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Assessment of Election Management Body in Nigeria Incomplete Without Agency Factor – Prof Okey Ibeanu (1)

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2024In: BookspaceTags: EMBs, Gorbachev, Mandela, Structure-agency debate, ‘Durkheimian confession’No CommentsViews:
Assessment of Election Management Body in Nigeria Incomplete Without Agency Factor - Prof Okey Ibeanu (1)

By Adagbo ONOJA No book contains its own meaning. At best, an author’s intention (which we cannot establish anyway) may coincide with the dominant reception of a particular book and the book... Read more

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President Tinubu’s Qatar Language Game on Corruption

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Barack Obama, Determinism, Discourse, Discursivisim, Investors, Mandela, Qatar, Tinubu PresidencyNo CommentsViews:
President Tinubu’s Qatar Language Game on Corruption

By Adagbo ONOJA Language, (or is it meaning-making?)  is all that we have. Those who find it difficult to come to terms with this allege that the ‘linguistic turn’ in analytical philosophy i... Read more

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A Strategic Reading of Onaiyekan @ 80

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Christianity, Godswill Akpabio, Gowon, Ibrahim Tahir, Inter-culturation, Lugard, Mandela, Mount St Michael's Secondary School - Aliade, OBASANJO, Traditional religionNo CommentsViews:
A Strategic Reading of Onaiyekan @ 80

By Adagbo Onoja The 80th birthday of Cardinal Emeritus John Onaiyekan has come and gone but the reflection on it has no deadline. The starting point here is that Nigeria is in search of lead... Read more

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An African Tribute to Harry Belafonte

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Calypso, Freetown, Gramophone, Krio, MandelaNo CommentsViews:
An African Tribute to Harry Belafonte

By Yusuf Bangura In this short but sharp piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura domesticates the person, artistry and death of Harry Belafonte whose civil rights agitation excited Nelson Mandela, amongst o... 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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Africa And Progressive Humanity Loses Canadian Internationalist, Paul Puritt

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2022In: People in ActionTags: African liberation movements, Alepo, Aleppo, Anthropology, Canadian Labour Congress, Mandela, Oxfam, Swahili, TanzaniaNo CommentsViews:
Africa And Progressive Humanity Loses Canadian Internationalist, Paul Puritt

PAUL PURITT, born at St. Luc Hospital in Montreal on 28 July 1938, passed away peacefully at the Ottawa General Hospital on the evening of 23 December 2022 at the age of 84. Paul’s warm pers... Read more

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Imagining Atiku Abubakar’s Candidature in 2023

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2022In: People in ActionTags: APC, BUK, Deng Xiaoping, Gorbachev, Mandela, MSS, NNPC, NPN, NPP, PDP, SDP, Super 5, SUs, ZikNo CommentsViews:
Imagining Atiku Abubakar's Candidature in 2023

The Clearing House of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) is done with the screening of presidential aspirants. Baring unforeseen circumstances, the list from the exercise is the list... Read more

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Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP Speaks Mind on Jacob Zuma, Jailed Ex-President of South Africa

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Mandela, Rivonia trialists, ZumaNo CommentsViews:
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP Speaks Mind on Jacob Zuma, Jailed Ex-President of South Africa

A leading South African player speaks on the earth-shaking imprisonment of an ‘African big man, former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma I realise that by calling this press conference t... Read more

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The Politics of Truth in Nigeria’s “Herdsmen” Conflict

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: #EndSARS, Mandela, RMA, ‘Cartesian anxiety’1 CommentViews:
The Politics of Truth in Nigeria’s

A spectre of generalised insecurity is haunting Nigeria. It has been a perplexing situation since early 2016 when Agatu in Benue State and Nimbo in Enugu State were the flashpoints. From Ben... Read more

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The Story Behind the Story of One Nigerian Diplomatic Career

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Billey Dudley, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, First Class Degree, Mandela, NIIA, University of London, University of Portharcourt, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:
The Story Behind the Story of One Nigerian Diplomatic Career

This book presents a problem for any reviewer: focus on the subject matter of the book or first draw out the equally compelling features that gives the book its multidimensional character? O... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

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Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic
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