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Urban Riots Across Sierra Leone Trigger Fears of a West African Spring (Or Is It Summer?)

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Arab Spring, Freetown, GWOT, NIGERIA, Sierra Leone, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:
Urban Riots Across Sierra Leone Trigger Fears of a West African Spring (Or Is It Summer?)

Urban riots which kicked off peacefully last Monday have reached violent crescendo as for the government to clamp curfew on the country. Curfew is now running from 7 pm to 7 am unlike when i... Read more

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Professor Ogoh Alubo’s Groundbreaking Biopolitical Lens on Health and Sickness

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2022In: BookspaceTags: APC, Biopolitcs, David Harvey, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, Giorgio Agamben, Global Governance, Governmentality, GWOT, Neoliberalism, Panopticism, PDP, Political economy, SurveillanceNo CommentsViews:
Professor Ogoh Alubo’s Groundbreaking Biopolitical Lens on Health and Sickness

Neoliberalism as a technology of power rather than only a doctrine of what incisive British Marxist Geographer, David Harvey, calls “creative destruction” and “accumulation by dispossession”... Read more

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Peeping Into Putin and Putinism

Posted By: adminon: February 20, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Banal Nationalism, Boris Yeltsin, Chechnya, GWOT, KGB, Liberalism, Marxism, Putinism, Russian NationalismNo CommentsViews:
Peeping Into Putin and Putinism

By Intervention Whether he invades Ukraine or pulls back the armada, Putin is an interesting subject of intellectual scrutiny and speculation. No other leader combines in himself all the key... Read more

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Closing or Creating Gaps in Marxism? (11)

Posted By: adminon: August 15, 2019In: World From AfricaTags: 'CNN Wars', Cartesianism, Digital Capitalism, GWOT, MIMEC, Occupy MovementNo CommentsViews:
Closing or Creating Gaps in Marxism? (11)

So, to restate the question: is Shlomo Avineri’s new book titled Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution about closing or creating gaps in Marxism? What does the book bring to the table regardi... Read more

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Managing Nigeria’s Bad Security Situation

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2018In: GovernanceTags: CIA, Conflict Management, GWOT, Harvard international Review, PeacemakingNo CommentsViews:
Managing Nigeria's Bad Security Situation

President Muhammadu Buhari is now saying that the killings that have been going on especially across Benue, Taraba states, Southern and Northern, (Birnin Gwari) Kaduna in Kaduna State and Za... Read more

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UI Raises Africa’s Stakes in Border Studies and Practice

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2018In: FlashbackTags: BRIT, EU, GWOT, IPSS, RMA, UINo CommentsViews:
UI Raises Africa's Stakes in Border Studies and Practice

Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan, (UI) is standing up to be counted on a global scale in the highly contested realm of negotiating border management in North-South rela... Read more

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Mogadishu Bombing: Something is Missing in Current Counter-insurgency in Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 16, 2017In: FlashbackTags: African Union, Black Hawk Down, BOKO HARAM, Drone warfare, GWOTNo CommentsViews:
Mogadishu Bombing: Something is Missing in Current Counter-insurgency in Africa

Still reeling in shock and tears after last Saturday’s attack on a Mogadishu hotel by Al-Shabab insurgents, the question uppermost on the minds of many must be how come Al-Shabab still succe... Read more

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How Global Primacy Over China Will Tutor Trump on Africa

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, AFRICOM, Australia, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, DRC, Europe, FDI, FOCAC, George W. Bush, Germany, GWOT, Hilary Clinton, IMF, Iraq, James Woolsey, Japan, Kenyan, Obama, USNo CommentsViews:
How Global Primacy Over China Will Tutor Trump on Africa

By Adagbo Onoja Punditry is already getting it wrong, going hysterical about how Donald doesn’t have one idea about Africa, how empty of Africa his own map of the world is. Others are afraid... Read more

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General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Australia, BOKO HARAM, CHINA, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, GWOT, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Red Sea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, the EU, Turkey, United States, West Africa, YemenNo CommentsViews:
General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

By Adagbo ONOJA General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, two time National Security Adviser as well as a former Minister of Defence of Nigeria has thrown into question the Islamicist claims of Boko Har... Read more

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The World in the Shadow of Davos: Taking Canada Seriously
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Ogene-Amejo Loses Community Leader, Okpani Abah Onah, to Death
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