Neoliberalism as a technology of power rather than only a doctrine of what incisive British Marxist Geographer, David Harvey, calls “creative destruction” and “accumulation by dispossession”... Read more
By Ike Okonta I am happy that Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, General Ibrahim Babangida’s Finance Minister in the 1980s, is alive and well. Dr Kalu, working closely with the then Country Representative... Read more
No one can guestimate what the degree of damage to Obasanjo’s standing Thabo Mbeki’s disclosure of Obasanjo’s complicity in the ‘third term’ agenda would be if the disclosure had come earlie... Read more
The times have crept on very fast. It is already a year that Dr. Yima Sen passed away. To mark the anniversary, the family is staging a low key but creative practice in his honour. It would... Read more
By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed Every generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, betray it or fulfil it – Frantz Fanon What is the Nigeria we want? How do we achieve it? Answerin... Read more
Triple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, the open access journal, would appear to have kick-started the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s fellow traveler in articul... Read more
Nigeria is, today, a perfect example of the Risk Society. The Risk Society is not a theory of Nigerian politics but its main argument applies very well to Nigeria. Nigeria had no experience... Read more
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)
As long as the framing of the African crisis is what will tie together the three other forms of power to be mobilised for continental emancipation, so long will the loss of any of the analyt... Read more
The death at 10 pm last Thursday of Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria is no news anymore. All those who should hear the death of the almost 65 year old academ... Read more
A big drama is, indeed, playing out in Brazil, with world scale significance. The release of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison is the crashing of a strategy of undermining what he repres... Read more
