In this piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura, a co-editor of a book on selected works of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim provides a foretaste of the broth. Those who have had the privilege of reading this text elsew... Read more
By Prof Alkasum Abba Introduction There is no befitting tribute to Mallam Magaji Danbatta, than digging and bringing out the important role that he and his colleagues played in fighting for... Read more
Bayero University, Kano’s Prof Attahiru Jega seems to be successfully making a very rapid transition from Political Science to a politician. From formal party membership of the People’s Rede... Read more
As a more detached but critical and consistent observer of Nigerian affairs, his view on Bala Usman could help in clarifying the shifting battlegrounds in the struggle for power and the asso... Read more
It is one more anniversary of the late engaging academic, Yusuf Bala Usman, (YBU) and the many paradoxes around his person, scholarship and radical activism, coinciding with alarming signals... Read more
There is widespread fear that Mallam Aminu Kano, sage of the ‘radical tradition in the North’ must be turning in his grave that the idea of ‘who is his father?’ as a... Read more
It was the party the late Prof Eskor Toyo literary decreed for anyone who called him or herself a revolutionary in Nigeria in the Second Republic. It was the kind of magisterial ideological... Read more
By Dr Nuruddeen Muhammad Exactly 68 years ago on this day, (08/08/1950) eight young men (as they then were) met somewhere in Sabon Gari area of Kano city and changed the political landscape... Read more
It must have been evident that a voice raising a banner suggestive of a radical moment, warts and all, was bound to arise over northern Nigeria in the context of events of the past two decad... Read more
