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The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: History, OAU – Ife, Paradoxes of colonialism and the potentials of liberation, Rest in power, The Minority Report & Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1976), UI, Voice for the voiceless and a bulwark for the marginalized, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘Father-figure of radicalism’No CommentsViews:
The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

By Fabian Okoye Prof. Segun Osoba has taken a final bow, but his flame is still blazing, fierce, defiant and unquenchable. His departure is not only that of a scholar, but of a patriot whose... Read more

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To Repair a Fragmented World Requires History – Prof Toyin Falola

Posted By: adminon: April 28, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Climate Change, Culture, Ethics, History, New technology, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:
To Repair a Fragmented World Requires History – Prof Toyin Falola

We live in a fragmented world, mending which would require dealing with the past with integrity. Prof Toyin Falola from whom came this weighty historiographical stance says this has to be th... Read more

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How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Dante, Enlightenment, History, Humanists, Humanities, Identitarian nationalism, Italian, Marxism, Michelangelo, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Schoolification, universities, ‘Hermeneutics of suspicion’No CommentsViews:
How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

Justin Smith-Ruiu, the author, is introduced by THE as a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Université Paris Cité as well as founder and president of the Hinternet Foundation,... Read more

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When Opposition Leaders Take to the Streets Again in Recent Nigerian History

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Constructivism, History, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Memory, Opposition, Perception, President Bola Tinubu, Street protest, ‘Big men’No CommentsViews:
When Opposition Leaders Take to the Streets Again in Recent Nigerian History

History doesn’t repeat itself because history is not a cyclical but a non-linear process. It is memory that brings back a historical event. Meanwhile, memory is not an impartial record... Read more

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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 Image Crisis of the Tinubu Presidency

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

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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:
History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

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

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A National Reminder or a Rebuke?

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Gen T Y Danjuma, History, MemoryNo CommentsViews:
A National Reminder or a Rebuke?

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

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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:
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

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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:
International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

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

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

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

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