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A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Amb Tanko Suleiman, America, Apa State, Asia, Dr. Edwin Ogbu, French, G-8, Obama, OBASANJO, PR, Protocol, Queen Elizabeth 11, Russia, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more

Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s National Burial Committee Gets Cracking

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: People in ActionTags: French, IDOMA, Joe Akatu, Otukpa, Otukpo, Philosopher-king, Political Science, Stanford, StatecraftNo CommentsViews:

The machinery superintending the burial formalities for Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu is in place and cracking its way. Although concerned more with a major aspect of the rites of passage in Abuj... Read more

Gareth Southgate Has Resigned: Where Does England Go From Here?

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Denmark, Didier Deschamps, England, Euro 2024, French, Gareth Southgate, Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, La Liga, SpainNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura On paper, Gareth Southgate is the most successful England manager since Alf Ramsey (1963-74), who won the World Cup in 1966—the only international tournament England has won... Read more

A Review of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s New Book, ‘Bridging African Boundaries’

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African integration, British, Colonialism, Father of African Border Studies, FrenchNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of Thursday, July 7th, 2022 public presentation, Dr Chris M A Kwaja attempts to capture the soul of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s newest book, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border... Read more

Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2019In: People in ActionTags: (Atlantic) Slave Trade, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Decolonisation, English, French, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, PortugueseNo CommentsViews:

The first part of this interview published on this platform September 9th was titled “Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor”. The t... Read more

France Looks Back @ History

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2019In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Euronews, France, French, The BastileNo CommentsViews:

To the credit of the French is contributing Republicanism to human history but at a cost. The cost is what the country took the whole of yesterday to look back at as they do every other year... Read more

Wulu, Wulu & Idoma Iconography in Bongos Ikwue’s Music

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, African, Bongos Ikwue, British, Christians, Ella Kunaga, French, Greek, IDOMA, Michel Foucault, Middle – Belt, Muslims, NIGERIA, OtukpoNo CommentsViews:

Bongos Ikwue is about complexity, about fluidity and about the impossibility or uselessness of classification. You cannot be charged for calling him a musician because he makes music and mus... Read more