Latin America Archives - Intervention

Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity - Tradition Cord in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more

6 More Hours To August 1st, 2024 Protests in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'Historic Block', Communist Party secretary, IGP Egbetokun, Latin America, Marxism, Politburo, Post-Cold War civil society, Radical populism, SGF George Akume, ‘Collective will’No CommentsViews:

It is a few hours to the start of the drama on August 1st, 2024. The expectation that Nigeria’s President Tinubu will make a major concession to the build-up against the regime before mid-ni... Read more

Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Gender, Humanity, Israel, Latin America, Middle East, Palestine, violence, White supremacy, WomenNo CommentsViews:

Why should Intervention unleash on readers a 2020 interview of about 6000-word interview with Prof Judith Butler? It is not Intervention’s own making. It is simply because Butler is an icon.... Read more

The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Autocratic rule, Deglobalisation, Democracy promotion, Democratic backsliding, ECOWAS, EU, Latin America, People's Republic of China, Russia, the West, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more

Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anibal Quijano, ASUU, Biodun Jeyifo, Campaign for Democracy, Chapter Two of the Constitution, Coloniality of modernity, Emancipation, Femi Falana, Latin America, Marxism, Philosophy, Prof Claude Ake, Walter Mignolo1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more

Recalling Bala Usman and the Misrepresentation of Nigeria (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Alkassum Abba, America, Asia, Bala Usman, Europe, Latin America, ‘Contraption’No CommentsViews:

“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more

Strongest 105 Universities in the Social Science Subjects in the 2023 World University Subject Ranking

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, Decoloniality, Global knowledge production, Latin America, Middle East, QS Subject ranking, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

It is time to get more insights into how well or not too well particular universities are teaching particular courses as QS World University Ranking releases its 2023 Subject Ranking. It is... Read more

Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Afropolitanism, Andre Gander Frank, Asia, Dependency Theory, Ibadan School of History, Latin America, Postcolonial theory, Samir Amin, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:

Two different sentences in Intervention’s reporting of the passage of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi, ex-Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have come under attack from critical rea... Read more

Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Frantz Fanon, Latin America, North AmericaNo CommentsViews:

At the risk of looking back too much and continuing to stumble, this star studded reflection on Walter Rodney is what most would welcome. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, Rodney like Fanon... Read more

In Nigeria, We Must Urgently Re-examine Our Politics – Eng Muhammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Capitalism, ICT culture, Latin America, Satan, Severe poverty, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:

Engineer Muhammed Abba-Gana, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and a member of the Board of Trustees, (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) is asserting the case for... Read more