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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:
Why Universities Should Be Turned Upside Down

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

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Professorial Appointment Is Not a Name Tag

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Bingham University, MSc, PhD, Political Science, Professorial exceptionalismNo CommentsViews:
Professorial Appointment Is Not a Name Tag

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

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Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, CODESRIA, CPS – Yola, Dares Salam School, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, ECOMOG, Emman Udoka, FASS, Fellowship of Christians Students, Hajiya Najaatu Mohammed, Hon Rima Shawulu, Ibadan School of History, IGP Etim Inyang, Marxism, MPN, Ms Julie Sanda, NDA, PhD, Prof Paul Izah, Prof Peter Ekeh, Prof Sonni Tyoden, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:
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

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

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

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

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

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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:
When Dr. Agbor Ekangaki Got the Prize

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

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

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

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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:
University of St. Andrews, Here I come!

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

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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:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

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

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ABU, Zaria Loses Another Radical Scholar-Activist, Prof Sule Bello

Posted By: adminon: October 03, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Bala Usman, NUC, PhDNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Loses Another Radical Scholar-Activist, Prof Sule Bello

Barely 24 hours after a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof A.D Yahaya died in Abuja, Nigeria is also receiving the news of the death... Read more

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