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Peeping Into Putin and Putinism

Posted By: adminon: February 20, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Banal Nationalism, Boris Yeltsin, Chechnya, GWOT, KGB, Liberalism, Marxism, Putinism, Russian NationalismNo CommentsViews:
Peeping Into Putin and Putinism

By Intervention Whether he invades Ukraine or pulls back the armada, Putin is an interesting subject of intellectual scrutiny and speculation. No other leader combines in himself all the key... Read more

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How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

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The Constitution Goes Digital, Takes on the National Question in Current Edition

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Militant particularism', Ernesto Laclau, Marxism, National QuestionNo CommentsViews:
The Constitution Goes Digital, Takes on the National Question in Current Edition

In the very journal dry academic atmosphere in Nigeria today, The Constitution can be rated to be on top of intellectual discourse in Nigeria. The Editor, Sylvester Odion Akhaine, a Professo... Read more

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China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Century of humiliation', Africa, Communist Party of China, Marxism, US, west, ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’No CommentsViews:
China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more

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4th Year of the Passage of Prof Abubakar Momoh

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Adigun Agbaje, Bala Mohammed, Marxism, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, PhD, PostcolonialismNo CommentsViews:
4th Year of the Passage of Prof Abubakar Momoh

A few hours from now, it would be four years since Prof Abubakar Momoh bided the world good bye. The belief that the social is discursive rather than foundational carries with it the respons... Read more

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Resolving the Significance of ‘Eddie @ 75’

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Actually existing socialism', Articulatory politics, Marxism, Popular culture, RationalismNo CommentsViews:
Resolving the Significance of ‘Eddie @ 75’

It  would be difficult to know how Left activists would answer the question of what the overarching significance or the question as to what exactly is at stake in ‘Eddie @ 75’. It is sure to... Read more

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As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Christendom, George Floyd, Internationalism, Islam, Left, Lenin, Marxism, National Question, Nationalism, USSR, ‘Grass to Grace’No CommentsViews:
As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

With just four more days to go, it is not gonna be a long wait before a statement from the Nigerian Left on the national question is made. That is a statement that could reverberate at the h... Read more

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Omotoye Olorode: Theoretician, Intellectual and Revolutionary Extraordinaire

Posted By: adminon: April 28, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 1st Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Babangida, Marxism, Marxist Youth Movement, NLC, OSUA, Prof Olorode, The weapon of theoryNo CommentsViews:
Omotoye Olorode: Theoretician, Intellectual and Revolutionary Extraordinaire

Ahead of the event later today on, about and around Prof Toye Olorode of Nigeria, Omolade Adunbi, another Nigerian and a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States ser... Read more

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Death of Prof Moses Tedheke and the NDA Inaugural Lecture That Will Not Be Delivered

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Afrocentrism, Ancient Egypt, Chiekh Anta Diop, Eurocentrism, History, Inaugural Lecture, Marxism, NCO, NDA, PharoesNo CommentsViews:
Death of Prof Moses Tedheke and the NDA Inaugural Lecture That Will Not Be Delivered

At his age, anything could happen but the way his voice rang out on the phone each time he called kept such thoughts away. When it happened at 6. 30 pm December 21st, 2020, it came as a surp... Read more

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From ‘History As Iconoclast’ to ‘History As Unthinkable’: Prof Jibrin Ibrahim As Resolution?

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'Jibogram', Frankfurt scholars, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
From ‘History As Iconoclast’ to ‘History As Unthinkable’: Prof Jibrin Ibrahim As Resolution?

The Zabarmari massacre in Borno State has been such a chilling and saddening reminder of where Nigeria has found itself that no glasses could have clicked or clicked at more than half mast m... Read more

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