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The Bishop David Oyedepo-owned Covenant University had its 40th Public Lecture Series today at the Covenant University Chapel in Ota, Ogun State. The speaker was Prof. Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, PhD. The theme of the lecture was ‘The End Of Politics? Reclaiming Humanity In An Age Of Biopower And Necropolitics’. In attendance were the Dr. David O. Oyedepo (Chancellor Covenant University), Professor Charles K. Ayo (Vice Chancellor Covenant University),Board of Regents, Senate, Management, Faculty, Staff & Students of the university.

For those not in the know, Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, one of the daughters of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, is a Professor of African and International Politics with interests in the fields of socio-political memory, the politics of disaster, critical development theory, human rights and the politics of African Cinema. Her publications include Socio-Political Scaffolding and the Construction of Change, co-edited with Kelechi Kalu (Africa World Press, 2008), Reframing Contemporary Africa, co-edited with Kiki Edozie (CQ Press 2009) and Invoking the Past, Conjuring the Nation.
Her work on democratic development, collective memory and cathartic violence has been published in several scholarly journals including the Journal of African and Asian Studies, the Journal of Third World Studies and West Africa Review. Dr Soyinka-Airewele received her PhD in International Studies from the University of Birmingham, U.K and prior to joining Ithaca College, she taught at Colgate University, New York.

She has served as the International Director of ACT Africa, the first female Vice-President and President of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Co Vice-President of the Ithaca City of Asylum, and is currently the President of the African Studies and Research Forum, Inc. Her current research engages the socio-political discourses of popular African cinema and their fluid interpretations of transforming identities and issues in global and local spaces.

tare22:
This may sound silly but we have more Illiterates ruling the literates in Nigeria....

alfred5:
And that's how you want Buhari to rule you?

tare22:
No waaaaayyyyy my brother just pointing how sad the situation is.... Imagine someone with no certi trying to drag sit with a Phd holder.. Some with no certi been the one controlling a Prof.

ALKARULEZZ:
Who she help?