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Islam and Muslim Quest for Humane Civilization 

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: African Muslim, Christianity, Imperialism, Islamic civilizational schemata, Orientalism, Postmodern Islam, SOAS, United States, westNo CommentsViews:
Islam and Muslim Quest for Humane Civilization 

A revised version of an article written some years back, this piece by Abubakar Aliyu Liman, Professor of Comparative Literature and Popular Culture at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nig... Read more

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What If SOAS Students Have a Point in the Case for Decolonising Philosophy?

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Decoloniality, Nishida Kitarō, Philosophy, SOAS, Takeshi Morisato, The Kyoto SchoolNo CommentsViews:
What If SOAS Students Have a Point in the Case for Decolonising Philosophy?

The United Kingdom, like much of the Western world BUT unlike much of Africa, is a key battleground involving troops of the decolonial epistemology, a battle well brought into view by the au... Read more

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How Did Nigeria Perform in the Just Released 2023 THE World University Ranking?

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Australia, CHINA, Oxford, SOAS, UI, UK, UNILAG, University of Cape Town, USNo CommentsViews:
How Did Nigeria Perform in the Just Released 2023 THE World University Ranking?

The Times Higher Education, (THE), one of the six or so conducting its own world ranking of universities, is out with the 2023 exercise. There is nothing earth shaking in it as the United Ki... Read more

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Ahead of the Commonwealth in Rwanda, The Economist Asks If President Paul Kagame is a Good or Bad Leader

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Donors, DRC, Ethiopia, Génocidaire, Hotel Rwanda, IMF, Laurent Kabila, Meles Zenawi, Mobutu Sese Seko, Rwanda National Congress, Rwandan Patriotic Front, SOAS, World Bank, Yoweri Museveni of UgandaNo CommentsViews:
Ahead of the Commonwealth in Rwanda, The Economist Asks If President Paul Kagame is a Good or Bad Leader

It is an old debate that has come back with the death of Tanzanian president, John Magufuli. That is the debate on which of democracy and development should come before the other. The master... Read more

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Religious and Traditional Rulers Take Own Share of Insecurity and Death in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2021In: People in ActionTags: ANA, NIPSSS, Orlu, SOAS, ZazzauNo CommentsViews:
Religious and Traditional Rulers Take Own Share of Insecurity and Death in Nigeria

It has been a week of a heavy share of the gale of insecurity and death sweeping across Nigeria. Not only was the Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri, the Most Reverend Moses Chikwe kidnapped along w... Read more

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Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey Joins LSE As an Academic

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2020In: People in ActionTags: LSE, SOAS, University of LondonNo CommentsViews:
Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey Joins LSE As an Academic

In the context of voice as a form of power, Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey joining the academic community at the London School of Economics today would be considered great news for global academia... Read more

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Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, ANC, Chicago, SOAS, SOUTH AFRICA, UKZN, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

By Robert Morrell• On Monday, 17 August, Bill Freund died in Durban. He was 76 years old. He was among the most eminent of South Africa’s historians and published prodigiously broadly in the... Read more

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UI’s Dr Willie Eselebor Joins Board of ABS

Posted By: adminon: April 18, 2019In: FlashbackTags: ABS, BRIT Conference, Nigeria Immigration Service, RMA, SOAS, US-Mexico BorderNo CommentsViews:
UI’s Dr Willie Eselebor Joins Board of ABS

The Association for Border Studies, (ABS), the global platform for scholars and practitioners of border politics has announced three newly elected members to the Board of Directors for a ter... Read more

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Controversy: Does Everyone Need a PhD to Teach in the University?

Posted By: adminon: October 21, 2017In: BookspaceTags: Ngugi Wa Thiongo, PhD, SOASNo CommentsViews:
Controversy: Does Everyone Need a PhD to Teach in the University?

By Prof Maurice Amutabi* * Maurice Amutabi, the author of this piece extracted from the Pan-Africanist Pambazuka Online, (20/10/2017)  is a Professor of History, Fulbright Scholar and Vice C... Read more

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DFID Turns 20: The 7 Politicians Who Shaped UK Aid

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Make Poverty History, Paris Declaration, SOAS, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
DFID Turns 20: The 7 Politicians Who Shaped UK Aid

By Molly Anders LONDON — The year is 1997. The global financial crisis is a distant portent; mobile phones double as bludgeons; and cash transfers are still mostly conducted at Western Union... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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