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Beyond Marxist Orthodoxy: A Rejoinder to Adagbo Onoja

Posted By: adminon: November 13, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', ASUU, David Harvey, Digital Capitalism, Empire, Gramsci, Iyayi, Marxism, OlorodeNo CommentsViews:

By Abdul Mahmud The reflections of my good friend and comrade in the students’ movement, Adagbo Onoja, on Festus Iyayi, Antonio Gramsci and Toye Olorode, raise questions that deserve c... Read more

Festus Iyayi, Gramsci, Toye Olorode and Matters Arising

Posted By: adminon: November 12, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Capitalism, Cox, CRD, Empire, Marxism, Theoretical power resources, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Waking up Thursday (November 12th, 2026) to two messages set the tone for the day. One was Prof Olorode’s piece on the 13th anniversary of Prof Festus Iyayi’s demise. The sec... Read more

On the 30th Anniversary of Claude Ake’s Death

Posted By: adminon: November 08, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Asia, Bjorn Beckman, Chinese success story, Class ontology, Latin America, Marxism, Socialist democracyNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja By midnight of November 7th, 2026, it came to 30 years since Prof Claude Ake has been dead. For scholarly, ideological and the Afrocentric cause, Ake is a scholar of priority... Read more

So, Why Has the ‘Segun Osoba/Bala Usman-Chapter Two’ Moment Eluded Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Chapter Two, Marxism, NANS, SAP, Segun Osoba/Bala Usman momentNo CommentsViews:

A Segun Osoba/Bala Usman moment is, indeed, unfolding in Nigeria. It flows from their authorship of the text which has survived as epitaph to the monument called Left struggle for democracy... Read more

How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Dante, Enlightenment, History, Humanists, Humanities, Identitarian nationalism, Italian, Marxism, Michelangelo, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Schoolification, universities, ‘Hermeneutics of suspicion’No CommentsViews:

Justin Smith-Ruiu, the author, is introduced by THE as a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Université Paris Cité as well as founder and president of the Hinternet Foundation,... Read more

Situating the Coming CDD War on Democracy and Development Deficits in (West) Africa

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: CDD-West Africa, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Democratic order, Development deficits, Marxism, Opposition, Radical feminists, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

On March 31st, 2026, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) launched its Strategic Plan for 2026 – 2030 in Abuja, Nigeria. This is the second and concluding part of Inter... Read more

Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode’s ‘The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century’

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 21st century, Africa, ASUU, FG, International Relations, Marxism, NUC, Ontology, Scholarship, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Text: The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century Author: Prof Omotoye Olorode Pages: 78 Year: 2023 Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Like the banana tree which gets cut down... Read more

Marxism and Literature After Biodun Jeyifo

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Apartheid, Critical security studies, Deliberative democracy, Discourse, Emancipation, Frankfurt School critical theory, Gramscian Marxism, Kant, Literature, Marxism, Plato, Prof Ken BoothNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Decades before his death January 11th, 2026, Prof Biodun Jeyifo had ceased to teach in Nigeria. But a knowledge producer is inherently a global supplier, irrespective of loca... Read more

Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

Posted By: adminon: September 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, American science, Decoloniality, Discourse theory, Marxism, Permacrisis, Zaria School of History, ‘Hegemony and Strategy’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more

Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Deconstruction, Eurocentrism, IMF/World Bank, Jacques Derrida, Ka-Maat, Marxism, Pan-African ClubNo CommentsViews:

By the time this is published, Prof Okello Oculi would have been interned in Abuja Nigeria, far away from his village of birth in Uganda but in the capital city of the black world. It is deb... Read more