Philosophic-Historical Truths Confer Juventus Winner of 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League

This article is a summarization of a research paper titled The Philosophy of the UEFA Champions League. Both the summary and the paper puts forward the hypothesis which seeks to prove and establish the real existence of metaphysics in the cosmos. Particularly that Eyjafjallajokul of April 2010 moved owing to call from human beings; an urgent call to the abstract force of planet earth, the spirit, to spring into action. Taking the UEFA Champions League as our laboratory, the conclusion will be reached when the order of Juventus, Liverpool and Bayern Munich emerge as champions ahead of FC Barcelona in the coming years

Performing myths, ritualising modernity: dancing for Nomkhubulwana and the reinvention of Zulu tradition

The European colonial expansion T in Africa disrupted and in instances stopped the celebration and development of traditional values in the colonised territories. This disruption is more acute in southern Africa, especially in the South African territory of Zululand, where the European economic and political policies led to a state of apartheid, which existed from 1948 to 1991, and uneven development afterwards. Several of the nations in the formerly colonised areas are trying to re-create and re-form their traditional values. The AmaZulu, who occupy the north-eastern part of South Africa, are a nation of proud antecedents and rich traditional values and they are now evolving practices and ideas to re-create the lost cultural heritage of the people. A part of the cultural rejuvenation is the annual Nomkhubulwana (Nomdede)festival in celebration of the Virgin Queen. This paper highlights some aspects of traditional revival in the 1990s, after the apartheid period when the nation was trying to reform its relevance

Once Upon Four Robbers: the magic of subversion (introduction)

Once Upon Four Robbers is the first in the series of dramas that Osofisan refers to as the ‘magic boon’ plays. Written between 1976 and 1978, the play was premiered at the Arts Theatre, University of Ibadan in March 1979. The other play in the series is Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels. The central motif of the magic boon plays is borrowed or adapted from the world of folklore. A group of persons in anguish or dilemma suddenly obtains a magical power from a mysterious agent. The power is capable of changing their circumstances as long as they adhere strictly to expressed injunctions. Osofisan confesses to be fascinated by the possibilities that magic presents in dramatising societal issues that may otherwise prove difficult to discuss, ‘especially when you are criticising the government.’ The dramatist planned ten magic boon plays but only two have been written, or produced so far. Four Robbers is popular with students because of the topicality of the theme of armed robbery and the ability to be produced on a bare stage, without a cumbersome setting. The play is also adaptable; and though the prescribed setting is market place, producers have sometimes changed that setting to a bank, a beach or casino. Four Robbers is set in a market square, which is a symbolic location in Yoruba worldview. Osofisan wrote the play to contribute to the debate on public execution of armed robbers in Nigeria. The play examines the moral and legal definitions of ‘robbery’ in the wider sense, and the implications of the Armed Robbery and Firearms Decree 47 of 1970 on the public psyche

Moving from Economic Recession to Recovery: A Case for Economic Growth Risk (EGR) Strategic Management Model

This paper argued that strategic government policy catalysis effects at engineering economic growth have Economic Growth Risk as side effect and there is need for Economic Growth Risk to be strategically managed to achieve long run path to economic growt

Performing identities: re-creation and representation of African performance aesthetics

There are several factors that inform the popular inscriptions of identity and sense of belonging in writers of African and Caribbean descent in contemporary Britain. The dramatists explore their social and cultural identity, or the idea that identities are created due to certain cultural and possibly political stimuli; but what is gradually being revealed about these writers and their writing from their drama, is that culture, rather than race, is more imperative in the creation and exploration of the various identities

Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in Nigeria

The paper seeks to examine the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Nigeria using the Johansen and Juselius Co-integration technique based on the Cobb-Douglas growth model covering the period 1980-2008. The study adopted also conducted the Vector Error Correction Modelling and the Pairwise Granger Causality test in order to empirically ascertain the error correction adjustment and direction of causality between electricity consumption and economic growth. The study found the existence of a unique co-integrating relationship among the variables in the model with the indicator of electricity consumption impacting significantly on growth. Also, the study shows an evidence of bi-directional causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth. Prominent among the policy recommendation, is the need to strengthen the effectiveness of energy generating agencies by ensuring periodic replacement of worn-out equipment in order to drastically curtail transmission power losses

Fracturing the insularity of the global state: war and conflict in Moira Buffini’s Welcome to Thebes

Conflicts have always played a role in human society, but the recent global and local economic conditions have led to an increase in their intensity, and complexity. States are under siege from marauding powers whose intention is to impose their political will for economic benefit. These invading powers sometimes metamorphose as mercurial peacekeepers, impatient to humanise their plunder and present a passionate view of justice, even as they supplant the legitimate authority of the ‘colonised’ state. Moira Buffini’s Welcome to Thebes is a contemporary re-presentation of Thebes as an African country emerging from a ruinous internal conflict into a chaotic and disordered peace. Weaving the classical Greek past with recent modern African historical perspectives, Buffini explores the dislocation of power and the disjunction between reconciliation and revenge. In this paper, I investigate how war and conflict resolution contribute to demythologising the authority of the global state, in the way they infiltrate the complacency of the ruling powers, and expose their insularity