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If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: 'Inevitability of Instability', 'Nupe About Turn', ABU, Alhaji Turi Mohammed, Community Action for Popular Participation - CAPP, James O'Connel, New Nigerian, Northern establishment, Prof Jerry Gana, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

American artist, Orson Scott Card, must be right to submit that “…there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.” Alth... Read more

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Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

Posted By: adminon: September 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Africa, American science, Decoloniality, Discourse theory, Marxism, Permacrisis, Zaria School of History, ‘Hegemony and Strategy’No CommentsViews:
Remembering Bala Usman @ an Unsettling Time in Radical Social Theory

By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more

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African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, Bala/Bangura Debate, Dar es Salam, Decolonial Historiography, Historiography, Ibadan, Identity politics, IMF/World Bank, MacArthur, Mock OAU/AU Summit, Nation building, Nigerian economic crisis, Northern Nigerian History Research Scheme, NUC, State building, Zaria School of History, ‘FASS model’No CommentsViews:
African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

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The Language Game Begins Over Late Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BISA, Derrida, Ghali Umar Na'Abbah, Ibadan School of History, Jos School of Political Science, Ludwig Wittgeinstein, Mazrui, NPSA, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Prof Istifanus Zabadi, Prof Sunday Ochoche, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
The Language Game Begins Over Late Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu

By Adagbo Onoja Eminent scholar and activist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu is harvesting appellations across the world a day after his demise. Bits and pieces available to Intervention indicated... Read more

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Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the ‘ABU, Zaria School of History’

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Bala Usman, Dependency Theory, FASS, Ibadan School of History, Standpoint epistemology, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the 'ABU, Zaria School of History'

It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more

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Reflecting on the Prof Anthony Asiwaju Generational Paradox in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', ASUU, Ibadan School of History, Realism, US International Relations, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Reflecting on the Prof Anthony Asiwaju Generational Paradox in Nigeria

The public presentation later today of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy presents an... Read more

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Making the Connection in the Concurrent Unfolding of Prof Remi Aiyede and Dr. Innocent Jooji

Posted By: adminon: December 02, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', After Hegemony, Huntington, Ibadan School of History, Ibadan School of Political Science, Institutionalism, Veritas University - Abuja, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Making the Connection in the Concurrent Unfolding of Prof Remi Aiyede and Dr. Innocent Jooji

Many would find it difficult to, on the face of it, make a connection between the twosome. But there are many things that connects them, separated as they seem by career line, location and c... Read more

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Language, Nationality and National Integration: A Call for A National Languages Policy for Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 10, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Educated native', Confucius, Ibn Khaldun, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Language, Nationality and National Integration: A Call for A National Languages Policy for Nigeria

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The author, a former Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York and a product of the ‘Zaria School of History’ and its nationalist... Read more

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Reading Philip Akpen’s Politics of Colonial Infrastructure Provisioning in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2021In: FlashbackTags: 'Spatial fix', Ake, Development strategy, Emplotment, Hayden White, Zaria School of History, ‘Maigani’No CommentsViews:
Reading Philip Akpen’s Politics of Colonial Infrastructure Provisioning in Nigeria

Dr. Philip Akpen’s book, Infrastructures and Urban Amenities in Colonial Northern Nigeria is an additionally interesting book, coming after Historians are still not sure if there is History... Read more

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So, What Killed Reuben Ziri, the Genius of Both the Zaria and Ibadan School of History?

Posted By: adminon: June 14, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Dr. Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Government House - Dutse, Hepatitis B, Ibadan School of History, Nupe Emirate Council, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
So, What Killed Reuben Ziri, the Genius of Both the Zaria and Ibadan School of History?

Officially, he died of Hepatitis B infection. That is what our stethoscope wielding friends would say. They could be right but such a verdict doesn’t tell us the context in which an infectio... Read more

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