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
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
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
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
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
Officially, he died of Hepatitis B infection. That is what our stethoscope wielding friends would say. They could be right but such a verdict doesn’t tell us the context in which an infectio... Read more
Nigerians and, indeed, the academic world are mourning the passing away of Prof Peter Ekeh early Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 in the United States. Most known for his 1975 essay, Colonialism... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA There is something that is not so smart in pronouncing any particular International Relations/Political Science academic the most iconic in a country such as the United State... Read more
The University of Ibadan, (UI) is taking African History to the intellectual slaughter slab for a re-examination of it from the lens of the late Ade Ajayi, one of the icons of the famous ‘Ib... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA A conference on Peace and Development in Nigeria by a centre backed by a university is bound to occupy a striking presence on the radar of those who, perforce, have to mainta... Read more
