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Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Anthropology, Europe, Evidence, Knowledge, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Prof Paul Boghossian, Relativism, Truth, Washington UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US

By Adagbo Onoja The 30 – page PDF text is already the subject of a thickening controversy in the US. So much that the Provost of Washington University, one of the two sponsor universities, M... Read more

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Can NPSA Be That Singularity for Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Ferdinand de Saussure, Gramsci, International Relations, Knowledge, Language game, NPSA, Postmodernism, Power, UINo CommentsViews:
Can NPSA Be That Singularity for Nigeria?

By Adagbo Onoja It is not bookishness to be excited about the leadership transition at the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA). As every new leadership necessarily seeks legitimati... Read more

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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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