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African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, Bala/Bangura Debate, Dar es Salam, Decolonial Historiography, Historiography, Ibadan, Identity politics, IMF/World Bank, MacArthur, Mock OAU/AU Summit, Nation building, Nigerian economic crisis, Northern Nigerian History Research Scheme, NUC, State building, Zaria School of History, ‘FASS model’No CommentsViews:
African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, FASS, Historiography, Identity politics, MacArthur, Nation building, NUC, State buildingNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

The Nigerian university system came under a reflexive scrutiny today at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where deans of the old Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) were called to be... Read more

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Who Will Save Dr John Owoicho Adole?

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2023In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Benue State, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Historiography, UNIJOS, UNILAG, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:
Who Will Save Dr John Owoicho Adole?

It is not clear what is ailing Dr. John Owoicho Adole. Whatever it is, the former Permanent Secretary and an Associate Professor of History is in need of much more serious attention than the... Read more

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Prof Okpeh Okpeh, History and a Nation’s Historians @ a Time of Political Cholera in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 07, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Historiography, History, Inter-group relations, IRs, Stalin, TINANo CommentsViews:
Prof Okpeh Okpeh, History and a Nation’s Historians @ a Time of Political Cholera in Nigeria

The first surprise on sighting this book on the bookshelf of Dr Fr Innocent Jooji of the Department of Political Science at Veritas University was in the idea of Prof Okpeh Okpeh coming of a... Read more

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The Return of Segun Osoba & Bala Usman

Posted By: adminon: April 10, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Constitution Drafting Committee, HistoriographyNo CommentsViews:
The Return of Segun Osoba & Bala Usman

Intervention would hold the record of reference to this document, especially the section of it that argued against the privileging of indegeneity or the refusal to follow it and hence the vi... Read more

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