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

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

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Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa, APC, BRICS, Hegemony, Karl Marx, Left, Marxism – Leninism, Neoliberalism, PDP, Popular culture, Right, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more

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Henry Kissinger Dies @ 100

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'Liberal World Order', Geopolitics, Harvard, Joseph Nye, President Xi Jinping, Princeton, US foreign policy, USSR, ‘Old friend’No CommentsViews:
Henry Kissinger Dies @ 100

The world has lost one of the most influential theorist and practitioner of foreign policy in the 20th and 21st century. He is Dr Henry Kissinger, a former American Secretary of State. Befor... Read more

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Could They Be Plotting the 50th Anniversary of ‘Ethnic Politics in Nigeria’?

Posted By: adminon: August 03, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Canonical, Enlightenment philosophy, ethnicity, Marx, Prof Okello Oculi, Reuben Ziri, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Could They Be Plotting the 50th Anniversary of 'Ethnic Politics in Nigeria'?

It is just three years away and it might not be too early if that is what Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, the author of Ethnic Politics in Nigeria and his junior brother in ethnicity and ethnic conflic... Read more

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Nigerian Marxists Plan Big on Centenary of Lenin’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, BRICS, Karl Marx, Marxism – Leninism, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Marxists Plan Big on Centenary of Lenin's Death

Marxist – Leninists in Nigeria appear to be among the first set of the faithful across the world to announce a programme of commemoration of the centenary of the passing of Vladimir Le... Read more

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In Death, Mikhail Gorbachev Turns a Refutation as Well as Confirmation of Marxist Theory of Agency

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Boris Yelstin, CPSU, Great October Revolution, Lenin, Marxism, Realism, USSRNo CommentsViews:
In Death, Mikhail Gorbachev Turns a Refutation as Well as Confirmation of Marxist Theory of Agency

Until an insider writes on the last 30 years of his life, (1991 – 2021), it would be difficult to know how Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet... Read more

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Why Powerful States Lose Asymmetric Wars

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Booby traps, Chechnya, Civil defense, Contras, Guerrilla warfare, Ho Chi Ming, LICs, Mujaheddin, Nixon Doctrine, Roadside bombings, Suicide missions, Tora Bora, UNITA, USA, USSR, VietnamNo CommentsViews:
Why Powerful States Lose Asymmetric Wars

A 2021 retiree as a Professor of Political Science from the Richmond University in the United States of America but currently teaching at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, the... Read more

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The African World’s Debt to W.E.B. Du Bois

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Chairman Mao of China, CHINA, Double Consciousness, Dr. Nmandi Azikiwe, Jomo Kenyatta, Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:
The African World’s Debt to W.E.B. Du Bois

By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more

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How Could the Most Successful Ruling Class Fumble Disastrously in Afghanistan?

Posted By: adminon: August 17, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'New World', 9/11, Black Lives Matter, CIA, Declinism, Pakistan, Prof Paul Kennedy, Prof Robert Keohane, USSR, ‘City on the Hill’No CommentsViews:
How Could the Most Successful Ruling Class Fumble Disastrously in Afghanistan?

The American ruling class is, by considerable consensus, one if not the most successful ruling class in human history. This assertion rests on two counts. First is constructing and successfu... Read more

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As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2021In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Christendom, George Floyd, Internationalism, Islam, Left, Lenin, Marxism, National Question, Nationalism, USSR, ‘Grass to Grace’No CommentsViews:
As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

With just four more days to go, it is not gonna be a long wait before a statement from the Nigerian Left on the national question is made. That is a statement that could reverberate at the h... Read more

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In Memoriam of Prof. Sonni Gwale Tyoden, Scholar-Politician and Mentor, 1951-2025
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The Role of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nation-Building in Nigeria: Looking Back, Looking Around, and Confronting the Future

The Role of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nation-Building in Nigeria: Looking Back, Looking Around, and Confronting the Future

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Making the Invisible Visible in International Development: A Memorial Performance of Ojongo’s Triumph
Making the Invisible Visible in International Development: A Memorial Performance of Ojongo’s Triumph

Making the Invisible Visible in International Development: A Memorial Performance of Ojongo’s Triumph

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