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The North, Marxism and ‘Jibo Must Pay’ On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Algerian War of Independence, Danlami Samuel, France, Marxism, Old North, Post-positivism, Social theory, The Communist Manifesto, ‘Jibo Must Pay’, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:
The North, Marxism and 'Jibo Must Pay' On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

It was a joyous but also painful evening. Joyous because junior brothers, grandchildren, in-laws and friends of the family gathered to celebrate a remarkable individual at 85. Painful becaus... 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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In Search of Nigeria’s Share of Dissident Scholars

Posted By: adminon: December 08, 2019In: FlashbackTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Enlightenment, Hegemony, Ken Booth, Marxism, Post-positivism, Richard Ashley, Robert KeohaneNo CommentsViews:
In Search of Nigeria’s Share of Dissident Scholars

There is this famous story of the school teacher who was used to telling his students seeking a deeper meaning of the word velocity that the only way to get that is to go and stand on the tr... 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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Prof Ode Ojowu’s Dosages of Kuhnian Home Truth for Veritas University, Abuja  

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABUZaria, Afriocentric lens, Dar es Salam, Makerele, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Okello Oculi, Positivists, Post-positivism, Thomas Kuhn, UI, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Prof Ode Ojowu’s Dosages of Kuhnian Home Truth for Veritas University, Abuja  

By Adagbo ONOJA, Methodology is the graveyard of knowledge production. There can be never too much of it. It was thus nothing surprising when the authorities of the university called out all... Read more

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