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The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Africa, CIA, Deliberative democracy, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Kant, Marx, Nazism, OSS, Post-Marxism, ThatcherNo CommentsViews:
The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

The Habermasian imaginary has come to an end with the death of German philosopher and theorist, Jurgen Habermas Saturday, March 14th, 2026. He was 96 years old. At 96, he has so much to be g... Read more

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Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Deconstruction, Eurocentrism, IMF/World Bank, Jacques Derrida, Ka-Maat, Marxism, Pan-African ClubNo CommentsViews:
Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

By the time this is published, Prof Okello Oculi would have been interned in Abuja Nigeria, far away from his village of birth in Uganda but in the capital city of the black world. It is deb... Read more

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Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:
Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

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Let the truth be told?

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Colonialism, DONALD TRUMP, Dr Obed Mailafia, Ezeulu, Hegel, Hegemony, IDOMA, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Prof Stuart Hall, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
Let the truth be told?

  By Adagbo Onoja This is one of the commonest phrases we hear or read from those who write. It is not clear why it is so freely used even when no truth claim has been able to establish... Read more

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Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Alternative modernities, Critical race theory, Derridean deconstruction, Eurocentrism, Foucaultian genealogy, Frankfurt School, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Postcolonial theoryNo CommentsViews:
Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

It is 100 years of Frankfurt School which gave the world what is known in social theory today as ‘Critical Theory’ (different from critical theory which is much more plural). The world of sc... Read more

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Eugenia Abu Breaks the Rule, Nicely

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Okoho', Benue Community Concord, Chief MKO Abiola, IDOMA, Igala, Igbira, Jacques Derrida, Lt Col Liman Adulugba (retd), NTA, Poetess, Queen Amina College, Simon Tor MelabuNo CommentsViews:
Eugenia Abu Breaks the Rule, Nicely

It is one of the unwritten rules about life but a rule nevertheless. It holds that few human beings, if any, got it right throughout, from the morning to the evening of their life. There is... Read more

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The Strategic Salience of Prof Gabriel Egbe’s Language Game

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Ninglish', Antonio Gramsci, Englishes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Harvard, Jacques Derrida, John Austin, NUC, Prof Adigun Agbaje, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:
The Strategic Salience of Prof Gabriel Egbe’s Language Game

By Adagbo Onoja It is since 1962 that Oxford University’s John Austin delivered his “How to Do Things With Words” but, till today, the idea that it is language rather than reason or nature t... Read more

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The Kukah Interruption

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2020In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, Western metaphysicsNo CommentsViews:
The Kukah Interruption

It is not clear if Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, is a student of French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. He is unlikely to be but he has done what Derrida thinks i... Read more

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