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Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Animism, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Christianity, Clerical Marxism, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, God, Islam, Judaism, Marxism, NANS, olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, PPA, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

By Adagbo Onoja Introduction Marxists in Nigeria are turning to religion in numbers warranting the claim of a clerical turn among the tribe. We may still not know the number of Marxists who... Read more

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E.P. Thompson, Marxist rebel

Posted By: adminon: May 22, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Althusser, French philosophes, Marxism, New Left Review, ‘The Making of the English Working Class’No CommentsViews:
E.P. Thompson, Marxist rebel

It seems safe to conclude that E P Thompson cannot be exhausted as a study in polemicising, that being what this piece suggests by moving him from heartland academe altogether to popular cul... Read more

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Prof Bawa Gusau, the Man of Letters, Bows Out of BUK

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Comparative Politics, Federalism, International Relations, Marxism, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, University of BostonNo CommentsViews:
Prof Bawa Gusau, the Man of Letters, Bows Out of BUK

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Two personalities have made impact in my life, especially in my initial choice of belonging to the field of International Relations. One was my teacher, while the oth... Read more

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Prof Adelaja Odukoya Odutola, Scholar-Activist Adds Another Year to His Age

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2024In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Comparative Political Economy, Marxism, Political Science, SIRA, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
Prof Adelaja Odukoya Odutola, Scholar-Activist Adds Another Year to His Age

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Lagos (UNILAG) was one of the universities established in Nigeria in 1962. Its establishment cannot be divorced from the agitation for more indigeno... Read more

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Our Godless Era is Dead: A Second Religiousness is Sweeping the West

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Arnold Toynbee, Enlightenment, Fascism, God, Marxism, Orthodox Church, Oswald Spengler, Religion, Western mind, Yeats, ‘The Decline of the West’, ‘The Second Coming’No CommentsViews:
Our Godless Era is Dead: A Second Religiousness is Sweeping the West

This piece is too long to subject readers to during any holidays but Intervention would argue that it is about the holidays itself and therefore worth reproducing from where it was originall... Read more

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The North, Marxism and ‘Jibo Must Pay’ On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Algerian War of Independence, Danlami Samuel, France, Marxism, Old North, Post-positivism, Social theory, The Communist Manifesto, ‘Jibo Must Pay’, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:
The North, Marxism and 'Jibo Must Pay' On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

It was a joyous but also painful evening. Joyous because junior brothers, grandchildren, in-laws and friends of the family gathered to celebrate a remarkable individual at 85. Painful becaus... Read more

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Nigerian Radicals Set to Tame Tinubu on Fuel Subsidy

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: 2nd International, General Shehu Yar’Adua, JAF, Left, Marxism, NANS, NGOs, Peter Obi, ‘Comrade Bola TinubuNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Radicals Set to Tame Tinubu on Fuel Subsidy

It could be the calm before the storm as one of the more consistent radical platforms in Nigeria is busy organising. In contrast to majority of the hegemonic neoliberal oriented civil societ... Read more

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Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2023In: GovernanceTags: 1976 Purge, Abacha, Bade Onimode, Bourgeoisie, Dr Sunday Awoniyi, Dr. Sam Ikoku, Femi Falana, IBB, Left, Marxism, OBASANJO, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Prof Sam AlukoNo CommentsViews:
Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Nigeria is, in all probability, heading for a repeat of the errors of the 1976 Purge. One of the consequences of the Purge is the question the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi put to Chief Obasanjo... Read more

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Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anibal Quijano, ASUU, Biodun Jeyifo, Campaign for Democracy, Chapter Two of the Constitution, Coloniality of modernity, Emancipation, Femi Falana, Latin America, Marxism, Philosophy, Prof Claude Ake, Walter Mignolo1 CommentViews:
Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more

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Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Capitalism, Decolonising, Global South, Kwame Nkrumah, Marxism, neocolonialism, Noam Chomsky, Rising China, Russia, Third World Project, US supremacy, Working classNo CommentsViews:
Marxism and Colonialism: An Interview with Marxist Researcher, Vijay Prashad

BY JOSÉ ERNESTO NOVAEZ Marxist researcher and the intellectual plenipotentiary, Vijay Prashad, can always be trusted to smartly stand with orthodoxy but creatively advocate tactics of strugg... Read more

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