James O’Connel | Intervention

If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: 'Inevitability of Instability', 'Nupe About Turn', ABU, Alhaji Turi Mohammed, Community Action for Popular Participation - CAPP, James O'Connel, New Nigerian, Northern establishment, Prof Jerry Gana, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:

American artist, Orson Scott Card, must be right to submit that “…there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.” Alth... Read more

War, University and Life: African Studies and Politics @ Nigeria’s UI in the 1960s

Posted By: adminon: September 05, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Odejo of Idomaland', Billy Dudley, Essien Essien-Udom, James O'Connel, Kenneth Dike, Ukpabi Asika, University of ChicagoNo CommentsViews:

Students of the University of Ibadan who swear that it is “the first and the best” will never agree with Professor Hayden White who declared that there is nothing like history but only histo... Read more

The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri

Posted By: adminon: January 25, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Inevitability of Instability', 'Nupe About Turn', ABU, Alhaji Turi Mohammed, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre - CISLAC, Community Action for Popular Participation - CAPP, James O'Connel, New Nigerian, Northern establishment, Prof Jerry Gana, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:

The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which Reuben Ziri is a study in contradictions. When he entered the Department of History at Ahm... Read more