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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:
Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

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

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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:
Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

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

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

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

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Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more

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Dr. Emmanuel Okwara, the other Priest – Political Scientist’s Silver Jubilee

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Undue Radicalism', Catholics, Chaplain, Christianity, Jesus Christ, Kubwa, Latin America, Strategic StudiesNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Emmanuel Okwara, the other Priest - Political Scientist's Silver Jubilee

If religion has not taken the character of checkmate politics between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria but rather taken the radical tone with which the Catholics wrestled military dictators... Read more

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‘Why a Coup May Happen in America’

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, American Revolution, Asia, Capitol Hill, CIA, FBI, Frank Krifka, General Mark Milley, Latin America, Liberal democracy, MIC, Mr. Chuck Schumer, NSD, SNAP, Thomas Sankara, Wrights MillsNo CommentsViews:
‘Why a Coup May Happen in America’

In this long but interesting piece, the author, a former General Secretary of the Campaign for Democracy, (CD) in Nigeria in the 1990s and a Professor of Political Science at the Lagos State... Read more

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The Timeless Wisdom of Prof James Petras?

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Che Guevara, Imperialism, Latin America, Organic intellectualsNo CommentsViews:
The Timeless Wisdom of Prof James Petras?

Time and tide would seem to have taken the sting out of this contention by US based radical Sociologist, Professor James Petras. The blast from the scholar – activist extraordinaire is... Read more

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The World in 2021

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Asia, ILO, Latin America, Multilateralism, Pax Americana, UNNo CommentsViews:
The World in 2021

An interesting piece from the Inter Press Service by an ex-staff of the International Labour Organisation, (ILO), this offers what can be called an honest broker’s intervention. Its closing... Read more

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Isn’t Violence Soaking Northern Nigeria? (2)

Posted By: adminon: November 29, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Conflict Management, Latin America, Multi-Track Diplomacy, Rwanda, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:
Isn't Violence Soaking Northern Nigeria? (2)

How does Northern Nigeria extricate itself from the cycle of violence it has sunk? This is the same as asking about what approach to conflict management has the greatest potential of success... Read more

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Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2017In: BookspaceTags: Algeria, Asia, Elite, Europe, Latin America, Left, North America, Onyeisi Chiemeke, Right, Segun AdeniyiNo CommentsViews:
Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

This is the third and concluding part of this joint review of the two books in question. This part could not follow the first two parts because a death disrupted the normal flow of things. A... Read more

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