April 5, 2025
Seun Kolade
Book reviews

Book Review: Pedagogy of the oppressed

  Author: Paulo Freire      Publisher: The Continuum Publishing Company                               Date: 1970 When Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the world was in

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You must bring the change

  A few days ago I was calling on citizens to reflect on what has turned out, unwittingly, to be a powerfully revolutionary

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Book Review: The Mystery of Capital

Author: Hernando De Soto Transworld Publishers, 2000 276 pages “The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its hour of crisis”. This is Hernando

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Nigeria: another way

Introduction The modern nation of Nigeria was born in 1960 amidst fanfare. As of then, forty six years had elapsed since the British

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In Search of the Nigerian Digital Humanist

Let me start with a story. One early morning in 2013, one of my professors at the Institute of African Studies, Professor Sola

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The competitive advantage of nations

 (2nd edition) Author: Michael E. Porter Publisher: Palgrave, New York, 1998 855 pages Unlike David Landes’ Wealth and Poverty of Nations, which was

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2015: of simple solutions and missed opportunity

The sorry tale of the Nigerian state is such that much, if not all, the talk about the 2015 election has been how

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Models. Paradigms. Constructs . Of development in Nigeria.

One of the reasons why Nigeria is still backward is not entirely blamable to corruption. The lack of governance models. And a large

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Critical thinking for strategic polls by Jesse Adeniji

Chairman Mao and the Communist party wanted to annihilate all forms of religion in their bid to build their own type of society.

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Linda Ikeji: Of Nigerian Networked Publics and the Crisis of Shared Spectatoriality

To share, or not to share, that is a daily question in new media environments. It is also one the architectural possibilities Web

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