Tag: politics
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Northern Nigeria Stalled
One thing the colonial economy has consistently been criticised for is its failure to develop the productive forces in Northern Nigeria and to build a capitalist economy that would transform the peasantry. The British colonial economy was simply content with the extraction of surplus value from the peasant producers who were compelled through deliberate policies…
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Religion, Accountability, and the Changing Dynamics of Northern Nigeria
I have always advocated for religious freedom and opposed the manipulation of religion by elites to achieve political ends, a practice that has long been woven into the political culture of Northern Nigeria. The instrumentalisation of religion is not unique to less developed or traditionally structured societies; the difference between such societies and advanced liberal…
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El-Rufa’i: The Prophet of Neoliberalism (Originally posted on Facebook during the heated debate on the Sacking of health workers for embarking on strike action in May 2021)
Don’t just blame el-Rufai; you should also blame the broader principles of neoliberalism underpinning his actions. Neoliberal capitalism has always had its mission, at least in theory, as the expansion of frontiers of accumulation for the capitalist ruling class. Since the 1970s, the capitalist world has gradually abandoned Keynesian capitalism, which is more humane, with…
The Kaleidoscopic World of Lawal Hussein 