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The ‘Araba Hip-hop’ of Idomaland As a Challenge for Okanga 1 of Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Akatu, Bongos Ikwue, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Elder Odogwu Amanyi, Global IR, Igbe, International Relations, Israel Ekere, Joe Onyela, Oglinya, Okanga 1 of Idomaland, Ounno, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, Senator David MarkNo CommentsViews:
The ‘Araba Hip-hop’ of Idomaland As a Challenge for Okanga 1 of Idomaland

By Adagbo ONOJA The musical messaging under review here, in spite of its overt aim, is the powerful creativity locked in the production. So powerful it compels one to, instinctively, shuffle... 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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International Relations Moment in Nigeria As Assemblage Emerges Around Book of Essays On Prof W O Alli?

Posted By: adminon: January 25, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: International Relations, NDA, NIIA, NIPSS, NOA, NPSA, Prof WO AlliNo CommentsViews:
International Relations Moment in Nigeria As Assemblage Emerges Around Book of Essays On Prof W O Alli?

Might Nigeria be witnessing an International Relations moment in the event of an assemblage around a book on ex-UNIJOS scholar of the discipline? This is the question provoked by activities... Read more

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How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

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Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Bala Usman, Billy Dudley, Canada, Claude Ake, Dele Awojobi, Eskor Toyo, Global Governance, International Relations, Private universitiesNo CommentsViews:
Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

By Adagbo Onoja The private universities remain a debate in Nigeria. For one, they are more in number than the public universities but their share of the total, annual admission figure is st... Read more

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Prof Mike Kwanashie Returns to Veritas University, Abuja?

Posted By: adminon: February 03, 2021In: BookspaceTags: BUK, Economics, International Relations, McGill University, UCL, UI, UoL1 CommentViews:
Prof Mike Kwanashie Returns to Veritas University, Abuja?

A big academic fish seems to have re-entered the young but determined intellectual ocean called Veritas University, Abuja. There has been no official announcement to that effect yet but Inte... Read more

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Textual Toolkit for 21st Century Power Game in Global Politics

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Geopolitics, International Relations, Popular culture, University College London, University of OxfordNo CommentsViews:
Textual Toolkit for 21st Century Power Game in Global Politics

E-International Relations, the Bristow based leading open access platform for International Relations, has published a lengthy review of Popular Culture, Geopolitics and Identity. The review... Read more

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History, Historiography and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Archaeology, Edward Gibbon, Egypt, International Relations, Mega Chad, Roman Empire, UNESCO SitesNo CommentsViews:
History, Historiography and the Nigerian Condition

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Where the revolutions of a mere sixty years cannot be correctly traced and accurately rendered, it becomes impossible to fathom how the events of centuries and mill... Read more

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Angelique Kidjo, Hotter Than Mandela in ‘the Power of Words in International Relations’

Posted By: adminon: September 22, 2019In: FlashbackTags: CNN, International Relations, Mandela, Popular cultureNo CommentsViews:
Angelique Kidjo, Hotter Than Mandela in 'the Power of Words in International Relations'

When Intervention flashed back to Nelson Mandela’s handling of questions at a New York outing in 2013, the assumption was that he was the ultimate. Now, there is something equally hot... Read more

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Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu’s Bombshell of a Book

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2019In: BookspaceTags: African Studies, Howard University, IDRC, International RelationsNo CommentsViews:
Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu’s Bombshell of a Book

In the aftermath of the Cold War, a leading European scholar of International Relations asked students and teachers of the discipline to imagine what the structure of the discipline would lo... Read more

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