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Justice James Ogebe (rtd) and Prof Okwudiba Nnoli as Questions

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 9/11, CORRUPTION, ethnicity, Fantasy, Knowledge/power, Okello Oculi, Supreme Court, Things Fall Apart, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Saturday March 21st, 2025 happened to be the 85th and 86th birthday anniversary of two Nigerians who are eminent in different ways. One is Justice James Ogebe, a retired Just... Read more

For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Academia, Achebe, Canada, Coloniality of modernity, Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neorealism, SADF, SIIA, Summitry, The military, The Presidency, Things Fall Apart, Traditional diplomacy, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja These two books have not been written for Nigerian foreign policy but it would be surprising if they do not form the training manuals for the assemblage associated with formu... Read more

Ukraine As a Virtuous War

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Discursive power, DSTV, Libya, NATO, Realists, RT, Things Fall Apart, Virtuous War, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

Two wars are going on consecutively in Ukraine. The first war is the one raging on the ground involving troops, missiles, blood and agony. It is as real as hell. But that war cannot and does... Read more

Who Wrote ‘Things Fall Apart’, Indeed!

Posted By: adminon: January 25, 2022In: SpectacleTags: CPS, MILAD, Press Conference, Things Fall Apart, William ShakespeareNo CommentsViews:

The social media space never fails to unleash intriguing even if hilarious texts, such as this entertaining but meaning-pregnant text by an Unknown Author In the early 90s, a Military Admin... Read more

Echoes of a War Foretold as Ramaphosa Blasts Global North for Paternalism

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Dependentista, Global North, Obierika, Okonkwo, President Cyril Ramaphosa, Things Fall ApartNo CommentsViews:

It is more than a week since this edition of the Dakar Forum on Peace and security came and went but it is now that South African president’s explosive umbrage at the global North star... Read more

Interrupting Prof Adigun Agbaje’s Birthday

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', CODESRIA, Deconstruction, First Class, Gramsci, Hegemony, NAFTA, NANS, NPSA, Things Fall Apart, Zapatista MovementNo CommentsViews:

University of Ibadan political scientist, Prof Adigun Agbaje was a year older recently. It is either that he doesn’t particularly fancy the culture of elaborate festivities for a birthday or... Read more