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The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: History, OAU – Ife, Paradoxes of colonialism and the potentials of liberation, Rest in power, The Minority Report & Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1976), UI, Voice for the voiceless and a bulwark for the marginalized, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘Father-figure of radicalism’No CommentsViews:

By Fabian Okoye Prof. Segun Osoba has taken a final bow, but his flame is still blazing, fierce, defiant and unquenchable. His departure is not only that of a scholar, but of a patriot whose... Read more

A Blast from the Past in the Magazine Journalism of Nigeria’s ‘The Analyst’

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Anticolonial radicalism, Archives of Nigerian radicalism, CDD, Communism, Kwame Nkrumah, NIGERIA, Non-alignment, Pan-Africanist, PRP, Tafawa Balewa, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘ Fitila’1 CommentViews:

Intervention republishes below a piece originally titled “We are Producing, They are Eating” in Africa Is A Country where it was originally published on a creative commons terms. It has been... Read more

De-securitising Restructuring in Prof Alkasum Abba’s Nationalist Summoning

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'Historic Block', ABU School of History’, BOKO HARAM, GNU, IPOB, Yusuf Bala Usman1 CommentViews:

No voice can have been as shattering of narratives consciously and unconsciously embodying break-up of Nigeria as Alkasum Abba’s edict delivered last Sunday in Kano, (See Ignorance, Politica... Read more

Yusuf Bangura Turns 70

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, IMF/World Bank, Thandika Mkandawire, UNRISD, Yusuf Bala UsmanNo CommentsViews:

Intrusive details from Facebook throws it at everyone that he is 70 years old today. That is Dr. Yusuf Bangura, the Sierra Leone born political economist who is as well known in Nigeria as i... Read more