Is this cover picture a reminder or a rebuke? It all depends on how one reads it. History does not repeat itself. It is memory that invokes history to make history seem to repeat itself. In... Read more
President Tinubu’s Populist Escape Route from Niger – Mali – B/Faso – Guinea Diplomatic Misadventure
The doctrine of ‘news following the flag’ compels the contribution of whoever is in a position to do so towards a sharp course-correction away from what has clearly been a major... Read more
The two sound similar but each has its pedigree. Howard University in Washington DC sounds similar to Harvard University but Howard speaks to a more sensitive ancestry or symbolism in that c... Read more
For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more
Charles Abani is not a professor, unlike Prof Gabriel Andrade whose article – Don’t Facts Matter Anymore? Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Promotes Afrocentrist Nonsense – Abani is respondi... Read more
The African Association of Political Science (AAPS) might have experienced an epistemic conversion of Pauline proportion. Those who see the title of this conference as a tectonic shift in kn... Read more
Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo, the Benue State University Historian of Identity, culture and Peace ,is six feet below. He was laid to rest in his Auke community in Apa Local Government Area of... Read more
It is possible that Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo died of heart attack, Intervention has been told. Death did not oblige him much room for preparations. This is not a medical opinion but fits i... Read more
Was it not Stalin who said something like History being so important to be left to historians? Both his critics as well as admirers would concede that he knew what he was speaking about. Whi... Read more