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A Blast from the Past in the Magazine Journalism of Nigeria’s ‘The Analyst’

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Anticolonial radicalism, Archives of Nigerian radicalism, CDD, Communism, Kwame Nkrumah, NIGERIA, Non-alignment, Pan-Africanist, PRP, Tafawa Balewa, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘ Fitila’1 CommentViews:
A Blast from the Past in the Magazine Journalism of Nigeria’s 'The Analyst'

Intervention republishes below a piece originally titled “We are Producing, They are Eating” in Africa Is A Country where it was originally published on a creative commons terms. It has been... Read more

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Birthday Lunch As Space of Activist Memory and Nostalgia

Posted By: adminon: August 25, 2024In: FlashbackTags: CPP, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, MAAS, Sekou Toure, Tag words: Edikaikong, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Birthday Lunch As Space of Activist Memory and Nostalgia

Surely, there was wine and the usual debate about whether wine should be consumed at room temperature or chilled in the African heat. This time, the host was, temporarily defeated by a simpl... Read more

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 Updated: Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Boubacar Boris Diop Set Radical Decolonial Agenda for President Diomaye Faye of Senegal

Posted By: adminon: May 14, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Boubacar Boris Diop, Kikuyu, Kwame Nkrumah, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Ousmane Sembene, Sheikh Amidou Kane, WolofNo CommentsViews:
 Updated: Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Boubacar Boris Diop Set Radical Decolonial Agenda for President Diomaye Faye of Senegal

This piece is being reposted without any changes except to correct the grammatical blunder in the headline which has brought Intervention relentless bashing over the night. Thank you all who... Read more

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Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Capitalism, Decolonising, Global South, Kwame Nkrumah, Marxism, neocolonialism, Noam Chomsky, Rising China, Russia, Third World Project, US supremacy, Working classNo CommentsViews:
Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

BY JOSÉ ERNESTO NOVAEZ Marxist researcher and the intellectual plenipotentiary, Vijay Prashad, can always be trusted to smartly stand with orthodoxy but creatively advocate tactics of strugg... Read more

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Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:
Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more

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Is Prof Amechi Akwanya Emerging a Literary Phase in (Nigerian) Literature?

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African Continental Philosophy, Biodun Jeyifo, Derrida, Ibadan, Kwame Nkrumah, Legon, Makerere, Okike, Prof Ken Booth, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Is Prof Amechi Akwanya Emerging a Literary Phase in (Nigerian) Literature?

The (Nigerian) literary world might be entering a Prof Amechi Akwanya phase because Intervention understands that the Oxford University Press is coming out with an edited text on the priest... Read more

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It is January 20th and Time to Remember Amilcar Cabral Again

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Fidel Castro, IMF/World Bank, Kwame Nkrumah, PAIGC, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
It is January 20th and Time to Remember Amilcar Cabral Again

It is January 20th again and time to remember Amilcar Cabral, the guerrilla intellectual superintending the struggle for independence for Guinea and Cape Verde. He was machined to death by a... Read more

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The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Posted By: adminon: August 06, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Alex Callinicos, David Harvey, Edward Said, Empire, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hardt & Negri, Kwame Nkrumah, NELSON MANDELA, NeoliberalismNo CommentsViews:
The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Triple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, the open access journal, would appear to have kick-started the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s fellow traveler in articul... Read more

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The 7-Hour UCL, NUC, Crack Professors & Activists’ Contentious Conversation on Nigerian Universities (2)

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2019In: FlashbackTags: ASUU, CGPA, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, CITAD, ES, First Class, Global capitalism, Kwame Nkrumah, Massification, NAUT, NUC, Prof Billy Dudley, SAP, UINo CommentsViews:
The 7-Hour UCL, NUC, Crack Professors & Activists' Contentious Conversation on Nigerian Universities (2)

In terms of self-awareness, very few in Nigeria would regard as controversial any claim that the University of Ibadan, (UI) is far ahead of all others, yesterday and today. This story is, th... Read more

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Would Resurgent Pan-Africanism Crush the ‘Majimbo’ Virus in the Restructuring Campaign?

Posted By: adminon: July 13, 2017In: SpectacleTags: AfDB, Akosombo Dam, Amilcar Cabral, ASUU, CODESRIA, ECA, Frantz Fanon, INEC, Julius Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah, Prof Patrick Lumumba, Professor Dzodzi TsikataNo CommentsViews:
Would Resurgent Pan-Africanism Crush the 'Majimbo' Virus in the Restructuring Campaign?

Where would be the meeting point of two observable but contrasting claims on the future of the state in Africa? Would they meet at war or is it something that would be resolved by the dialec... Read more

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