A Neglected Historio-Therapuetic Response to Covid19 Pandemic: African Ebers Papyrus Revisited
Colonialism has grave consequence on Africa given the western values it installed and the dislodging of African values; if not, how could one explain decades of importation of vaccines for treatment of the bulk of African population without looking inward to homegrown remedies. This is what fires the attempt to explore the relevance of Ebers Papyrus that appeared to have been undermined in Africa’s response to Covid-19 pandemic. The paper finds that Ebers Papyrus is o...
The Establishment of the Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate: An inquest into the Background History of the 1804 Jihad in Hausa Land, 210 years After
January first 2014, Nigeria became one hundred years after the popular 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates by Sir Fredrick Lord Lugard. The centenary commemoration of the Nigerian State generated very serious scholarly attention than any other issues in the annals of Nigerian history. While scholars channels energy in writing on the 1914 episode or epoch, very little attention have been given to the 1804 Jihad of Sheikh Shehu Usman Danfodiyo which brought the So...
African Ebers Papyrus Revisited: A Neglected Historio-Therapeutic Response to Covid19 Pandemic
Colonialism has grave consequence on Africa given the western value it installed and dislodged African value. If not how could one explain decades of reckless importation of vaccines for treatment of the bulk of African populations without looking inward to home-grown remedies. This is what fires the interventionist call for revisiting of the Ebers Papyrus that appeared to have been undermined in Africa’s response to Covid 19 pandemic. The paper notes that Ebers Papyrus is one of the oldest...
HISTORICISING NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTEGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN STATE: A CENTENARY DISCOURSE
This paper attempts a historical exploration of issues of national elections as it impinges on Nigeria’s security and integration one hundred years after the famous 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates. Against the backdrop of the country’s challenges of imbalance or lopsided federal structure, the usually elevated problems of ethnicity, absence of broadminded leadership, minority-majority tussles among others, the nation’s politics has been f...
The 2015 Historic Presidential Election in Nigeria: A Contribution to African Revolutionary Framework
ContentsDedication--- --- --- --- --- --- --- iiiForeword--- --- --- --- --- --- --- viiAcknowledgements--- --- --- --- --- --- ixPreface--- --- --- --- --- --- --- xiiiIntroduction--- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives--- --- --- 4Background to Party Politics in Nigeria--- --- --- 23The 2015 Revolutionary Presidential Election XE "Presidential Election" in Nigeria--- --- --- --- --- --- --- 32Towards Consolidating Nigerias 2015 Democratic Revolution XE "Rev...