By Mweha Msemo* Tanzania is a unique country in sub-Saharan Africa in having a single, widely used and accepted African national language that connects its entire population. Kiswahili – a l... Read more
It was a harvest of opinions as various shades of the power elite engaged the prospects of enduring democracy in Africa in Abuja. It was at the book presentation of Prof Isawa Elaigwu’s newe... Read more
The March 2018 Presidential run-off has come and gone but what was playing out and how did that happen? This is what this piece responds. This is the second and concluding part. By Yusuf Ban... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari danced into re-election politics in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city earlier today when he formally told the National Executive Council, (NEC) meeting of his party he... Read more
The March 2018 Presidential Run-off has come and gone but what was playing out and how did that happen? This is what this piece responds. The second part follows shortly. By Yusuf Bangura Th... Read more
If Bayero University were to be a country, it could be said to be at American economist, W. W. Rostow’s stage of take-off now. At its 34th Convocation ceremony staggered over last week, it a... Read more
By 2003 when the Workers Party won election and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shortened to ‘Lula’, became the president, Brazil was a virtual write off. The IMF was running the show, dictating... Read more
The paradox of a former president such as Lula who took Brazil into global power status, including the symbolic gesture of offering the IMF a bailout, going to jail would probably take time... Read more
The book, The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ 25 Years On: A Multidisciplinary Appraisal has been published on twenty five years of about the most controversial and the most contested theory of con... Read more
Corruption trials appear to have seized the world this weekend, taking along with it former presidents in South Korea, South Africa and Brazil. Park Geun-hye, immediate past president of Sou... Read more
