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Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Achebe, Bala Usman, Decoloniality, IPPSS, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Postcolonial theory, Richard Ashley, Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Dissident scholars’No CommentsViews:
Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more

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Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Alternative modernities, Critical race theory, Derridean deconstruction, Eurocentrism, Foucaultian genealogy, Frankfurt School, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Postcolonial theoryNo CommentsViews:
Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

It is 100 years of Frankfurt School which gave the world what is known in social theory today as ‘Critical Theory’ (different from critical theory which is much more plural). The world of sc... Read more

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Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Perestroika Movement', Afropolitanism, Andre Gander Frank, Asia, Dependency Theory, Ibadan School of History, Latin America, Postcolonial theory, Samir Amin, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:
Readers Challenge Intervention on L/American Ownership of Dependency Theory

Two different sentences in Intervention’s reporting of the passage of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi, ex-Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have come under attack from critical rea... Read more

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Tanzanian Writer, Abdulrazak Gournah, Brings 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature to Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, Postcolonial theory, Tanzania, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:
Tanzanian Writer, Abdulrazak Gournah, Brings 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature to Africa

The fiction writer, Abdulrazak Gournah from Tanzania has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy hinged his victory on his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration o... Read more

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