Many are still in search of words to say anything serious yet as Africa and, indeed, the world woke up to the terrible reality of black South Africans violently taking it on fellow Africans... Read more
Intervention has just been informed that this compilation left out Thomas Picketty, the French economist, whose book, Capital in the Twenty First Century has not only sold more than a millio... Read more
It is not clear what Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi feels now for orgnising the 28th Anniversary of the creation of Kebbi State. Unless he is a believer in frank talk and critical analysis,... Read more
First to go from that unique constituency of scholars who sustained radical imagination of the global capitalist system was Andre Gunder Frank. He died in 2005. That is quite a long time ago... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The nexus between knowledge and emancipation means that Professor Eghosa Osaghae’s August 22nd, 2019 Inaugural Lecture at the University of Ibadan must be acted upon journali... Read more
The Economist from where this piece, except the illustrations, has been reproduced titled it “The winners and losers of England’s great university free-for-all”. With the rider – Elite unive... Read more
“The deployment of security men can only provide a temporary solution. …The long term and lasting solution to this deep-seated antagonistic relationship between the warring factions de... Read more
This must be the shortest of any biographical works on Nigeria’s first and last prime minister but, certainly, the most philosophically turbulent of such works on “the golden voice of Africa... Read more
Tuesday 27 August marked the 40th anniversary of the death of our father, Almamy Momoh Bangura. He died on 27 August 1979, two weeks before I took up a one year lectureship appointment at Da... Read more
In this, arguably, the punchiest synthesis of the ‘confusion’ unfolding in the UK, the writer asks the potent question: Is Boris Johnson the death of Britain’s democracy? By Jon Allsop* Brit... Read more
