Political Science | Intervention

Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

University of Pretoria Appoints Nigeria’s Prof Remi Aiyede Extraordinary Professor

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2024In: SpectacleTags: 'Japa', Political Science, SPMA, University of Ibadan, University of PretoriaNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria’s Prof Emmanuel Remi Aiyede is joining the University of Pretoria in South Africa as an Extraordinary professor. The University said in a statement that it is thrilled to have Prof.... Read more

As Prof Ayo Dunmoye Takes His Final Bow

Posted By: adminon: August 20, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', ABU Zaria, ASUU, NUC, Political Science, Republic of China, Senate, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The dirges and mourning rites must be going on in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he rose to the position of Professor of Political Science, within the Nigerian Politica... Read more

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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