Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- Once upon a time, we were witnesses to unending intellectual combats in Nigerian universities - contests between different schools of thought across multiple disciplines, particularly in the Arts and Social Sciences. The Cold War was raging, the Portuguese colonial empire was under siege, and the Apartheid regime faced mounting resistance. Nigerian universities became battlegrounds in the anti-Western, anti-imperialist struggle.

It was in this arena that BJ made an indelible mark as a scholar - reinterpreting, debunking, and reconstructing cultural and post-colonial theories. Across Nigerian universities, he developed a devoted following.

Among conflict theorists, BJ stood tall. He was an incisive and analytical thin...