History Archives - Intervention

The Image Crisis of the Tinubu Presidency

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: APC, Civil society, Democratic glasshouse, History, Legitimacy, Sycophancy, The Renewed Hope’ agenda, Tinubu administrationNo CommentsViews:

The epistemic poverty of image making in Nigeria in general and of the Presidency in particular attracts the attention of an interested observer and activist of the Kaduna based Network for... Read more

History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Abuja, Domestic workers, History, Hit and run capitalism, LAGOS, NANS, Northwest, PYMN, Rosa Luxemburg FoundationNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja History can get more and more complicated, especially when it is the history of the now basically dead National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). What the history shou... Read more

A National Reminder or a Rebuke?

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Gen T Y Danjuma, History, MemoryNo CommentsViews:

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

Posted By: adminon: February 24, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Anti-imperialism, Burkina Faso, Culture, ECOWAS, Emotions, Foreign powers, History, Language, Mali, Memories, National interest, National security, Niger Republic, Power, Psychoanalysis, Russia, Songhai Empire, Sovereignty, WARNo CommentsViews:

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

International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Critical turn', ABU Zaria, Barry Buzan, Hans Morgenthau, History, IAS-UI, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Neorealism, NUC, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, Richard Ashley, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA Introduction It cannot be out of place to worry about the quality and overarching direction of undergraduate and even graduate training in the discipline of International Rel... Read more

Prof Ben Vinson III Becomes Head of Howard University in Washington DC

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Colonial Mexico, Harvard University, History, Howard University, Kamala Harris, Washington DCNo CommentsViews:

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

ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, Decoloniality, History, Ibadan School of History, IMF, Prof Eskor Toyo, Standpoint epistemology, World BankNo CommentsViews:

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

There Cannot Be Only ONE Truth About Cleopatra – Charles Abani

Posted By: adminon: April 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Biriyani, History, Jollof rice, Swahili, Truth, Wollof rice, ‘Bemechin and Chebugen’No CommentsViews:

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

Hasn’t AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: AAPS, Critical geopolitics, Epistemic exploitation, FAANG, History, Informationalised capitalism, International Relations, Literature, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

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

Matters Arising As Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo Returns to the Ancestors

Posted By: adminon: February 10, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'Alime', 'Otachikpokpo', Benue State University, Bongos Ikwue, Emmanuel Secondary School – Ugbokolo, History, Prof Robert Armstrong, University of Maiduguri, ‘Lamb Tales from Shakespeare’, ‘OdejoNo CommentsViews:

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