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Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2025In: LifeworldTags: African Literature, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Chinua Achebe, Literary criticism, Prof Claude Ake, University of PortharcourtNo CommentsViews:
Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Barely a month after an iroko in the African literary forest fell, a reference to Ngugi Wa Thiongo, there has been the fall of another iroko. He is Charles Nnolim, a foremost critic in Afric... Read more

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Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

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Dangers of Ignoring the ‘Constitutive Outside’ in the Current Anti-Coup Narrative in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Peaceful Rise', Coups in Africa, Modernisation, Prof Claude Ake, Prof John Mearsheimer, Prof Joseph Nye Jnr, Prof Samuel Huntington, Republic of China, United States of America, ‘Barrack culture’, ‘Social Science as imperialism’No CommentsViews:
Dangers of Ignoring the ‘Constitutive Outside’ in the Current Anti-Coup Narrative in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja   This is not a rejoinder to Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s January 18th, 2024 opinion titled “The First Coup”. His opinion only serves this piece as the peg for a caution agains... Read more

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Is President Tinubu Nigeria’s Foreign Investment Moment?

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 1979/1999 Constitution, 2nd National Development Plan, Awo, Barr Daniel Bwala, Berg Report, Chief MKO Abiola, elite fragmentation, G-20, India, Industrialisation, Lagos Plan of Action, Lagos State, Lagos – Ibadan financial oligarchy, NADECO, Prof Claude Ake, SAP, Service economy, Western metaphysicsNo CommentsViews:
Is President Tinubu Nigeria's Foreign Investment Moment?

By Adagbo Onoja Irrespective of fragmentation and disaffection at home, there are certain issues that enjoy consensus in Nigerian politics, regardless of the government in power. It would be... Read more

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Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anibal Quijano, ASUU, Biodun Jeyifo, Campaign for Democracy, Chapter Two of the Constitution, Coloniality of modernity, Emancipation, Femi Falana, Latin America, Marxism, Philosophy, Prof Claude Ake, Walter Mignolo1 CommentViews:
Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more

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An Open Letter to President Bola Tinubu on the President As His Own Minister for Education

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2023In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, Cadinal Onaiyekan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Alake, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, General Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Ayo Olukotun, Prof Claude Ake, Senator George Akume, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:
An Open Letter to President Bola Tinubu on the President As His Own Minister for Education

Dear Mister President, Permit me, Mister President, to cut off the congratulations from this epistle. Apart from Cardinal Onaiyekan’s moratorium on that, (about which Senator George Akume ha... Read more

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Managing the Post-Election Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Black world, Dr Ibrahim Tahir, elite fragmentation, Government of National Competence, NIGERIA, Prof Claude Ake1 CommentViews:
Managing the Post-Election Nigeria

At no other time and on no other issue has punditry become such a dangerous pursuit as on the outcome of the recent presidential poll in Nigeria. The danger of being (mis)read either as an ‘... Read more

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Celebrating Festus Iyayi, Textualising the Future

Posted By: adminon: November 13, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Bala Usman, Neoliberal globalisation, Nigerian Left, NLC, Popular culture, Prof Claude Ake, ‘Hegemony as strategy’No CommentsViews:
Celebrating Festus Iyayi, Textualising the Future

It must, indeed, be great that, in spite of the tribulations tormenting Nigerians, the rump of the Nigerian Left was still able to put together an Online Session to mark the 9th Anniversary... Read more

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Nigeria Awaits NIIA’s 2022 Distinguished Lecture By Prof Bolaji Akinyemi

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2022In: SpectacleTags: New World Order, Prof Claude Ake, SeagullNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Awaits NIIA's 2022 Distinguished Lecture By Prof Bolaji Akinyemi

As tremendous as the interrogation of the ‘New World Order’ paradigm as proclaimed by then US president, George Bush, a Nigerian variant of that interrogation has been lacking. It is doubtfu... Read more

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Deconstructing the CITAD – NCDC Conversation on COVID-19 in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 05, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Biopolitics, Illiberalism, Kano Hisbah, Oscar Wilde, Prof Claude Ake, Profound modernizationNo CommentsViews:
Deconstructing the CITAD - NCDC Conversation on COVID-19 in Nigeria

How much of a problem this still is remains to be systematically ascertained but it was the biggest part of the COVID-19 crisis in Nigeria. Whom or where do the ordinary Nigerians, especiall... Read more

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