Allow me to begin with an important citation from a respected intellectual, Professor Issa Shivji.
“Today I want to address those intellectuals who still consider themselves producers of knowledge rather than assembly line supervisors of packaging industries. In a capitalist society divided into classes you have broadly two types of intellectuals: There are those who produce rationalisations, justifications, and mystifications to maintain and reproduce the status quo of inequality and inequity in favour of capital. These are the producers and purveyors of what we call hegemonic ideologies. Then there are those who question and challenge dominant knowledge and try to demystify and debunk hegemonic forms of knowledge and ideologies.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 28 2021
Like a poor boy with a new gift on Christmas.
How many other Ugandans need bullet-proof cars
To shield us from stray bullets let loose by brutes?”
Read a stanza to a poem the spit-fire Dr Stella Nyanzi posted on her Facebook wall during the week.
Its sentiments were raw, raising questions about Bobi Wine’s showboating on the tide of his good fortune to have a bulletproof car in a potential war zone.
Dr Nyanzi wasn’t done with her Bobi-baiting poetry, however. Her subsequent poem had the hit-or-miss charm of a kikomando breakfast.
For she then posted an erotic poem entitled “withdrawal,” which attempted to sexualise Bobi’s withdrawal of his election petition. Instead, it deposited the kind of profanity that would ensure an adult entrainment star laughs all the way to the bank.
History of divisive ethnic identities shows it s time Nigeria admits its role in enforcing them
By Muhammad Dan Suleiman & Benjamin Maiangwa - The Conversation
Artificial identities created by colonialists must be deconstructed to attain unity. - Source: Jorge Fernández/GettyImages Listen to article
The Nigerian state, as with other African countries, is trapped in a crisis of belonging. This is expressed through identity battles which sometimes harm people of “other” religions and ethnicities. Such battles have even led to a call for the state to be dissolved.
In our paper we trace the history of how this came about. We use frameworks provided by three philosophers and historians. To trace the first phase – what we refer to as the invented phase, from 1885 to 1914 – we use a framework by historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger . The second phase we describe as the imagined phase. For this, we draw on a framework provided by political historian Benedict Anderson.
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I have previously discussed the COVID-19 variants. But matters are arising, and that is the pre-occupation of this piece. It is about the vaccine dilemma in relation to Covid-19 and its variants. It would be recalled that experts had warned about the implication of coronavirus mutation for the scramble to acquire vaccines, still perceived now as the elixir. It was a warning against the Gbogbonise Syndrome, i.e., the cure-all obsession of the vaccine protagonists. The earlier forebodings have been proven right. The gamechanger is that mutation has occurred and would continue perhaps until perhaps man arrives at history by eliminating the sinister COVID-19.
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