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Africa Needs a Coordinated Approach to Internationalisation

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Agenda 2063, Ajayi Crowther University, Continental Education Strategy for Africa, DRC, Europe, Internationalisation, North America, Open universities, Tanzania, UNISA, University of Kigali, University of the WitwatersrandNo CommentsViews:

With as much as about USD$17,000 visa deposit requirement by some African countries, the ‘mission impossible’ alarm was bound to be heard sooner than later about internationalis... Read more

A Dialectical-Materialist Perspective on the Minorities Question in Nigeria and National Development

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Marxism, Middle – Belt, Minorities, Nationalities, Niger Delta, Northern region, Stalin, Willinks CommissionNo CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki ‎”Thus, a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people”, J. V. Stalin The making of a community of people into a nation is... Read more

Keeping Chris Kwaja’s Small Scale Philanthropy in View

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Acrimony, Annual Schools Essay competition, Boys, Development, Girls, Governor Caleb Mutfwang, Philanthropy, Plateau StateNo CommentsViews:

Philanthropy has a way of resonating because, without it, life would be too hard for those whom development has left behind across the world. It is on this count that any whiff of philanthro... Read more

D S Ibrahim Collapses Identity Fault Lines As Christians, Muslims, Others Converge @ His Burial in Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Christians, Danlami Samuel, Kano, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Muslims, Old North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Identity boundaries and fault lines collapsed temporarily earlier today as Nigeria lowered a barrier breaking elder. Christians, Muslims and others travelled to bear witness to the burial of... Read more

The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more

The Benue Fruit Abundance Scandal

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Food Basket of the Nation', Agrarian transformation, Aper Aku, Fruits, George Akume, Hyacinth Alia, J. S Tarka, Stephen LawaniNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is simply impossible to be in Benue State for a whole week as I was recently without feeling embarrassed that a state awash with diverse quality fruits on that scale ever... Read more

Rescuing Political Science

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Ancient Greek, Constitutional democracy, Interpretivism, Liberal democracy, Plato’s Academy, Political Science, Positivism, Woodrow WilsonNo CommentsViews:

The last but one sentence of this piece from Voegelinview warrants posting it here even as it might not appeal to every reader! As an academic discipline, political science is relatively new... Read more

D. S. Ibrahim To Be Buried in Zaria Saturday, May 31st, 2025

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Anglican Communion, Dan Masanin, Danlami Samuel, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Old North, St Bartholomew Cathedral, Wusasa, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Mallam Danlami Samuel (D. S) Ibrahim, the Dan masanin Wusasa, is to be buried Saturday, May 31st, 2025. He died last Friday, May 23rd, 2025. Family announcement to that effect indicated that... Read more

‘Shift the Discourse from Decolonisation to Dehegemonisation’

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African universities, Decolonisation, Dehegemonisation, Dependency, Geopolitical tension, Innovation, Internationalisation, Knowledge, UncertaintyNo CommentsViews:

By Damtew Teferra For more than half a century African universities have been fully invested in denouncing colonisation and exalting decolonisation. In a piece, ‘From dumb decolonisation to... Read more

OTUWA Grooms Information Management Warriors Ahead of a West Africa Wide Offensive Against Medical Tourism

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ECOWAS, Global Health Governance, Information management, Media toolkit, Medical tourism, OTUWA, Public goods principle, Public healthcare delivery, Strategic Communication, West Africa, Workers and citizensNo CommentsViews:

The information management dimension of the impending offensive against medical tourism is now in place. This follows the end of a virtual high-impact regional training session on ‘Strategic... Read more