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Cuba is Not Afraid – President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Cuba, Electricity, Fuel, General Assembly, International Peoples’ Assembly, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
Cuba is Not Afraid  - President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

American pressure on Cuba has not left the government in disarray or in adjustment of focus. Although thrown into crisis especially of fuel and electricity due to the American blockade, deta... Read more

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The Roots and Ills of Godfatherism in Third World Politics

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Asia, Europe, Godfatherism, Ideology, Kingmakers, Patron-client, Policy debates, Prebendalism, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
The Roots and Ills of Godfatherism in Third World Politics

By Comrade Sanusi A. S. Maikudi, FNIM I read with keen interest the thoughtful piece by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi titled “The Futility of Political Godfatherism.” He rightly highlighted h... Read more

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Why Elon Musk – Donald Trump Falling-out Should Surprise, Worry You

Posted By: adminon: June 07, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Capitalists, Class, DONALD TRUMP, Elite, Elon Musk, Impeachment, Marx, Patronage, Sophistication, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
Why Elon Musk – Donald Trump Falling-out Should Surprise, Worry You

There is nothing abnormal in two friends, brothers, husband and wife and so on quarreling. Political psychologists say there is no relationship which is genuine but from which quarrelling wo... Read more

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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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Remove Cuba from Terrorism List, Nigerian Movement Demands of the US

Posted By: adminon: May 30, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Angola, Bay of Pig, Cuba, Namibia, Socialism, Terrorism, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
Remove Cuba from Terrorism List, Nigerian Movement Demands of the US

The Nigeria Movement of Solidarity With Cuba is asserting itself, insisting on its own conditionalities for the United States authorities and conveying same in its own vocabulary. Read on! N... Read more

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Henry Kissinger at 100

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2023In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, Detente, Kissinger on the war of the sexes, Nixon, Quincy Adams, United States, VietnamNo CommentsViews:
Henry Kissinger at 100

It doesn’t seem there will be any time soon when opinion about Henry Kissinger will not be divided about his person and role in the world on account of his pre-eminence in intellectualising... Read more

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At 79, Angela Davis is Still Fighting for a Better World

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Angela Davies, Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher Alberto Toscano, United States, “preventive counter-revolution”No CommentsViews:
At 79, Angela Davis is Still Fighting for a Better World

Angela Davies was 79 last Friday and Boston Review did not forget to mark the birthday but by intellectualizing her, a package to which the piece below served as a kind of preface. Of course... Read more

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NIIA Pays Tribute to Its Former D-G, Prof George Obiozor

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Boy George', Columbia University, Cyprus, Israel, Nationalist, NIIA family, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
NIIA Pays Tribute to Its Former D-G, Prof George Obiozor

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) has gone into a mourning mood over the death of a former Director-General of the institute, Prof George Obiozor. The statement by Prof... Read more

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‘Why is She Here?’: The Nigerian Herder’s Daughter Who Became UN Deputy Chief

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Amina Mohammed, Antonio Guterres, Ban Ki-moon, DONALD TRUMP, Kaduna, Lake Chad, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
'Why is She Here?': The Nigerian Herder’s Daughter Who Became UN Deputy Chief

Intervention reproduces the UK based The Guardian‘s close up on Amina Mohammed, Nigeria’s former Minister for Environment who, in the paper’s words, is a mother of six  who... Read more

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Tanzanian Opposition Leader to Nigeria: Come and Take President Magufuli Off Our Back

Posted By: adminon: November 13, 2016In: GovernanceTags: CCM, DONALD TRUMP, Hilary Clinton, IMF, Jakaya Kikwete, NLC, President Magufuli, Professor Baregu, Professor Okello Oculi, Tanzanian, United States, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Tanzanian Opposition Leader to Nigeria:  Come and Take President Magufuli Off Our Back

Part 1 By Adagbo ONOJA Professor Mwesiga Baregu, the Stanford educated Tanzanian political scientist would be the first to tell you that he was the chief strategist of the opposition in that... Read more

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