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Trauma, Fantasy and Hegemony in Comprehending Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s 70th Birthday 

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Critical distance’, 2nd International, Africa, Anthropocene, Bolaji Akinyemi, Fantasy, Halford Mackinder, Hegemony, Intellectuals of statecraft, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, SAP, TraumaNo CommentsViews:
Trauma, Fantasy and Hegemony in Comprehending Prof Jibrin Ibrahim's 70th Birthday 

By Adagbo Onoja  It seems safe to assume that the 70th birthday anniversary of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim is finally over. But an entire week celebrating a single political scientist in a country o... Read more

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My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Lewis Obi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Concord, New Nigerian, NIIA, Popular culture, The Guardian, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:
My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

A crisis of deadline makes it absolutely impossible for me to do justice to the ‘order’ that I elaborate on Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s A Farewell to Policy which I have been accused of over-rati... Read more

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Akinyemi, Nigeria and the ‘New’ World Order

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIIA, Popular culture, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:
Akinyemi, Nigeria and the ‘New’ World Order

By Adagbo Onoja The misery index for the average Nigerian has, irrespective of what official statistics might be saying, been so high in the past decade as to compel attention to the theory... Read more

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What’s Lenin’s 150th Birthday Anniversary All About?

Posted By: adminon: April 24, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Alex Callinicos, Chinese Communist Party, Francis Fukuyama, G-7, Halford Mackinder, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
What’s Lenin’s 150th Birthday Anniversary All About?

It must be in 1996 or 1997 that Newsweek did a cover story on crisis management leadership by looking at each of the incumbents of the G-7 only to conclude that the world was leaderless and... Read more

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Veritas University and the Peace-Development Nexus

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2017In: BookspaceTags: ABU - Zaria School of History, Britain, Catholicism, Centrpiece of Nigerias foreign policy, CHINA, Halford Mackinder, Ibadan School of History, Peace-Development Nexus, Realism, USANo CommentsViews:
Veritas University and the Peace-Development Nexus

By Adagbo ONOJA A conference on Peace and Development in Nigeria by a centre backed by a university is bound to occupy a striking presence on the radar of those who, perforce, have to mainta... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

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Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic
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How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities
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