Essays

Yes, Mr. President, our problems have to do with process, wuruwuru process, and you’re the greatest embodiment of it!

Debate as a class struggle

Introduction to Nigeria 1900-1999

A blond, blue-eyed, Nordic Jesus in the iconography of the Ethopian Orthodox Church

Christmas will come and Christmas will go, alas

Eni rere lo: For Segun Adelugba (1942 -2017)

Red is the colour of blood; it is also the colour of revolution: fresh winds from Alabama

A political tribalism, beyond race in America: what kind of crisis does this pose for our world

Murder of a leftist-feminist

Even in a cesspool, life reasserts itself – an unromantic, critical postscript

‘Ali must go’ and the Nigerian Left

How do universities that can hardly run undergraduate practicals engage in research

Buhari’s new warfront of battle against educational decay; some lessons from his stalled war on corruption

Looking Back: 40 Years Ago

Please, Stop Humiliating Teachers

Was it Adorno, Benjamin or Althusser? – for Dapo Olorunyomi @ 60

Recalling the Russian Revolution

Mainagate = Ekitigate? Fayose is capitalizing on Buhari/APC betrayals of their “change” agenda – with their support!

Buhari and Prospects of Reboot

Angola student activists and the Murtala Muhammed regime: a convergence forgotten, as if it never happened

A short people’s guide to the political history of Nigeria, (1967-2017)

Why are the people not clapping their hands? Because predatoriness has not stopped!

Restructuring and chapter II of the Constitution

2017/10/01 Comrade professor, you’re caught between a rock and a hard place