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Mrs Berakah Yoroms’ 60th Birthday and the Professor-Pastor Conundrum in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Crimes against humanity, Imperialism, neocolonialism, Pastor Mrs Berakah, Prof Gani Yoroms, Progress, Religion, Science, Widophan InternationalNo CommentsViews:
Mrs Berakah Yoroms’ 60th Birthday and the Professor-Pastor Conundrum in Nigeria

Those who do not have shades of pink or white in their stock of dresses still have the whole of today (Friday, July 25th, 2025) to pick one and be set for the D- Day. Pastor Mrs Berakah Yoro... Read more

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The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s ‘Petals of Blood’ and ‘Devil on the Cross’

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Arts and literature, Capitalists, Devil, Imperialism, Kenya, Liberation, Matatu, Mau Mau, Students, WorkersNo CommentsViews:
The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 'Petals of Blood' and 'Devil on the Cross'

It is still the season of tributes to leading African writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, all of which he is no more in a position to read and (dis)agree with. Below is, however, the piece that was pu... Read more

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The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:
The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more

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How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:
How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

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Islam and Muslim Quest for Humane Civilization 

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: African Muslim, Christianity, Imperialism, Islamic civilizational schemata, Orientalism, Postmodern Islam, SOAS, United States, westNo CommentsViews:
Islam and Muslim Quest for Humane Civilization 

A revised version of an article written some years back, this piece by Abubakar Aliyu Liman, Professor of Comparative Literature and Popular Culture at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nig... Read more

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Nigeria’s Prof Olufemi Taiwo to ‘Knock’ Decolonisation @ Sussex Development Seminar March 13th

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Coloniality of power', Decoloniality, IDS, Imperialism, Prof Olufemi TaiwoNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's Prof Olufemi Taiwo to 'Knock' Decolonisation @  Sussex Development Seminar March 13th

The coloniality of power (the structure, mechanisms, processes, regimes and models of the world order) which serves as the condition of possibility for imperialism is a settled issue. What i... Read more

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Memories of Obasanjo @ Arewa House

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Citizenship, CORRUPTION, ethnicity, Imperialism, Leadership, North, South1 CommentViews:
Memories of Obasanjo @ Arewa House

A time of widespread discontent and temptations to violence as at today forces back to memory the portion of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s speech to the Arewa House ‘State of the Nation’ Confere... Read more

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From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Apartheid, British Empire, Capitalism, Chatham House, Colonialism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Imperialism, Lancaster House, Nazism, Neo-colonialism, Slavery, ‘Wind of change’No CommentsViews:
From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Nigerian nationalism is on warpath against those seeking to rule the country trooping to a UK platform with ties to the Empire imagination. The argument against such trend can be powerful wh... Read more

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The Timeless Wisdom of Prof James Petras?

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Che Guevara, Imperialism, Latin America, Organic intellectualsNo CommentsViews:
The Timeless Wisdom of Prof James Petras?

Time and tide would seem to have taken the sting out of this contention by US based radical Sociologist, Professor James Petras. The blast from the scholar – activist extraordinaire is... Read more

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Prof Olorode’s Testament

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Eddie Madunagu, Imperialism, Labour Party, NLC, Ruling class, ‘For the Liberation of Nigeria’No CommentsViews:
Prof Olorode’s Testament

Originally titled “We are their heirs”, the text below is the remarks by Prof. Omotoye Olorode at the end of the commemorative public lecture organised by comrades to mark his 80th birthday... Read more

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