Memory Archives - Intervention

How Lanre Arogundade Broke Coconut With His Head As NANS Leader in the 1980s

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Abagbedi', 'Ákowe', December 1983 coup, Dodan Barracks, Ijebu - Jesha, IMF loan, International Press Centre, Memory, NANS, Obafemi Awolowo University, TraumaNo CommentsViews:

State repression of activists of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Nigeria in the 1980s is nothing comparable to 1994 genocide in Rwanda, for example but, like... Read more

A National Reminder or a Rebuke?

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Gen T Y Danjuma, History, MemoryNo CommentsViews:

Is this cover picture a reminder or a rebuke? It all depends on how one reads it. History does not repeat itself. It is memory that invokes history to make history seem to repeat itself. In... Read more