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The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: LifeworldTags: 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: Policy & 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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Memories of Cecil Rhodes in the Looting of Palliatives in Jos Yesterday

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Cecil Rhodes, Imperialism, NGFNo CommentsViews:
Memories of Cecil Rhodes in the Looting of Palliatives in Jos Yesterday

“I was in the East – end of London (a working class quarter) yesterday and I attended a meeting of non-employed. I listened to the wild speeches which were just a cry for “bread! Bread!! And... Read more

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Prof Chukwuka Okonjo, Death of Only Nigerian Traditional Ruler Who Was ASUU Ideologue

Posted By: adminon: September 17, 2019In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, CODESRIA, FDI, Ghana, Gorbachev, Imperialism, National Universities Commission, OECDNo CommentsViews:
Prof Chukwuka Okonjo, Death of Only Nigerian Traditional Ruler Who Was ASUU Ideologue

Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, the immediate past Obi of Ogwashi Uku in Delta State was an atypical personality. He must, to date, be the only traditional ruler with a background of being a phil... Read more

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