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Power in the Explanation of Prof Jason Arday’s Travails

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Blacks, Cambridge University, Memoir, PhD, Plagiarism, Prof Jason Arday, Racism, Unequal power relationsNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The global storm over Prof Jason Arday is rapidly fading but his demise will continue for a long time to be a subject of unending reflections. While it lasted, every stage wa... Read more

Why Universities Should Be Turned Upside Down

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Critical thinking, Curiosity, Enquiry, Higher education, Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, PhDNo CommentsViews:

Reversing the flow of knowledge – so students, rather than established professors, drive enquiry – could help the next generation of scholars prepare society, and themselves, for the future,... Read more

Professorial Appointment Is Not a Name Tag

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Bingham University, MSc, PhD, Political Science, Professorial exceptionalismNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Gani Yoroms Let me join all well-wishers to congratulate those who have been recently appointed into the professorial cadre in the Department of Political Science at Bingham Universi... Read more

Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

By Prof Gani Yoroms It has taken me a long time to write this tribute but it is still with a heavy heart that I do so. The moment I heard of the death of Professor Dunmoye, a friendly and be... Read more

Tribute to My Retiring Lecturers in Nigeria’s BUK (2): Salisu Yusuf

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2023In: People in ActionTags: African politics, BUK, Destiny, Dr Bawa Gusau, International Relations, Marxist, PhDNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu There is something about destiny for those who believe in it. It drives and sets limits on how far one can go in life. Sometimes we dream and plan big and do whatev... Read more

Tribute to My Retiring Lecturers in Nigeria’s BUK (1)

Posted By: adminon: November 14, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'African Political Thought', Apartheid, ASUU Chairman, BUK, Marxist, PhD, Political Theory, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu M.M. Yusuf As An Activist Scholar Mallam Muazu Mohammed Yusuf retired from the services of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) in April, 2023 after putting in forty-two yea... Read more

When Dr. Agbor Ekangaki Got the Prize

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Bayero University - Kano, PhD, Political economy, Political Science, University of BueaNo CommentsViews:

He studied Political Science in Bayero University, Kano in the mid-1990s before returning home to the neighboring Republic of Cameroon. There, he has remained engaged with academia, includin... Read more

How Relevant is South Africa’s PhD Review Practice for Other African Countries?

Posted By: adminon: September 18, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African continent, CHE, NDP, NRF, PhD, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Goolam Mohamedbhai How far might the PhD review practice the South African authorities are carrying out save a continent where the PhD is too esoteric to be the concern of even the eli... Read more

University of St. Andrews, Here I come!

Posted By: adminon: April 18, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Bongos Ikwue, Explanation, Okro soup, PhD, Prof Attahiru Jega, UCL, Understanding, University of St Andrews, WarwickNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Though not a prayer warrior myself, I am so unsuccessful in resisting the temptation to conclude along with my former examiner that this is the fulfillment of God’s assurance... Read more

How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more