy, Frankfurt scholars, Julius Nyerere, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
After Trump, Shouldn’t the World Take The Economist, Fela and Claude Ake More Seriously on the Virus Called Democracy?

There is a resurgence of attention on deliberative democracy in the Western world. Seminars upon seminars aside from huge research essays on it. An African student on a Western campus finds... Read more

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