Book Title: J.S. Tarka: The Dilemma of Ethnic Minority Politics in Nigeria Author: Godwin Nyor Hembe Publishers: Aboki Publishers, Makurdi Pages: pp. xxiv+453 Year: 2003 ISBN: 978-8098-03-7 This is a retrospective take on Professor Godwin Nyor Hembe’s magnum opus, published almost twenty years ago. It offers a fundamental analysis of Nigerian politics from the ethnicContinue reading “Nigerian Politics and the Fear of Political Marginalisation”
Author Archives: Terhemba Wuam
Building Democracy without Tyranny: Lessons for Nigeria
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Publisher: Tim Duggan Books, 2017 ISBN: Ebook, 9780804190121 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century was a response to Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 elections that made him the 45th president of the United States of America. AccordingContinue reading “Building Democracy without Tyranny: Lessons for Nigeria”
Rev. Kaduma Bahago and a Century of Transformation in Religion and Society in Southern Kaduna
Book Title: Rev. Kaduma Bahago 1919-2000 Authors: Inuwa K. Bahago and Nehemiah I. Madugu Publishers: Kaduma Bahago Evangelistic Foundation, Kaduna Year: 2020 Pages: xiv+ 142 ISBN: 978-978-986-529-1 Terhemba Wuam The art of biography as the study of man and his times gains credence in this volume on Rev. Kaduma Bahago. In Rev. Kaduma Bahago 1919-2000,Continue reading “Rev. Kaduma Bahago and a Century of Transformation in Religion and Society in Southern Kaduna”
The Life in the Pain of Living and Motherhood
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Fruit of Pain, A Novel Author: Mabel Adinya Ade Publisher: Sevhage Publishers Makurdi Year: 2021 Pages: Viii + 95 ISBN: 978-978-58437-6-7 All stories, are stories about life. Mabel Adinya’s Fruit of Pain, is even more so. It looks at, though through fiction at the travails and challenges that faces women inContinue reading “The Life in the Pain of Living and Motherhood”
Looking Back to Look Forward: A Public Historian Revives Historical Interest in Abinsi and Reclaims the Awanu-Jukun Heritage in the Lower Benue Valley
Terhemba Wuam Book Title:The Jukun of Abinsi: A Socio-Political History Author: Joshua Antinyi Asemanya Publisher: Aboki Publishers, Makurdi Year: 2018 Pages: 264 The history of several colonial towns in Nigeria resonate with the question of what might have been, has history not taken a different course or direction in the lives of such cities. Calabar,Continue reading “Looking Back to Look Forward: A Public Historian Revives Historical Interest in Abinsi and Reclaims the Awanu-Jukun Heritage in the Lower Benue Valley”
In Their Own Image: The Military and Reorganisation of the National Polity
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Democratic Institutions and Nigerian Military Regimes,1966-1999 Author: Margaret Aladi Shaibu Publisher: Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna Year: 2018 Pages: 439 The military have been a dominant feature in the post-colonial history of Nigeria. Dr. Margaret Aladi Shaibu’s work Democratic Institutions and Nigerian Military Regimes, 1966-1999 published by the Nigerian Defence Academy inContinue reading “In Their Own Image: The Military and Reorganisation of the National Polity”
Impact of Wars and Integration of Groups in the Middle Benue Valley
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Wars and Changing Patterns of Inter-Group Relations in the Middle Benue Valley of Nigeria c.1300-1900 Author: Bem Japhet Audu Publishers: NDA Publishers, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna Pages: 170 War is given a bad rap. Often justifiably so because of the human suffering that comes with it. Yet the three things –Continue reading “Impact of Wars and Integration of Groups in the Middle Benue Valley”
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