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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:
ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

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

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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:
There Cannot Be Only ONE Truth About Cleopatra - Charles Abani

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

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

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

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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:
Matters Arising As Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo Returns to the Ancestors

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

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Could Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo Have Died of Heart Attack?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Benue State University, Emmanuel Secondary School – Ugbokolo, History, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Prof Robert Armstrong, University of Maiduguri, ‘Lamb Tales from Shakespeare’, ‘OdejoNo CommentsViews:
Could Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo Have Died of Heart Attack?

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

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Dr. Yusuf Bangura Engages ‘History’ in Lisbon

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Colonialism, History, Lisbon, Potugal, Siera Leone, Stalin, Vasco da GamaNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Yusuf Bangura Engages 'History' in Lisbon

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

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Death of Prof Moses Tedheke and the NDA Inaugural Lecture That Will Not Be Delivered

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Afrocentrism, Ancient Egypt, Chiekh Anta Diop, Eurocentrism, History, Inaugural Lecture, Marxism, NCO, NDA, PharoesNo CommentsViews:
Death of Prof Moses Tedheke and the NDA Inaugural Lecture That Will Not Be Delivered

At his age, anything could happen but the way his voice rang out on the phone each time he called kept such thoughts away. When it happened at 6. 30 pm December 21st, 2020, it came as a surp... Read more

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Federalism and Restructuring: The Choice for Nigerians (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'True Federalism', 2014 National Conference, History, Nigeria Labour Congress, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
Federalism and Restructuring: The Choice for Nigerians (1)

Ambassador Usman Sarki, former Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, intervenes in the topic of restructuring Nigeria, bringing another perspective to a long runn... Read more

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Prof Haruna Wakili As a Case Study in History, the Historian and Intellectual Honesty

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2020In: People in ActionTags: BUK, History, Jigawa State, Mambayya House, Ralph Waldo EmersonNo CommentsViews:
Prof Haruna Wakili As a Case Study in History, the Historian and Intellectual Honesty

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it” – Haruki Murakami By Kabiru Haruna Isa, (PhD) It was in January, 2020 when ASUU-Chairman, Bayero University, Kano (BUK) branch inf... Read more

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A Fragmented Family, Party and Nation Stares President Buhari in the Face

Posted By: adminon: June 14, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Cabal, First Lady, HistoryNo CommentsViews:
A Fragmented Family, Party and Nation Stares President Buhari in the Face

It must be a very terrible week for the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari. Even for a platform like this which does not report routine news, the early details were gripping in each versio... Read more

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