BOLAJI AKINYEMI: AN “INTER-LECTUAL” OR JUST AN INTELLECTUAL?

  • Dr Dapo Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10990879
Keywords: Inter-lectual, Conceptual Comprehensibility, Debate, Conservatism, International Affairs

Abstract

Bolaji Akinyemi’s enigmatic personality and his perceptive understanding of foreign policy issues has compelled an interrogation into his disciplinary status and academic expertise in the field of international relations. His versatility in the social sciences has incommoded the controversy of specialization in the academia. Akinyemi’s prodigy drives international affairs into the route of international relations thus energizing a healthy debate on the radicalization of various academic disciplines which possess the potential for contending collision. This paper provides a nexus for orthodoxy and idealism, radicalism and conservatism, realism and liberalism. Adopting the analytical approach, the paper submits that conceptual comprehensibility is an elixir for classificatory appropriateness.

Akinyemi’s disputations in many of his work in and outside the academia are sufficient to categorize him as an inter-lectual.

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Author Biography

Dr Dapo Thomas

Dr Dapo Thomas is a senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of the book: The Political Economy of Nigeria-United States Relations. The book published in 2018 explores the economics and politics of power.

Dr Thomas specializes in relations between the United States and the Global South countries particularly Nigeria. He has authored incisive and engaging articles in some international and reputable journals. Some of these articles include; Errand War: An Observer's Perspective on the Russian-Ukrainian War, Russia's War Maxim and Paranoid Parallelism, The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970): A theoretical Resurrection, Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970): New Theories, Old Problem, Fresh Crisis, The Evolution of the Electoral Process and the Dramatics of Bene-Clientelism in Nigeria, When the Past is Dead, What is History doing Alive?, A road metaphor on Nigeria’s foreign policy and Corruption War, Trial Carnivals and Molebi Theory, etc.

Dr Thomas is a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Association of Foreign Relations Practitioners of Nigeria and also, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Relations, International Law and Diplomacy.

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Dapo Thomas, ‘Bolaji Akinyemi @ 70: A Tribute’, The Nation, Sunday, 1 January, 2012.
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Dapo Thomas, Tribute, 2012.
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Dapo Thomas, Tribute, 2012.
Bolaji Akinyemi, Essays on Bolaji Akinyemi, Lagos: Nigeria, 2002, p231.
Donna Lee, p21.
Sylvester Monye, ‘Bolaji Akinyemi @ 80: Brilliant and Magnificent’, The Guardian, 2 January, 2022.
Sylvester Monye, 2022.
Nigerian Tribune, Akinyemi’s Bomb, 21 August 1987.
Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man, London: England, 1974, p339.
Dapo Thomas, ‘Bolaji Akinyemi @ 80: Another Tribute’, The Nation, Sunday, 16 January, 2022.
Sylvester Monye, 2022.
Published
2024-04-18
How to Cite
Thomas, D. D. (2024). BOLAJI AKINYEMI: AN “INTER-LECTUAL” OR JUST AN INTELLECTUAL?. GPH-International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, 7(03), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10990879
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Vol 7 No 03 (2024): GPH-International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
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