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Critically Celebrating Professor Okwudiba Nnoli, A Former President of the NPSA, at 86

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Catholicism, CODESRIA, Dares Salam, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, ethnicity, Footballer, Hans Morgenthau, IRs, Nigerian Civil War, Nwalimu Nyerere, PACREP, Poverty, Stanford University, UNN, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Established in 1955 by the former Eastern Regional Government, the University of Nigeria (UNN) started operation in 1960. Like every other university of its age, it has... Read more

As Prof. Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, Our Teacher and Mentor, Adds Another Year to His Age

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Ahmadu Bello University, Federalism, Legislative Agenda, Military rule, Prof. Tekena Tamuna, Stanford University1 CommentViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Prof. Jonah Elaigwu, 76, is one of our elders in the field of Political Science. He obtained his B.Sc in Political Science in 1971 from the Ahmadu Bello University, Z... Read more

Memories of the Old Academia As Plateau State University Awards Prof Elaigwu Honorary Degree

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Honorary Degree, Nasarawa State University, Plateau State University, Stanford University, Veritas University - Abuja, Vice-Chancellors, ‘Christmas professors’No CommentsViews:

The news would have been everywhere by now if he were in that category of players in national life good in staging a big media show of such events. Fortunately and unfortunately, Prof Isawa... Read more

National Geographic Admits Racist Journalism At Last

Posted By: adminon: March 14, 2018In: BookspaceTags: CNN, Columbia University, John Edwin Mason, Quartz Africa, Stanford University, University of VirginiaNo CommentsViews:

Originally published in Quartz under the title “National Geographic is finally reckoning with its “racist” coverage of people of color”, this provides a powerful proof of the claim that glob... Read more

Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski is Dead

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Condoleezza Rice, Harvard University, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Sino-Soviet split, Stanford University, Zbigniew BrzezinskiNo CommentsViews:

Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski is dead. Brzezinski died last night in the US at the age 89. Scholars and practitioners of global politics will miss his complicated individuality that made him... Read more

Global Media (Mis) Representation of Africa: Is Martin Scott Bursting a Myth or Inventing Another?

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Africa Rising', Dr Martin Scott, Leeds University, Misrepresentation, New York Times, Olatunji Ogunyemi, Stanford University, The Economist, The Guardian, Toussaint Nothias, University of East AngliaNo CommentsViews:

Global Media (Mis) Representation of Africa: Is Martin Scott Bursting a Myth or Inventing Another? By Adagbo ONOJA In the context of the fear that an African protestation of misrepresentatio... Read more