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Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Claude Ake, Marxism, NANS, NLC, Political economyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Four months after his death, friends, former colleagues, ex-students and critics of the late Prof Bjorn Beckman are gathering to take another look at his scholarship and activism in relation... Read more

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The Missing Voice of Radicals in the Contest of Meaning Over ‘Fulanisation’ in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'First African President', Cameronians, Fulanisation, Islamisation, Marxism, Nigeriens, Working classNo CommentsViews:
The Missing Voice of Radicals in the Contest of Meaning Over ‘Fulanisation’ in Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari went to Egypt recently where he announced a visa-on-arrival sort of policy for Africans. It has attracted opposition as well as endorsement from some Nigerians but... Read more

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In Search of Nigeria’s Share of Dissident Scholars

Posted By: adminon: December 08, 2019In: FlashbackTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Enlightenment, Hegemony, Ken Booth, Marxism, Post-positivism, Richard Ashley, Robert KeohaneNo CommentsViews:
In Search of Nigeria’s Share of Dissident Scholars

There is this famous story of the school teacher who was used to telling his students seeking a deeper meaning of the word velocity that the only way to get that is to go and stand on the tr... Read more

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Yusuf Bangura Releases a Massive Review Piece in Celebration of Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2019In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Capitalism, Claude Ake, FASS, Marxism, UDTNo CommentsViews:
Yusuf Bangura Releases a Massive Review Piece in Celebration of Prof Bjorn Beckman

It would not be a terrible thing to say that no such text has come out in recent times. At 10, 143 words in length, it is a massive narrative which would look too long for a popular site suc... Read more

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Can the Poor Fight Corruption? The Views From Nigeria’s Federal Capital Poverty Hubs of Bwari, Nyanya, Mararaba, Jikwoyi and Gwagwalada

Posted By: adminon: October 06, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Cartesianism, False Consciousness, MacArthur Foundation, Marxism, The EnlightenmentNo CommentsViews:
Can the Poor Fight Corruption? The Views From Nigeria’s Federal Capital Poverty Hubs of Bwari, Nyanya, Mararaba, Jikwoyi and Gwagwalada

Let this story begin from the beginning. Five years ago, the MacArthur Foundation, for example, came to a conclusion about corruption in Nigeria. Its own survey showed that corruption is at... Read more

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What is Thomas Piketty’s Battle Cry This Time Around?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Clash of Civilisation, Davos, Harvard University Press, Hypercapitalism, MarxismNo CommentsViews:
What is Thomas Piketty’s Battle Cry This Time Around?

Later this week, a new book will enter the bookshelves across the world. At a time intellectual enemies and intellectual defenders of capitalism are locked in battle like never before, any b... Read more

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Y Z Yau’s Shara Primary School Campaign as a Debate in When is a Revolution Revolutionary

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2019In: GovernanceTags: Arab Spring, Boris Yelstin, CPSU, Emancipatory Realism, Gov Umar Ganduje, Marxism, Military Vanguardism, Occupy Movement, Shara Community, SUBEB, Sumaila LGA, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Y Z Yau’s Shara Primary School Campaign as a Debate in When is a Revolution Revolutionary

“Security is a thick signifier” “Like health and status, security is a condition that is not difficult to define; in each case, the starting point should begin in the experiences, imaginings... Read more

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Closing or Creating Gaps in Marxism? (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 15, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Jerusalem, Jews, Marxism, Marxists, Marxology, PlaestineNo CommentsViews:
Closing or Creating Gaps in Marxism? (1)

If the Coxian intervention that shattered the hegemony of the scientific claim to truth is anything to go by, then this book will face interrogation such as the title of this piece. That is,... Read more

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How Many Can Still Locate Own Copies of the Classics of Political Economy of Africa?

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'The New Imperialism';, INGOs, Marxism, RMANo CommentsViews:
How Many Can Still Locate Own Copies of the Classics of Political Economy of Africa?

It is not impossible but very unlikely that these books form part of the reading list anymore across Nigerian universities. But they were the books without which the First Degree in the Huma... Read more

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Coasting to the Marxist Moment in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 04, 2018In: GovernanceTags: ISI, Marxism, NITEL, SOEsNo CommentsViews:
Coasting to the Marxist Moment in Nigeria?

Even the most dismissive of the progressives in Nigerian politics must have got the message that even as there might not be anything approximating a Marxist Moment in Nigeria yet, the seed h... Read more

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