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2024 Nigeria International Bookfair and Memories of the Wave-Making Titles in the Mid 1980s

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Federal Republic of Nigeria, NIBF, Nigerian Civil War literature, Political Science, Prof Tahir Mamman man, Social scienceNo CommentsViews:
2024 Nigeria International Bookfair and Memories of the Wave-Making Titles in the Mid 1980s

The 2024 edition of the Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF) should have been over by now, going by the May 7th, 2024 story in Vanguard. It is assumed that everything went well and the Edu... Read more

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Prof Adelaja Odukoya Odutola, Scholar-Activist Adds Another Year to His Age

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2024In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Comparative Political Economy, Marxism, Political Science, SIRA, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
Prof Adelaja Odukoya Odutola, Scholar-Activist Adds Another Year to His Age

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Lagos (UNILAG) was one of the universities established in Nigeria in 1962. Its establishment cannot be divorced from the agitation for more indigeno... Read more

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International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Critical turn', ABU Zaria, Barry Buzan, Hans Morgenthau, History, IAS-UI, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Neorealism, NUC, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, Richard Ashley, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

By Adagbo ONOJA Introduction It cannot be out of place to worry about the quality and overarching direction of undergraduate and even graduate training in the discipline of International Rel... Read more

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Time for ASUU to Re-invent Itself, Says retiring Longest Serving Chairman, Cde M.M.Yusif

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmadu Bello University, ASUU, BUK, Political Science, Sir Ahmadu Bello, ZariaNo CommentsViews:
Time for ASUU to Re-invent Itself, Says retiring Longest Serving Chairman, Cde M.M.Yusif

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed On September 9th, 2023, friends, colleagues and students of Malam Mu’azu Muhammad Yusif, more popularly called M.M. Yusif, gathered to honour and celebrate his long ac... Read more

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Africa + 1: Stepping Back from a Costly Pragmatism

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: 'Articulatory turn', Africa, Diplomacy, E-IR, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Africa + 1: Stepping Back from a Costly Pragmatism

The Bristol (UK) based E-IR has accepted and published this piece “Africa + 1: Stepping Back from a Costly Pragmatism”. The article is basically a critical engagement with the decision... Read more

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Nigeria’s ‘Resource Curse’ Under Academic Scrutiny @ 27th World Congress of Political Science

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Buenos Aires, Kenya, Mozambique, NIGERIA, Political Science, Resilience, Resource curse, Uganda, VulnerabilityNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's 'Resource Curse' Under Academic Scrutiny @ 27th World Congress of Political Science

The 27th World Congress of Political Science is underway in Buenos Aires, Brazil, with Africa set to dominate the panel on The Politics of New Resource Discoveries in the “Post-resourc... Read more

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Hasn’t AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: AAPS, Critical geopolitics, Epistemic exploitation, FAANG, History, Informationalised capitalism, International Relations, Literature, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Hasn't AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

The African Association of Political Science (AAPS) might have experienced an epistemic conversion of Pauline proportion. Those who see the title of this conference as a tectonic shift in kn... Read more

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Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:
Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... 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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Anticipating Odia Ofeimum’s New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', Logocentrism, Nigerian Democracy, Political Science, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:
Anticipating Odia Ofeimum's New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Intervention has not read this book yet but Intervention has received the cover page. The assumption here is that a book on The Challenges and Prospects of Nigerian Democracy from Odia Ofeim... Read more

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