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Royal Bombshell @ Baze University, Abuja’s 7th Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 'Benin Empire', Africa, Baze University, Belongingness, Identity, Kabba Calendar, Memory, MigrationNo CommentsViews:
Royal Bombshell @ Baze University, Abuja's 7th Inaugural Lecture

It was an Inaugural Lecture with several differences. There was the fanfare which we can call the Baze University flavouring of the Inaugural Lecture tradition in academia. There was the roy... Read more

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When Opposition Leaders Take to the Streets Again in Recent Nigerian History

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Constructivism, History, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Memory, Opposition, Perception, President Bola Tinubu, Street protest, ‘Big men’No CommentsViews:
When Opposition Leaders Take to the Streets Again in Recent Nigerian History

History doesn’t repeat itself because history is not a cyclical but a non-linear process. It is memory that brings back a historical event. Meanwhile, memory is not an impartial record... Read more

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

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

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A National Reminder or a Rebuke?

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Gen T Y Danjuma, History, MemoryNo CommentsViews:
A National Reminder or a Rebuke?

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

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