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Savouring The Economist Hammering Prof Doran Acemoglu

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: 'Problem-solving" Theory, Colonialism, Dr. Thandika Mkandawire, Dr. Yusuf Bangura, Institutions, LSE, Mahmood Mamdani, NATO, Prof Doran Acemoglu, Samir Amin, The Economist, ‘Why Nations Fail’No CommentsViews:
Savouring The Economist Hammering Prof Doran Acemoglu

By Adagbo Onoja Typical of the fluid ways of popular culture sites, The Economist of London has set its deconstructive reportorial gaze on Prof Doran Acemoglu, ex-LSE economist currently bas... Read more

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CODESRIA Names a New Executive Secretary

Posted By: adminon: August 13, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Achille Mbembe, Adebayo Olukoshi, Africa, Dr. Godwin Murunga, Political Science and Global Development Studies, Prof. Lyn Ossome, Samir Amin, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:
CODESRIA Names a New Executive Secretary

The Dakar-based continental research institution, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), has a new Executive Secretary. He is Prof Zubairu Wai, a Sierra... 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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Death of Bjorn Beckman Brings Back Memories of an Era in Nigeria Especially

Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2019In: People in ActionTags: 'World System' Theory, FASS, Ghana, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, SOUTH AFRICA, University of Dar es Salaam, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:
Death of Bjorn Beckman Brings Back Memories of an Era in Nigeria Especially

It is mourning time again for an individual beyond the spatiality of the nation-state on account of the force of his scholarship and internationalist practices. That is Professor Bjorn Beckm... Read more

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On the 30th Anniversary of Claude Ake’s Death
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