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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
