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Prof Istifanus Zabadi @ 70

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Bingham University, Decoloniality, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ibadan School of History, International Relations, LSE, National Defence College, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, StrategyNo CommentsViews:
Prof Istifanus Zabadi @ 70

By Adagbo Onoja The trumpet has been heard in all the appropriate quarters. The message: Prof Istifanus Zabadi will clock 70 years, come September 14th, 2026. Prof Gani Yoroms, his junior ‘b... Read more

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Dr. Segun Osoba: History Behind the History

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Border Studies, Class analysis, Dr. Segun Osoba, European historiography, General Tunde Idiagbon, Ibadan School of History, NSO, Prof Ade Ajayi, Prof Alfa Konare, Prof Emmanuel Ayandele, Prof JC Anene, Prof Kenneth Dike, Prof Sabiu Biobaku, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Segun Osoba: History Behind the History

Dr. Segun Osoba, the extraordinarily farsighted Historian of ruling class make-up and ex-don at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife is due for burial July 2nd, 2026. He is one of the very fe... Read more

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The Language Game Begins Over Late Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BISA, Derrida, Ghali Umar Na'Abbah, Ibadan School of History, Jos School of Political Science, Ludwig Wittgeinstein, Mazrui, NPSA, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Prof Istifanus Zabadi, Prof Sunday Ochoche, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
The Language Game Begins Over Late Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu

By Adagbo Onoja Eminent scholar and activist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu is harvesting appellations across the world a day after his demise. Bits and pieces available to Intervention indicated... Read more

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Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, CODESRIA, CPS – Yola, Dares Salam School, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, ECOMOG, Emman Udoka, FASS, Fellowship of Christians Students, Hajiya Najaatu Mohammed, Hon Rima Shawulu, Ibadan School of History, IGP Etim Inyang, Marxism, MPN, Ms Julie Sanda, NDA, PhD, Prof Paul Izah, Prof Peter Ekeh, Prof Sonni Tyoden, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:
Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

By Prof Gani Yoroms It has taken me a long time to write this tribute but it is still with a heavy heart that I do so. The moment I heard of the death of Professor Dunmoye, a friendly and be... Read more

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40 Years After Idiagbon’s Terrifying Invitation Following My Inaugural Lecture in 1984 – Prof Anthony Asiwaju

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African History, AU Commission, Border Studies, General Muhammadu Buhari, General Tunde Idiagbon, Ibadan School of History, NIPSS, NSO, OLA Secondary School – Ijebu Ode, Prof Ade Ajayi, Prof Alfa Konare, Prof Emmanuel Ayandele, Prof JC Anene, Prof Kenneth Dike, Prof Sabiu Biobaku, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
40 Years After Idiagbon’s Terrifying Invitation Following My Inaugural Lecture in 1984 – Prof Anthony Asiwaju

On December 12th, 1984 starting from 4 pm at the University of Lagos, Prof Anthony Asiwaju, then the Dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts, delivered an Inaugural Lecture crisply titled A... Read more

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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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Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Afropolitanism, Andre Gander Frank, Asia, Dependency Theory, Ibadan School of History, Latin America, Postcolonial theory, Samir Amin, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:
Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Two different sentences in Intervention’s reporting of the passage of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi, ex-Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have come under attack from critical rea... Read more

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Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the ‘ABU, Zaria School of History’

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Bala Usman, Dependency Theory, FASS, Ibadan School of History, Standpoint epistemology, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the 'ABU, Zaria School of History'

It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more

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Reflecting on the Prof Anthony Asiwaju Generational Paradox in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', ASUU, Ibadan School of History, Realism, US International Relations, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Reflecting on the Prof Anthony Asiwaju Generational Paradox in Nigeria

The public presentation later today of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy presents an... Read more

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Making the Connection in the Concurrent Unfolding of Prof Remi Aiyede and Dr. Innocent Jooji

Posted By: adminon: December 02, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', After Hegemony, Huntington, Ibadan School of History, Ibadan School of Political Science, Institutionalism, Veritas University - Abuja, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Making the Connection in the Concurrent Unfolding of Prof Remi Aiyede and Dr. Innocent Jooji

Many would find it difficult to, on the face of it, make a connection between the twosome. But there are many things that connects them, separated as they seem by career line, location and c... Read more

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