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Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity – Tradition Cord in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Apartheid, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chinua Achebe, Civil society, Covering law, Derrida, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Jigawa State, Latin America, Mallam Aminu Kano, Positivism, Toni Morrison, ‘Boka’, ‘Juju’, ‘Zanna Yuroma’No CommentsViews:
Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity - Tradition Cord in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more

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Rescuing Political Science

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Ancient Greek, Constitutional democracy, Interpretivism, Liberal democracy, Plato’s Academy, Political Science, Positivism, Woodrow WilsonNo CommentsViews:
Rescuing Political Science

The last but one sentence of this piece from Voegelinview warrants posting it here even as it might not appeal to every reader! As an academic discipline, political science is relatively new... Read more

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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Raises the Stakes Again on Researching Conflict in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari, CDD, CRD, MacArthur Foundation, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Methodology, Mixed method, NPSA, Positivism, Reason, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Raises the Stakes Again on Researching Conflict in Nigeria

Adagbo Onoja reporting It is no more only in heartland academia, if it ever was, where concern for secure knowledge is an article of faith. Other arenas of knowledge production are equally c... Read more

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Prof IBK Knocks Intervention Over Coup Framing of Camouflage

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Nigerian Literature, Positivism, Postmodernism, RealismNo CommentsViews:
Prof IBK Knocks Intervention Over Coup Framing of Camouflage

Bayero University, Kano Professor of Literary Theory, Ibrahim Bello Kano, aka IBK is knocking Intervention for framing of Camouflage: Best Of Contemporary Writing From Nigeria as a coup in N... Read more

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Prof Ochinya Ojiji’s Parting Shot for Nigerian Social Science

Posted By: adminon: September 22, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Enlightenment, ICPR, Nasarawa State University, Positivism, Post-modernism, Post-positivism, UNIJOS, UNIUYO, Universalism, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Prof Ochinya Ojiji’s Parting Shot for Nigerian Social Science

Written by Prof Ochinya Ojiji of Nasarawa State University’s Department of Psychology, A Dictionary of Social Science Research attempts breaking down the common terms that a new undergraduat... Read more

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