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The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Posted By: adminon: August 06, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Alex Callinicos, David Harvey, Edward Said, Empire, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hardt & Negri, Kwame Nkrumah, NELSON MANDELA, NeoliberalismNo CommentsViews:
The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

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

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Prof Ibrahim Gambari and a Risk Society

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'Risk Society', Bala Usman, IBB, Neoliberalism, Prof Sam Aluko, Sanusi Lamido SanusiNo CommentsViews:
Prof Ibrahim Gambari and a Risk Society

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

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Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CODESRIA, Development, Kamuzu Banda, LSE, Mea culpas, Neoliberalism, Prof Charles Soludo, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
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

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Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu, the Death of a Homeboy Who Went Global

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Agbangwe, Edemoga, ICU, NDLEA, Neoliberalism, United States of America, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:
Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu, the Death of a Homeboy Who Went Global

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

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Reading the Drama in Brazil from Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 09, 2019In: World From AfricaTags: BRICS, IBSA, IMF, Neoliberalism, The Intercept, Zero HungerNo CommentsViews:
Reading the Drama in Brazil from Nigeria

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

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Multivocal Convulsions as Intellectuals, IGP, INEC, Others Deconstruct Nigeria’s 2019 Elections @ UI Confab

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2019In: SpectacleTags: ANC, Biometrics, Biopolitics, Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Proportional RepresentationNo CommentsViews:
Multivocal Convulsions as Intellectuals, IGP, INEC, Others Deconstruct Nigeria’s 2019 Elections @ UI Confab

The ancient South-western Nigerian city of Ibadan woke up today to an explosive conversation as top flight intellectuals, the Inspector-General of Police, the Independent National Electoral... Read more

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The State of Nigeria Today

Posted By: adminon: June 15, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Neoliberalism, Proletarianisation, SAP, UBENo CommentsViews:
The State of Nigeria Today

By Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) Today, our country, Nigeria, is in one of the most frightening and, some insist, most hopeless, situations it had ever been in the last four d... Read more

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Prof Ode Ojowu’s Dosages of Kuhnian Home Truth for Veritas University, Abuja  

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABUZaria, Afriocentric lens, Dar es Salam, Makerele, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Okello Oculi, Positivists, Post-positivism, Thomas Kuhn, UI, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Prof Ode Ojowu’s Dosages of Kuhnian Home Truth for Veritas University, Abuja  

By Adagbo ONOJA, Methodology is the graveyard of knowledge production. There can be never too much of it. It was thus nothing surprising when the authorities of the university called out all... Read more

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Prof Biodun Jeyifo on the Dangers of De-Statisation

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Big Business, Neoliberalism, NNPC, WSJNo CommentsViews:
Prof Biodun Jeyifo on the Dangers of De-Statisation

At a time of sensational articulation of private enterprise as Nigeria’s way out of woes, it is important that an intervention such as this talk below is further circulated beyond an elite n... Read more

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