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As Biodun Jeyifo Passes On

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Generational transition, Harvard, Knowledge production, Literature, Marxism and Literature, Political Science, Survival, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:
As Biodun Jeyifo Passes On

The big news in town this week would surely be Prof Biodun Jeyifo joining his ancestors. It is comparable to the fall of an Iroko in the forest. He was a particularly productive farmer in cr... Read more

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As Biodun Jeyifo Turns 80

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Japa', Generational transition, Knowledge production, Literature, Political Science, Survival, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:
As Biodun Jeyifo Turns 80

Even as Nigeria turns more and more incomprehensible, an oasis is popping up somewhere in Lagos on January 5th, 2026. An oasis of ideas rather than the typical false events and celebration o... Read more

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Another Leading Nigerian Political Scientist, Prof Okello Oculi, Passes On

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Literature, Makerere, Mock-OAU Summit, Pan-Africanist, Prof Ali Mazrui, Prof Crawford Young, University of WisconsinNo CommentsViews:
Another Leading Nigerian Political Scientist, Prof Okello Oculi, Passes On

Barely a week after the sudden death of notable Nigerian political scientist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, another one has followed. He is Uganda – born Prof Okello Oculi, a remarkable Pa... Read more

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Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:
Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

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International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Critical turn', ABU Zaria, Barry Buzan, Hans Morgenthau, History, IAS-UI, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Neorealism, NUC, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, Richard Ashley, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

By Adagbo ONOJA Introduction It cannot be out of place to worry about the quality and overarching direction of undergraduate and even graduate training in the discipline of International Rel... Read more

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Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Achebe, Bala Usman, Decoloniality, IPPSS, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Postcolonial theory, Richard Ashley, Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Dissident scholars’No CommentsViews:
Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more

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Hasn’t AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: AAPS, Critical geopolitics, Epistemic exploitation, FAANG, History, Informationalised capitalism, International Relations, Literature, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Hasn't AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

The African Association of Political Science (AAPS) might have experienced an epistemic conversion of Pauline proportion. Those who see the title of this conference as a tectonic shift in kn... Read more

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Chidinma Mordi Set to Take Abuja By an Artistic Storm

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Abuja, Architecture, Artistic imagination, Dennis Mordi, LiteratureNo CommentsViews:
Chidinma Mordi Set to Take Abuja By an Artistic Storm

Those in whose hands she grew up would readily recollect when she was querying her dad about the logic of irregular comparisons as a nursery kid. Her father is Mr. Dennis Mordi, the Universi... Read more

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How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Posted By: adminon: August 08, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: CHINA, Colin Powell, Colonialism, Deconstruction, Early Warning, Literature, Marx, Nollywood, Okonkwo, Racism, Space ExplorationNo CommentsViews:
How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong - Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Concluding the Prof Chimalum Nwankwo interview is this installment, the first installment of which ran under the header: “The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalu... Read more

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Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Aime Cesaire, Capitalism, Chinua Achebe, Colonialism in Africa, Decolonisation of education, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Globalectics, Home, Literature, Mau Mau, neocolonialism, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Writing in EnglishNo CommentsViews:
Ngugu Wa Thiongo Still Burning With the Fire of Post-colonialism

Interveiw By Mahdi Ganjavi,  Ngugi Wa Thiongo needs no introduction in the world of Letters. Except the dosage of post modernist lexicons observable in his language, the critical postcolonia... Read more

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