Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)
As long as the framing of the African crisis is what will tie together the three other forms of power to be mobilised for continental emancipation, so long will the loss of any of the analyt... Read more
The search for a new Chief of Staff to the Nigerian president must, naturally, be on and might even have been decided by the time this piece is out since it would have become clear to the ca... Read more
There is this slogan that students of Global Health Governance joke with. “Where is the house WHO built?” It is a mockery of the World Health Organisation for having put no architecture in p... Read more
With the death of Mallam Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria has become the first country to provide evidence of the tight link between pandemics and nation... Read more
Determined to maintain the status of a state without a single case of COVID-19 infection in Nigeria, Jigawa State has bluntly rejected insinuations on the social media to the effect that the... Read more
In a move coinciding with the 37th anniversary of the death of Mallam Aminu Kano, leading Non-Governmental Organisations in the state are warning of a plausible breakdown of law and order an... Read more
Beauty, as the cliché goes, is in the eye of the beholder. There is no debate about that but from the same philosophical root comes the idea that meaning is what the consensus says it is. An... Read more
Question Now is Unlocking Nigeria Because, Long Before COVID-19, Nigeria Has Been On Lockdown Anyway
Dr Murtala Muhammad, activist academic with the Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, argues that, long before COVID-19, Nigeria had been on a prolonged lockdown, offering his ow... Read more
Historian and Vice Chancellor at United States International University – Africa, Prof Paul Tiyambe Zeleza explains why colleagues, friends and Africanists continue to pour out their hearts... Read more
Only two communities have so far benefitted from the Federal Government of Nigeria’s palliatives regime, investigation has shown. A survey by two NGOs – the Centre for Information Tech... Read more
