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How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Dante, Enlightenment, History, Humanists, Humanities, Identitarian nationalism, Italian, Marxism, Michelangelo, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Schoolification, universities, ‘Hermeneutics of suspicion’No CommentsViews:
How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

Justin Smith-Ruiu, the author, is introduced by THE as a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Université Paris Cité as well as founder and president of the Hinternet Foundation,... 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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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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Overcoming Primordialism and Fundamentalism in Nigeria With a ‘Grand’ Narrative

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2020In: SpectacleTags: #EndSARS, Citizenship, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Neoliberalism, Peter Ekeh, Postmodernism, ‘Grand’ narrative5 CommentsViews:
Overcoming Primordialism and Fundamentalism in Nigeria With a ‘Grand’ Narrative

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed Every generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, betray it or fulfil it – Frantz Fanon What is the Nigeria we want? How do we achieve it? Answerin... Read more

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Only Statesmen Can Save Nigeria, Not Politicians – Cardinal Arinze

Posted By: adminon: December 04, 2017In: BookspaceTags: NUC, Pope John Paul 11, PostmodernismNo CommentsViews:
Only Statesmen Can Save Nigeria, Not Politicians - Cardinal Arinze

A loaded survey of Nigeria has conditioned her progress on statesmen as opposed to politicians and the production of statesmen a privileged service of universities to the society. Asserting... Read more

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