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Okello Oculi’s Banana Man: Musings On Tradition, Colonialism and Modernity

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: BookspaceTags: 'Presidential Elephant', Colonialism, Mau Mau, Modernity, Tradition, UhuruNo CommentsViews:
Okello Oculi’s Banana Man: Musings On Tradition, Colonialism and Modernity

By Yusuf Bangura Published in 2019, Banana Man is the last novel of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan literary scholar who spent most of his life in Nigeria and passed away on 26th July, 2025. He ga... Read more

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This Pregnancy is Mine

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Agbon, Akhigbemen, Cathedral, Distant skies, DNA, Ekata, Emacuta, Hosanna, Idialu Vs Okonofua, Marriage, Modernity, Uhuru Summit, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “advanced life”No CommentsViews:
This Pregnancy is Mine

By Sylvester Odion Akhaine As you approach the village of Emacuta, through a pathway barely wide enough to accommodate the passage of an automobile and flanked with wild bushes wearing a cro... Read more

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Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa – Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Posted By: adminon: October 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Anthropology, Christianity, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Kant, ModernityNo CommentsViews:
Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa - Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Apart from Queen Mary University of London’s Dr. Clive Gabay’s book, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze, Prof Olufemi Taiwo’s book, Against Decolonisation must be the most cont... Read more

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Re-conceptualising Tunji Lardner’s Concept of Time Conflation

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: #EndSARS, Africa, Modernity, Post-modernity, Prof Ali Mazrui, Tradition, Triple HeritageNo CommentsViews:
Re-conceptualising Tunji Lardner’s Concept of Time Conflation

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed It was Mr. Tunji Lardner, a philosopher in his own right but more popularly considered as a strategic communication expert, that conceptualise the idea of time conflat... Read more

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The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Absurdists, African Humanism, Enlightenment Epistemology, Existentialists, Industrialisation, ModernityNo CommentsViews:
The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

By Adagbo Onoja He is Prof Chimalum Nwankwo, a spectacle at his current base in the small but serene campus of Veritas University, Abuja.  Very few would have failed to take note of him ther... Read more

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Goodbye, Dan Agbese  - Elder Simon Shango (MFR)
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