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If You Had to Invent a University, What Would It Look Like?

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Curricular, Knowledge production, Pedagogy, SOUTH AFRICA, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
If You Had to Invent a University, What Would It Look Like?

By Mark Paterson and Thierry M Luescher  Universities must abandon old-fashioned ideas about their roles and the kinds of qualifications they offer if they are to meet student needs and serv... Read more

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2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: BookspaceTags: African Union Mock Summit, Kano, Northern Nigeria, Philosophy, UNESCO, WTO Mock SummitNo CommentsViews:
2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

By Yusuf Musa Philosophy is a discipline that enhances the ability of the brain to think and conceptualize ideas, it arms us with the ability to explain difficult phenomena and eliminate amb... Read more

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BUK Launches Hausa Dictionary

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2022In: SpectacleTags: 'linguistic turn', Meaning, Reality, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
BUK Launches Hausa Dictionary

The world itself has no names for anything in the world or everything in the world would have the same name in every languages. We know that is not the case. Instead, it is human beings who... Read more

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In the Aftermath of UNESCO Status for Congolese Rumba Dance

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: BBC News, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Papa Wemba, Rumba, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
In the Aftermath of UNESCO Status for Congolese Rumba Dance

According to the BBC which ran the story under the headline, Congolese rumba wins Unesco protected status, it is one of the most influential genres of African music and dance. And it now has... Read more

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It is January 20th and Time to Remember Amilcar Cabral Again

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Fidel Castro, IMF/World Bank, Kwame Nkrumah, PAIGC, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
It is January 20th and Time to Remember Amilcar Cabral Again

It is January 20th again and time to remember Amilcar Cabral, the guerrilla intellectual superintending the struggle for independence for Guinea and Cape Verde. He was machined to death by a... Read more

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The Joy of Reading in Time of Pandemic

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, UNESCO, William Shakespeare, World Book DayNo CommentsViews:
The Joy of Reading in Time of Pandemic

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed* To promote reading, publishing and copyright, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) set aside April 23rd of each year as World... Read more

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Quality Crisis in Education Due to Failure of Leadership in Nigeria – National Conversation

Posted By: adminon: April 23, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ORADI, SDGs, TETFund, UBEC, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
Quality Crisis in Education Due to Failure of Leadership in Nigeria - National Conversation

There is no let up in the expression of public concern with perceived crisis of quality of education in Nigeria. A National Conversation on Quality Education in Nigeria held at the Yar’Adua... Read more

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But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 17, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, NIIA, UI, UNESCO, UNILAG, UNN - NsukkaNo CommentsViews:
But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

The first part of this special feature was devoted to demonstrating the contention that but for the developmental tragedy that has befallen Nigeria, her founding fathers planned the first, s... Read more

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Nigeria Grapples With a National Definition of Hate/Dangerous Speech

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: 'Call to Action', CITAD, INEC, NBA, NEPU, NPC, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Grapples With a National Definition of Hate/Dangerous Speech

It was a meta-babble of some sort today as top flight professors, Heads of Departments of Mass Communication, legal practitioners, diverse activists and funders ignited an attempt at arrivin... Read more

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Discourse and Conflict in Onugbo Ml’Oko, the Classic on the Idoma Universe

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'Inter-textual-turn', Adoka, Audu Ogbeh, Conflict, Discourse, Hans Morgenthau, Idomoid, Nasarawa State University, Otukpo, Prof. Samsudeen Amali, R G Armstrong, Ugboklo, UNESCO, University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin, University of WisconsinNo CommentsViews:
Discourse and Conflict in Onugbo Ml’Oko, the Classic on the Idoma Universe

Discourse and Conflict in Onugbo Ml’Oko, the Classic on the Idoma Universe By Adagbo Onoja What might a fictional depiction of 20th century rural Idoma have to offer conflict analysis in 21s... Read more

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