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The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Africa, CIA, Deliberative democracy, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Kant, Marx, Nazism, OSS, Post-Marxism, ThatcherNo CommentsViews:
The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

The Habermasian imaginary has come to an end with the death of German philosopher and theorist, Jurgen Habermas Saturday, March 14th, 2026. He was 96 years old. At 96, he has so much to be g... Read more

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On a Condolence Visit to Prof Okello Oculi’s Family, Nigerian Civil Society Gives Firm Guarantee of Preserving His Legacy

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Fanon, FASS, Marx, McCarthyism, Mock-OAU Summit, NTA, Pan-Africanism, SAPNo CommentsViews:
On a Condolence Visit to Prof Okello Oculi’s Family, Nigerian Civil Society Gives Firm Guarantee of Preserving His Legacy

There is now a firm guarantee that what most occupied the late former Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic, Prof Okello Oculi would be preserved. The guarantee is the highlight of a condo... Read more

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Why Elon Musk – Donald Trump Falling-out Should Surprise, Worry You

Posted By: adminon: June 07, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Capitalists, Class, DONALD TRUMP, Elite, Elon Musk, Impeachment, Marx, Patronage, Sophistication, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
Why Elon Musk – Donald Trump Falling-out Should Surprise, Worry You

There is nothing abnormal in two friends, brothers, husband and wife and so on quarreling. Political psychologists say there is no relationship which is genuine but from which quarrelling wo... Read more

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“Critique of the Gotha Programme” and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Class, Communist Manifesto, Free Market capitalism, Marx, ‘Restructuralists’No CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki “General historical circumstances are stronger than the strongest individuals”, Georgi Plekhanov The Gotha (Unity) Congress met in Germany from May 22 to 27, 1875, to fashion... Read more

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In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, Africa, Descartes, Fanon, Hegel, Individuality, Joyce, Marx, NIGERIA, Onyeka Onwenu, Shakespeare, The worldNo CommentsViews:
In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Artists and philosophers do not die. The world is still quoting Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Shakespeare, Joyce, Achebe, Fanon and so on because they have set the terms of the conversation throug... Read more

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Living Through Another Great Transformation…A Review

Posted By: adminon: July 30, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Britain, Eric Hobsbawn, Industrial Revolution, Labour, Land, Market economy, Marx, Poor Laws, Ricardo, Smith, ‘Fictitious commodities’No CommentsViews:
Living Through Another Great Transformation…A Review

By Branko Milanovic Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This woul... Read more

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Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Achebe, Amos Tutola, Collective stupidity, Derrida, Ella Agunaga, God, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Marx, Religion, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

It is possible to have sat in conversation with Bongos Ikwue several times previously but to find him a different person in a more recent encounter. But that is not because he is slippery. I... Read more

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Let the truth be told?

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Colonialism, DONALD TRUMP, Dr Obed Mailafia, Ezeulu, Hegel, Hegemony, IDOMA, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Prof Stuart Hall, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
Let the truth be told?

  By Adagbo Onoja This is one of the commonest phrases we hear or read from those who write. It is not clear why it is so freely used even when no truth claim has been able to establish... Read more

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Could They Be Plotting the 50th Anniversary of ‘Ethnic Politics in Nigeria’?

Posted By: adminon: August 03, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Canonical, Enlightenment philosophy, ethnicity, Marx, Prof Okello Oculi, Reuben Ziri, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Could They Be Plotting the 50th Anniversary of 'Ethnic Politics in Nigeria'?

It is just three years away and it might not be too early if that is what Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, the author of Ethnic Politics in Nigeria and his junior brother in ethnicity and ethnic conflic... Read more

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‘The Third Marx’: Review of Marcello Musto’s “The last years of Karl Marx”

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Collectivisation, Ernesto Laclau, India, Leninism, Marx, Post-Marxism, The Russian questionNo CommentsViews:
‘The Third Marx’: Review of Marcello Musto's

As usual with Milanovic’s essays, almost every sentence in this review is a seminar topic in its own, problematising Marx’s key texts all the way as against any tendency to consume suc... Read more

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Nigeria's Gift of Popular Struggle: Omoyele Sowore and Quest for the Public Good
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